As new condition textured gray boards with purple spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Epilogue; Acknowledgments; and Index. ".an authoritative, full-scale biography of the musical career of Prince, one of the most commercially successful, controversial, and influential musicians of all time. Prince is the only recording artist since the Beatles to have a number-one song, movie, and single at the same time. In his three-decade-long career, he has had nearly thirty albums hit the Billboard Top 100. His trajectory - from a teenage unknown in late-1970s Minneapolis, to Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, to his turn as star-maker - has established hm as one of the most important musicians.This book gives proper treatment to a thirty-year career of epic proportions. Ronin Ro, the celebrated music journalist and author.tells the story of how Prince achieve his own brand of mega-success by bucking industry trends and refusing to play by