Prince biography book 2017

If you’re looking for a book about Prince the musician, this isn’t it: The Most Beautiful — an achingly lovely memoir by Prince’s first wife and longtime muse, Mayte Garcia — is about Prince the man, the friend, the lover, and the husband.

Prince biography book 2017

It’s a heartbreaking inside look at the tortured side of genius that most of us are never allowed to see, and it belongs on the shelf next to the definitive Prince bios. Below, some of our favorite stories:

When she first stepped into Prince’s hotel room, she discovered it had been transformed with rugs candles, flowers, veil, great swaths of linen. “This is called ‘foo foo,’ I learned later, and Prince had a staff member dedicated to it.

Wherever Prince went, it was the foo-foo master’s job to go ahead of him and make sure the hotel suite would be a place where he could feel at home.”

“When Prince and I were first hanging out — not yet lovers, just friends, and collaborat