...producer of the very fine "Controversy" fanzine in the 80's. Where is she now, and what is she up to? R u out there, Eileen?,,,,

i think she gave up on Prince ...she must be over it ...

This gets asked about every six months or so on here.

Last heard, she was still living in Croydon, running a ticket agency, and very much happy to be away from all things "Prince".

Haven't spoken to her now for a few years though so someone may be able to update.

have you guys heard from Linda Everett? She also worked on the Controvery fanzine...until she had a bitter falling-out with Prince in the early 90s.She later sold all of her Prince stuff.

Oh, I remember how Eileen used to get "the vapors" over everything Prince.

Surely she's still a fan even though she's not making Controversy any more?

scififilmnerd said:

I remember getting the same vapors during the first convention because Mrs. Murton hadn't bathed the whole week.

EverlastingNow said:

Well, surely she has realized by now that if she were to have any serious chance of scoring Prince, she'd have to lose a bit of weight and shower daily.

scififilmnerd said:

Nope

She was very bitter over what the little fella did to her - can't say I blame her.

scififilmnerd said:

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I heard somewhere on this site that the magaine only turned out to be one issue? What happened? I'm sure the story is on thiws site somewhere but I don't know where to look.

Thanks.

Voidra said:

Hardly. Controversy ran for a good few years. It was a great fanzine Prince submitted loads of great pics for it.
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Funny how she went from a sycophant to having nothing to do with him. Strange.

I loved Controversy magazine. I also loved Prince Family magazine (but that is another story!). I was sorry to see Eileen Murton go. I find it sad when someone like her who had a great product goes away.

I remember another magazine called PURPLE UNDERGROUND published by some jackass named Nathan White or something like that. Now that is someone that I am not sorry to see disappear from the Prince scene. He ripped off so many of us (I only got one issue of his magazine and it was LAME!). I wonder what scam he is up to now? lol.

Come back Eileen!!!

AND.....

Bsunshine said:

YEAH!

Controversy magazine was fun.

DavidEye said:

OMG I remember this woman. If it is the one I am thinking about she lived in Washington state or something? A friend told me that she went crazy on him shouting into the phone about being the queen of Paisley Park or something like that. Hahahaha. I always thought she had something to do with that Nathan White guy who was ripping people off. I guess when they realized there wasn't much money in Princely things, they moved on to the next mark. Just kidding! lol

Did anyone ever used to meet or have a penpal through the fanzine? I did

ConsciousContact said:

Eileen was never a sycophant, in fact she was the one person who would be extremely blunt to him and tell him to his face when he was acting like an idiot.

If Prince had more people like Eileen around him rather than the fawning clowns he has now then things would be a lot better for the real fans.

Gav said:

YEAH! We miss her and her magazine.

Bsunshine said:

Linda Everett was cool.When I ordered my first few issues of the Controversy fanzine in 1988,I bought them directly from her.I think she was the US distributor.She also had alot of other cool Prince "items" for sale,if you know what I mean...lol...I actually spoke with her on the phone in the early 90s,and apparently,she had a very bad experience with Prince.In 1990,around the time of 'Graffiti Bridge',she was hired by Paisley Park as a "consultant".But things didn't work out and she was fired or she quit.She told me that "Prince is a very nasty person" and quickly began selling all of her Prince stuff.I shoulda asked for more details but I didn't want to appear nosy

Gav said:

OMG, that's funny! Can you picture Eileen standing there telling Prince, "Look, Prince, you're acting like an ass, cut it out!"

psychodelicide said:

Why, yes. And he's so small and tiny, he would've been terrified! Especially of her writing about it in that magazine of hers.

So that's probably why he bought it out and closed it.

scififilmnerd said:

[quote]Linda Everett was cool.When I ordered my first few issues of the Controversy fanzine in 1988,I bought them directly from her.I think she was the US distributor.She also had alot of other cool Prince "items" for sale,if you know what I mean...lol...I actually spoke with her on the phone in the early 90s,and apparently,she had a very bad experience with Prince.In 1990,around the time of 'Graffiti Bridge',she was hired by Paisley Park as a "consultant".But things didn't work out and she was fired or she quit.She told me that "Prince is a very nasty person" and quickly began selling all of her Prince stuff.I shoulda asked for more details but I didn't want to appear nosy[/quote ]

yes linda and i corresponded for a long time during her stint at pp and with the grafitti bridge stuff. told me the same thing and a lot more. she's also the one who introduced me to ingrid chavez. we lost contact when her father became gravely ill and she left the prince to take care of him.

i wish her well. never had business with murton .

Eileen and Linda Everett were cool. Great fanzine.

themuse said:

Yeah I had a few. They still write even today

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I hope she's doing okay.

psychodelicide said:

She closed it of her own accord. Nothing to do with prince, no?

ConsciousContact said:

Not sure, but I heard that Eileen and Prince had a falling out of sorts. Dunno what happened, but that's what somebody told me.