The Artist opens Paisley Park doors – a new era begins! The man who now calls himself "Love Symbol" is starting a new creative era. AUDIO live met the eccentric in his Paisley Park Studio.  – cover and feature interview in Audio Live! magazine, January 1997. Freezing rain patters on the hood as the taxi drives out of Minneapolis into no man's land. The city itself is located in the middle of the pampas, in the US state of Minnesota. And out there, west of the city of 350,000

The Artist looks wizard-like in the soft glow of Paisley Park’s Studio A. Clad in red satin and seated behind the mammoth SSL console, he cues up some cuts from his new album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic. “There’s guitar madness all over this,” he warns, firing up the title track at ear-splitting volume. Destined to be one of the album’s sing-along hits, it features grinding guitar work and a lead melody that sounds as if a snake charmer is playing through a pair of flanged Ma

Prince opens Paisley Park doors, just a man doing his thang! Behind more than a decade of pomp and circumstance is a man simply trying to do his thang – Prince invites Black Beat magazine to Paisley Park for an exclusive visit and interview, featured in the January 1, 1992 issue. The invitation came through a publicist. which was fairly odd in itself, considering that the only real need Prince ever had for one was to say, in various ways, the word no. Nevertheless, here one w

Prince is a mystery man. His record company biography is a collection of information similar to a Right On! fact sheet. It simply tells his name (the name he chooses to use), his age, and the fact that he’s the youngest producer in the history of Warner Bros. Records. When you finally meet him; he’s still a mystery. It’s no wonder that Right On! (one of his favorite magazines) is one of the few publications that’s granted the opportunity to meet him, because those who have,