Paisley Parklife Cover Feature: 1997

MOJO Cover & Sixteen-Page Feature February 1, 1997

Shoot-out at the fantasy factory

The sixteen-page feature and cover in MOJO magazine (February 1, 1997) asked whether Paisley Parklife had been fraught for some time, questioning if The Artist Formerly Known As Prince was following a single-minded vision or simply having a control freak-out. It explored whether his identity crisis, battle with Warner Brothers, and increasingly unfocused music amounted to an extended act of commercial suicide.

Marc Weingarten went behind the scenes in Minneapolis to examine Prince's working practices and how the greatest music of his purple reign was made; Barney Hoskyns asked former colleagues and players “What is he like?”; Sylvie Simmons sifted through the later albums to find diamonds in the rough; and the man himself was interviewed on page 42.

Article Overview

Publication Details

Magazine: MOJO (UK).

Date: February 1, 1997.

Format: Cover + sixteen-page feature article.

Extract Text (all pages available below)

Paisley Parklife has been rather fraught for some time. Has The Artist Formerly Known As Prince been following a single-minded vision or just having a control freak-out? Have the identity crisis, the battle with Warner Brothers and the increasingly unfocused music amounted to an extended act of commercial suicide?

Marc Weingarten explores behind the scenes in Minneapolis to see what Prince's working practices reveal, and finds out how the greatest music of his purple reign was made. Barney Hoskyns asks of the man's former colleagues and players: "What is he like?" Sylvie Simmons sifts through the later albums to find diamonds in the rough. And, on page 42. the man himself

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