Richard Marx on How 'Awesome' Prince Meeting Defied Expectations
In a new UCR video interview, Richard Marx recalls an "awesome" and illuminating encounter with Prince — but as the soft-rock singer explains, he initially expected a tense exchange. The songwriter's first brush with the Purple One came at a distance, after an '80s-era vocal session for a Fee Waybill solo album at Hollywood's Sunset Sound. As he writes in his newly released memoir, Stories to Tell, Marx spotted "a small lone figure bouncing a basketball in the shadows" on a court outside the studio. "At first I thought it was a child," he writes. "He crouched, raised the ball above his ...