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A Final Visit With Prince: Rolling Stone's Lost Cover Story

Scenes from an intimate 2014 interview at Paisley Park

It is, in theory, a mundane sight, nothing 2 get excited about: just a 55-year-old man in his suburban Minneapolis workplace, scrolling through a Windows Media Player library on a clunky Dell computer. An equally ordinary multi-line phone sits beside it, near a lit candle, bottled water and some expensive-looking lotion. A huge old Xerox machine looms over the desk; a window at the far end of the room looks out onto barren trees and an empty, snow-lined highway. It's early evening on Saturday, January 25th, 2014, in Chanhassen, Minnesota.

http://www.rollingstone.c...y-20160502

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Reply #1 posted 09/25/16 2:06am

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I read this the other day. It's a nice article. I like the cursing bit at the end. lol
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Reply #2 posted 09/25/16 3:46am

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Great article, thanks for posting.

RIP sad
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Reply #3 posted 09/25/16 3:56am

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yoda dove rainbo

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #4 posted 09/25/16 5:02am

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I loved this article! It was written in a manner that really "humanized" P - showing us that he was a person and not just an image. The descriptions of his surroundings and the man himself were so well written - you felt like you were right there too!
"Remember when you told me that love was touching souls?" ☔️ A Case of You ☔️
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Reply #5 posted 09/25/16 8:27am

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Hey, where you been? http://prince.org/msg/7/423373

LOL But seriously - it's kind of cool to find an unpublished article like that and dig it out. It was always a treat when Prince did an interview in RS or somewhere else.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #6 posted 09/25/16 8:48am

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LOL yeah here too: http://prince.org/msg/7/424686

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Bohemian67 made a good point on that tread. The depiction of his life at Paisley Park, especially in retrospect, seems troubling. While he was able to create his own little isolated world there that I'm sure was what he wanted, it also isolated him from outside influences in a way that perhaps hurt him not just professionally, but in the end, personally too. A little sad to think about, and to read.

TrivialPursuit said:

Hey, where you been? http://prince.org/msg/7/423373

LOL But seriously - it's kind of cool to find an unpublished article like that and dig it out. It was always a treat when Prince did an interview in RS or somewhere else.

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Reply #7 posted 09/25/16 12:03pm

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I absolutely loved this article, it showed a side of him that we never saw.
Erin Smith
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Reply #8 posted 09/25/16 4:24pm

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disch said:

LOL yeah here too: http://prince.org/msg/7/424686

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Bohemian67 made a good point on that tread. The depiction of his life at Paisley Park, especially in retrospect, seems troubling. While he was able to create his own little isolated world there that I'm sure was what he wanted, it also isolated him from outside influences in a way that perhaps hurt him not just professionally, but in the end, personally too. A little sad to think about, and to read.

TrivialPursuit said:

Hey, where you been? http://prince.org/msg/7/423373

LOL But seriously - it's kind of cool to find an unpublished article like that and dig it out. It was always a treat when Prince did an interview in RS or somewhere else.

luv4u would be the first to lock a dupe thread... lets see if this one gets locked 2... lol

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Reply #9 posted 09/25/16 5:11pm

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feeluupp said:

disch said:

LOL yeah here too: http://prince.org/msg/7/424686

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Bohemian67 made a good point on that tread. The depiction of his life at Paisley Park, especially in retrospect, seems troubling. While he was able to create his own little isolated world there that I'm sure was what he wanted, it also isolated him from outside influences in a way that perhaps hurt him not just professionally, but in the end, personally too. A little sad to think about, and to read.

luv4u would be the first to lock a dupe thread... lets see if this one gets locked 2... lol



I have locked my dupe threads before, it's nothing new lol

lock dupe

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