Review: Will we ever really, truly know Prince?
By Chris Richards Chris Richards Pop music critic Email Bio Follow Pop music critic March 19 at 8:00 AM
Prince was human, though. We confirmed it in the worst way on April 21, 2016 when he was found dead inside an elevator at Paisley Park, the suburban Minnesota recording studio that he treated as a laboratory, a bunker and a vault. Since then, we’ve been bombarded with books about the reclusive virtuoso — by journalists, by critics, by anecdote-collectors, by his ex-wife — all of which seem to prove how unknowable he ultimately was.
Unsurprisingly, these 10 interviews uphold Prince’s reputation for being tight-lipped with his interrogators — not always down to play ball, but occasionally playful. When Ben Greenman asks him about “cybersex” in 1997, Prince winks back with six words: “Ain’t nothin’ like the real thang.” But he also knew how to deflate a discussion. In a 1985 interview with MTV, when asked whether he could have ever foreseen the success of “Purple Rain,” he flatly replies, “I don’t know.
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