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I'm glad that it looks as though Prince is on the way to a commercial and critical comeback. The last couple of months have seen him opening the Grammy's with Beyonce, being interviewed on a couple of different American talk shows and getting inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame including a rip roaring performance. He's got a huge US tour on the go and an album, Musicology, out in a few weeks that I've heard encouraging early words about.

It's as though he's decided now is the time to get back into the mainstream. It'll help if the album he's basing this on is really strong although getting proper promotion for it is almost as important. I always though that Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic was a good enough album and should have been bigger but it was obviously not given the promotion it needed to be a success, let's hope this time it's different.

God knows Prince has been one of the most talented and amazing artists of the last 25 years and the public should be reminded of that. He was always lumped in with Michael Jackson and Madonna as the big musical rivals of the 80's but for me Prince was always head and shoulders above those guys. No doubt they released good records but Prince could play, sing and perform them under the table any day.

Yes, we could go on about the rubbish he's released and his need of an editor but just go back and listen to Sign Of The Times, Parade, Purple Rain, Dirty Mind etc etc and you'll forgot all about that stuff.

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