A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock-s greatest talents: Prince.
Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover stories, wrote -3 Chains o- Gold,- Prince-s -rock video opera,- as well as the star-s last testament, which may be buried with Prince-s will underneath Prince-s vast and private compound, Paisley Park.
According to Prince''s former fianc-Susannah Melvoin, Karlen was -the only reporter who made Prince sound like what he really sounded like.- Karlen quit writing about Prince a quarter-century before the mega-star died, but he never quit Prince, and the two remained friends for the last thirty-one years of the superstar-s life.
Well before they met as writer and subject, Princ
