Remembering Prince and 'Sign o' the Times'

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published April 30, 2026 at 11:57 AM EDT

Prince performs on Oct. 11, 2009 at the Grand Palais in Paris. (Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images)

Prince died 10 years ago this month, and an album he released nearly 40 years is seeing renewed interest.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Susan Rogers, the longtime recording engineer for Prince and a professor at Berklee College of Music, about Prince’s 1987 double album, “Sign o’ the Times.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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