Prince and the Parade and Sign O' the Times Era Studio Sessions

1985 and 1986

De: Duane Tudahl, Sir Elton John - foreword

Narrado por: Ron Butler

From Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio Sessions series spotlights how Prince, the biggest rock star on the planet at the time, risked everything to create some of the most introspective music of his four-decade career.

Duane Tudahl takes us on an emotional and intimate journey of love, loss, rivalry, and renewal revealed through unprecedented access to dozens of musicians, singers, studio engineers, and others who worked with him and knew him best - with never-before-published memories from the Revolution, the Time, the Family, and Apollonia 6. Also included is a heartfelt foreword by musical legend Elton John about his time and friendship with Prince.

©2021 Duane Tudahl (P)2021 Tantor

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An exhaustive, thoroughly enjoyable, and often moving audiobook.
I highly recommend this to true Prince fan.
Cannot wait for the next chapter!

Great!!

Musical Genius!! Great info on the best of all time. Loved it and I recommend.

Great stories behind the music

This is possibly the closest we get to Susan Rogers writing her own book. She had a front row seat to his genius, I keep hoping she would write a book.
Here she gives many stories within the studio of what was happening around the creation of many songs.
I’m only left to wonder once Paisley Park opened if records were kept as was the case with Sunset Sound to produce another book within this series.

Informative and Interesting.

I loved this book. So fun to follow his early career , and to play songs that are documented along the way after hearing a bit of history of each one. Not to mention the memories it brought back to me as I was living in this time . I even learned a little about what it takes to produce a record . Prince was an amazing, one of a kind genius. I’m still listening to his music.

AMAZING READ! Like the last one

Read the Purple Rain Era Studio Session Book when it was released and I love this one just as much. As a R&B Pop Singer, who is a self taught, pianist, guitarist, songwriter and producer/engineer. This book gives me all the little details I’ve always wondered about with Prince’ work ethic. The thing that has resonated with me most is dealing with the loneliness that comes with the amount of dedication and selfishness needed to achieve this level of greatness. It is a dark indeed, lonely, even delusional world, we live in. But I assume comes with the territory. I literally marvel in Prince’s ability to be so sure of himself and hit the studio for hours and days on end. The humanity or him makes it far more interesting knowing that he wasn’t just talented, he worked his tail off constantly almost never burning out, like Kobe & Jordan. Straight Crazy. His terrible character traits, being manipulative, insecure, and self absorbed are traits I wish to not attain but I feel like it’s inevitable when being so determined in one’s purpose to that level. GREAAAT READ.