Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!sunybcs!acsgjjp From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Wanted: The Origin of Prince Message-ID: <1130@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 15:01:02 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1130 Posted: Sat Feb 9 15:01:02 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 05:18:14 EST References: <1018@hou3c.UUCP> <4000065@uokvax.UUCP> Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY Lines: 20 > ..... He's been known around > Minneapolis for quite some time as something of a boy-wonder, > and even if you don't really care for his music, I think he's > a pretty good singer ..... I first heard of him in 1980, with the song "Let Me Be Your Lover" (title?)-- it made #79 on the American Top 40 Top 100 songs of 1980. (I'm not absolutely sure; my list is mixed in with other things.) A few things I do know (from an old friend who loves Prince) is that his real name is Roger Nelson, his father is black, and his mother is Italian. I'm not terribly enthusiastic about his music; I hear it much too often on the radio. However, I do agree that he is a good singer at times. Putting it bluntly, Prince can be thought of as Michael Jackson with balls. -- "Is there liver in reality?" Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters) uucp: [decvax,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!acsgjjp ARPAnet, CSnet: acsgjjp%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY BITNET: ACSGJJP@SUNYABVA