Jon Bream, the Star Tribune music critic, said the most extraordinary thing about Friday’s night’s party at Prince’s house was that very little Prince music was played.
From the sound of it, Bream wasn’t in the small, hand-picked crowd from the National Association of Black Journalists to hear Prince’s history lesson , and those he talked to who were in the meeting weren’t quoting the analogy.
Earlier at the party in an ad hoc session, Prince met with 10 journalists including Michael Wilbon of ESPN, Eric Deggans of NPR and Bob Butler of KCBS Radio in San Francisco. None of them was allowed to take notes or record the conversation.
“He was deep, thoughtful and real,” said Bryan Monroe, now a Temple University professor and a longtime journalist with CNN and the Seattle Times. “He talked about the state of the music industry. He said he wanted to sit down with us because we’re the storytellers.”
Monroe, who has interviewed Michael Jackson, characterized Prince as “a straight-up communicator. He wasn’t stiff at all. It was very light. A real good conversation.”
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