[2019-10-29] Prince "The Beautiful Ones" hardcover memoir (Spiegel And Grau)

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:23 pm

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From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time—featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death.

Prince was a musical genius, one of the most talented, beloved, accomplished, popular, and acclaimed musicians in history. He was also a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of “Uptown” to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of “Paisley Park.” But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, the greatest pop star of his era.

The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince—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 composed of the memoir he was writing before his tragic death, pages that brings us into Prince’s childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us into Prince’s early years as a musician, before his first album released, through a scrapbook of Prince’s writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince’s evolution through candid images that take us up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book’s fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain—the final stage in Prince’s self-creation, as he retells the autobiography we’ve seen in the first three parts as a heroic journey.

The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring’s riveting and moving introduction about his short but profound collaboration with Prince in his final months—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 he’d so carefully cultivated—and annotations that provide context to each of the book’s images.

This work is not just a tribute to Prince, but an original and energizing literary work, full of Prince’s ideas and vision, his voice and image, his undying gift to the world.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399589651/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:24 pm

Prince to publish 'unconventional' memoir called 'The Beautiful Ones'

http://www.nme.com/news/prince/92397

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

if this is HONEST & thorough, it could be interesting.

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

I'm sure, from Prince's perspective, it will be honest. It's just a matter of whether his perspective has any correlation to reality.
I will have to read it. I find him fascinating.

Gary Dunaier · 20 Jul 2006

I wonder if the finished product will be written in regular English or in "Prince" English.

JosephC · **Joined:** 27 Jan 2011 **Posts:** 2656

It's written in

. That's why it's unconventional.

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

I wonder if this book is sufficiently completed and will still be published? I was really looking forward to it.

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

Me too. I saw something that said he'd been working on it "for a few weeks". I hope that's somewhat inaccurate.

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

I heard he completed about 50 pages worth.

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:21 pm

Prince’s Official Memoir to Be Published This Year

http://www.ultimateclassicrock.com/prin ... -this-year

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

Something tells me there won't be a $3 Kindle edition for awhile!

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

They must have worked quickly if I read the post correctly. The deal was struck only weeks before his death, so there must have been some intensive work done.

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

50 pages from Prince sounds like another writer probably wrote 3/4 of it.

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:21 am

The book will finally be published in October of this year:

Prince Memoir 'The Beautiful Ones' Coming in the Fall

https://www.billboard.com/articles/colu ... ng-in-fall

I've added pre-order details to the first post of this thread.

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:58 am

Prince's Posthumous Memoir 'The Beautiful Ones' Is Ready for Fans

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news ... y-for-fans

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:23 pm

In anticipation of the book's publication tomorrow, the pre-order price has been reduced by 30%, down to $21.00:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399589651/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:40 pm

Prince's Book Agent Reveals an Unconventional Path to ‘Beautiful Ones’

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... es-1250555

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

I expected to pick this up at B&N, but for some reason, they decided not to discount it. I gave it a week for the best seller list, but no discount as of Wednesday, so AmazWAN AmazWON. Even took delayed delivery so I could get the bonus towards digital purchases. So yay.

[2019-10-29] Prince "The Beautiful Ones" hardcover memoir (Spiegel And Grau)

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