“ The beautiful ones, they hurt you every time, ” he insists. He goes even deeper than that in the song’s spoken-word bridge, implying that everyone fixates on some vision of an ideal love.

When you think about the song, 'The Beautiful Ones,' I've read that he recorded that song in a single 17-hour session. And he's recording all of the parts by himself. He's writing the lyrics.

Read an excerpt: Prince's memoir "The Beautiful Ones" He was the son two local jazz musicians. By age 17, Prince was following in their footsteps, writing and recording songs of his own.

Prince Memoir: Hear ‘The Beautiful Ones’ Audio Clip From Book’s Introduction Esperanza Spalding and Adepero Oduye recorded the Prince parts of the book, and Dan Piepenbring wrote the ...

It wasn’t hard to be skeptical when Prince’s autobiography, “The Beautiful Ones,” was first announced earlier this year. In the rare interviews that he gave, the late artist was famously ...

The Beautiful Ones, which Prince himself named, choosing the title of one of his iconic songs from Purple Rain, was completed and will be celebrated with an exclusive special event at The Town ...