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Podcast: 41 Years of Controversy – A Conversation with Harold Pride and De Angela Duff

September 16, 2022

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Zachary Hoskins

in Controversy, 1981, Podcast

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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Roundup: Ephemera, 1979-1981

November 2, 2018

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Zachary Hoskins

in Ephemera, 1979-1981, Roundup Posts

I know I always begin these roundup posts with a reference to the obscene length of time since the last one, but this time I’m drawing attention to chronology for an entirely different reason. I wrote the first post in this roundup in April of 2017; the last one went up a week ago today.…
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Everybody Dance

November 20, 2017

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Zachary Hoskins

in Ephemera, 1979-1981

On the recording currently circulating, Prince can be heard teasing the crowd, “We’re gonna play all night, how ’bout that?” Their jubilant response says it all.
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Broken

October 27, 2017

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Zachary Hoskins

in Ephemera, 1979-1981

“Broken” feels like Prince having fun, taking his new piano-recording capabilities for a test drive.
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Gotta Broken Heart Again

August 1, 2017

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Zachary Hoskins

in Dirty Mind, 1980

A minor masterpiece of economy and concision.
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