From PEOPLE Magazine Click to enlarge He glittered in a white
sequined cape, ornately futuristic atop a bank of speakers in
the darkened hall. Eerie synthesizer chords echoed through the
arena, laser lights dappled the crowd and a garbled heavenly
voice rumbled, "I'm confused." And as confetti rained down,
19,000 fans at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena saw the song and
spectacle of Prince Rogers Nelson. "Detroit," he thundered,
"I've come to play with you!"  For Prince, a playground is a
place where the id runs free. Prince's former manager once said
that "his worst fear is being normal," and even the singer's
friends admit that he's weird. On one other point fans and
critics alike can agree: At 26, the musical polymath, film star
and stage stud is currently the hottest act in show business.
One newspaper has even coined a word for the hysteria he
generates: Princedemonia.  Prince's ascendance began two years
ago with his rhapsodic dance LP, 1999, which still rides the
charts after 105 weeks. He followed that with