“He’d buy ice cream cones and wore sneakers,” says The Revolution keyboard player Wendy Coleman of Prince’s Purple Rain days, “but the next minute, he’d be like ‘Hey, muthafuckas — ’ ” “He’d be fucking George Jefferson. And you’d be like, ‘Oh, God.’”
Over at Cuepoint, a great excerpt from Alan Light’s forthcoming book, “Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain.”