The Jacksons performing at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, October 11, 1984. (Photo by Paul … [+] Natkin/Getty Images) Getty Images If there was a year during the 1980s that represented the apex of music and pop culture, it would have been easily 1984. That particular year saw a number of major artists—most notably Prince…
It’s 1985. The singer and guitarist Prince is 27. He’s tiny but strong — built like a dancer, or a gymnast. A cascade of black curly hair and stubble along a chiselled jaw. Narrow hips slipped into a paisley bodysuit with ruffles at the throat and wrists, jewellery and rings glinting as he spins. The…
Prince in 1982, surrounded by rare releases and ephemera from the extensive Prince collection of Chicago house producer Melvin Oliphant III, aka Traxx Allen Beaulieu/Rhino; Ryan Edmund for Chicago Reader The track starts with a four-on-the-floor drum pattern. A sudden keyboard…
