This much is indisputable: Prince is one of the greatest musicians alive. His musical output has been prodigious — perhaps too prodigious for his own good. But even putting aside the mediocre songs, his body of hits and his songs that are great despite limited commercial success put him at the top of the heap. And though his years of peak influence may be limited to the crazy 80s (just as the Beatles’ peak influence was limited to the trippy 60s), most artists would kill for a fraction of that kind of influence.
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