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Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince | Ben Greenman
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A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our culture Ben Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet who shattered traditional ideas of race and gender, rewrote the rules of identity, and redefined the role of sex in pop music. A polymath in his own right who collaborated with George Clinton and Questlove on their celebrated memoirs, Greenman has been listening to and writing about Prince since the mid-eighties. Here, with the passion of an obsessive fan and the skills of a critic, journalist, and novelist, he mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Princes music to tell both his story and the story of the paradigm-shifting ideas that he communicated to his millions of fans around the world. Greenman's take on Prince is the autobiography of a generation and its ideas. Asking a series of questionsnot only Who was Prince? but Who wasnt he? and Who are we?Dig if You Will the Picture is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary talent.
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JulietReads
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#7days7covers #covercrush Day 3
7 days, 7 covers you love, no explanation. Try to tag someone new each day.

Tag, you're it. 🖐 @Howard_L

Ruthiella Perfect title too! 💜 5y
dariazeoli ☔️ 5y
OriginalCyn620 Love it! 💜💜💜 5y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Congratulations @Morr_Books on your milestone!!!! Litsy is the best!!! The tagged book had been on my list the longest!! I LOVE Prince and I‘m so sad he is gone 😢💜

Thank you for the opportunity to win!! 🎉🎊🙌🏻📚

#morrgiveaway

quietlycuriouskate I still can't quite believe I actually got to see Prince play a few years back. Absolutely phenomenal! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @River_Voice I‘m so jealous!! 😢😢😢😢 6y
Morr_Books @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I too love Prince! I sing Purple Rain every time I go to karaoke. Thanks for entering! 6y
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SconsinBookyBadger
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Off the bookshelf of my owned books to read for @DivaDiane #mounttbrchallenge. There are plenty more languishing on Mount TBR (I‘m looking at you Overdrive holds and amazon wishlist), but for now these are a tentative start to get me motivated. #tbrlist

TricksyTails Ooh that Prince one looks cool! 6y
DivaDiane I see several good ones and several I don‘t know! Great pile! 6y
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BookishTrish
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No reading last night, but the Prince tribute concert was worth it

Mollyanna What a beautiful picture/building. 6y
AlaMich Holy purple cow!! 💜💜💜 6y
DocBrown Where? 6y
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AmyG Gorgeous 💜 6y
BookishTrish @mdhughes72 more specifically the Orpheum Theatre 6y
minkyb Oooh. Looks fabulous! 6y
abbsinwonderland Beautiful 💜💜💜 6y
Ms_T Amazing! 💜 6y
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shsnaps
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Ben Greenman on the parallel brilliances of Miles Davis and his purpleness 🙏🏽💜

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Lizpixie
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#Riotgrams #day10 #BooksInTheWild It doesn't get much wilder than on the Hawkesbury River in the middle of Kuringai-Chase National Park on the northern outskirts of Sydney, in a houseboat. I must admit, I did more fishing than reading on the holiday, but I did get some great photos of my books! #PrinceOfTheHawkesbury

Dragon Sounds like a fun holiday! 😀 7y
Soubhiville I love that cover! Beautiful setting as well! 7y
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Liberty
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Happy birthday to His Royal Purpleness. Here are a few more books you should check out if you want to learn more about him: http://bookriot.com/2016/04/26/prince-books-music-films. 💟💟💟

Suet624 💕💕😩😩😭😭 7y
batsy 💜💜💜 7y
Booksndogs Gorgeous cover! 7y
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ElphaReads
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Very happy to finally pick this up!

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Lizpixie
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Doing some online shopping for my #secretsummersanta match and of course I had to grab some books for myself! I'm a child of the 80s so Prince of course, The Forbidden Garden is because I love magic gardens, Lola was described as Lisbeth Salander with drugs & Dark Run was sold on here as "for anyone who loves Firefly" My match is gonna love the books I've got them too.

Reviewsbylola I have been so bad this swap. I really need to stop buying for myself. 😂 7y
Cinfhen I 💜the Prince book cover!!!!!! 7y
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Liberty
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Dig if you will the t-shirt. 💜 #oneyear

KarenUK 💜💜💜 (edited) 7y
Cinfhen Prince 💜 7y
TheLibrarian That shirt is amazing. 💜💜 7y
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SheilaChew 💜 7y
TheWordJar I'm digging the shirt 💜💜(and that Elvis piggy bank!) 7y
Gayan I have all the sad today. 💜 7y
Liberty @TheWordJar I named him Pelvis. 😁 7y
TheWordJar 😂Perfect!! 7y
Mariposa_Bookworm ☔️💜💜💜 7y
Velvetsun Decked out in my Purple Prince shirt as well. 💜 7y
LeahBergen 👍🏼👍🏼 7y
TNbookworm 💜 7y
Redjewel_7734 💜💜💜 7y
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