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Prince: 1999 (Warner Bros.)

Laura Fissinger, Musician, January 1983

ONCE UPON a time, Prince was assessed thus: a (modestly) gifted dance floor sexmeister; a (very) occasional visitor to profundity and innovation; and (mostly) a prisoner of sexual obsession and a silly vision in leopard underwear.

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