JANUARY 2020 - AudioFile
Only Prince can tell his story, but his former collaborator Morris Day solves that problem by allowing Prince’s "spirit" to chime in on his new audiobook—at least, in the way Morris would expect him to speak. Narrator Ron Butler carefully navigates the tricky terrain of speaking in Day’s voice as well as speaking in the voice of Prince from beyond the grave. He perfectly maintains Day's hip attitude toward drug use and the outrageous lifestyles of Prince’s family members and his own band, The Time. Occasionally, it can be a bit hard to determine who’s speaking during dialogue, but soon the listener will get into the rhythm. And isn’t that what Prince is all about? M.S. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
The New York Times Book Review - Touré
Day has a front-row seat for the life of one of the greatest musicians of all time and his book is a worshipful telling of what Prince's rise looked like from his vantage.
Publishers Weekly
09/16/2019
In this entertaining memoir, musician Day tells of his career and his friendship with his musical mentor, Prince. Interweaving “the voice I’m hearing of Prince” within the narrative (at times to distracting effect), Day writes of growing up in 1960s Illinois, before he and his mother and his siblings moved to Minneapolis to escape his abusive stepfather. There he met a 15-year-old guitarist named Prince and formed a funk band called Grand Central. Prince landed a record deal on his own in 1978, and three years later Day formed the Time. Competitive tensions mounted, as Day recalls wanting Prince “to hear that we weren’t just funky but so goddamn funky that he’d have to think twice about how to outfunk us.” Day appeared in Prince’s film Purple Rain, but they had a falling out that lasted until just before Prince’s death (“Since Prince and I both believed in Jesus, you’d think a come-to-Jesus meeting” would have been easy). Day candidly shares his descent into drug abuse and his philandering (“The higher I get, the more adoration I crave”) and writes honestly about Prince’s desire to control him and his musical career. Fans of Prince—and the Time—will be thrilled with this insider view. (Oct.)
From the Publisher
"Great book! Great storytelling!"—Lenny Kravitz
"[An] entertaining memoir... fans of Prince - and The Time - will be thrilled with this insider view."—Publishers Weekly
"An enticing read... [L]argely a memoir but also, in part, an entertaining commentary."—Soul Tracks
"What if Prince came back and he and Morris got down to settling old scores and giving away secrets? Morris makes it happen, and I devoured this great book!"—Paul Shaffer, author of We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives
"What time is it? It's time for everyone to read Morris Day's memoir. Lean, slick, cooler than Santa Claus, and surprisingly tender, the book not only traces Day's history in Minneapolis funk, but doubles as an intimate recollections of his time with Prince."—Ben Greenman, author of Dig If You Will The Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
"A breezy, hard-to-put-down book."—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"[Day]'s quite a vivid storyteller and the Day/Prince interplay not only works, but it keeps things moving forward. At times, it's a challenge to put On Time down."—Twin Cities Pioneer Press
"A vital, illuminating and wildly entertaining autobiography."—Billboard
"Fortunately, Morris Day's memoir arrives in the same month as his old friend's. Day grew up a few blocks from Prince and played drums in his first band. The two remained close for decades...Day's book has him in conversation with Prince's ghost, arguing about how to tell the story, and gives us details about Prince that he never got to tell his memoirist...Day has a front-row seat for the life of one of the greatest musicians of all time and his book is a worshipful telling of what Prince's rise looked like from his vantage."—New York Times Book Review
JANUARY 2020 - AudioFile
Only Prince can tell his story, but his former collaborator Morris Day solves that problem by allowing Prince’s "spirit" to chime in on his new audiobook—at least, in the way Morris would expect him to speak. Narrator Ron Butler carefully navigates the tricky terrain of speaking in Day’s voice as well as speaking in the voice of Prince from beyond the grave. He perfectly maintains Day's hip attitude toward drug use and the outrageous lifestyles of Prince’s family members and his own band, The Time. Occasionally, it can be a bit hard to determine who’s speaking during dialogue, but soon the listener will get into the rhythm. And isn’t that what Prince is all about? M.S. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
