I Would Write 4 U

Stories of His Royal Badness

Thomas Fawcett, aka the Reverend GetDown, is a freelance music writer with much knowledge and heart. He covers some of […]

April 23, 2016 0

John Speice’s Prince origin story is a heartbreaker. I first heard Speice play with Hairy Apes BMX, Austin’s ass-shaking jazz punk insanity in […]

April 22, 2016 0

I first heard Prince as an uncommonly innocent 8th-grade tomboy (all green and no purple, you might say) but from […]

January 25, 2015 1

NPR’s blindingly cute TV critic Eric Deggans was recently interviewed about how Purple Rain changed his life, by the incomparable Michele Norris […]

July 30, 2014 0

In 2009, in the adjacent universe where I’m a dancer, choreographer and producer, Daddy and I co-produced a variety show called […]

July 19, 2014 0

Writer Kat Moore got the experience that I was forbidden: The irreplaceable joy of being 14 and seeing Prince in concert […]

July 17, 2014 1

Sælok Kit grew up so close to Prince’s house in Minneapolis that she got to stalk him with her grandparents. I’ve never met […]

July 7, 2014 1

In June 1984, Purple Rain came out. In July I got a hand-me-down Walkman, and in August we visited my […]

June 28, 2014 0

http://youtu.be/cYBD5l0GyyE One night in my 20s, the radio woke me up with an alarm clock bell. Wondering, what the hell? […]

June 26, 2014 0

Vibe‘s Keith Murphy interviewed Susan Rogers, Prince’s engineer during the ’80s. WOW. Talk about stories: Darling Nikki was her first song! […]

June 26, 2014 0