Prince working on first book as he turns 50
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Prince has been known by various names, including an unpronounceable symbol and The Creative person Erst Known as Prince. Just as he turns 50 this year, the recording asterisk adds one more to the name -- debut writer.
Publisher Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, said the U.S. vocalizer was workings on a leger called "21 Nights," a multimedia system volume based on his 21 sequentially sold-out concerts at London's O2 arena in the summer of 2007.
The record book, to be released in September, volition feature poetry by Prince, photographs by Hollywood's Randee St. St. Nicholas world Health Organization was presumption backstage memory access during the concerts, and a live roger Sessions CD from after-parties at the O2's Indigofera tinctoria Club with freshly music by Prince.
Atria said in an online statement that the book's jacket testament be printed with a negroid and ash gray duotone paper-over-board and will be "elegantly sealed in a purple slip typesetter's case with foil stamping and then shrink-wrapped for protection."
Prince, a native of Minneapolis wHO turns 50 in June, burst on the scene to a greater extent than two decades ago with strike albums like 1984's "Purple Rainfall" and 1987's "Sign O' The Times." He is known as a music manufacture rebel wHO is ferociously protective of his euphony and his look-alike.
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