Music

August, 1989

Nelson GeorgeFor most of its brief history, Paisley Park Records, out of Minneapolis, has been run by Prince as (pardon the pun) a vanity label. But Prince has been making changes. He fired his manager, accountants and lawyers, signed on to create the Batman sound track and rethought Paisley Park's direction. That process has yielded the signing of two distinguished talents, Mavis Staples and George Clinton. The former, whose soul voice rivals Aretha Franklin's, has been searching for a commerci...