The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince

trying to come to terms with Michael’s death. And we played his songs on the air. Usually, they would be too expensive to use, but there is a special stipulation, a death memorandum, that grants a 48-hour grace period where songs can be used for a standard rate for news purposes.

Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.

“As importantly,” Springsteen noted, “she gave me a sense of work as something that was joyous, and that committed you to your world.