Tag: 2016
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Podcast: 41 Years of Controversy – A Conversation with Harold Pride and De Angela Duff
Here we are again, my first podcast in more than a year, and I couldn’t have asked for better guests than Harold Pride and De Angela Duff to discuss Prince’s fourth and quite possibly most underrated album, 1981’s Controversy.
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Lacuna: The Dawn
Underlying the mystery is the unshakeable sense that “The Dawn” holds the key to the next 15 years of Prince’s artistic development.
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Father’s Song
Prince conceptualized Purple Rain during a period of estrangement from his father; yet the specter of John L. Nelson haunted the project from the beginning.
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The Beautiful Ones
So intense is Prince’s performance that it has, quite understandably, fueled a decades-long debate over what–or who–might have inspired it.
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Purple Rain (Verse 3)
It’s Prince’s contribution to the Great American Songbook, a modern-day standard that transcends (almost) all categories of generation, genre, and taste.
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I Would Die 4 U
More, perhaps, than any other song in Prince’s catalogue, “I Would Die 4 U” has transcended its original meaning to become something bigger than all of us.