[The Soup Nazi]

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This is not to take away from the artistic accomplishment of Sign 'O' The Times. But that record especially is lauded for being solely Prince's handiwork, and it's worth celebrating his collaborators. Wendy and Lisa went on to explore their creative impulses as a duo, recording albums together and scoring TV shows like Heroes and Nurse Jackie. Prince found new and different ways of being Prince. The three were never able to fully reconcile, due in part to Prince's Jehovah's Witness faith, which led him to reject the queerness he had once embraced, as a "sinful lifestyle".

In a 1989 interview with the UK TV programme TV:AM, when told that Wendy & Lisa's new single "Satisfaction" sounded like Prince, Wendy responded simply, "He sounds like us." Lisa elaborated: "You swap and barter and trade and learn and teach and steal and give."


Hazel Newlevant's graphic novella If This Be Sin (along with more comics about Wendy, Lisa, Prince and others) is available via her website.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/...er-warm-enough