Publication: Central High Pioneer [US]
Date: February 13, 1976
Title: "Nelson Finds It 'Hard To Become Known'"
Summary: "I play with Grand Central Corporation. I've been playing with them for two years," Prince Nelson, senior at Central, said. Prince started playing piano at age seven and guitar when he got out of eighth grade.

Publication: Rolling Stone [US]
Date: February 19, 1981
Title: "Will The Little Girls Understand?"
Summary: Snaking out from the wings toward center stage at the Ritz, prancing like a pony with his hands on his hips and then flinging a clorine kick with a coquettish toss of his head, Prince is androgyny personified. Slender and doe-eyed, with a faint pubescent mustache, he is bare-chested beneath a gray, hip-length Edwardian jacket.

Publication: Rolling Stone [US]
Date: September 12, 1985
Title: "Prince Talks"
Summary: John Nelson turns sixty-nine today, and all the semiretired piano man wants for his birthday is to shoot some pool with his firstborn son. "He’s real handy with a cue," says Prince, laughing, as he threads his old white T-Bird though his old black neighborhood toward his old man’s house.

Publication: Rock & Soul [UK]
Date: April 1986
Title: "Mr. Purple Discusses His Movies, His Music, His Musicians And More, More, More"
Summary: Prince's next feature film, Under the Cherry Moon -- and the much-anticipated followup to his smash debut, Purple Rain -- should be out in theaters in three or four months.

Publication: Musician Magazine [US]
Date: February 1987
Title: "A Decade Of Incredible Interviews"
Summary: Musician: What’s your last name? Is it Prince?
Prince: I don’t know.

Publication: Rolling Stone [US]
Date: October 18, 1990
Title: "Prince Talks"
Summary: The phone rings at 4:48 in the morning. "Hi, it’s Prince", says the wide-awake voice calling from a room several yards down the hallway of this London hotel. "Did I wake you up?"

Publication: London Sunday Times [UK]
Date: August 25, 1991
Title: "The Little Prince Grows Up"
Summary: A mile or so down Highway 5 from the Paisley Park studio complex, where Prince and his band New Power Generation are currently rehearsing the show to be premiered at Blenheim Palace this Saturday, there is a sign which reads ''Life is too short to be little''.

Publication: USA Today [US]
Date: September 11, 1991
Title: "In Prince's palace; A personal peek inside Paisley Park"
Summary: Prince is sipping hot tea in his softly lit recording studio. The unrelentingly steamy lyrics of Insatiable, from his upcoming Diamonds and Pearls album, pervade the room: Like a wildcat in a celibate rage/I want U alone in my dirty little cage.

Publication: Details [US]
Date: November 1991
Title: "The Man Who Would Be Prince"
Summary: After six days of waiting, of standing in the same room as him, of being passed in corridors, of being blanked at nightclubs, I am getting touchy and I am getting paranoid.

Publication: The Daily Telegraph [UK]
Date: June 10, 1992
Title: "In the Realm of Pop's Prince"
Summary: The reclusive star performs here next week. Chris Heath was granted a rare interview at his Minneapolis studio.

Publication: VOX Magazine [UK]
Date: June 1993
Title: "My Name Is God"
Summary: Jesus’ disciples had it easy compared to the chosen members of the New Power Generation, whose slavish devotion to their mentor knows no bounds. But can their blind faith restore the Purple Patriarch’s flagging fortunes in the USA? VOX seeks an exclusive backstage audience with He who must be obeyed.

Publication: London Sunday Times [UK]
Date: June 5, 1994
Title: "Purple Pain?"
Summary: He's a marketing nightmare: prolific,prodigious and unpronounceable.Robert Sandall on why a leading label is finding its small one rather a big problem.

Publication: Q [UK]
Date: July 1994
Title: "'I am normal!' - Talks To Q"
Summary: Pleased to meet you... Hope you’ve guessed my name. For the first time since God alone knows when, the artist formerly known as Prince talks exclusively and extensively about identity, insecurity, George Michael, Nelson Mandela, ballet, boogie, opera, orgasm, freedom and the future.

Publication: Vibe [US]
Date: August 1994
Title: ""
Summary: "So how can we do an interview that's not like an interview?" asks as he spoons a dollop of jam into his tea.

Publication: Guitar World [US]
Date: November 1994
Title: "The Guitarest Formerly Known As Prince"
Summary: Call him "funky", call him "bad", but don't call him "Prince". A rare conversation with visionary composer and one of the best guitarists of this generation.

Publication: The Evening Standard [UK]
Date: March 2, 1995
Title: "You Used to Know Him As Prince.He Calls Himself Slave - of His Record Company"
Summary: The Artist Formerly Known As Prince But now, at his insistence, called by lesser mortals (though close friends and colleagues get to call him Boss or Tim), mad a regal decision this week. He wanted to break his silence.

Publication: The Guardian [UK]
Date: March 3, 1995
Title: "The Singer Vs. The Record Company"
Summary: A large and rather tedious chunk of the Symbol album by Prince (as he was then known) is taken up with a series of telephone calls between a reclusive pop star and a journalist trying, and failing, to secure an interview.

Publication: New Musical Express [UK]
Date: March 11, 1995
Title: "My Name Isn't Prince, And I Am Flunky"
Summary: March 1, 1995. A stretch black limousine is purring gently in a London car park. Two young men stand nearby, pressing their faces against a high steel fence that is dwarfed by the neighboring twin towers of Wembley Stadium. They talk in quick voices, check their watches and anxiously wait for a glimpse of their hero.

Publication: Time Out [UK]
Date: March 15-22, 1995
Title: "Slave To The Rhythm"
Summary: Prince has always been a bit weird, but lately he seems to have lost it completely. He's changed his name to , declared war on his record company and scrawled 'SLAVE' on his cheek.

Publication: VOX Magazine [UK]
Date: May/June 1995
Title: "Cradle To Slave"
Summary: THAT "SKINNY LITTLE motherfucker with the high voice", as he calls himself on the "Black Album", was right to change his name. If Prince had arrived in Britain with a Greatest Hits show and another patchy album to promote, his past glories would have towered over his 5'2" frame like one of his autistic muscle-men.

Publication: Esquire Gentleman [US]
Date: Autumn 1995
Title: "Glitter Slave"
Summary: THE DARK CAR SLID INTO THE WELL guarded alley. On the day after his second birthday as , he got out of the car and walked quickly into the Glam Slam in South Beach, Miami. For twenty years, has had a life of rear entrances, underground passages, announced and plotted arrivals, usually when night is well tipped into day.

Publication: London Times [UK]
Date: July 6, 1996
Title: "The Man With No Name Has No Label"
Summary: The man with the most celebrated identity crisis in pop is installed on the 48th floor of a Manhattan hotel. The lift goes up so fast your ears pop. A security guard opens the door, and there he is. Dressed from head to toe in black he sits like a crow in his cold, remote eyrie high above the city.

Publication: Los Angeles Time [US]
Date: July 14, 1996
Title: "Symbol Of Ambiguity"
Summary: NEW YORK -- In the past, the few reporters who have gained access to Prince Roger Nelson had to submit to measures more befitting the secrecy of a covert military operation. He insisted that interviewers not use tape recorders or take notes. Lots of topics were declared off limits, and the location of the encounter was always subject to a last-minute change.

Publication: Forbes [US]
Date: September 23, 1996
Title: "Prince Speaks"
Summary: SITTING ON THE FLOOR of his pastel-colored recording studio near Minneapolis, the pop singer formerly known as Prince--he now wants to be known simply as The Artist--spins a newly minted demo track from an upcoming album.

Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: October 16, 1996
Title: "Prince Says He's 'Emancipated' At Last; Joyful At Being Shed Of Old Label, He Releases New CD"
Summary: The "SLAVE" was off Prince's cheek, and there was a smile on his face Tuesday afternoon.

Publication: Rolling Stone [US]
Date: October 17, 1996
Title: "In The Studio: Records 3 Hours Of 'Emancipation'"
Summary: Even though The Artist Formerly Known As Prince's "Chaos and Disorder", his final album under his contract with Warner Bros., fell off the charts in only five weeks, has not stopped thinking big.

Publication: TV 30 [Aus]
Date: November 1996
Title: "Prince's Purple Rage! But Molly Gets the Interview"
Summary: When I arrived in Tokyo, I thought everything was okay. Journalists from around the world had been flown in for an audience with The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. I went straight to the listening party where The Artist was personally playing tracks from his new album, Emancipation.

Publication: Syukan-Asahi (Weekly Asahi) [Jap]
Date: November 2, 1996
Title: "He Was The Man Who ‘Would Rather Die Than Do An Interview.’ Of Course, Exclusive Former Prince Opened His Mouth, At Last! ‘Drum Sound Of My New Song Uses The Heartbeat Of My Soon To Be Born Baby.’"
Summary: Many readers may wonder "What is ?" The answer is the present name of Prince, who became an international star with the huge 1984 hit "Purple Rain."

Publication: USA Today [US]
Date: November 12, 1996
Title: "Album Celebrates A New Freedom"
Summary: CHANHASSEN, Minn. - As the slamming R&B of Somebody's Somebody cranks out of his office CD player, the former Prince cocks his head and smiles.

Publication: The Sun [UK]
Date: November 14, 1996
Title: "Showbiz Shock Of the Year: AFKAP Talks Sense"
Summary: The Artist Forermly Known as Barking Mad has stunned the showbiz world - by being normal!

Publication: St. Paul Pioneer Press [US]
Date: November 14, 1996
Title: "Former Prince's Coming Out Bash Is Unforgettable"
Summary: Just after midnight Wednesday morning, veteran Twin Cities music scribe Martin Keller stood in the recording room of Studio B at Paisley Park. Keller, the writer who anointed Prince "His Royal Badness" in the early '80s, was surrounded by members of the local print media, as well as journalists and an army of photographers from Italy, England, France, Spain and points in between.

Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: November 14, 1996
Title: "The Artist Formerly Known as Reclusive Steps Up to the Mikes"
Summary: Meet the newPrince:open, charming, seemingly normal and courting the media in a big way.

Publication: New York Times [US]
Date: November 17, 1996
Title: "A Reinventor of His World and Himself"
Summary: CHANHASSEN, Minn.-- Paisley Park, the studio complex Prince built in this Minneapolis suburb, is abuzz. On a 10,000-square-foot sound stage, workmen are rolling white paint onto a huge runway of a set, preparing it for a video shoot later in the day.

Publication: St. Paul Pioneer Press [US]
Date: November 17, 1996
Title: "The Former Prince Speaks"
Summary: In his first interview with a local journalist in more than 10 years, the artist formerly known as Prince talks about his, er, unusual name, his creative process, the media, his future and his faith in God.

Publication: St. Paul Pioneer Press [US]
Date: November 18, 1996
Title: "TAFKAP Speaks II"
Summary: In part two of a rare interview, the former Prince talks about his inspiration, values and living a "normal" life in Minnesota.

Publication: Austin American-Statesman [US]
Date: November 19, 1996
Title: "Prince Takes Charge, the Artist's New Album Wrests His 'Emancipation' From Former Label"
Summary: Paisley Park, the studio complex Prince built in this Minneapolis suburb, is abuzz. On a 10,000-square-foot sound stage, workmen are rolling white paint onto a huge runway of a set, preparing it for a video shoot later in the day.

Publication: Burrelle's Transcripts [US]
Date: November 21, 1996
Title: "Oprah"
Summary: OPRAH WINFREY: He used to be a mystery.

Publication: Time [US]
Date: November 25, 1996
Title: "The Artist Formerly Known As Hot"
Summary: Paisley Park, a lavishly weird recording complex just west of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is exactly the kind of place you'd expect to be owned and operated by a lavishly weird recording star like Prince.

Publication: Rolling Stone [US]
Date: November 28, 1996
Title: "With A Loving Wife and A Baby on the Way, and A 'Slave' To Warner Bros. Records No More Is Feeling Downright Giddy About His New Three-Disk-Long Emancipation"
Summary: "WE STILL ALL RIGHT?" asks , the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, with a maniacal grin on his face. "Let me know when I start boring you."

Publication: Stern [Ger]
Date: December 1996
Title: "Genius With Belief In Ghosts"
Summary: The Prince of Pop invites to "Paisley Park" his fairy-tale castle. The interior of his recording studio sparkles in gold and sweets-colors, star-symbols on the carpet and on the ceiling clouds are floating. 200 journalists are invited and as his royal highness hovers into the room, the crowd starts to murmur.

Publication: Hello Magazine [UK]
Date: December 1996
Title: "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince: The Enigmatic Star Breaks His Usual Silence to Talk About Life and Love"
Summary: Famed for guarding his privacy and seldom granting interviews, the enigmatic Artist Formerly Known as Prince broke his strict code of silence recently and spoke candidly about life, love and work.

Publication: El Pais [Spn]
Date: December 15, 1996
Title: "An Interview With "
Summary: : When I am on stage I realize that this is why I write music. The most important thing a musician can experience is to be able to share that magic, to exchange that energy. Look at Warner: I gave them my music for years and they gave me a lot of golden albums.

Publication: Jam! Showbiz [Internet]
Date: December 16, 1996
Title: "The Artist Enters A Spiritual Mind Set"
Summary: TORONTO -- There's a song that The Artist I Still Call Prince has just finished writing that neatly captures the odd fork-in-the-road at which he finds himself, and it goes like this: PRINCE.

Publication: Canadian Press [Can]
Date: December 16, 1996
Title: "Former Prince A Slave No More"
Summary: TORONTO -- After years of saying little in public, the former Prince has had more to say about his new three-CD set, Emancipation, than on anything else in his 19-year music career.

Publication: NME [UK]
Date: December 17, 1996
Title: "I Feel Like This Is My Last Time On Earth"
Summary: For the man from the Sun, it's all going horribly 0(+> shaped. Already he's moist of brow, on tip-toe in a kaleidoscopic side-room of the Paisley Park studio complex in the midst of a scrum of 100 pan-global journalists, the sole representative here or the British tabloid populace.

Publication: Toronto Star [Can]
Date: December 17, 1996
Title: "A Prince of An 'Artist': Too Bad Life Hasn't Worked Out The Way He Wanted It To Be"
Summary: It starts with EMI, calling "regarding The Artist."
The artist? A huge, multi-national recording company is calling about "The Artist?" Has Picasso come back?

Publication: Toronto Sun [Can]
Date: December 17, 1996
Title: "The Artist Who Would Be King: With The New Release Emancipation, The Singer Becomes a Slave to His Art"
Summary: The Artist, the name Prince now goes by, refuses to respond to lingering rumors -- most recently documented in yesterday's Entertainment Weekly -- that his newborn son died one week after he was born Oct. 16 with severe birth defects.

Publication: The Globe and Mail [Can]
Date: December 18, 1996
Title: "The Prince of Purple Is In the Pink"
Summary: The worker bees swarm around, desperate to make life easy for their queen, who used to be known as Prince. Their buzzing fills the suite adjacent to his: How is he handling this? How does he look? Has anyone upset him?

Publication: Montreal Gazette [Can]
Date: December 18, 1996
Title: "Portrait of the Artist as a Weird Man: Reclusive Former Prince's Presence Packs Punch"
Summary: The record company calls and is just wondering, would anybody be available for an interview with Mr. What's-in-a-Name?

Publication: Rock & Folk [Fra]
Date: January 1997
Title: "Interview With The Vampire"
Summary: An authentic odyssey through great American music, from Dixieland band music to techno to gospel, the "Emancipation" triple album by the Minneapolis funkster is a kind of black box, the evidence of an outdated period when people who made records were still musicians.

Publication: Pop Magazine [Swe]
Date: January 1997
Title: "The Last Artist"
Summary: His name was Prince and he was funky. Together with Madonna and Michael Jackson the little guy with the a-little-too-high heels was one of the Eighties' unreal superstars. On his 35th birthday he changed his name to a squiggle that was unpronounceable.

Publication: Sister 2 Sister [US]
Date: January 1997
Title: "Prince's Emancipation"
Summary: It's Saturday afternoon. I'm sitting in my bed about to write this story about Prince while watching Debra Winger and John Travolta in a crazy movie about riding a mechanical bronco. The theme song is "Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places." I'm thinking, "Boy, they have their arms, their legs, they can think, move and act. God bless 'em!

Publication: WOM Journal [Ger]
Date: January 1997
Title: "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince A Symbol Takes A New Beginning"
Summary: From a chained slave to a pyramid-builder. Because the name under which he presented his best records meant to him the slavery through a multi-corporation, Prince Rogers Nelson chose more and more obscure pseudonyms.

Publication: Ebony [US]
Date: January 1997
Title: "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince"
Summary: HAS A New Wife, New Baby And A New Attitude.

Publication: Krisworld [Singapore]
Date: February 1997
Title: "The Artist Formaly Known As Prince"
Summary: Marriage, artistic freedom, and a new record contract have given TAFKAP plenty to sing about. Three CD's worth in fact!

Publication: Music Central [Internet]
Date: February 10, 1997
Title: "Emancipation Conversation"
Summary: You can call him Symbol Man. You can call him Girly Man. You can call him The Minneapolis Sex Dwarf Funkmaster in the Bad-Ass Elevator Sneakers.

Publication: The Maui News [US]
Date: February 13, 1997
Title: "New Songs Of Freedom From The Artist Formerly Known As Prince"
Summary: When Prince announced in 1993 he was changing his name to a glyph that merged the male and feminine, the move symbolized the death of an old persona and the birth of a new, more spiritually attuned being.

Publication: Access Magazine [Can]
Date: February/March 1997
Title: "Portrait of the Artist as a Free Man"
Summary: "Yo, yo, yo. Wha'zup? Yours truly is in the house, chillin' at Paisley Park Studio where The Artist Formerly Known as Prince () is about to kick his funky vibe for y'all."

Publication: Minnesota Monthly [US]
Date: March 1997
Title: "Portrait of The Artist As A Native Son"
Summary: THE FOG LIFTING OUT OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY in Chanhassen casts an enchanting veil over the faceless industrial lots and strip malls along Highway 5. Hoarfrost generously flocks every tree and signpost. At this moment, all the familiar suburban fixtures seem almost as wondrously strange as Paisley Park, the $10 million pyramid-roofed complex in their midst.

Publication: Face [UK]
Date: March 1997
Title: "Purple Pain"
Summary: Where did it all go wrong for The Artist Formerly Known As Slave? Ask Eskow Eshun. He visited O(+> at Paisley Park, and thinks he might have the answer. Kind of.

Publication: Musician [US]
Date: April 1997
Title: "Portrait Of The Artist"
Summary: The weird complex, anchored on the Minnesota tundra like a space probe on the moon. The paranoia over tape recorders. Those gaudy evocations of martyrdom on his last Warner Bros. Albums. Twenty years of provocative imagery and sullen seclusion. And now, that business with his name.

Publication: Modern Woman [Canada]
Date: April 1997
Title: "Sign Language"
Summary: Imagine 30 minutes alone in a hotel room with a musician you idolized and longed for all your hormonally driven teenage years. That's exactly what I got when my former idol, the reclusive glyph-guy otherwise known as The Artist, breezed into town last December for a slew of interviews to promote his CD set, Emancipation.

Publication: Harper's Bazaar [US]
Date: May 1997
Title: "Mayte And Me"
Summary: It's midnight at SmashBox studios, in L.A.'s desolate Culver City. the team-- photographer (napping), his two assistants, two stylists, hair, makeup, two record-company reps, and me--has assembled for the night ahead.

Publication: Interview Magazine [US]
Date: May 1997
Title: "The Artist"
Summary: THOUGH THE BUZZING of the talk around him threatened to drown out the music that made him a cultural landmark, the Artist Formerly Known as Prince is once again writing and performing his trademark sexually potent pop.

Publication: Jet [US]
Date: May 19, 1997
Title: "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Enjoys Musical Freedom with Hit Album 'Emancipation'"
Summary: The Artist formerly known as Prince says his current hit album, Emancipation, is the album he "was born to make."

Publication: MuchMusic
Date: June 5, 1997
Title: "?"
Summary: Q: In the past year you've faced life changes.has music played a therapeutic role in your life?

Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: June 3, 1997
Title: "Prince's Curbside Chat With His 'Biggest Enemy'; Chance Conversation Outside Paisley Park Runs The Gamut: Sex, God, Mayte, The Baby"
Summary: Chanhassen's most famous citizen has been such a chatterbox of late that it was only a matter of time before he yakked me up. It wasn't a planned thing, mind you. But the way Prince sees the world, he'd probably say it was meant to be.

Publication: Live Magazine [US]
Date: July 1997
Title: "Question & Answer With Slavery, Sin and Salvation: The Artist Speaks Out"
Summary: Visitors to the pop pantheon 50 years or more from now are bound to marvel at the astounding collection of rock groups, songsmiths, blues kings and queens, funk masters, rappers and electronica renegades that the late 20th century produced.

Publication: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution [US]
Date: August 1, 1997
Title: "Breaking through the ceiling; Independence brings forth the Artist with little to hide"
Summary: To his right, five Crayola-bright shirt/pant combinations hang perfectly spaced. With matching heels directly underneath.

Publication: The Houston Chronicle [US]
Date: August 7, 1997
Title: "Emancipating the Artist"
Summary: PHILADELPHIA - To his right, five Crayola-bright shirt/pant combinations hang perfectly spaced.With matching heels directly underneath.

Publication: The Houston Chronicle [US]
Date: August 7, 1997
Title: "Emancipating the Artist"
Summary: PHILADELPHIA - To his right, five Crayola-bright shirt/pant combinations hang perfectly spaced.With matching heels directly underneath.

Publication: The Dallas Morning News [US]
Date: August 8, 1997
Title: "Purple Reign"
Summary: With new records and a new tour, Prince makes another grab 4 the pop throne.

Publication: The Palm Beach Post [US]
Date: August 11, 1997
Title: "Former Prince Paints Portrait Of The Artist As A Free Man"
Summary: To his right, five Crayola-bright shirt/pant combinations hang perfectly spaced. With matching heels directly underneath.

Publication: The Tennessean [US]
Date: August 22, 1997
Title: "The Artist Couldn't Wait 'Til 1999"
Summary: On one past tour, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince was strutting on stage in butt cheek-exposing pants. On another tour, he was singing about doves crying while a veil drooped from a hat and covered his face.

Publication: The Nashville Banner [US]
Date: August 22, 1997
Title: "Former Prince Holds Court by Fax"
Summary: The former Prince is known for doing things his own way, to say the least.

Publication: The Commercial Appeal [US]
Date: August 23, 1997
Title: "The Artist, Warner-Free, Takes Control of His 'Emancipation'"
Summary: ''I don't breathe air 4 others,'' says The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. Some may think he doesn't breathe the same air, period.

Publication: USA Today [US]
Date: September 11, 1997
Title: "The Artist Relishes Total Freedom"
Summary: After severing ties with the record industry, it's business as unusual for music's wildly unpredictable rebel.

Publication: Newark Star Ledger [US]
Date: September 16, 1997
Title: "The Interview With The Artist"
Summary: The Publicist called The Reporter about The Artist.

Publication: The Baltimore Sun [US]
Date: September 20, 1997
Title: "A Prince In Exile"
Summary: The Artist, still without a moniker or a hit to his name, discovers happiness with the fans who gave him his crown.

Publication: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [US]
Date: September 20, 1997
Title: "Former Prince Gives The Fax On His Career, Motivation"
Summary: The Artist Formerly Known As Prince has sworn off talking to the press. He faxes us now, but with a few cute quirks. Example? Well, not that it's particularly difficult to type the letter ''I,'' but he substitutes a little eyeball symbol when talking first person.

Publication: Seattle Times [US]
Date: September 25, 1997
Title: "What The Artist Has 2 Say, Via Fax"
Summary: As usual, The Artist does things differently from other rock stars. For this "Jam of the Year Tour," his publicist says he's not doing any direct interviews, by phone or in person, but rather is answering questions by e-mail or fax.

Publication: Portland Oregonian [US]
Date: September 26, 1997
Title: "?"
Summary: Q) Is the New Power Generation still your touring band, and what musical qualities led you to pick those particular players?

Publication: Sacramento Bee [US]
Date: September 28, 1997
Title: "Portrait of The Artist"
Summary: Prince Roger Nelson has been called many things.

Publication: St. Louis Post-Dispatch [US]
Date: September 29, 1997
Title: "The Artist Who Formerly Had A Career; Ex-Prince's Purple Reign Is Losing Its Lustrous Sheen"
Summary: BY RECORDING industry standards, The Artist Formerly Known asPrinceis turning into The Artist Who Formerly Had a Career.

Publication: Vegetarian Times [US]
Date: October 1997
Title: "The Artist"
Summary: Vegetarian Times: How, when and why did you and Mayte become vegetarians?

Publication: The Salt Lake Tribune [US]
Date: October 3, 1997
Title: "E-mail by 'The Artist' 2 U-tah; 'The Artist' Will B at the E, But Will U?"
Summary: We should have seen it coming. There were signs (o' the times).

Publication: Denver Post [US]
Date: October 4, 1997
Title: "Pop Star Doing Away With Middleman"
Summary: Oct. 4 - He's a chronic overachiever, one of pop music's most creative forces. He's also a major pain whose indulgences and weirdness have made him a punch line in recent years.

Publication: San Francisco Chronicle [US]
Date: October 7, 1997
Title: "A Peek At Prince"
Summary: The Artist talks via e-mail, which gives him a chance to use his funny language.

Publication: Albuquerque Journal [US]
Date: October 24, 1997
Title: "Artist's 2r Goes Through Tingley"
Summary: Musician follows free-wheeling, ambitious spirit across the map.

Publication: Las Vegas Sun [US]
Date: October 24, 1997
Title: "Just The Fax -- 'The Artist' Speaks (Sort Of)"
Summary: The Artist doesn't do interviews.

Publication: Las Vegas Review-Journal [US]
Date: October 24, 1997
Title: "By Any Name: Prince, The Artist, The Symbol - Whoever - Brings His Sound to the MGM"
Summary: The enigmatic performer formerly known as Prince -- and now by a symbol and/or as The Artist -- once seemed to be in the running with Michael Jackson to see who could be more eccentric and alienating to fans.

Publication: Detroit Free Press [US]
Date: December 26, 1997
Title: "Detroit Asks the Questions, and The Artist Revals Himself As a Prince of Mystery"
Summary: Well, we knew he was a cryptic sort of guy.

Publication: The Irish Times [IR]
Date: September 19, 1998
Title: "Calling His Own Tune The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Has Skipped The Reins Of The Record Companies And Is Now King Of His Own Career. He Talks To Dan Glaister In Chanhassen, Minnesota"
Summary: The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is at a crossroads. He turned 40 this year, and with his new album, Newpower Soul, he professes to have found a way to avoid the machinations of the record industry, perhaps providing a way forward for other artists. He is smiling on the back of a triumphant US tour last year, and he is coping with the death of his week-old baby son in November 1996.