THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
SO FINE
LETTERS
E.G. DAILY
JOAN JETT UNCHAINED
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Prince’s 26th birthday—an auspicious occasion, I think we all can agree—found him in Detroit, where he’d kicked off the Purple Rain tour last year...and clearly in a more quixotic, experimental and flat-out happier mood this time around.
October 1, 1986