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…
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Prince’s historic Syracuse concert reminds us of what isolation has taken away
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…
Life was just a party: Prince’s 1999 and Chicago house music | Music Feature
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…