David Z, Longtime Prince Associate and Key Architect of ‘the Minneapolis Sound,’ Dies at 78

David “Z” Rivkin, the Grammy-winning shaper and instrumentalist who helmed Prince’s aboriginal demo tapes and engineered respective of his albums, helped make Lipps Inc.’s 1980 smash “Funky Town,” and aboriginal worked with specified artists similar Fine Young Cannibals, the Jets and Jonny Lang, has died, his member Bobby “Z” Rivkin (longtime drummer for Prince & […]