Creating Sign O' The Times with Susan Rogers

Prince fans will instantly recognize the name Susan Rogers.  She is the stalwart engineer that worked beside Prince during the commercial peak of his career from Purple Rain through to Sign O’ The Times. 

By the time Susan had come to work with Prince he was already being referred to as a musical wunderkind thanks to five critically acclaimed albums including 1999, which had just become his first record to enjoy total and complete crossover from R&B to Pop, peaking at number 9 on the Billboard Top 200. The first project she worked on was his commercial blockbuster, Purple Rain. But, despite critical acclaim, chart topping albums and universal admiration from his musical peers, Prince had not yet felt that he had made a statement album. That all changed in 1987 with the release of Sign O’ The Times.

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The expanded box set of Sign O’ The Times is available now and is well worth the journey for anyone interested in great music, whether or not you’ve been a Prince fan your whole life.  In addition to the studio gems Susan talks about in this episode, there is a live recording of the Sign O’ The Times tour in Utrecht in the Netherlands which captures the incredible power of Prince live in concert.

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