‘Life is just a party and parties weren’t meant to last.” — Prince. There aren’t many artists in music history who can fuse myriad genres into one catalogue so effortlessly. Prince, however, managed to cram the pain and poignancy of pop balladry, the peacocking bravado of rock, and the rhythm of a disco night all into one small purple package with relative ease, precluded only by his own perfectionism. The Purple One or, to give him his formal t…