Prince is no more but the music lives: 5 of his finest albums 6 Photos . Updated: 22 Apr 2016, 11:55 AM IST Livemint Pop superstar Prince, widely acclaimed as one of the most inventive musicians of his era, was found dead at his home on Thursday in suburban Minneapolis. A list of five of his finest albums that defined the sound of the 1980s . 1/6A file photo of Prince (1958-2016) performing during his ‘Diamonds and Pearls Tour’ at the Earl’s Court Arena in London, Britain, 15 June, 1992. The music icon died at his home in Chanhassen. Dylan Martinez/Reuters 2/6The Minneapolis native broke through in the late 1970s and soared over the following decade with such albums as ‘1999’ and ‘Purple Rain’. ‘Purple Rain’, his 6th album and the first to feature his band The Revolution, has been ranked the second-best album of the 1980s and 76th on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine 3/6‘1999’, his fifth studio album, was his first top ten album on the Billboard 200 chart in the US and also the fifth best-selling album of 1983. The title song includes one of the most widely quoted refrains of popular culture: “Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999.” 4/6Prince who was inducted into the Rock and Roll of Fame in 2004, released his first “solo” album ‘Sign o’ the Times’ after his departure from The Revolution on 31 March, 1987. 5/6‘Diamonds and Pearls’, the first to feature his new backing band The New Power Generation, featured a hybrid of music styles—from funk to mainstream pop/rock. 6/6Prince experimented with hip hop music genre in his 16th studio album, ‘The Black Album’.