Prince: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles
Mat Snow, NME, 22 March 1986
GET A load of this guy. Five-foot-two in high heels, his tight black toreador pants stretch up to a fraction above his crack, hence a gleaming display of royal midriff ascending to a bikini-style black frock-coat starting just around the nipples. A flower blushes in his lapel; matching purple eyeliner hoods those boudoir peepers.
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