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Music critic Ann Powers reflects on time spent with Prince in his Hollywood mansion.

4 Extra Debut. Music critic Ann Powers reflects on a career defining night she spent with musician Prince in his Hollywood mansion. From 2021.

US music critic and broadcaster Ann Powers presents a tribute to Prince, framed around a night she spent with the star in 2008.

This was a night for hanging out in the singing star’s Hollywood mansion in Beverly Park - a place with the  European opulence of an upscale spa.

And also for meeting his protege and girlfriend Bria Valente, and for listening to tracks in Prince’s limo, a local club – even his bedroom.

Contributors include:  

*  Keyboard player, Doctor Fink

*  Sound engineer, Susan Rogers

*  Biographer Dan Piepenbring, who was working on Prince's memoir just before he died

*  Kristin Scott Thomas, whose first ever film role was in the Prince directed Under The Cherry Moon.

Producer: Clem Hitchcock

A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2021.

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