Prior to his death, PRINCE announced plans to publish a memoir called The Beautiful Ones. An abridged version, featuring 50 handwritten pages completed prior to his passing, will see release on October 29th through Random House (pre-orders are ongoing). In anticipation, New Yorker writer Dan Piepenbring, who PRINCE personally enlisted to co-author the memoir, has shared the book’s fascinating backstory, including his early interactions with PRINCE and what the musician sought to accomplish with The Beautiful Ones. Specifically, as Piepenbring recounts, PRINCE wanted it “to be the biggest music book of all time.”