Prince: Pop stars as you'll never see them
Tom Cox, The Guardian, 20 November 1999
I HAVE A certain contingent of friends who want to protect me from the music business because they think it's riddled with merciless charlatans and overprivileged spongers. They've arrived at this conclusion by pure intuition. I ask them if it's down to something I've told them or first-hand evidence, and they say no, it's just something they can sense.
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