Did he start writing this before or after P passed? I saw this as a pre-order on Amazon shortly after and it looked like a cash-in. A lot of the books/magazines on Prince since April have just been half-assed and full of mistakes.
I wouldn't really go out of my way to read another Mick Wall book anyway - his Axl Rose bio was a complete bitchfest.

I'd be amazed if this was anything other than a quick copy-paste job with some words changed, perhaps a bunch of well-known photos and a few "personal memories" of no interest to anyone except the author himself.

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It's 208 pages, so it just can't be any good.

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Just listen: https://soundcloud.com/or...colin-mace

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That's an excerpt from chapter one; a longer sample (not an audio one, but a text one) is avalable on his website.

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And here's an excerpt from chapter six.

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Seems Magnoli's story about him picking PR's songs gets wilder and wilder:

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The next step was to help Prince choose which of over 100 songs he had written for the movie would work best. Together, they eventually picked 12, partly based on the music – Prince – partly based on how the lyrics could help form parts of the dialogue or help different scenes segue into the narrative. It was this process that brought ‘When Doves Cry’ to the forefront – a track not everyone had been convinced by as it came without a bass line. In Magnoli’s hands, though, it would form part of one of the most impressive montages in the film.

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The only track not from the original 100 songs Prince submitted for consideration was the one that would provide both the starburst climax to the movie – and which Prince wrung every drop of emotion from his guitar – and gives the film its enigmatic title, ‘Purple Rain’.

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I mean, that's just straight-up bullshit.

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Blah blah blah.

Excerpt from a review by Daily Review:

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Despite Wall’s early interaction with Prince as a music journalist, this is a distant biography – an outsider looking in. He knits together a well-crafted patchwork of the facts, anecdotes and quotes that make up Prince’s history. Bookended by the tragic details of Prince’s death, Purple Reign otherwise takes a well-worn chronological path. It tells the story of Prince’s childhood, his initial difficulties securing a record contract, his meteoric rise to fame, his contract dispute, name change and his last, less commercially successful, but more spiritually fulfilling years.

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The final chapter returns to Prince’s death from a Fentanyl overdose. While a necessary part of Prince’s story – Wall’s decision to give further airtime to some of the more salacious (and to my knowledge, unsubstantiated) rumours published by rags like the National Inquirer upon his death, end the book on a decided tabloid tone. Prince was often tabloid fodder throughout his career, yet this final chapter is tonally inconsistent with Wall’s otherwise balanced approach to his subject.

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I read this book. It is NOT worth your money. It's badly researched, and has lots of wrong dates in the photo captions too (e.g. a Lovesexy era pic 'from around 2001'???!!!). Avoid.

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Co-sign to everything that Bart said above.

Pure bullshit. I read that excerpt yesterday and noticed the errors immediately.

Just another socalled journalist trying to cash in after Prince´s death.

wasnt there already a book from the 80's called purple reign?

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