Prince’s memoir coming in October

The memoir that Prince started writing before his April 2016 death will finally be published Oct. 29.

“The Beautiful Ones” was originally announced in March 2016, at an ad hoc news conference in New York City where Prince plugged the book, took no questions from the media and performed a half-hour concert.

Prince picked writer Dan Piepenbring of The Paris Review as his collaborator. The two had come up with about 50 pages of text, enough to convince Random House to buy the book. The book was to arrive by fall 2017.

In spring of last year, two years after Prince’s death, literary agent Esther Newberg, announced the book would be available by the holiday.

Random House has supplemented Prince’s text with all kinds of material from his storied, mysterious vault, including handwritten lyrics, personal photos and his handwritten treatment for his 1984 movie “Purple Rain.”

Piepenbring, who wrote a 2010 essay about Prince, has penned an introduction.

Random House is publishing the memoir in partnership with the Prince Estate.

At the press conference to announce the book in 2016, Prince said, “We wanna thank Random House. Ain’t nothing random about this book.”