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  • TROY GUA

From this week's Worn Out (which is a must-read for all Prince fans):

In his prime, Prince was scary and wonderful, and he "wanted everybody in the band to have a distinct image," said lead guitarist Dez Dickerson in the documentary Prince: The Glory Years. The Revolution keyboardist Gayle Chapman continues: Prince's girlfriend "dumped this bag of metallic multicolored underwear on my bed. Bras and panties, basically, and said, 'Prince says wear this or you're fired.'" And Ronin Ro's Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks describes The Time keyboardist Paul Peterson, who'd been imprisoned by a poofy up-do requiring constant curling-iron maintenance. He had a similarly crisp run-in: "'Wear this,' Prince handed him an orange pinstripe suit. 'Oh no, I don't want to wear that.' 'Wear it,' he said."

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