Notoriously protective over his personal history, the artist born Prince Rogers Nelson often dealt in ambiguities and obfuscation.
You all still read books, right?)
it was hard not to think of it as a practical joke.
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The finished product, this monthsThe Beautiful Ones, holds some of the answers.
More than ever, writes Piepenbring, he saw that value in telling his own story.
He would never get the chance to do so in full.
Allen Beaulieu
One month following the memoir announcement, Prince was found dead at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota.
The cause of death was an accidental overdose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
That left his autobiography in a state of flux.
Prince had written a few dozen pages before he died but it wasnt enough to finish the project.
Princes initial ambitions for the project were grand.
The final version isnt any of those things, really.
But then, itisone hell of a scrapbook.
That soon gives way to the pages the artist wrote before his passing.
They represent Prince at his most forthright.
The first line, My mothers eyes.
At least not in r fantasy world.
Laura kissed me three times that day.
Each time was my 1st.
Not having more of his prose here lessens the books overall impact.
Yet the back-half ofThe Beautiful Onesis still a rare treasure trove for Prince fanatics.
But then, what remains is more than enough.
