Prince + Purple RainPrince + Purple Rain

"This book is a love letter to Prince and Purple Rain, his best-known and most commercially successful album, from the vantage point of forty years after its release. Whether it captures him at his creative peak is an argument that should keep us busy for at least the next ten years. . . What we can say for certain is that it was the moment in his career when he went from buzzy to red-hot and from an acclaimed yet still somewhat underground art-funk-rock star to a blazing supernova who had the world's attention, and who set the tone for not just music but pop culture for the rest of the 1980s. . . And so, as much as he harbored his own conflicted feelings about anniversaries, we are going to celebrate Purple Rain in all its glory: from its backstory, creation, and premiere to the myriad ways it has rippled outward and touched so many of us in the four decades since Prince first envisioned it."--Page 9.