Black Music Month: Prince’s 10 Best Moments of the 1980s

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No. 10 Re-igniting black rock music for the MTV generation

Prince embraced hard rock and New Wave just as the video age dawned; and by the end of the decade, acts like Lenny Kravitz and Living Colour were charting hits. Even Michael Jackson’s more rock-oriented songs came after Prince’s 1980 breakthrough album, Dirty Mind.


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Todd "Stereo" Williams, entertainment writer based in New York City. He co-founded Thirty 2 Oh 1 Productions, an indie film company.
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