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Of all the journalists who have covered Prince, the one who knew him the longest and the best was Jon Bream of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Bream first interviewed Prince in 1978 when the musician just 20 years old. Over the years, the two of them had a close, sometimes contentious, relationship. Prince was anything but happy with Bream's unauthorized 1984 biography ("Prince: Inside the Purple Reign") Prince wanted control of his own story. There was the time Prince set fire to a Bream review of one of his albums on Arsenio Hall's TV talk show. But in later years, the two mended fences.
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Of all the journalists who have covered Prince, the one who knew him the longest and the best was Jon Bream of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Bream first interviewed Prince in 1978 when the musician just 20 years old. Over the years, the two of them had a close, sometimes contentious, relationship. Prince was anything but happy with Bream's unauthorized 1984 biography ("Prince: Inside the Purple Reign") Prince wanted control of his own story. There was the time Prince set fire to a Bream review of one of his albums on Arsenio Hall's TV talk show. But in later years, the two mended fences.

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