New Prince memoir to be released this October
The unfinished memoir of Prince, titled The Beautiful Ones, will finally be released this October just three years after the iconic musician’s passing.
Publisher Random House confirmed to The Associated Press that The Beautiful Ones will be released in October.
The memoir will go into detail from Prince’s childhood to his final days as one of the world’s most successful musicians. The memoir will also contain Prince’s unfinished manuscript as well as photos from his personal collection, scrapbooks and lyrics.
There is also original handwritten treatment for his 1984 hit Purple Rain.
Prince first announced the book in 2016, when he told the audience in New York City that the publishers had made him “an offer I can’t refuse”.
“This is my first [book]. My brother Dan is helping me with it. He’s a good critic and that’s what I need. He’s not a ‘yes’ man at all and he’s really helping me get through this,” he said.
“We’re starting from the beginning from my first memory and hopefully we can go all the way up to the Super Bowl.”
Random House has described the book as: “The deeply personal account of how Prince Rogers Nelson became the Prince we know: the real-time story of a kid absorbing the world around him and creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and the fame that would come to define him”.
The book’s editor, Chris Jackson, has also called the book, “a beautiful tribute to his life … It’s a treasure not just for Prince fans but for anyone who wants to see one of our greatest creative artists and original minds at work on his greatest creation: himself.”