by Matt Thorne
Thanks to Max Decharne for advice; Suzi Feay for commissioning a review of 21 Nights; Mark Lawson and the team at Front Row for allowing me to review ‘Planet Earth’ and the 21 Nights in London shows; Bernadette McNulty for commissioning a piece about Prince for the Telegraph and Jeb Loy Nichols for the illustrations for the extract from this that appeared in Loops; and Nick Stone for the many Prince-related conversations and for getting me into the New Marquee.
Thanks also to Daniel Blumberg, Carrie-Anne Brackstone, Richard Brazier, James Butler, Robert Clough, Fleur Darkin, Johnny Davis, Matt Dornan, Geoff Dyer, Amanda Emmett, Tibor Fischer, Alice Fisher, Nicholas Guyatt, Philip and Zoe Hood, Sarah Hornsey, Liz Jensen, David Jones, Toby Litt, Dee McGrudy, Stephen Merchant, Chris Metzler, Hannah Ross, Jim, Jamie and Catherine Shaw, Stav Sherez, Mark, Louise, Charlotte and Annabel Sinclair, Peter Straus, Michael Tant, Richard Thomas, Ben Thompson, David Thorne, Kaye Thorne, Theodore Vlassopulos, Willy Vlautin, Leigh Wilson, Rebecca Wilson and the members of the Board.
Richard King (along with Lee Brackstone) had the idea of getting me to write a long piece on Prince’s protégés, which formed the basis of the ‘Gigolos Get Lonely Too’ chapters here and extracts of which appeared in Faber’s Loops periodical. I would also like to thank Lisa Baker, Luke Bird, Richard T. Kelly and Stephen Page at Faber.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
OFFICIAL PRINCE BOOKS
Prince, Neo Manifesto – Audentes Fortuna Juvat (Minneapolis: Paisley Park, 1994).
Prince with David Henry Hwang, ‘From Come’, in On a Bed of Rice: An Asian-American Erotic Feast, Ed. Geraldine Kudaka (New York: Bantam, 1998).
Prince and Terry Gydesen, Prince Presents the Sacrifice of Victor (Minneapolis: Paisley Park, 1994).
Prince with Randee St. Nicholas, 21 Nights (New York: Atria, 2008).
Shahadi, Afshin, Prince in Hawaii: An Intimate Portrait of an Artist (NPG Music Club, 2004).
SELECTED BOOKS ABOUT PRINCE
Bream, Jon, Prince: Inside the Purple Reign (New York: Macmillan, 1984).
Brown, Geoff, The Complete Guide to the Music of Prince (London: Omnibus, 1995).
Dickerson, Dez, My Time with Prince: Confessions of a Former Revolutionary (Tulsa, OK: Pavilion Press, 2003).
Draper, Jason, Prince: Life and Times (London: Jawbone, 2008).
——— Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution (New York: Backbeat, 2011).
Edrei, Mary J. (Ed.) The Year of the Prince (London: Sphere, 1984).
Hahn, Alex, Possessed: The Rise and Fall of Prince (New York: Billboard, 2003).
Hawkins, Stan and Sarah Niblock, Prince: The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon (Surrey: Ashgate, 2011).
Hill, Dave, Prince: A Pop Life (London: Faber, 1989).
Hoskyns, Barney, Prince: Imp of the Perverse (London: Virgin, 1988).
Ivory, Steven, Prince (New York: Putnam, 1984).
Jones, Liz, Slave to the Rhythm (London: Little Brown, 1997).
Matos, Michaelangelo, Sign o’ the Times (London: Continuum, 2004).
Morton, Brian, Prince: Thief in the Temple (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2007).
Muir, John Kenneth, Music on Film: Purple Rain (Milwaukee: Limelight Editions, 2012).
Nilsen, Per, Prince: A Documentary (London: Omnibus, 1990).
——— DanceMusicSexRomance – Prince: The First Decade (London: Firefly, 1999).
——— et al., The Vault (Europe: Uptown, 2004). (Although this is privately printed and, to the best of my knowledge, out of print, much of the information has been transferred to the website www.princevault.com.)
Ro, Ronin, Prince: Inside the Man and the Masks (New York: St Martin’s, 2011).
Rosen, Steven, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (London: Castle, 1995).
Till, Rupert, Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music (London/New York: Continuum, 2010).
SELECTED OTHER BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT
Ariosto, Ludovico, Orlando Furioso (1532; edition consulted, London: Oxford Classics, 2008).
Barbin, Herculine, Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite (Great Britain: Harvester, 1980).
Bloom, Howard, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism (New York: Prometheus, 2010).
——— The God Problem: The Five Heresies or the Big Bang Tango (USA: Prometheus, 2012).
Cole, George, The Last Miles (London: Equinox, 2005).
Davis, Miles with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography (London: Simon and Schuster, 1989).
Doggett, Peter, The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s (London: Bodley Head, 2011).
Eadie, Betty J., Embraced by the Light (Detroit: Gold Leaf Press, 1992).
Edmundson, Mark, Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of the Gothic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1997).
Goldberg, Danny, Bumping into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business (New York: Gotham, 2009).
Gore, Tipper, Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1987).
Hackett, Pat (Ed.), The Andy Warhol Diaries (New York: Warner Books, 1989).
Heylin, Clinton, Bootleg! The Rise & Fall of the Secret Recording Industry (London: Omnibus, 2003).
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Richard Lattimore (New York: Harper & Row, 1967).
Hoskyns, Barney, Ragged Glories: City Lights, Country Funk, American Music (London: Pimlico, 2003).
James, Rick, The Confessions of Rick James: Memoirs of a Super Freak (New York: Colossus Books, 2007).
Kureishi, Hanif, The Black Album (London: Faber, 1995).
Lethem, Jonathan, Motherless Brooklyn (London: Faber, 1999).
Lynskey, Dorian, 33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs (London: Faber, 2011).
Marks, Craig and Rob Tannenbaum, I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution (New York: Dutton, 2011).
New World Translation Committee, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (New York: Watch Tower Tract and Bible Society, 1984).
Richards, Keith (with James Fox), Life (London: Orion, 2010).
Ross, Alex, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (New York: Farar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).
Shore, Michael with Dick Clark, The History of American Bandstand (New York: Ballantine, 1985).
Sixx, Nikki, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (New York: MTV Books, 2008).
Taylor, Don with Mike Henry, So Much Things to Say: My Life as Bob Marley’s Manager (London: Blake, 1995).
Zollo, Paul, Songwriters on Songwriting (expanded fourth edn) (New York: Da Capo, 2003).
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GENERAL INDEX
2Pac, 1
3121 club at the Rio, Las Vegas, 1
94 East, 1, 2
Abdul, Paula, 1, 2
Abrams, Colonel, 1
Acker, Kathy, 1
AEG (promoters), 1
Ahoy (venue, Rotterdam), 1
Alexander, Dale, 1
Alley, Kirstie, 1, 2, 3
Allo, Andy, 1, 2
Alma awards, 1
Altman, Robert, 1
American Bandstand, 1
Anderson, André, see Cymone, André
Anderson, Bernadette, 1, 2, 3, 4
Anderson, Linda, 1
Anest, Airiq, 1
Anna Fantastic, 1
Apollonia, see Kotero, Patricia
Apollonia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
ARC records, 1
Arista, 1
Arquette, Rosanna, 1
Arras shows, 1
Austin, Dallas, 1
Australia tour, 1
B-52s, 1
Bailey, Philip, 1
Baker, Alfred (Prince’s half-brother), 1
Baker, Arthur, 1
Baker, Marie (Prince’s mother), 1, 2, 3
Ballhaus, Michael, 1
Baltake, Joe, 1
Bangles, The, 1, 2
Barbarella, Tommy, 1, 2, 3, 4
Barber, Lisa, 1
Barbin, Herculine, 1
Basinger, Kim, 1, 2
Batman (film), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Baxter, Karen, 1
Beach Boys, 1
Beatles, The, 1, 2, 3
Beer, Matt, 1
Bennett, Brenda, 1, 2
Benton, Jerome: in Purple Rain, 1, 2, 3;
in Under the Cherry Moon, 1, 2, 3;
in band, 1, 2;
in Graffiti Bridge, 1;
in The Family, 1;
Corporate World project, 1
Bergen show, 1
Berkoff, Steven, 1
Bess, Kyle, 1
Beyer, Troy, 1, 2, 3
Beyoncé, 1, 2
Billboard, 1, 2, 3
Blackshire, Kip, 1
Blackstreet, 1
Blackwell, John, 1, 2
Blake, Rebecca, 1
Bland, Michael, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Blankman (film), 1
Blige, Mary J., 1
Blinn, William, 1
Bliss, Atlanta: band membership, 1, 2;
‘The Dance Electric’, 1;
trumpet-playing, 1;
leaves band, 1;
Times Squared, 1;
‘Tweakin”, 1
Bliss, Matt, 1
Bloom, Howard: career, 1, 2;
on Prince’s childhood, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on Prince’s early career, 1, 2;
relationship with Prince, 1, 2, 3;
on Prince’s protégées, 1;
on Purple Rain film, 1;
on Wendy and Lisa, 1;
on Under the Cherry Moon, 1;
on Prince’s change of management, 1;
on Prince’s interest in Internet, 1;
on Prince’s distribution policy, 1
Bobby Z (Bobby Rivkin): Prince’s band, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
character, 1;
The Rebels, 1;
performances with Prince, 1;
departure, 1;
wedding, 1;
‘River Run Dry’, 1;
Revolution reunion, 1
Bono, 1
Bowie, David, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Boyer, Boni, 1, 2, 3, 4
Boyer, Greg, 1
Boyz II Men, 1
Brass, Tinto, 1
Bream, Jon, 1, 2, 3, 4
Brit Awards, 1, 2, 3
Brooks, Albert, 1
Brooks, Greg: joins band, 1;
performances, 1;
video performances, 1, 2;
‘Anna Stesia’, 1;
departure, 1;
‘Xenophobia’, 1
Brooks, James L., 1, 2, 3
Brown, James, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Brown, P. R., 1
Brown Mark (Mark Brown), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bryant Junior High, 1
Buell, Bebe, 1
Buff, Hans-Martin: character, 1;
interviews with, 1;
on the Vault, 1;
on ‘1999’, 1;
on ‘Baby I’m a Star’, 1;
on Roadhouse Garden project, 1;
‘Crystal Ball’ version, 1;
on ‘Sleep Around’, 1;
on Paisley, 1;
on Emancipation, 1, 2, 3;
on Prince’s work processes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
on Crystal Ball, 1;
on The Truth, 1, 2;
on New Power Soul, 1;
memories of other recordings, 1, 2, 3;
on ‘Madrid 2 Chicago’, 1, 2, 3;
on 1999 projects, 1;
on Rave Un1 the Joy Fantastic, 2;
departure from Paisley, 1, 2;
on The Rainbow Children, 1;
on ‘I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man’, 1
Burton, Tim, 1, 2
Bush, Kate, 1
Butter restaurant, New York, 1
C.J. (columnist), 1
Café de Paris, 1, 2
Callahan, Bill, 1
Camden Palace, London, 1, 2
Campbell, Tevin, 1, 2, 3
Capri theatre, 1, 2
Carlton, Larry, 1
Cars, The, 1, 2, 3
Carwell, Sue Ann: first meeting with Prince, 1, 2;
songs from Prince, 1;
‘Wouldn’t You Love to Love Me?’, 1;
‘Make It Through the Storm’, 1, 2;
duet with Prince, 1;
collaboration with Prince, 1
Cavallo, Bob: management of Prince, 1, 2, 3, 4;
relationship with Prince, 1, 2, 3;
on Purple Rain, 1, 2;
on Around the World in a Day, 1;
on Under the Cherry Moon, 1;
on ‘Bob George’, 1;
on Lovesexy tour, 1;
fired by Prince, 1, 2;
on Graffiti Bridge, 1;
Paisley Park label, 1
Cave, Nick, 1
Celebrations (annual event in Minneapolis), 1, 2
Champagne, 1, 2
Chapman, Gayle: joins Prince’s band, 1;
rehearsals, 1, 2;
on Willie and band members, 1;
on first gig with Prince, 1;
on American Bandstand, 1;
performance style, 1;
‘I Wanna Be Your Lover’ video, 1;
on audience racism, 1;
The Rebels, 1, 2;
departure, 1;
replacement, 1
Chappelle, Dave, 1
Charles, Pepsi, 1
Chavez, Ingrid: first meeting with Prince, 1;
Lovesexy tour, 1;
Graffiti Bridge, 1, 2, 3;
May 19 1992, 1, 2, 3
Chic, 1
Chris Rock Show, 1
Christgau, Robert, 1, 2
Chuck D, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Clapton, Eric, 1, 2
Clark, Dick, 1
Clay, Scott Addison, 1
Clinton, George: influence on Prince, 1;
categorised as black artist, 1;
first collaboration with Prince, 1;
Graffiti Bridge, 1, 2, 3;
songs written for, 1;
1-800NEW-FUNK, 1, 2;
Rave Un2 the Year 2000, 1;
One Nite Alone … The Aftershow, 1;
Hey Man … Smell My Finger, 1
Club Nokia, Los Angeles, 1, 2
Coachella festival, 1
Cobham, Billy, 1, 2, 3
Cocker, Joe, 1, 2
Cole, George, 1, 2, 3
Coleman, Beth, 1
Coleman, David, 1, 2
Coleman, Jonathan, 1
Coleman, Lisa: joins Prince’s band, 1;
influence on P
rince, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
relationship with Prince, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on Fischer’s work, 1, 2;
‘Head’, 1, 2;
Oberheim synth, 1, 2;
tour staging, 1;
on Stones support performances, 1;
Controversy, 1;
on What Time Is It? tour, 1;
‘Automatic’ video, 1;
on ‘Computer Blue’, 1;
Purple Rain film, 1, 2;
on The Beatles, 1;
on Around the World in a Day, 1, 2, 3;
‘4 the Tears in Your Eyes’ 1;