Prince Drinks
8C FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 2020 Tropical Life SATURDAY OCTOBER 3 2020 H1 FROM PAGE 1C ing songs for his own al- scolding “Promise to Be bums; he was also touring, True” could have clicked, devising movie projects, but according to the reis- PRINCE overseeing the construc- sue’s extensive liner notes, tion of Paisley Park and their touring schedules got more material than the coming up with material in the way. original double LP could for musicians he admired, Prince could write and hold. including Miles Davis, Joni record all the parts of a Now “Sign O’ the Times” Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt. song in a day, and some- has been reissued and And he was trying on alter times more than one song. vastly expanded. A Super egos — including a female He heard every instru- Deluxe configuration in- one, Camille, created with mental part in his head and cludes eight CDs and a pitched-up vocals, for got them on tape as fast as DVD, augmenting the re- whom he had contemplat- he could. He seemed to mastered original with its ed an entire album. hear every viewpoint, too: associated singles and Prince was also dealing men and women, lovers B-sides; two live shows with two breakups. He and fighters, pragmatists from 1987 (audio from a dissolved his longtime and dreamers, heroes and stadium concert in the band, the Revolution, in scoundrels. The huge list of Netherlands, video from a October 1986. And he characters mentioned on New Year’s Eve show at ended his engagement to the original album — the Prince’s Paisley Park studio Susannah Melvoin, though waitress Dorothy Parker, complex in Minnesota); his love song to her, “For- the classmates in “Starfish and, best of all, three CDs ever in My Life,” stayed on and Coffee,” the tough of unreleased material “Sign O’ the Times,” re- pretty girl in “U Got the from Prince’s huge archive, made to become more Look,” all the desperate the Vault.
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