Prince Remembered

By Minnesota Public Radio

Prince Rogers Nelson left this universe behind on April 21, 2016, leaving fans worldwide in mourning. Maybe nowhere in the world has felt this loss as profoundly than Prince's home state of Minnesota.... more

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April 23, 2016 Legendary producer Jimmy Jam: 'The hardest-working person in the room'
Jimmy Jam is best known for his work producing songs with R&B hitmakers Janet Jackson, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, Usher, George Michael, Chaka Khan and others. But before all that, he was a member of the band the Time, which opened for Prince in the early days of the Minneapolis Sound. He remembered Prince as a virtuoso and a workhorse.
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April 23, 2016 Tom Garneau: 'He would let the muse continue, unedited'
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April 23, 2016 Britt Robson: 'He was a provocateur and ... an amazing genius'
Longtime Twin Cities music writer Britt Robson remembers hearing Prince's first album when it came out and was struck by how unique his sound was. He talked to MPR's Euan Kerr about Prince's legacy.
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April 23, 2016 Victoria: When Prince played prom
All day on MPR News Thursday, listeners, fans and former colleagues and collaborators called in to share stories of their encounters with Prince. But a woman named Victoria told host Tom Weber a story like none other: "I can't remember where we held it, but for our St. Paul Central [High School] '76, they were the band: Grand Central Station."
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April 23, 2016 Andrea Swensson: It all began with a drawing
The Current's music reporter and Local Show host, Andrea Swensson, covered Prince in the last few years of his life. She talked with Current Morning Show hosts Jill Riley and Brian Oake about one of her first interactions with Prince.
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April 23, 2016 David Rivkin: He was a typical Midwestern personality'
David Rivkin was a producer on Prince's 'Purple Rain' album. He talked to MPR News host Tom Weber about Prince's musical style, his personality and his contributions to the Minneapolis Sound.
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April 23, 2016 Susan Rogers: Sound engineer reflects on recording some of Prince's biggest hits
Susan Rogers talked to MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about working as a sound engineer for Prince from 1985 to 1989, when she recorded classic albums like "Purple Rain" and "Sign of the Times." She is now an associate professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
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April 23, 2016 Legendary producer Jimmy Jam: 'The hardest-working person in the room'
Jimmy Jam is best known for his work producing songs with R&B hitmakers Janet Jackson, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, Usher, George Michael, Chaka Khan and others. But before all that, he was a member of the band the Time, which opened for Prince in the early days of the Minneapolis Sound. He remembered Prince as a virtuoso and a workhorse.
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6min
April 23, 2016 Tom Garneau: 'He would let the muse continue, unedited'
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April 22, 2016 Jon Bream: A critic's rocky relationship with the icon
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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