Prince composed songs the way others breathe, constantly, instinctively, and with unshakable purpose. His creativity overflowed like a storm of sound, blending funk, soul, rock, jazz, and pure invention into timeless forms.
It started with a bell rather than with a bang. Like an extraterrestrial signal, the Yamaha DX7's crystalline chime arose in 1983, a cold breeze slipping through the window of rock's analogue warmth.
Released by Prince in March 1987, Sign the Times was a double album that came with inevitability rather than with hype.
In a purple-hued dreamscape where time bends and guitar solos float like incense, Riffs and Beats caught up with Prince, elusive, brilliant and unbound, for a conversation that defies gravity and genre.
