From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom
story of one of the greatest artists of all time--featuring never-before-seen
photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began
writing before his tragic death. 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 Uptown to the
mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of Paisley Park. But his
most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota,
into Prince, the