Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Mary Don’t You Weep” is an African-American spiritual that began its life among enslaved peoples in the US.
It begins with piano riffs and drum. Prince’s dulcet falsetto pours out the first verse, then drops a register for verse two. It is, in a word, sublime. It is Prince at his most soulful, with the ...