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This is Love

Nothing Compares to You

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 1983, Susan Rogers moved thousands of miles from home to work with her favorite artist in the world: Prince. "He was unlike any human I'd ever known,” she says. A story about making remarkable things, together. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.7

How did you meet Prince? I actually met him face to face in his house for the first time.

0:36.0

After I'd been downstairs in his bedroom studio, across the hall from his master bedroom,

0:42.0

I was in there for a week replacing a

0:44.2

console taking out an old one putting a new one in doing all the wiring making some

0:48.6

repairs to his tape machine and just a few odds and ends pieces of equipment that

0:52.3

were down and needed to be repaired.

0:54.4

He was upstairs above me in just where the kitchen meets the living room is where his

1:00.6

small baby grand piano was and you hear him playing piano right above me he'd be on the piano and he'd be working out parts for computer blue and purple rain. I finally finished up and I didn't have anything

1:16.1

left to do. So I called the woman who managed his household affairs Sandy Sipioni and I said Sandy I'm done I don't know what to tell him

1:25.4

She says let me call him and I guess she told him you know

1:28.6

Susan's ready so he came down the stairs and he stopped about three stairs from the bottom and

1:33.7

asked me questions. I still remember his hand was one hand was on the rail.

1:37.4

He didn't even say hello, how are you or whatever he just he just came right down and

1:41.6

got right to the point and started asking, is this done, is that done?

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