Prince: The Man and His Music

Famously reticent and perennially controversial, Prince is one of the few pop superstars who remains, largely, an enigma. A fixture of the pop canon, Prince is widely held to be the greatest musician of his generation. This definitive study examines every phase of Prince's nearly forty-year career. Since his first album, Prince has delighted fans and defied expectations while pursuing his own creative imperatives. The 1980s saw him become one of the world s biggest stars and create hits for himself and numerous other artists, working across a breadth of different genres while remaining, inimitably, himself. His idiosyncratic persona and pansexually explicit lyrics excited controversy, but the man himself shared few personal details--and that has changed little in the decades that followed. Today Prince is revered by fans as well as other musicians, ranging from contemporaries to stars born long after his own career began. British novelist Matt Thorne s passion for Prince's music and decades of research and interviews are everywhere evident in this ground-breaking look at the artist's work and life. This first US edition has been updated with detailed looks at Prince's recordings released since the book first appeared in the UK in 2012. "