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Prince’s right-hand woman on life with a legend: ‘He never took advantage – but I had to leave’
The first song engineer Susan Rogers worked on with Prince sparked a moral panic – and things only got more intense from there
19 May 2021 • 5:00pm
Prince and Susan Rogers worked together on Purple Rain, Around The World In A Day, Parade and Sign O’ The Times
Credit: Bill Marino
In 1982, David Crosby used to smoke crack in Susan Rogers’ workshop at Rudy Records studio in Hollywood. Amid a haze of pale blue smoke, the singer spent minutes staring at a black and white picture of Prince affixed to the wall. As artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Art Garfunkel and the Eagles shot the breeze in the sound room, he would take down the poster and crumple it in his hands. In response, time and again Rogers flattened it out and put back in place.