PRINCE was working on a memoir when he died, and it’s finally coming out this fall.  It’s called “The Beautiful Ones”, and it’ll hit the shelves on October 29th.  It’ll combine his unfinished manuscript with rare photos, scrapbooks and lyrics.

Fifty handwritten pages, which Prince submitted a month before his death, will form the basis of the book, which has been “newly envisioned” as a scrapbook of his life.

It will also include rare photographs and handwritten lyrics, alongside the original draft script for Purple Rain.

He was purposefully inscrutable, rarely giving interviews and building his own mythology through music. But in the year before his death, he had started to let his guard down, reflecting on his life and career during a solo tour titled Prince: Piano & A Microphone.

Those concerts appeared to inspire the idea of a memoir, which Prince announced at a private show in Manhattan in 2016.

Random House described The Beautiful Ones as “the deeply personal account of how Prince Rogers Nelson became the Prince we know: The real-time story of a kid absorbing the world around him and creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and the fame that would come to define him”.

Prince died on April 21st, 2016, from an accidental overdose of fentanyl.  He was 57.