21 NIGHTS
Extravagant deluxe first edition, with forty minutes of exclusive footage on the included iPod, one of the rare copies signed by Prince.
Near fine.
Price: $7,500.00
21 NIGHTS
"If anyone lived forever, I thought it would be him." — Randee St. Nicholas, Rolling Stone, 2019
Prince's 21 legendary nights at London's O2 arena, coinciding with the release of the PLANET EARTH album and also featuring the greatest hits of Prince's extensive back catalogue, were the longest concert run ever sustained at the former Millennium Dome (a record Michael Jackson would try, and fail, to beat). From a decade-and-a-half's distance, the contemporary English press can be seen trying with all their collective might to maintain a suitably untouched distance from the artist and the ecstatic worship he inspired: begrudging him his well-earned superlatives because they were "cliché" (Alexis Petridis); declaring his sex appeal an "abiding mystery" (Mick Brown); admitting his "genius," qualified as "just too rich" (Michael Deacon), and in all ways building a wall of protective adjectives against love. Ten years on, the wall had crumbled, and one who had been there looked back on "the single greatest musical experience I've ever witnessed" (Peter Guy), when "for 21 Nights in London [Prince] once again proved to the world he was the greatest there ever was."
This almost unbearably luxurious edition of the concert photobook by longtime Prince photographer St. Nicholas includes a two-meter fold-out gatefold photograph of Prince onstage with his band and back-up dancers, as well as an iPod Touch in purple carrying case, pre-loaded with exclusive video and audio recordings from his 2007 concert residency at the O2 arena, London. Already lavish, not all copies of this production are signed; this is one of the much rarer signed copies.
Signed. Rare. Purple.
Read more: Bernadette McNulty, "Prince at the O2: The 21 Nights That Dazzled London"; Guy, "Prince 21 Nights at the O2 in London - 10 Years On From the Greatest Show on Planet Earth."
The Object
[UK]: Opus, 2008. 13.5'' x 18.5''. Original purple leather with gold mounted Prince symbol. Text by Prince, photographs by St. Nicholas. Original, unused ipod with headphones, charger, and purple leather case. All items housed as issued in original gilt-stamped purple cloth box. Limited edition of 950. Touch of rubbing to box; light wear to joints of book. Interior clean and bright.
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