The Beautiful Ones
(Sprache: Englisch)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words-featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words-featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic deathNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was 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, one of the greatest pop stars of any era.
The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince-a 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 the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death, pages that bring us into his childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us through Prince's early years as a musician, before his first album was released, via an evocative scrapbook of writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince's evolution through candid images that go up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book's fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain-the final stage in Prince's self-creation, where he retells the autobiography of the first three parts as a heroic journey.
The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring's riveting and moving introduction about his profound collaboration with Prince in his final months-a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and
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his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he'd so carefully cultivated-and annotations that provide context to the book's images.
This work is not just a tribute to an icon, but an original and energizing literary work in its own right, full of Prince's ideas and vision, his voice and image-his undying gift to the world.
This work is not just a tribute to an icon, but an original and energizing literary work in its own right, full of Prince's ideas and vision, his voice and image-his undying gift to the world.
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IntroductionI last spoke to Prince on Sunday, April 17, 2016, four days before he died. That night I was lying in bed when my phone shuddered and lit up with a 952 area code. He d never called my cell before, but I knew at once it was him. I scrambled for a pen and paper and plugged my phone into the wall my battery was almost depleted. But my charging cord was only a foot long, so I couldn t stand up when I used the phone. I spent our final conversation hunched in the corner of my bedroom, taking notes by pressing the paper to the floor.
Hi, Dan, he said, it s Prince. Much has been written about Prince s speaking voice the strange whispery fullness of it, reedy but low. Nowhere was this paradox more apparent than in that simple introduction: Hi, Dan, it s Prince. He always used it. I wanted to say that I m alright, he said, despite what the press would have you believe. They have to exaggerate everything, you know.
I had some idea. In the month since Prince had announced that my brother Dan was helping him work on his memoir, I d seen it reported that I twenty-eight years his junior, and white was literally his brother. But the news now was of another order of magnitude. A few days earlier, Prince s plane had made an emergency landing after departing Atlanta, where he d just finished what would be his final performance, part of a searching, contemplative solo tour he called Piano & A Microphone. He d been hospitalized in Moline, Illinois, supposedly to treat a resilient case of the flu.
Within hours of the story breaking on TMZ, Prince had tweeted from Paisley Park, in Chanhassen, Minnesota, saying that he was listening to his song Controversy which begins, I just can t believe all the things people say. Subtext: He was fine. Some residents of Chanhassen had seen him riding his bicycle. And the night before he called me, he d thrown a dance party on his private soundstage, using the opportunity to show off a new purple
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guitar and a purple piano. Wait a few days before you waste any prayers, he d told the crowd.
I was worried, but I saw on Twitter that you were okay, I told him. I was sorry to hear you had the flu.
I had flu-like symptoms, he said a clarification that I d dwell on a lot in the months to come. And my voice was raspy. It still sounded that way to me, as if he was recovering from a severe cold. But he didn t want to linger on the subject. He d called to talk about the book.
I wanted to ask: Do you believe in cellular memory? He was speaking of the idea that our bodies inherit our parents memories that experience is hereditary. I was thinking about it because of reading the Bible, he explained. The sins of the father. How is that possible without cellular memory?
The concept resonated in his own life, too. My father had two families. I was his second, and he wanted to do better with me than with his first son. So he was very orderly, but my mother didn t like that. She liked spontaneity and excitement.
Prince wanted to explain how he emerged as the synthesis of his parents. Their conflict lived within him. In their discord, he heard a strange harmony that inspired him to create. He was full of awe and insight about his mother and father, about the way he embodied their union and disunion.
One of my life s dilemmas has been looking at this, he told me as I sat on my floor, scribbling away. I like order, finality, and truth. But if I m out at a fancy dinner party or something, and the
I was worried, but I saw on Twitter that you were okay, I told him. I was sorry to hear you had the flu.
I had flu-like symptoms, he said a clarification that I d dwell on a lot in the months to come. And my voice was raspy. It still sounded that way to me, as if he was recovering from a severe cold. But he didn t want to linger on the subject. He d called to talk about the book.
I wanted to ask: Do you believe in cellular memory? He was speaking of the idea that our bodies inherit our parents memories that experience is hereditary. I was thinking about it because of reading the Bible, he explained. The sins of the father. How is that possible without cellular memory?
The concept resonated in his own life, too. My father had two families. I was his second, and he wanted to do better with me than with his first son. So he was very orderly, but my mother didn t like that. She liked spontaneity and excitement.
Prince wanted to explain how he emerged as the synthesis of his parents. Their conflict lived within him. In their discord, he heard a strange harmony that inspired him to create. He was full of awe and insight about his mother and father, about the way he embodied their union and disunion.
One of my life s dilemmas has been looking at this, he told me as I sat on my floor, scribbling away. I like order, finality, and truth. But if I m out at a fancy dinner party or something, and the
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- Autor: Prince
- 2019, 288 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 16,4 x 23,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0399589651
- ISBN-13: 9780399589652
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.12.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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It doesn t matter whether you re a Prince fanatic or if your interest is simply piqued by all things music or pop culture: The book is worth picking up. . . . The Beautiful Ones is not a read, but an experience, an immersion inside the mind of a musical genius. You are steeped in Prince s images, his words, his essence. . . . The way the book is structured simply makes one want to read it again, to leaf through the pages and be immersed in Prince s world. . . . The book can be a starting point for a Prince fascination, or a continuation of long-standing admiration. Either way, it will deepen the connection of any reader with the musical icon. USA Today ( out of four stars)Everything Piepenbring shares about being a fan chosen to work with one of his idols resonates. . . . [He] doesn't just want to write this memoir with Prince, he wants to do it right. . . . This means we get a memoir that is written by Prince, literally. Handwritten pages he had shared with Piepenbring make up Part 1, taking us from his first memory his mother s eyes through the early days of his career. . . . We also get a memoir that is carefully curated by Piepenbring, who writes that he was able to go through Paisley Park, room-by-room, sorting through Prince s life. . . . The Beautiful Ones doesn't paint a perfect picture. . . . It s not definitive. It can t be. It shouldn t be and, thankfully, it doesn t try to be. . . . It s up to us to take what s there and make something out of it for ourselves, creating, just as Prince wanted. NPR
[The Beautiful Ones] delivers much, much more than we had any reason to expect. . . . Prince took the project very seriously, and it shows in the work he delivered. . . . It shines an intimate and revealing light on the least-known period of his life his childhood which is embellished with family photos, notes and other ephemera. The book does not scrimp on detail: Prince s handwritten manuscript, rendered in his famously precise cursive
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script . . . is reproduced in full. . . . The initial segment of that closing section is one of the most fascinating parts of the book: a reproduction of a photo album, with captions by a presumably young Prince, containing a couple dozen pictures from his trip to California to record his debut album, ranging from shots of him in the studio to candids of him and his friends. . . . The Beautiful Ones brings so much new information to light that it s hard to imagine anyone being disappointed. Variety
[The Beautiful Ones] is an affirmation of Prince s Blackness and humanity. . . . The memoir is a handbook for the brilliant community, wrapped in autobiography, wrapped in biography and thus, it s an inspiration. . . . Prince writes about his childhood with clarity and poetic flair, effortlessly combining humorous anecdotes with deep self-reflection and musical analysis. . . . Prince is one of us he just worked to manifest dreams that took him from the North Side of Minneapolis to the Super Bowl. [The book] encourages us to tap into our power to design the lives we envision for ourselves and set a precedent for future generations to do the same. HuffPost
[The Beautiful Ones] is an affirmation of Prince s Blackness and humanity. . . . The memoir is a handbook for the brilliant community, wrapped in autobiography, wrapped in biography and thus, it s an inspiration. . . . Prince writes about his childhood with clarity and poetic flair, effortlessly combining humorous anecdotes with deep self-reflection and musical analysis. . . . Prince is one of us he just worked to manifest dreams that took him from the North Side of Minneapolis to the Super Bowl. [The book] encourages us to tap into our power to design the lives we envision for ourselves and set a precedent for future generations to do the same. HuffPost
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