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Possessed: The Rise and Fall of PRINCE I was surfing around Borders and found this book, Titled - Possessed: The Rise and Fall of PRINCE.
States not yet published, but shows available April 2003. Anyone know anything about this book? | |
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Not a thing LuvU. Will have to look for it though. I'm firmly planted in denial | |
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amazon.com has it listed, but it's "not yet published." They also have an image of the book cover:
http://www.amazon.com/exe...96-5398232 Check out The Mountains and the Sea, a Prince podcast by yours truly and my wife. More info at https://www.facebook.com/TMATSPodcast/ |
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I can't quite make out the author's name on the cover. But, it looks like Alex maybe. | |
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LuvU said: I can't quite make out the author's name on the cover. But, it looks like Alex maybe.
The author is Alex Hahn. Check the larger image of the cover: http://images.amazon.com/...1.LZZZ.jpg Check out The Mountains and the Sea, a Prince podcast by yours truly and my wife. More info at https://www.facebook.com/TMATSPodcast/ |
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I just enlarged your Amazon picture of the book and the author is Alex Hahn. | |
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What I am wanting to see is how much weight people will believe THIS guy holds in a critical opinion (Alex Hahn). Writing on a pop/rock/soul star when his other books are "Professional ASP XML" and "Basic Calculus: From Archimedes to Newton to its Role in Science"?! WTF!?! Not saying bookworms don't listen to musci, but I hardly see any good facts that would sway my thought into thinking P has fallen. Using the facts that he released Purple Rain and is under 5'5" are by no means justifiable factors for this book. Ok, I digress... 
damn edits. GO AWAY!  [This message was edited Wed Jan 8 15:10:15 PST 2003 by xpsiter] I am MrVictor.... | |
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If I recall correct...isn't Alex Hahn the lawyer who defended Uptown during the whole lawsuit frenzy of early 1999. I think he practices out of New York and he was just a Prince fan who enjoyed reading Uptown and wanted to defend them from what he felt was Prince's bullying...
Or something like that! Matt "Because when you say annihilation my friends, you've said all there is to say" - Henry Rollins | |
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If so, it explains some possible reasoning for the book. I am MrVictor.... | |
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I dont know about anyone else but I want this book. "Climb in my fur." | |
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I wonder if this image of the book shows up for ya'lls:
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Amazon sucks. [This message was edited Wed Jan 8 15:54:43 PST 2003 by FlyingCloudPassenger] | |
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I'll say this, at least Wendy made it on the cover!    Proud member of Prince's cult for 20 years! | |
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chaos96 said: If I recall correct...isn't Alex Hahn the lawyer who defended Uptown during the whole lawsuit frenzy of early 1999. I think he practices out of New York and he was just a Prince fan who enjoyed reading Uptown and wanted to defend them from what he felt was Prince's bullying...
Or something like that! Matt Yupp you're right. And as xpsiter said, it would explain the book, esp the title... "fall of Prince"  that's pretty presumptious. It's probably subtitled, "How I stood up to Prince's lawsuit and won.... a settlement."
. [This message was edited Wed Jan 8 16:57:04 PST 2003 by NuPwrSoul] "That...magic, the start of something revolutionary-the Minneapolis Sound, we should cherish it and not punish prince for not being able to replicate it."-Dreamshaman32 | |
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Wow, think of that when you complain about someone posting a negative comment on here about Prince. This guy goes one step further and writes a whole damn book! LOL | |
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Good lord. Lawyers are now writing books about him. Next his former maid and chauffer will write a book. I doubt this book could be any better than DMSR. I would not say that Prince has fallen. He knew when he talked shit about Warner Brothers that life was gonna get difficult. | |
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Who cares ?
A lot of you really don't know or care to know the impact that Prince's stand with Warner's will eventually have on the music world. Prince was right on his stance with UPTOWN from a legal sense. It pissed us off because they had good info on bootlegs,but he had to threaten legal action. Personally it bothers me that Prince didn't try and make the NPGMC more like sites like this one & be more accessable to the fams with his site. | |
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laurarichardson said: . He knew when he talked shit about Warner Brothers that life was gonna get difficult.
LOL yup...but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. "Climb in my fur." | |
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chaos96 said: If I recall correct...isn't Alex Hahn the lawyer who defended Uptown during the whole lawsuit frenzy of early 1999. I think he practices out of New York and he was just a Prince fan who enjoyed reading Uptown and wanted to defend them from what he felt was Prince's bullying...
Or something like that! Matt If I'm not mistaken,I think he also writes for Uptown Magazine these days. | |
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I will buy this book and DMSR at the same time | |
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hmmm..might make for an interesting read. Oh...sorry, most of ya'll think he's still "risin'" along with his "rainbow children"  The Prince.org Photo Album http://www.purplehouse.nl...ery/Jacqui | |
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Alex was a contributing editor to UPTOWN for a while. | |
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rdhull said: I dont know about anyone else but I want this book.
Co-Sign!! | |
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should be interesting which direction He goes with the Book? mistermaxxx | |
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xpsiter said: What I am wanting to see is how much weight people will believe THIS guy holds in a critical opinion (Alex Hahn). Writing on a pop/rock/soul star when his other books are "Professional ASP XML" and "Basic Calculus: From Archimedes to Newton to its Role in Science"?! WTF!?! Not saying bookworms don't listen to musci, but I hardly see any good facts that would sway my thought into thinking P has fallen. Using the facts that he released Purple Rain and is under 5'5" are by no means justifiable factors for this book. Ok, I digress...
damn edits. GO AWAY!
[This message was edited Wed Jan 8 15:10:15 PST 2003 by xpsiter] At least we'll know the guy is smart. Better him than some fashion critic or Hollywood gossip columnist... | |
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Oh oh... Well, you know, much worse books could be written about people like James Brown, but eh... that's showbiz, folks. [This message was edited Thu Jan 9 16:38:21 PST 2003 by Aerogram] | |
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