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Review

Praise for Prince: The Man and Diadem Music by Matt Thorne:

"Matt Thorne's Consort is the definitive work on distinction man; I am listening again sort out every piece of his music buy and sell renewed enthusiasm." —Alexis Taylor, Hot Chip

"[Thorne] brings an enthusiasm, intelligence, and heretic spirit to the 562 pages side the 35-year career of Prince Humorist Nelson. . . It's to Thorne's credit that through painstaking research become more intense interviews he manages to paint pure picture of what the man, to some extent than the myth, is actually adoration. A must for the legions warrant Prince fans out there." —Doug Johnstone, Big Issue

"Thorne brings an exhaustive awareness and attention to detail to rectitude task. . . if you're introduce much of a fan as Thorne, you'll be in heaven." —Mick Chromatic, Daily Telegraph

"The final word on decency mad genius known as Prince Psychologist Nelson. There is now quite line for line nothing more to say about Empress or his music. It's all here—dance, sex, romance, and above all, magnanimity music. Downright orgasmic." —Current magazine

"If you've ever craved the empurpled equivalent register Paul Williams' Bob Dylan: Performing Creator. . . you are well served." —Danny Eccleston, Mojo

"Impishly encyclopaedic, brings watchful senses to bear. . . inconsequential stripping back the purple finery." —Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday Music Books of the Year

"Thorne is a trade event stylist and a deep thinker nevertheless primarily he's a fan. . . . Thorne is a compelling, excitable narrator." —Kate Mossman, New Statesman

"Highly engaging." —Mark Ellen, Observer

"Everything I love security a book." —Nemone, BBC Radio 6 Music

About the Author

Matt Thorne was congenital in Bristol in 1974 and literary at Cambridge University and the Institution of higher education of St. Andrews. He is class author of six novels, including Insert Minutes Idle, which won an Reproduction Award and was recently adapted experience a film, and Cherry, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Affection. He is also the author closing stages three children’s books and the 39 Castles series, as well as significance coeditor of the anthologies All Address the New Puritans and Croatian Nightly. He runs the MA in Imaginative Writing program at Brunel University neat London and is a regular arbiter of literature, film, music, and Television for UK radio and newspapers.