"The Beautiful Ones?" Guess my hopes of it not being a ego trip is shot to hell.

Another good title would be For You.

First album, first book,

As my man Luke Skywalker once said..."I have a very bad feeling about this."

UncleJam said:

laurarichardson said:

UncleJam said:

As my man Luke Skywalker once said..."I have a very bad feeling about this."

-// I have never seen so many dumb ass comments on this board. A lot of you out did yourselves this time. Anything Prince writes about the creative process is going to be interesting but you guys run out and check out the Chris Brown documentary.

Exactly. Too many celebrities write salacious tell-all books that are trashy and reveal details about other people that they had no business including in their memoir. Prince writing about his creative process writing a song, composing, arranging, recording, reheasing bands-would be fascinating because its coming from the source and not third parties exploiting his life story for their gain. Despite contrary public opinion, a memoir can be interesting without gossip.

KingSausage said:

Very interesting. I would be very excited to read this if it comes out. I hope that it's uniquely Prince. His voice. His interpretation of events in his life. I LOVED Dylan's Chronicles Volume 1. It wasn't a straight up autobiography or memoir, but that's what made it great. It was fundamentally Dylan. I hope Prince's book captures his unique view on things in a similar fashion.

I'm not expecting Chronicles--but I am interested in seeing what he does.

I will refrain from commenting anything blatantly negative and just say that I predict this book (IF it ever actually comes to fruition, which I have strong doubts about) will be an incredibly frustrating read due to: coy writing, deliberately vague and confusing 'information' (sure to cause many a debate and discussion of "Who is he referring to by that?" and "What he wrote means XXX" with counters of "No no no, he means YYY!" and surely a lot of eyerolling emoticons ), HUGE omissions of facts, lots of rewriting of history, and probably the book itself will be short. But lots of (airbrushed) photos of Prince.

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Well, I see I was not able to refrain from the negative. Sorry.

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I will say a positive: IF this book happens, I do think it will likely contain at least a few bits of gold, I'd bet mainly because of Prince's wit and cleverness with words, and not so much on the content (i.e. INFORMATION) itself.

babynoz said:

Another good title would be For You.

First album, first book,

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I like that idea!

Those being "negative" might have seen/read all his interviews, official magazines, the 21 Nights Book, or anything he's said/written online ever, and might just be logically keeping their expectations low as they've learned that over hyping an anouncement like this will surely lead to disappointment. How is that negative?

That said, I've bought and read well over a dozen books about Prince, I'll be sure to do the same with one that he does himself, even though I expect more than a few cringeworthy moments.

If done well, this could be a very interesting read.

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Looking forward to this

I wonder if he will be doing some book signing tours or touring and combining a book signing together

Or............... touring and giving fans free copies at his concerts

luv2tha99s said:

I thought his brother's name was Duane not Dan. How many bros does he have?

Duane was his half-brother, and died in 2013.

I anticipate a John Lennon style Skywriting book

EnDoRpHn said:

luv2tha99s said:

I thought his brother's name was Duane not Dan. How many bros does he have?

Duane was his half-brother, and died in 2013.

But, who is Dan?

2017 is an awfully long time to change his mind. It's not happening. Remasters anyone?

Note: Prince's whole life and musical career has been framed around his mystique. Eveything the man's ever uttered has been indication, suggestion and--quite often--plain 'ole gibberish. There 'ain't no way, EVER, he's gonna give it to you straight.

I need a good book to read.

AnonymousFan said:

Does Prince see the future.. 1984 warner brothers released 2010 does the sun turn into a door and does jupiter become our sun.

By "Unconventional" does it mean he is gonna write it in his usual Princebonics???

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PurpleSpirit319 said:

By "Unconventional" does it mean he is gonna write it in his usual Princephonics???

With that kind of abbreviating, it'll be a pamphlet. Not a book.

Reallly surprising news, when I heard this I must admit I had three initial throughts.

1) For an artist so shrouded by Mystery and Enigma this is a very striking announcement.

2) I think that he will approach this in a very unique way and it will be much more than the average autobiography.

3) For all those who are arguing stating that he will only write what he wishes and leave out details he wishes. This is pretty true of all autobiographies written. Famously, for example, Charlie Chaplin only mentions one of his wives with two paragraphs. It's Prince's right to incude and exclude what he wishes. This does however sound fascinating.

djThunderfunk said:

KingSausage said:

Gotta love how these first two pages are filled with realistic expectations ("ain't gonna happen", "gonna be shite"), except for a few famz who can't stand to be confronted with factual statements.

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It's really simple: list all of the publications Prince has been involved in and look at their contents.

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Good luck to his publishers. Guess he found another sucker; I hope they haven't already paid him for this.

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