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Two New Prince Albums, news, music news, Ireland

I didn’t catch Prince when he was last in Manchester, a couple of months ago; I was across town at a St. Vincent show on the first night, and I can’t quite remember where on the second. He was playing at the 2,500-capacity Academy, though, and it did have me wondering what it was that made it quite so weird that somebody of his (metaphorical) stature was showing up at venues of that size (and smaller ones in London, of course). The Stones, for example, I could picture seeing anywhere. Strip away the celebrity, and they’re a blues-tinged rock and roll band, as easy to envisage in a tiny...