In the summer of 2020, my oldest daughter took a surf lesson near our home in Los Angeles, and I paddled out to sit alongside her as she was pushed into waves. Pelicans skimmed the surface of the Pacific, sea lions bobbed, and dolphins even jumped in the distance. I had only ever casually surfed before, but being in the water with her sparked something in me. Even though I struggled to catch many waves, I felt mentally—and physically—challenged; I was doing something new for the first time in a long time.
Inside Prince’s Paisley Park: The Secretive Celebrity Kingdom You Can Visit
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“Tomi, you said you came to parties here before. How?” someone in my tour group asked from the back of the recording studio. Its wood-paneled walls were strung with instruments and amplifier cables. Tomi, our tour guide, had just invited us to pick up a worn paddle to play table tennis at a ping-pong table—one that Prince, the late Minnesotan rock star, had played on many times before.
“Um, I was a stalker,” Tomi answered.
We laughed, but as I looked around the room it was clear we all knew he wasn’t exactly kidding.
I never counted myself among the camera-toting tourists who would flock to ritzy mansions made famous solely for their celebrity owners. “Star Tours” in Los Angeles and Elvis’s Graceland in Memphis always sounded voyeuristic and unappealing to me. But that idea changed in April 2016, when Prince Rogers Nelson died at his home and studio compound, Paisley Park.
Paisley Park Tour: Prince’s Mysterious Playground“Admission is easy, just say you believe and come to this place in your heart,” goes the 1985 song that would later share a title with Prince’s estate and studio complex in Chanhassen, Minnesota, about 30 minutes outside of Minneapolis. “Paisley Park is in your heart.”
Paisley Park tours opened to the public just six months after Prince’s death—but many of his fans had already been inside before the star’s passing. A showman of epic proportions, Prince (His Royal Badness, The Artist, The Prince of Funk, The Purple One) sometimes opened his home to fans for shows on his private soundstage and after-parties that drew all types, from Minnesotans to Madonna. That’s what our tour guide meant by “stalking.” If you kept a close enough eye on Prince, he’d invite you over himself—normally via Twitter, and most notably for pajama parties, but only if you agreed not to use your phone inside.
Related: How to Travel Like a Celebrity Visiting Paisley ParkWith that chapter of Paisley Park over, Prince’s remaining family members opened the complex the masses for daily scheduled tours (reservations required). But Paisley Park is keeping its award-plastered halls and four recording studios otherwise under-wraps: You still have to forego using your phone and any cameras when you visit. At the front door, a bodyguard locks your phone in a cloth pouch that you carry with you, rendering your electronics unusable until you exit the building. A nuisance to some people, Prince fans often appreciate the move as an opportunity to focus on the details with just your own two eyes. To others though, it might seem like a visitor-boosting ploy.
Most rooms are kept as Prince arranged them, including a few that were curated into costume displays or award exhibits by Prince himself before he died; he wanted the
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