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Broken
“Broken” feels like Prince having fun, taking his new piano-recording capabilities for a test drive.
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Partyup
What makes “Partyup” more than just ’60s fan fiction is the music: a lithe, infectious punk-funk groove, branded with the prophetic genre designation of “revolutionary rock and roll.”
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Podcast: I Know That the Lord is Coming Soon – Erica Thompson on the Salford Purple Reign Conference
It’s been just under two months since I started interviewing presenters from this spring’s interdisciplinary Prince conference at the University of Salford, and I’ve been absolutely thrilled with the results. But all good things must come to an end, so I had planned to make this chat with writer Erica Thompson the last of my post-conference podcasts.…
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Don’t You Wanna Ride?
Prince spins a yarn about hooking up with a “foxy lady down in New Orleans” that sounds for all the world like a Penthouse Forum letter set to music.
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Home Recordings, 1976
The Anderson home provided a fruitful place for Prince to further his musical aspirations.