In April of 1978, the world was formally introduced to a 19-year-old from Minneapolis who dared to insist on something almost unheard of in the record industry: complete creative control. Prince Rogers Nelson’s debut album, For You, arrived as a curious mixture of ambition, raw talent, and youthful overreach. To some critics at the time, it was too polished, too soft, or too eclectic to be taken seriously. Yet with hindsight, the album plays like the seed of an entire musical universe. Listening today, you hear not just the tentative steps of a teenager but the blueprint of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.