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From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Wanted: The Origin of Prince
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Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 15:01:02 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  9 15:01:02 1985
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> 	.....  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)
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