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Given his tragic recent passing, Prince's fans are clamoring for new books, and this is the most out of the box of all of them, focusing exclusively on the creation of the hits that made him a legend over nearly 40 years as an icon. Newsweek reported in the wake of Prince's passing that the Purple wunderkind expanded the realm of what is or might be possible for a pop star to accomplish - and he made it look easy. Accomplishing this feat musically above all other due recognitions, Prince was without a doubt the Mozart of his time, and one whose catalog will no doubt be studied and celebrated by musical generations to come for the simple truth that, as Time Magazine has so eloquently noted, at his best, Prince has always been...far ahead of his time. Working with his musical imagination as a canvas and the 35+ musical instruments he played as his brushes, each and every one of the Purple pioneer's albums - from 1999 and Purple Rain to Sign O'the Times and Batman and beyond - were not merely works of art, but galleries with each song a portrait opening our ears to new sounds and possibilities realized, often for the first time. Now, for the first time, in the pages of PRINCE IN THE STUDIO: The Stories Behind the Hits 1977-1994, the creation of this multi-instrumentalist's timeless catalog is chronicled in a front-row seat for readers that takes them deeper inside the heart of Prince's rare creative process than ever before!! This is the first time Prince fans can read about the making of every one of his greatest hits, including Little Red Corvette, 1999, Kiss, Batdance, Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret, Sign O'the Times, Cream, Seven, Pop Life, Let's Pretend We're Married, Take Me With U, Alphabet St., Diamonds and Pearls, I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, The Beautiful Ones, U Got the Look, D.M.S.R., I Wanna Be Your Lover, I Feel For You, When U Were Mine, Delirious, When Doves Cry, Sexy M.F., Get Off, Money Don't Matter 2nite, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, Somebody's Somebody, P. Control, Crazy Relationship, and I Would Die 4 U!

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-Prince's legacy as a musician, a singer, a style icon and an endlessly creative mind is nearly unparalleled, and his influence stretches from pop to R&B to funk to hip-hop and everywhere in between.- -- Billboard

I make music because if I didn't I'd die, I record because its in my blood. - Prince

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