BOOK - Prince – The total

After two albums tinged with funk and disco, Prince Rogers Nelson became the master of Minneapolis Sound in 1980 with his third opus, the sulphurous and aptly named “Dirty Mind”. From his first records for Warner Bros. Records, the one who will soon be nicknamed the Minneapolis Kid, offers his life to an abundant and varied musical production. Prince then crossed the 1980s with an irreverence and audacity that would characterize him. After having chained successes (Little Red Corvette, Purple Rain, Kiss, Sign O' The Times or Batdance) and sold more than 100 million albums, Prince knew how to reinvent himself with each of his discs, thwarting the predictions of those who believed him to be dead, constantly reborn from his ashes, and always surprising through new artistic directions. From Madonna to Miles Davis, from Michael Jackson to Kate Bush, all the big names in popular music have wanted to record with him one day. Since the unexpected death of the singer in 2016, The Prince Estate has been working to exhume from The Vault, his Paisley Park safe, precious albums that have remained unreleased until now. Thousands of songs still slumber there, and each of these releases is a global event. A unique work in the world, Prince, La Totale offers an unprecedented look at the sprawling work of the artist, and meticulously details the genesis of each of his 684 songs, revealing one by one the manufacturing secrets of a spectacular discography, at the height of this extraordinary and immortal artist.