Revisitation Writes: Prince’s Controversy

One of the first albums I heard by Prince was Controversy; his fourth record. It was released in 1981. He was still on his way to being a giant pop star, the year after Controversy he’d release the 1999 album and the really big hits would start to come. But Controversy built on 1980’s excellent Dirty Mind and the self-titled album from 1979. In just a f…