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Waking Life?” Richard Linklater’s surreal 2001 movie—I
Miles Davis’s autobiography,
John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me,
“Little Red Corvette”
“Dirty Mind.”
“The Lad...
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“When Doves Cry”
“The Beautiful Ones.”
“The Ballad of Dorothy Parker”
“Raspberry Beret,”
“Coco ...
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“Controversy,”
‘Purple Music,’
“Head,”
I spent hours walking along the sunny river with his words in my head, listening to the Ohio Players’ “Skin Tight” at a deafening volume. (“The bass & drums on this record would make Stephen Hawking dance,”
Staples Singers’ “When Will We Be Paid?”
“September,” by Earth, Wind & Fire.
‘When Doves Cry’—we
Anyone who knew Prince knew that it was never a good idea to guess how he’d feel about something. But insofar as he envisioned this book as a collaborative project, I believe this is the closest, truest realization of the work that we started during those three whirlwind months in 2016. It asks the reader to fill in the gaps, to imagine a way into the negative space. If it raises as many questions as it answers, so much the better—his intention was never to puncture the veil of mystery around him. For the rest of my life, I’ll wonder what sort of book Prince and I would’ve written had he
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“Sideshow” by Blue Magic,
“Show Me How” by the Emotions,
“Natural High” by Bl...
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“Do Me, Baby
“Sweet Thing” by Rufus featuring Chaka Khan.
Rufusized—perhaps my favorite album by Chaka Khan
The piano intro 2 “Pack’d My Bags”
About Time with Rachel McAdams.
“Skin Tight” by the Ohio Players
“Soft and Wet,” which was the first single I put out.

