
Obtenir des livres electroniques My Life in the Purple Kingdom
By BrownMark
From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the
musician building a solo career with Motown Records?Prince?s bassist
BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution,
and his life in the purple kingdom ?In the summer of 1981, Mark Brown was a
teenager working at a 7-11 store when he wasn?t rehearsing with his high school
band, Phantasy. Come fall, Brown, now called BrownMark, was onstage with
Prince at the Los Angeles Coliseum, opening for the Rolling Stones in front of
90,000 people. My Life in the Purple Kingdom is BrownMark?s memoir of
coming of age in the musical orbit of one of the most visionary artists of his
generation. Raw, wry, real, this book takes us from his musical awakening as a
boy in Minneapolis to the cold call from Prince at nineteen, from touring the
world with The Revolution and performing in Purple Rain to inking his own
contract with Motown.BrownMark?s story is that of a hometown kid, living for
sunny days when