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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Inside Prince's Career-Long Battle to Master His Artistic Destiny
Prince Rogers Nelson news writes, In 1977, Prince was sequestered at the Record Plant in Sausalito, Calif., recording what would become For You, the 19-year-old's debut album for Warner Bros. Records. For two months, he had kept the label heads in the dark, so executives Lenny Waronker and Russ Thyret decided to pay their new artist a visit.
Listening to track-in-progress "So Blue," an impressed Waronker commented on how good it would sound after the bass was added. Prince interjected, "There is no bass on that song. Get out of my studio!," tossing out the very folks who were footing his bills.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Purple Ride: Chicago’s South Side Critical Mass Pays Tribute to Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson news writes, So it’s appropriate that Chicago’s South Side Critical Mass bike group paid tribute to the self-proclaimed “purple Yoda… from the heart of Minnesota” with a Prince tribute ride last Friday. They made a pilgrimage to a new mural in his honor on the side of an auto repair shop in the Avalon Park nieghborhood, and then pedaled east to purify themselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka, I mean Michigan.
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