June 1981, and Prince is introduced to the British music press for the first time. A “subdued, low-key character”, he tells the NME’s Chris Salewicz about how his management and record company thought he’d lost his mind when he played them Dirty Mind for the first time. “Once I told them that this was the way it was,” he says with a quiet intransigence that will soon become legendary, “then they rtyknew they had no choice. They’d have to try it, because they weren’t going to get another record out of me otherwise.”

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