
“When it comes to funk and words, lyrics and language, there couldn’t be a better pairing than Ben Greenman and Prince.” —George Clinton
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.
Ben Greenman has been listening to and writing about Prince since the mid-’80s and owns thousands of Prince and Prince-related songs. Here, with the passion of an obsessive fan and the skills of a critic, journalist, and novelist, he mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Prince’s 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. Dig If You Will the Picture is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary talent.
One music icon, two sibling superfans--in their new podcast, brothers Ben and Aaron Greenman discuss the legacy and genius of pop-culture prophet Prince on the one-year anniversary of his death.
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