And also, ' The beautiful ones you always seem to lose,' Vanity had just quit the movie." Prince originally ran into Vanity, whose real name was Denise Matthews, at the 1980 American Music Awards.

Bey also sang "The Beautiful Ones" at Glastonbury in 2011. She also kicked off her tour with an infusion of his protege Vanity 6's "Nasty Girl" into her own song "Blow." ...

“ 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.

Prince had already settled on a title, "The Beautiful Ones," named for an iconic song from "Purple Rain." He wanted to write the biggest music book in the world, one that would serve as a how-to ...

Music ‘Beautiful Ones’: The Moment Prince Became a Movie Star 'Purple Rain' was his breakthrough, but it's this song's five-minute performance that gave him his best onscreen moment ...

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.

While the song still has the funk he brought to the final version, it also has some serious ’70s Los Angeles folk rock vibes, which isn’t too surprising given his lifelong love for Joni Mitchell.

There’s not too many people in music who can put out the caliber of music Prince has since he debuted in the late ’70s. And maybe it’s for that reason so many artists, young and old, new and ...

The memoir Prince was working on at the time of his death, “The Beautiful Ones,” is due out in late October 2019. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File) Associated Press ...