But, as I do not read Italian, I just have to guess it is a two page story about Prince's career and One Nite Alone.

Can our Italian Org Buddies help us out here?

I do have scans of this... just give a little bit of time...

,)

btw, what do I have to do to post pictures?

Glam in between

Neither white nor black, from a cultural point of view. Androgynous. Hedonist but also spiritual, arrogant but also sensitive. For 25 years now Prince, the rebellious genius, has been reigning in the world of pop.

He is maybe the most prolific one. He is certainly one of the most famous and most significant artists of the international music scene. Since 1978, when his first album For you was published, until June 7th 1993, the day he announced he had changed his name into a symbol - that, according to his own explanation, cannot be pronounced but simply is – Prince has been the protagonist of a long sequence of successes. In a period of time of 15 years he recorded 14 lps, an indeterminable number of singles (all this without considering the numerous bootlegs which consist of dozensof unreleased songs); he has produced and starred in the movies Purple Rainand Under the cherry moon; he built in his hometown Minneapolis the Paisley Park Studios which are futuristic recording studio/headquarters where he has gathered a court of assistants and muscians for whom he has often produced albums; he signed one of the richest contracts in music history (100 million dollars for a 10 years exclusive with Warner Brothers). The best Prince though comes out during a live performance. He dominates every one of his concerts singing, playing, dancing and even acting for over three hours. It has been concerts like the 1988 Lovesexy Tour, with a round and interactive stage, that have definitively consecrated the Prince of Pop, His Rebellious Majesty, The Minneapolis Imp. He is an icon who manages to reconcile rock-fans and dance-fans, teen-agers and severe critics, thanks to his undisputed musical talent and to the sexual ambiguity of his eccentric look. His make-up, his laced shirts, his lace tissue in front of the eyes , his pants curled on the sides, his high-heeled boots (which he still wears even though he now has a more sober look), his body stoking with strategical gaps did make history... Prince has absorbed different forms and contents of the history of music to concentrate them in an ultimately personal style. White music and black music, hedonism and messianic spirit, arrogance and vulnerability, quoting and technological futurism, lust and asexual romanticism have all exploded in him synthesizing themselves. He once said: I have never felt either white or black. and it really seems that the origins of his brilliance are derived from his in between condition. Out of the buduoir of his Minneapolis studio he projects his idea of glamour-rock all over the world: it’s a form of aesthetics that meets the forms of culture coming from Midwestern suburbs, it meets the musical icons of the past and lastly it meets an irresistible androginy. His sounds and his images are simultaneously furrowed with echoes of heterogeneous sources like the Beatles, Commodores, Curtis Mayfield, Elvis, Funkadelic, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Kraftwerk, Rolling Stones, Sly & the FamilyStone. Prince has music both in his name (his parents named him Prince Roger to honour the Prince Rogers Trio, the jazz group in which they were both playing) and in his veins. An undoubtful exhibitionist vanity did the rest. Prince was born both a musician and a star. His skills in controlling every aspect of his career are undoubted. He is a control-freak, almost paranoid (his decision not to give any interviews for many years is a very famous example of this). It goes without saying that the contract he signed in 1993 withWarner Brothers has far too restrictive clauses for such a person; it is an unacceptable restriction to his hyperprolific creativity. In fact, Prince won’t be able to publish as many albums as he would liketo not to saturate the market. Following the wave of this dispute with his record label and the wave of a new self-conciuosness (he speaks of a spiritual re-birth) that leads him to not wanting to be the icon he has become and that everyone wants him to be, Prince decides to change his name, moreover, he decides not to have a name. He is identified with a logo that melts the feminine and the masculine symboils in some sort of sexual ying-yang. According to his intentions this is a liberating and revolutionary act (an act that will develop into a site,www.npgmusicclub, through which he independently distributes his music and explains the reasons behind his choice) that should once again put the musician in frontof the star, the direct relationship between theartist and his public in front of business manipulations. It’s an act of disobedience which TheSymbol (or TAFKAP or The Artist) paid for for almost ten years. This also happened because of a series of works in which for the first time selfindulgence shadowed his exceptional talent. But in year 2000, the year his contract with Warner Brothers expires, Prince Roger Nelson is born again as Prince to then publish after a year The rainbow children, which is an album in which he seems to have found himself again with no paradoxes.Without any self-celebrating intentions nor any nostalgia for his past, Prince is back with a tour, One nite alone, which is sold out everywhere even though his songs are not aired by the radio. During his recent show in London Prince asks is fans who are in ecstasies witnessing his recovered gracefulness (even if he gave up on the choreographical side of the show in favour of the music) if they want to listen to Purple Rain, his biggest hit. The answer of the public is foregone; the reaction of the Prince of Minneapolis is quite less foregone as he, innovative genius, provokingly answers: I’m not going to play it because you are here to learn. After that he starts playing a song from his new album together with his roaring band.
(Caroline Corbetta, Massimo Torrigiani)

Hail Lulirom!!! Grazie Laura per tutto il tempo speso!!!

NoSwan said:

E' stata una scusa per andarsi a comprare il giornale e leggersi l'articolo con un po' di cura

lulirom said:

THANKS!

gooeythehamster said:

you are welcome

grande laura

un saluto

raff

pope said:

Ciao Moro!

ciao sono italiano e vorrei sapere con chi potrei parlare per avere informazioni sui bootleg di prince per favore fatemi sapere,vorrei conoscere qalcuno con cui scambiare opinioni,vi prego

pisello un nome un programma!


hehe

i bootleg ??? Ma se qui a Roma non si trova neppure la roba "ufficiale" !!!
Dov'è ONA live???

hazel said:

Qui a Roma? Ci conosciamo?

Anyway, giorni fa avevo iniziato una ricerchina telefonica per un amico che poi tanto ha detto e tanto ha fatto che ho smesso di cercare...
I risultati ottenuti erano che da Ricordi a via del Corso e a viale Giulio Cesare era finito e stava per tornare (avrei dovuto richiamare ma non l'ho fatto), stessa cosa da Revolver a via Gherardi. I negozi dove invece proprio non lo avevano (tra quelli che ho chiamato io) erano Disfunzioni Musicali e Star Music.
Spero di essere stata utile.

Se proprio non lo trovi lo puoi prendere da http://www.cdbox.it per mi pare 61.59 euro + le spese di spedizione.

non parlate di bootlegs qui. vi consiglio www.housequake.com

non molto, comunque grazie...!!! Ma quando riapre l'npg club? Dopo il concerto mi è venuta voglia di abbonarmi...