Purple Rainis a song, an album, and a film-each one a commercial success and cultural milestone. How did this semi-autobiographical musical masterpiece that blurred R&B, pop, dance, and rock sounds come to alter the recording landscape and become an enduring touchstone for successive generations of fans? Purple Rainis widely considered to be among the most important albums in music history and often named the best soundtrack of all time. It sold over a million copies in its first week and blasted to #1 on the charts, where ...
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Purple Rainis a song, an album, and a film-each one a commercial success and cultural milestone. How did this semi-autobiographical musical masterpiece that blurred R&B, pop, dance, and rock sounds come to alter the recording landscape and become an enduring touchstone for successive generations of fans? Purple Rainis widely considered to be among the most important albums in music history and often named the best soundtrack of all time. It sold over a million copies in its first week and blasted to #1 on the charts, where it would remain for a full six months and eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide. It spun off three huge hit singles, won Grammys and an Oscar, and took Prince from pop star to legend. Coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary year of Purple Rain'srelease, acclaimed music journalist Alan Light takes a timely look at the making and incredible popularizing of this once seemingly impossible project. With impeccable research and in-depth interviews with people who witnessed Prince's audacious vision becoming a reality, Light reveals how a rising but not yet established artist from the Midwest was able not only to get Purple Rainmade, but deliver on his promise to conquer the world.
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New in New jacket. Mint condition. Atria Books, 2014. First US hardback edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Purple hardback(silver lettering to the spine, small nick on the edges of the cover) with Dj(two small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. The book is new with a small ink mark on the outer edges of the pages.298pp including index. Priced un-clipped. First edition.
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Used: Very good. Size: 87x17x133; Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Music; Very good hardcover with dustjacket; remainder mark top edge; small tear bottom corner back dustjacket; tips/edges of dustjacket bumped; slight crease to dustjacket; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.
