Overview
Prince was a musical genius, one of the most talented, beloved, accomplished, popular, and acclaimed musicians in history. He was also a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of āUptownā to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of āPaisley Park.ā But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, the greatest pop star of his era.
The Beautiful OnesĀ is the story of how Prince became Princeāa first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is composed of the memoir he was writing before his tragic death, pages that brings us into Princeās childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us into Princeās early years as a musician, before his first album released, through a scrapbook of Princeās writing and photos. The third section shows us Princeās evolution through candid images that take us up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the bookās fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Raināthe final stage in Princeās self-creation, as he retells the autobiography weāve seen in the first three parts as a heroic journey.
The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbringās riveting and moving introduction about his short but profound collaboration with Prince in his final monthsāa time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique heād so carefully cultivatedāand annotations that provide context to each of the bookās images.
This work is not just a tribute to Prince, but an original and energizing literary work, full of Princeās ideas and vision, his voice and image, his undying gift to the world.
This book title, The Beautiful Ones, ISBN: 9780399589652, by Prince, published by Random House Publishing Group (October 29, 2019) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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