I got this as a gift, and thankfully so. If I had spent money on this ... I'd have been upset. The narration is from the point of view of smug, half-interested CNN reporter-type that secretly wants to take Prince down a peg any way he can- the way the US media does to most of its politicians. He uses some outtake skits (like the unused story opening to the O(+> album) and attempts to pass them off as his own for those that don't know better. While some of the information was new to me, it was only a piece here and a piece there that wasn't common knowledge to the average purple fan/fam.
It spent a lot more time on how he grew up than was truly comfortable, some of it was theory based on what he was able to put together. Informations about sessions was limited. It speculated more on the root of what controversy it could find than about any substance.
An okay read if you don't know much about Prince, but you have to take from the perspective you'd use when watching a 24-hour news network - you have to sort through its own bias and opinions to get to and discern the information.
It spent a lot more time on how he grew up than was truly comfortable, some of it was theory based on what he was able to put together. Informations about sessions was limited. It speculated more on the root of what controversy it could find than about any substance.
An okay read if you don't know much about Prince, but you have to take from the perspective you'd use when watching a 24-hour news network - you have to sort through its own bias and opinions to get to and discern the information.