April 22, 2019

Prince's "deeply personal" memoir 'The Beautiful Ones' coming out in fall

Prince’s unfinished memoir, 'The Beautiful Ones', will be released in October, three years after his death. It covers his life from his childhood to his final days and it will contain Prince’s unfinished manuscript alongside photos from his personal collection, scrapbooks and lyrics, including his original handwritten treatment for his 1984 hit 'Purple Rain'. When Prince first announced the book in 2016, just weeks before his death, he said that Random House had made him “an offer I can’t refuse”. Random House described 'The Beautiful' Ones as “the deeply personal account of how Prince Rogers Nelson became the Prince we know: the real-time story of a kid absorbing the world around him and creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and the fame that would come to define him”. Vulture...