Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio..., Duane Tudahl
Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio..., Duane Tudahl
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Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions
1983 and 1984

Author: Duane Tudahl, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

Narrator: Ron Butler

Unabridged: 19 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/06/2018

Synopsis

His journey is meticulously documented through detailed accounts of his time secluded behind the doors of the recording studio as well as his days on tour.

With unprecedented access to the musicians, singers, and studio engineers who knew Prince best, including members of the Revolution and the Time, Duane Tudahl weaves an intimate saga of an eccentric genius and the people and events who helped shape the groundbreaking music he created. From Sunset Sound Studios' daily recording logs and the Warner Bros. vault of information, Tudahl uncovers hidden truths about the origins of songs such as "Purple Rain," "When Doves Cry," and "Raspberry Beret" and also reveals details about Prince's unreleased outtakes.

This definitive chronicle of Prince's creative brilliance during 1983 and 1984 provides a new experience of the Purple Rain album as an integral part of Prince's life and the lives of those closest to him.

About Duane Tudahl

Duane Tudahl has worked in entertainment for over twenty-five years and has produced and/or directed documentary programming for the History Channel, CBS, GTV, Fox, Discovery, Pax, the Gospel Music Channel, the Food Channel, Tru-TV, and HGTV, among others. He has also been an editor on multiple Emmy-nominated programs, including Intervention, Unsolved Mysteries, and Cops. He is a former stand-up comic and has been writing about Prince and the Minneapolis music scene for two decades.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valerity (Val)

3.5/5 This book is about Prince during a specific period of time (1983-1984) when he was at his most creative. It was a time when he was touring and recording and got off the road to make a movie that started out being titled "Dream" but ended up becoming "Purple Rain". It talks about all 3 bands th......more

Goodreads review by Scott

Every so often over the years, I would come across a book that would help to give me a window into the magical, musical world of Prince, most notably, books and material compiled and written by Per Nilsen, all of which are now either difficult to find and/or enormously expensive due to their rarity.......more

Goodreads review by Chris

On April 21, 2016, the world lost one of the most prolific, hard-working musicians that ever lived.  Prince Rogers Nelson was a bona-fide legend, his talent only eclipsed by the aura of mystery that surrounded him.  In the wake of his death, many writers (both professional and amateur) have written......more

Goodreads review by KaNisa

Prince is music. Prince is a prolific writer. Prince is a workaholic. Prince can be tough at times. Prince has a way of pushing you beyond your self-assumed boundaries and will have you doing things you never thought possible… We hear these notions that describe Prince so often, it’s almost easy to......more

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