Back in 1989, having never photographed a celebrity, Klein set his sights on shooting the icon that was Prince. By then, the photographer had already worked with Liz Tilberis, the editor-in-chief of British Vogue, and she had expressed a vague interest in running an editorial with the Grammy winner – without making any specific promises re its prominence or pagination. Klein, though, decided to take some liberties with the truth for the sake of his art, telling Prince’s team that Tilberis wanted the “Purple Rain” singer “to be the first man on a cover in the history of [the magazine]” and promptly flying to Minnesota’s Paisley Park, sans either editor or clothes. “The first thing I remember seeing in the house is [Prince’s then partner] Kim Basinger… At that time, they were filming Batman, and he was in full gear, transparent purple shirt and pants.” The shoot took place in Prince’s bedroom – complete with a round bed, while the Cocteau Twins played on the stereo in the background. “When he came in, he said to me, ‘Okay, what do you want me to do?’ And I just froze,’” Klein recalls. As did Prince, it seems: “He didn’t really move… He didn’t really talk… It taught me to never expect celebrities to perform in person the way that they do onstage.” Eventually, though, Klein “shot a series of black and white portraits that were really beautiful”, along with some close-ups that did indeed make their way into British Vogue. While the publication ultimately declined to run Prince on the cover proper – the supers had already claimed the first slot of the decade – it did run a full feature inside the magazine.