Dig If You Will the Picture, Ben Greenman
Dig If You Will the Picture, Ben Greenman
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Dig If You Will the Picture
Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince

Author: Ben Greenman

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/11/2017


Synopsis

Ben Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet who shattered traditional ideas of race and gender, rewrote the rules of identity, and redefined the role of sex in pop music.

A polymath in his own right who collaborated with George Clinton and Questlove on their celebrated memoirs, Greenman has been listening to and writing about Prince since the mid-eighties. Here, with the passion of an obsessive fan and the skills of a critic, journalist, and novelist, he mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Prince’s music to tell both his story and the story of the paradigm-shifting ideas that he communicated to his millions of fans around the world.

About Ben Greenman

Ben Greenman is a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor who has written both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include The Slippage and Superbad. He was Questlove's collaborator on Mo' Meta Blues and Something to Food About, and he has written memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, McSweeney's, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meghan

There was something about this book that I do not think any other Prince book I could ever read will ever touch, the personal aspect. I don't mean the person aspect in regards to actually knowing Prince. What I mean is the actual personal aspect as a fan. Greenman is truly a fan of Prince and it sho......more

Goodreads review by JJ

I would like to begin this review by saying this book took almost a week longer for me to finish than other books, and it's only 261 pages. I will not let how long it took to read it color my review though. That being said, this isn't a binge-readable book to me. It took forever to get through it si......more

Goodreads review by Missy

Not what I expected. I should have read the cover of the book better. I was drawn in by the cool picture and the cool title because I enjoy reading biographies. This is not that. My first clue was when I flipped to the center to look at the pages filled with photos documenting the life of the book s......more