1993

Publication: Chicago Tribune [US]
Date: April 2, 1993
Title: "What it's like to work with Prince- Michael B. Reports"
Summary: Let's suppose your boss, a rather reclusive sort, becomes the focus of intense public interest. He chooses you to speak to the press for and about him, and anything you say will appear - with your name attached to it - in the newspaper the next day.

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times [US]
Date: April 4, 1993
Title: "Prince - What Happened?"
Summary: For more than a decade during the 1980s, Prince Rogers Nelson dominated popular music the way Elvis Presley shaped the '50s and John Lennon and Paul McCartney ruled in the '60s.

Publication: San Diego Union-Tribune [US]
Date: April 11, 1993
Title: "Purple Reign Grows Less Innovative: But Prince's Legacy, Drive Undiminished"
Summary: Forget, for a moment, all the weird stuff. Forget the polyester-look jumpsuits and the apparent inability to spell. Forget the Kim Basinger thing and the chain-link veil he wore on "Arsenio". Forget "Under the Cherry Moon", the mutant 5 o’clock shadow and the fact that you saw his bare butt on the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards and were not particularly impressed.

Publication: Orange County Register [US]
Date: April 17, 1993
Title: "Riding Prince's Paisley Train"
Summary: It's a mind as spiritual as "God," as lewd as "Feel U Up. "

Publication: Sacramento Bee [US]
Date: April 29, 1993
Title: "The Master Of Mystery"
Summary: Funk-rock superstar Prince has long been described as "enigmatic," but Tuesday's brief written announcement that he will "retire from studio recording" had even his own spokespeople at a loss to explain it.

Publication: MetroNews [US]
Date: June 11, 1993
Title: " -- Symbol Of A Midlife Revolution For Prince?"
Summary: Time plays hell with your head. You spend your teens and 20s convinced, deep down, that you'll be the exception to that business about getting old and dying.

Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: September 17, 1993
Title: "If Prince Is Low On the Charts, Why Is He On the Forbes List?"
Summary: If Prince's name - or symbol - hasn't been near the top of the charts lately, how did he end up No. 5 on Forbes' list of the highest-paid entertainers for 1992-'93?

Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: November 23, 1993
Title: Cheryl Johnson's Column
Summary: It is an immense relief when someone who you believe needs therapy figures that out on his own.