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   Is the Beautiful Ones a prince autobiography?

   • Using photographs, family memorabilia and writing his own introduction to explain the context of Prince's pages, The Beautiful Ones is the closest there will ever be to a Prince autobiography. Here are seven (that most Prince of numbers) things we have learnt about the pop star from the book about him:

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   Did Prince write a book?

   • The official description of the book — that it features “photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets written in Prince’s own hand, and the early pages of the memoir Prince began writing before his death” — lowered expectations even further, evoking a vision of a few dashed-off pages padded with artwork.

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   Did Prince write a memoir?

   • A few weeks earlier, Prince had hosted editors from three publishing houses at Paisley, and declared his intention to write a memoir called “The Beautiful Ones,” after one of the most naked, aching songs in his catalogue. For as far back as he could remember, he told the group, he’d written music to imagine—and reimagine—himself.

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   Why did Prince read about time?

   • The book also reveals Prince as a fan of the Richard Curtis's 2013 time-travelling tearjerker, About Time, particularly the scene where Rachel McAdams meets her love interest in a sensory deprivation diner. "Imagine that meal" writes Prince. Imagine Prince watching About Time. Prince believed that his book could be powerful. Very powerful.

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   Spare is a memoir by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, which was released on 10 January 2023. It was ghostwritten by J. R. Moehringer and published by Penguin Random House. It is 416 pages long and available in digital, paperback, and hardcover formats and has been translated into fifteen languages.

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   • Prince was not a fan of Ed Sheeran. Image source, Getty Images. In a section on his worries about the future of radio, Prince complains: "They keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it."
   • He was a fan of Kung Fu Panda 3. Image source, Getty Images. Image caption, Jack Black's Kung Fu Panda made Prince laugh. Prince often hired out his local cinema in Minneapolis, late at night and invited friends and bandmates to private screenings.
   • He hoped his autobiography could 'solve racism' Image source, 1986 Joseph Giannetti. Image caption, This outtake, which appears in the book, was from Joseph Giannetti’s For You photo shoot in 1977.
   • The young singer learnt the facts of life from an R-rated movie. Prince was never directly told about the birds and the bees. His stepfather saved himself from having "The Talk" by taking him and a couple of his friends to what he described as "a raggedy R-rated [age-restricted] drive-in movie".

4. www.newyorker.com › 2019/09/09 › the-book-of-princeThe Book of Prince | The New Yorker

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   Sep 2, 2019 · The sun had set, and Paisley—a vast network of squat buildings, including three recording studios, panelled in white aluminum like an office park—was illuminated by purple sconces. “He’s ...

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   • Prince was not a fan of Ed Sheeran. Getty Images. In a section on his worries about the future of radio, Prince complains: "They keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it."
   • He was a fan of Kung Fu Panda 3. Getty Images. Jack Black's Kung Fu Panda made Prince laugh. Prince often hired out his local cinema in Minneapolis, late at night and invited friends and bandmates to private screenings.
   • He hoped his autobiography could 'solve racism' 1986 Joseph Giannetti. This outtake, which appears in the book, was from Joseph Giannetti’s For You photo shoot in 1977.
   • The young singer learnt the facts of life from an R-rated movie. Prince was never directly told about the birds and the bees. His stepfather saved himself from having "The Talk" by taking him and a couple of his friends to what he described as "a raggedy R-rated [age-restricted] drive-in movie".

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   Oct 27, 2019 · Oct 27, 2019 8:05am PT. Book Review: Prince’s Autobiography ‘The Beautiful Ones’. By Jem Aswad. Courtesy of the Lede Company. It wasn’t hard to be skeptical when Prince ’s...

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   Oct 27, 2019 · Although the actual autobiography segment of this book ends at the end of Prince’s teens, it shines an intimate and revealing light on the least-known period of his life — his childhood —...

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   Nov 10, 2017 · Shahidi, who is also a cinematographer, and Prince, whose eighties film trilogy can be understood as an extravagant, fictive autobiography, shared a playful cinephilia. Many of Shahidi’s wider ...