Diamonds And Pearls may have been the first Prince album to feature The New Power Generation but it also marked the period where he began falling from critical favour. It is, however, an album that has aged extremely well, argues Lesley Chow. [NB: This feature was written before Prince's untimely death earlier this year]
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Three new tapes from the Netherlands' Counter Culture Chronicles, featuring the voices of poets Joel Oppenheimer, Hans Plomp, and Piero Heliczer, respectively, offer a set of intimate portraits, finds Nick Roseblade