Fellow orgers, I am excited to tell you about a major upcoming biography of our favorite musician. It will be entitled “Make the House Shake: The Life and Legacy of Prince Rogers Nelson.”

This will be a comprehensive, multi-volume biography. Volume 1 is being targetted for release as an electronic book in September 2016. A hardcover run is also being considered.

This book is being created with the active involvement of a small group of Prince fans and archivists, including longtime prince.org participants. These include senior editor and researcher Laura Tiebert, a brilliant writer of numerous non-fiction books. While this will be a work of journalism, rather than hagiography, it will be animated by the deep respect, interest, and passion we all here have for this artist.

The sources of information will include interviews and research for my previous book Possessed; the voluminous public record concerning Prince that has emerged; and additional, ongoing original research.

While the book will contain expanded elements of Possessed, it will be a book with a dramatically different perspective and approach. It will also be more comprehensive.

Updates will also appear on twitter, where I am @alexhahnlaw, and my Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/...952765104/

I look forward to telling you more about the project in the coming weeks. And thanks to the many supportive words I have heard from people so far.

I'm looking forward to the continuing development of this project. Thank you for sharing the news.

Great to hear. I admire your earlier book: Possessed. Look forward to reading this new tome.

Thank u Alex for this update, I am looking forward to this one as well!!

AlexHahn said:

Fellow orgers, I am excited to tell you about a major upcoming biography of our favorite musician. It will be entitled “Make the House Shake: The Life and Legacy of Prince Rogers Nelson.”

This will be a comprehensive, multi-volume biography. Volume 1 is being targetted for release as an electronic book in September 2016. A hardcover run is also being considered.

This book is being created with the active involvement of a small group of Prince fans and archivists, including longtime prince.org participants. These include senior editor and researcher Laura Tiebert, a brilliant writer of numerous non-fiction books. While this will be a work of journalism, rather than hagiography, it will be animated by the deep respect, interest, and passion we all here have for this artist.

The sources of information will include interviews and research for my previous book Possessed; the voluminous public record concerning Prince that has emerged; and additional, ongoing original research.

While the book will contain expanded elements of Possessed, it will be a book with a dramatically different perspective and approach. It will also be more comprehensive.

Updates will also appear on twitter, where I am @alexhahnlaw, and my Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/...952765104/

I look forward to telling you more about the project in the coming weeks. And thanks to the many supportive words I have heard from people so far.

Alex is that you? Wow! do you know how much we talk about Possessed here! Lets hope the new book is a bit more positive than that with his post 1987 output. Of course I know the book came out just before the whole 2000s revival. But hopefully you think Diamonds and Pearls is more than a pyrrhic victory now.

Finally one worth reading. So many bios out there right now that are pretty much worthless.

I hope its not another cut and paste job (I can spot those a mile away!). Also I would like to see more info about The Time and Vanity 6 and the author's reaction to the Prince's show in Australia this year, in particular the Melbourne show...where Prince spoke so candidly. Thanks in advance

Goddess4Real said:

I hope its not another cut and paste job (I can spot those a mile away!). Also I would like to see more info about The Time and Vanity 6 and the author's reaction to the Prince's show in Australia this year, in particular the Melbourne show...where Prince spoke so candidly. Thanks in advance

Did you read Possessed? It was far from a cut and paste job. If you want that, go get that heifer Liz Jones' book. She referenced most of the Oprah interview without one bit of credit to the show or its host or producers. God, I hated that I spent money on that. I bought it the same time I bought Crystal Ball.

TrivialPursuit said:

Goddess4Real said:

I hope its not another cut and paste job (I can spot those a mile away!). Also I would like to see more info about The Time and Vanity 6 and the author's reaction to the Prince's show in Australia this year, in particular the Melbourne show...where Prince spoke so candidly. Thanks in advance

Did you read Possessed? It was far from a cut and paste job. If you want that, go get that heifer Liz Jones' book. She referenced most of the Oprah interview without one bit of credit to the show or its host or producers. God, I hated that I spent money on that. I bought it the same time I bought Crystal Ball.

I haven't had the opportunity to read that one because its out of print here in oz.....that is what Dymocks told me , I'm just speaking in general after reading some of the woeful Prince tributes, I mean I love the pics but some of the info was incorrect and sloppy, and I know like with other high profile passings there is gonna be a flutter of books that are gonna come out with same cut and paste jobs mentality. Look at all the shit what been written about MJ, even that parasite Conrad Murray got a friggin book coming out....now he is killing him in print . I don't want to see that happen to Prince u know what I mean. I was so relieved that no one has sold pic where he passed away etc like they did to Whitney, if that had happen alot of us would have been really upset.

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Putting this on the front page

I hope that there will be a French edition.

A couple weeks ago you were saying you were going to "slightly update" Possessed, "not to make a profit." Is this now that? Will the critical aspects of the first book be omitted?

AlexHahn said:

keslie70 said:

I'm hoping you do a hardcover run of the books, maybe I'm just too "old school" but I prefer having the physical book in my hands when I read it Thank you for work and sharing it with us!

This. Physical copy or nothing. Just sayin'.

would rather have read his autobiography

Have Prince's ashes even cooled down yet?

OperatingThetan said:

Let's be nice. Alex knows his shit.

I wouldn't read this book if I got it for free.

Hahn is an ambulance chasing lawyer that wants to cash in on Prince's death.

If Per Nielsen writes one then fine but this joker......

OperatingThetan said:

I'll withold my final judgement until the book is released and I read the final results, but 'Possessed' was very critical with some aspects that read like a tabloid. And now after Prince's death, Alex appears again having been absent from the community for many years, to publicise another book? Hmmm...

^^^^^^

Excellent news! Please release a hardcover book version as e-books are a pain to read. Also, with a hardcover version, it is something tangible the true fans can have as keepsake.

Empress said:

Excellent news! Please release a hardcover book version as e-books are a pain to read. Also, with a hardcover version, it is something tangible the true fans can have as keepsake.

true fans..yeah right

Thanks to everybody for the supportive comments. We are more than open to suggestions and ideas, such as the great ones made so far.

I am hearing the message loud and clear concerning a physical edition. I am probably not interested in working with a traditional publisher, but we are exploring ways to make a physical edition happen.

I think many people understand that something like this is a labor of love rather than a money-making venture. I won't belabor that point other to say that the amount of money I received in total for Possessed amounted to a salary of about $2 per hour. The amount of time I have spent on this project since my 50th birthday (April 21) is placing profound demands on my professional life and my family life. Needless to say, my law practice, which is to some extent on hold to work on this book, would be a far better way to "cash in."

In the last several months, I have lost my mother and my grandmother, and I can tell you that one of the reasons I am doing this is in honor of my mother's work ethic and commitment as a writer. I am happy I will be able to dedicate the book to her, which is far more important than ever receiving a dollar.

In looking back at the original book, I feel that the tone in parts, particularly when I am reviewing records, had a slightly snarky aspect. The value of spending a lot of time on commentary I think is somewhat questionable, especially since reasonable minds so often disagree. I am more interested this time in telling the story. Not all aspects of that story are pretty or tidy, but my intent will be to offer a full portrait of an incomparable life.

WhisperingDandelions said:

Will the critical aspects of the first book be omitted?