Prince: No Drugs, No Alcohol, No Donuts
A review of Matt Thorne‘s exhaustive new biography of the pop-music genius says: [The book] ‘charts the evolution in his lyrics from the “tireless subservience†to unkind or promiscuous women expressed in his early songs to the themes of sexual dominance which emerged with his growing power and status as a performer – Prince as a sort of sadomasochistic musical Napoleon – to “the strange combination of licentiousness and religious devotion†which characterized his work after he became a Jehovah’s Witness. A cumulative picture builds of someone who is as perverse as he is gifted, with his peculiar obsession with bathing, his paranoid distrust of technology; his disapproval of alcohol, drugs and, bizarrely, donuts.’
