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Toure Show

Susan Rogers–I Made Music With Prince

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Original Air date: June 13, 2018 Touré Show Ep 33: Susan Rogers-I Made Music With Prince I hope you’re listening to my new Prince docuseries Who Was Prince? It’s an 8-ep deep dive into his work, his life, his youth, and his personality. This week we’re throwing back to my interview with engineer Susan Rogers who worked with Prince in the studio, engineering his best albums. Susan tells us what song that was the germ of each of Prince’s big albums and the awesome story of what happened when Prince was forced to meet Liz Taylor. Follow Who Was Prince? wherever podcasts are streamed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.5

This is one of the best Prince stories I've ever heard and it comes to us from his longtime engineer Susan Rogers.

1:17.0

Prince was by his nature shy and he preferred the company of one or two people than the company of a crowd.

1:27.8

This sounds strange for a man who was, you know, who could draw 60,000 people to the superdome in New Orleans to to come and see him but he needed privacy

1:37.7

He needed to be protected from certain social engagements so that he could stay himself.

1:45.0

So we were on the Purple Rain Tour and Prince had been nominated for an Academy Award.

1:51.0

The album was taken off, the movie's doing great. He was on the cover of Rolling Stone. He was a big, big star.

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