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Prince: A Purple Reign

  • Documentary
  • Music

November 25, 2011 (US)

0h 59m

Part of BBC Four's Black Music Legends of the 1980s, this documentary explores how Prince - showman, artist, enigma - revolutionized the perception of black music in the 1980s with worldwide hits such as "1999," "Kiss," "Raspberry Beret" and "Alphabet Street." He became a global ...

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