When Billboard  declared Minneapolis–St. Paul “America’s Newest Musical Wonderland,” it wasn’t exaggeration — it was documentation. The Twin Cities weren’t just producing hits; they were producing an entire musical worldview. And at the centre of that creative storm was Prince. This companion post connects that Billboard  moment directly to the material preserved in the GlamSlamEscape archive — the magazines, interviews, ephemera, and lived history that show how Prince didn’t