MUSIC BIOGRAPHY
Prince Jason Draper ● Part of the “Lives the Musicians” series: highly readable short biographies of the most popular musicians ● Prince was one of the titans of Pop from the 1980s until his death in 2016 ● There is no other short, concise biography of Prince for adults. His name was Prince, and he was funky. He was also inspiring, visionary, seductive, and contradictory. Especially contradictory. When he changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph, he merged symbols of the male and female to represent himself. When he recorded music—a daily torrent of creativity— he slipped with ease between male and female viewpoints. This book charts the rise of the 5ft 2-inch “Minneapolis genius” from “the next Stevie Wonder” to a unique artist whose towering legacy continues to shape pop culture. AUTHOR
Jason Draper is a music journalist and author of Prince: Life and Times (2017), Led Zeppelin: Revealed (2008), and A Brief History Of Album Covers (2017).
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9781913947552 20 illustrations 192 pages 7¼ x 4¾ ins $17.99 • Hardcover SEPTEMBER 2021
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