Music

Where the Revolution is now

By Jon Bream

February 17, 2012 at 9:25PM
The 1984 "Purple Rain" album poster: from left, Mark Brown, Prince, Bobby Z, Matt Fink, Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin.
The 1984 “Purple Rain” album poster: from left, Mark Brown, Prince, Bobby Z, Matt Fink, Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin. (All/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
about the writer

about the writer

Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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