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Celebrated journalist, TV personality, and award-winning author Tour investigates one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures in contemporary American culture PRINCE Drawing on new research and enlivened by Tours unique pop-cultural fluency, I Would Die 4 U relies on surprising and in-depth interviews with Princes band members, former girlfriends, musicologists, and even Bible scholars to deconstruct the artists life and work. Princes baby boomer status allowed him to play a wise older brother to the latchkey kids of generation X. Defying traditional categories of race, gender, and sexuality, he nonetheless presents a very traditional conception of religion and God in his music. He was an MTV megastar and a religious evangelist, using images of sex and profanity to invite us into a musical conversation about the healing power of God.