The Beautiful Ones

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The Beautiful Ones

#1Â NEW YORK TIMESÂ BESTSELLER â€¢Â The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own wordsâ€”featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of â€œUptownâ€ to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of â€œPaisley Park.â€ But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of any era.

The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Princeâ€”a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death, pages that bring us into his childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us through Princeâ€™s early years as a musician, before his first album was released, via an evocative scrapbook of writing and photos. The third section shows us Princeâ€™s evolution through candid images that go up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the bookâ€™s fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rainâ€”the final stage in Princeâ€™s self-creation, where he retells the autobiography of the first three parts as a heroic journey.

The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbringâ€™s riveting and moving introduction about his profound collaboration with Prince in his final monthsâ€”a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique heâ€™d so carefully cultivatedâ€”and annotations that provide context to the bookâ€™s images.

This work is not just a tribute to an icon, but an original and energizing literary work in its own right, full of Princeâ€™s ideas and vision, his voice and imageâ€”his undying gift to the world.

Country	USA
Author	Prince
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780399589669
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Spiegel & Grau
Manufacturer	Spiegel & Grau
NumberOfPages	278
PublicationDate	2019-10-29
Publisher	Spiegel & Grau
ReleaseDate	2019-10-29
Studio	Spiegel & Grau

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