List of Illustrations
Prologue: Come 2 My House (Part 1)
1 Justifications from a Mamma-Jamma
2 The Business of Music
3 Wouldn’t You Love to Love Me?
4 Still Waiting
5 Creating Uptown
6 Gigolos Get Lonely Too (Part 1) 73 7 Royal Jewels
8 Nikki’s Castle
9 There Aren’t Any Rules
10 New Position
11 Roadhouse Garden and Songs for Susannah
12 The Story of a Man I Am Not
13 Rebirth of the Flesh
14 Crystal Ball . . .
15 . . . Or Sign o’ the Times?
16 For Those of U on Valium . . .
17 Spooky and All That He Crawls for . . .
18 Cross the Line
19 Dance with the Devil
20 What’s Wrong with Graffiti Bridge?
21 Gigolos Get Lonely Too (Part 2)
22 Playing Strip Pool with Vanessa
23 The Chains of Turin
24 Part I: Introducing the Friction Years
25 Part 2: ‘It Was Just About Needing to Get It
Done . . .’
26 Part 3: ‘All I Gotta Do Is Sell a Million and I Can
Quit . . .’
27 Wasted Kisses . . .
28 . . . And Missed Opportunities
29 Join My Club
30 New Directions in Music
31 True Funk Soldier
32 Come 2 My House (Part 2)
33 21 Nights in London: A Fan’s Notes
34 Gigolos Get Lonely Too (Part 3)
35 An Entirely New Galaxy Awaits . . .
36 Ending Endlessly
Epilogue: Living Out Loud
Afterword to the American Edition
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
Illustration Credits
General Index
Index of Works by Prince
About the Author