‘I exited Prince’s Mayfair suite feeling like a mouse savaged by a particularly fiendish cat’

The late superstar was not amused when Barney Hoskyns called his Prince biography ‘Imp of the Perverse’. Here the veteran rock writer recalls the brilliant career of the Minneapolis maverick• Prince: memories of U – by John Grant, Attica Locke and moreI’d say it was all there in 1979’s I Wanna Be Your Lover, Prince’s first hit: the falsetto pout, the swivelling guitar riff, the effortless fusion of funk and pop, the teasing pause before the word ââ...

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