{"id":491796,"date":"2019-11-01T11:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=906680"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T17:14:17","slug":"prince-memoir-hear-the-beautiful-ones-audio-clip-from-books-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/prince-memoir-hear-the-beautiful-ones-audio-clip-from-books-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Memoir: Hear \u2018The Beautiful Ones\u2019 Audio Clip From Book\u2019s Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prince<\/a> announced that he was working on a memoir just weeks before his death on April 21, 2016<\/a>. To fill out the unfinished manuscript that he left behind \u2014 more than 50 handwritten pages \u2014 The Beautiful Ones<\/em><\/a> features behind-the-scenes photos, scrapbooks, and handwritten lyric sheets provided by Prince\u2019s estate, including the original treatment for his iconic song \u201cPurple Rain.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a coming-of-age story of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating an artistic vision \u2014 before the hits and fame that would come to define him New Yorker<\/em> writer Dan Piepenbring, who talked to him<\/a> four days before his death, has penned the introduction \u2014 which you can hear in this exclusive audio excerpt. For the Prince-penned parts, two life-long Prince fans are narrating. Jazz singer Esperanza Spalding and Nigerian-American actress and singer Adepero Oduye (Pariah, 12 Years a Slave<\/em>) read the audiobook, available now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecording with Esperanza Spalding and Adepero Oduye was an amazing experience,\u201d says Laura Wilson, the audiobook producer. \u201cWe were looking for strong women\u2019s voices to read Prince\u2019s , in part because Prince himself was a powerful mentor to a number of different female musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Wilson explains, Spalding brought a \u201cmusician\u2019s understanding to the insights into his creative process\u201d that Prince provided in his memoir. \u201cMs. Oduye is a remarkable actress who was able capture some of the immediacy of Prince\u2019s stories from his young adulthood. Both actors were struck by Prince\u2019s genius, and how much he still has to teach us about music.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Find the Audiobook Here<\/a>]<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prince announced that he was working on a memoir just weeks before his death on April 21, 2016. To fill out the unfinished manuscript that he left behind \u2014 more than 50 handwritten pages \u2014 The Beautiful Ones features behind-the-scenes photos, scrapbooks, and handwritten lyric sheets provided by Prince\u2019s estate, including the original treatment for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 05:34:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}