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.
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.