Prince is mentioned in john lydon(aka johnny rotten)'s autobiography...

it is on page 220...

"The Pistols era proved to me that ideas were far more important than how well or how badly you could play. That was the most vital thing. Without punk there certainly couldn't have been anything like Prince. His first couple of albums were really raw - the same sort of drum pattern all the way through. Until the Sex Pistols, nobody ever talked about this expression, "overproduced." You never thought about it. You never knew the difference between an overproduced band and a raw band because, before punk, there were almost no raw bands."

there it is...