Anil Dash on Nostr: The song itself is extraordinary. Stark, sexy, and searingly introspective. There had ...
The song itself is extraordinary. Stark, sexy, and searingly introspective. There had literally never been a song that sounded like this on the radio before — because Prince had pushed his drum machines, voice, keyboard skills and guitar well past any of their designed limits in order to produce the song. When I asked him (on this night, 8 years ago) to tell us a story about its recording, he demurred instead with a joke. "YES. WELL, IT WAS A STARRY NIGHT..."
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