Black Music Month: 10 reasons Prince was the greatest artist 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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