http://perso.wanadoo.fr/x...rCover.JPG
As you can see on the cover "Prince parler d´amour" (Prince talks about love), But unfortunately I don´t have the issue yet! Maybe some French folks can help/scan/translate the article?

Hes doing a lot of promo interviews lately

The Vogue Paris web site doesn't have any updates since the first few weeks of February. Maybe we can try again in a few days to see if any photos or mentions next week.

www.vogueparis.com
[This message was edited Tue Feb 25 18:00:47 PST 2003 by newpowerlove]

Hey can anyone send me a copy of that? i would be willing to pay!! Or if anyone knows where i might be able to pick up a copy, it would be a great help. I live in M.I. US if that helps any. if anyone can you can email me at angel_29011@yahoo.com.
Thanks SO much.

This is part one of the aproximative translation I can give you

Please forgive my english.

Prince speaks to you.

The one which was one of the last incarnations of the musical genius in XXe century is always there, with, in its drawers, what to astonish (or disconcert) the world during two more or three decades. First, he found love and God.

AT THE END OF OCTOBER 2002. The untameable force of nature (sometimes) known as Prince has not placed any album in the world charts for several years and does not have any large discographic structure to distribute his records, but the six thousand and some witnesses run to the Zenith in Paris find from the start linked by a submerging obviousness, they attend the performance of a true magician, the most gifted musician currently in activity on this planet.

Dressed of an elegant surprisingly discrete black suit, the tiny performer, after having guided his excellent new group through several complex musical sequences, danced with the agility of a young James Brown and carried out a guitar solo that let us breathless, he decides to communicate in a more direct way with the extatic crowd massed in front of him: " How much among you are disciples?" while a sea of hands is agitated in front of him. " And now, how many leaders are there ?" Some individuals raise the hand timidly, but everyone knows that only one leader occupies the place this evening.

Mick jagger is recently resume the state of mind of the disciples of Prince while declaring: " He has always been a brilliant artist. He is very prolific, he vacuum-cleaned many traditions and invented a lot of of new styles. He composes in exceptional manner and eclipse everyone on scene. I place him all in top, at the top.

And what about Miles Davis which, Just before his death, recorded with Prince and write in his autobiography "he is a little genius... he can do everything. For me, he is the new Duke Ellington."

Prince himself agrees entirely with these high opinions: " did I saw one potential rival these twenty last years?", repeating the question which I have just asked him. " You must be joking. Nobody is as good. Nobody comes higher than my ankle"

This faith without fault in his artistic capacities characterizes Prince since the end of the Seventies, when he signed for the first time a contract for seven albums with Warner Bros and obtained a total control on all the aspects of musical creation.

Prince wrote all the songs, played and sang each note, produced and took part in the recording cession. He also builds a reputation of blazing performer and, in 1982, joined international public with the ambitious double funk-pop album, " 1999 ".

Two years later, he became, with Madonna and Michael Jackson - the most significant superstar in the world with the simultaneous triumphal movie Purple Rain (a hardly disguised autobiography) and 13 million sondtracks album sold. Prince said he thought that , at this time of his career, he could pay a hard tribute to this commercial phenomenon. " I realized that it was impossible to remain at this omnipresent point for a long time — beeing all, for everyone. And I knew that I have to evolve ant that would not be a piece of cake."

however, he do something more than evolve and the marvelously eclectic albums that he published in the end of the 80's like " Parade " and " Sign O' The times " are considered as the most brilliant albums ever.

At the same time, his glory seemed to insulate him, turns him more and more parano and obsessed by the wish to be in total control. According to one of his employees, " Prince never spoke. He communicated with his crew by small words. No one was authorized to look at him or to speak to him. I saw him fired a guy which had dared to launch a glance to him."

Then came the Eighties and, for Prince, a lot of professional problems.

Initially, the film Graffiti Bridge collected, then the musician who had just renewed his contract with Warner Bros, discovered that he still did not have the rights of his music, which made him change his name several times and to trott itself in public with the word "slave" writes on the cheek.

Not to hold the rights of his recordings always turns him nuts: " the law does not have any direction for me ".

" I create: that belongs to me". It is a point of divine law, I cannot help from thinking of a certain form of racial discrimination. David Bowie has his catalogue, but look at the naked terrible battle the family of Hendrix had to carry out before obtaining the rights of his work.

In quantity, I have more than five times the work of Jimi and I want that all belongs to me before my death."

Prince entered the new millenium by taking again his old patronym and while moving away still more from the usual practices of musical industry -, he publishes from now on his recordings (latest to date, the jazzy conceptual album " the Rainhow children")

end of part one

Thanks for that purplegirl. Is the second part in the same issue or the next?

thanks for typing that purplegirl

Yes, thank you!



Doesn't really sound like Prince, unless it's tongue-in-cheek.

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Bambi319 said:

Part two is on the way. Just give me some time.

On this time of troubles, let's pray and we will all see the dawn.

Purple Girl