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Prince: Sleazy Grandeur

Charles Shaar Murray, Q, July 1990

He began making records as a control-fixated 18-year-old studio rat from Minneapolis. Ten albums later Prince had become the definitive pop icon of the '80s. Charles Shaar Murray revisits the back catalogue of "the greatest one-man band in the history of popular music".

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