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Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain by Alan Light (Paperback, 2015)

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Author: Alan Light. Title: Let's Go Crazy. It spun off three huge hit singles, won Grammys and an Oscar, and took Prince from pop star to legend, the first artist ever simultaneously to have the #1 album, single, and movie in the country.

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Alan Light, former writer for Rolling Stone, editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin magazines, and author of The Holy or the Broken, gets inside Prince's mind palace in Let's Go Crazy-a history of the making of his historic, semi-autobiographical musical masterwork, Purple Rain (Vanity Fair). Purple Rain is a song, an album, and a film-widely considered to be among the most important albums in music history and often named the best soundtrack of all time. It sold over a million copies in its first week of release in 1984 and blasted to #1 on the charts, where it would remain for a full six months and eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide. It spun off three huge hit singles, won Grammys and an Oscar, and took Prince from pop star to legend-the first artist ever simultaneously to have the #1 album, single, and movie in the country. In Let's Go Crazy, acclaimed music journalist Alan Light takes a timely look at the making and incredible popularizing of this once seemingly impossible project. With impeccable research and in-depth interviews with people who witnessed and participated in Prince's audacious vision becoming a reality, Light reveals how a rising but not yet established artist from the Midwest was able not only to get Purple Rain made, but deliver on his promise to conquer the world. A must-read for the Prince die-hards who have remained devoted through the musical meanderings of the last three decades (Kirkus Reviews), Let's Go Crazy examines how the masterpiece that blurred R&B, pop, dance, and rock sounds altered the recording landscape and became an enduring touchstone for successive generations of fans.

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Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain
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Alan Light
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2015
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by taffysaur26 Jun, 2016
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if you are a prince fan, you need to own this book. that's as simply as i can put it. it's the most in-depth, holistic relation of the *extraordinary* story of a hot young minneapolis musician conquering first pop charts, then movie screens, and in short order, the world. light begins by setting the scene w/a quite very compelling and insightful review of prince's life and career UP TO 1983, to give context to the story to come. this is necessary to understand the magnitude of the impact prince and his peers (springsteen, madonna, michael jackson, etc) in the 1980s. built from both previous and copious new original research and interviews, you really won't find a better overview of prince's impact. though i sometimes disagree w/light's opinions, he is always very democratic and gives the reader the facts to come to their own conclusions. the holistic view of the pop landscape and of prince's entire career makes this THE book to read about the impact that purple rain had, whether you are too young to have experienced it first hand, or to give context and perspective to those who do remember those heady times. can't recommend it highly enough, i tore through it in two days.Read full review
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