just as he is allowed to do what he wants, its also my prerogative to comment on it as i see it.

im sure many public figures would like to hear no one elses version of their own story.

but once you become a public figure, its hard to do that.

the 'authorised' version of a life, is not always the most truthful, or at least, not always the most well rounded account.

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

From https://www.facebook.com/...465765774/ :

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I'll long remember the conversation I had with one of Prince's attorneys when I represented Uptown Magazine in the suit he had brought against the publication in the late 1990s. That suit is, perhaps justly, remembered as one of the low points in his career-- in essence a suit against his most ardent fans. The attorney told me that Prince felt that Uptown was eroding his ability to tell his story through the autobiography he eventually intended to create. Prince felt that he should have sole control and ownership over his own biographical story, and that a fanzine devoted solely to discussion about him eroded that ownership right.

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The reason for that lawsuit was the bootlegging ( Madhouse ) that Uptown was associated with.

I have damn near every issue of Uptown and I hated it's gone but that's what happened.

I was and will always be about the money. Anything solely dedicated to him meant they were potentially making money off his work and he did not approve of it. He failed to realize the value that all of this activity brought to him. I for one would have stooped following him long ago had it not been for some of these unauthorized channels especially bootlegs. There were points in his career that I did not like his current output. Bootlegs, trading and making friends all over the world, fansites like this one and Housequake, kept me plugged in until I connected with his future output which always happened.

I will go to me grave knowing that as far as I am concerned none of this ever took a dollar from him. I still bought ever official release, attended every show when he was reasonably near and always signed up for ever official fan club or website he authorized.

I will always wonder what could have been had he not gone after his core fans the way he did.