The unfinished memories of the legendary American musician Prince will be published next October under the title “The Beautiful Ones”, one of the songs composed and performed by the iconic singer, who died on April 21, 2016 due to an overdose of opiates at age 57 years old.
“The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince, a first-person account of a child absorbing the world around him and, later, the creation of a person, the artistic vision and life, before the successes and the fame that would later define it”, Penguin Random House editorial, responsible for the project, said in a statement.
The 288-page book, which will go on sale on October 29, can now be booked in English for $30.
The writer Dan Piepenbring will sign next to Prince these memories, whose publication has suffered several delays and setbacks, since previously it was announced that it would go on sale in 2017 and 2018.
According to the publishing house, the publication will have unpublished photos, as well as original photo albums and lyrics written on paper.
Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minneapolis, won seven Grammy awards and an Oscar for best original song for the movie “Purple Rain”, also named after one of his albums, which includes the song “The Beautiful Ones”.
In his career of more than 35 years on the stage, he released 39 albums, sold more than 100 million copies and achieved global repercussion for his songs and his costumes, a unique and non-transferable style with which he attended all his public appearances.
The editorial explains that the work is divided into four parts. The first is composed of the memories he was writing before his death.
In these pages, the artist narrates his childhood. The second part tells of his early years as a musician through writings and photos of Prince himself.
The last two narrate the evolution and the culmination of his musical career, with drafts of his songs as his hit “Purple Rain”.
Creator of masterpieces such as “Purple Rain” or “Sign ‘O’ the Times” (1987) and maximum reference of pop and black music in the twentieth century, the figure of Prince continues to arouse the interest of the public and numerous projects that they continue to spring up on him even after his death.
For example, last December it became known that the Universal Pictures film studio is working on a movie whose plot would be inspired by Prince’s most famous songs.
Instead of a biographical tape (“biopic”, in English), Universal acquired the rights to some themes of Prince to build from them the narrative thread of this film.
Sources close to the project considered that the film “Purple Rain” (1984), starring Prince, already told the story of the rise of a humble musician to stardom, so his intention now is to use the songs of the genius of Minneapolis. way similar to what he did “Mamma Mia!” (2008) with the successes of ABBA.
Also, in September, “Piano & a Microphone 1983” was released, the first posthumous album by Prince and the first approach of his heirs to the great unpublished catalog of an artist known to be very prolific.
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