Spike Lee is a true American hero, one of the most respected, acclaimed and articulate figureheads of the nation's arts and culture community in the 21st century
From his early ground-breaking work with Public Enemy - Fight The Power only exists because Lee asked Chuck D to write an anthem to run through the core of his brilliant 1989 movie Do The Right Thing - to his storied career as an iconoclastic writer, film director and producer, culminating in a 2019 Oscar win for comedy-drama BlacKkKlansman, Atlanta, Georgia-born Lee has been a visionary force-of-nature for the better part of five decades.
With all that said, when he cheekily asked superstar musician Prince to gift him one of his bespoke, iconic and instantly-recognisable guitars in the late '90s, he received the sort of look one might anticipate if you asked a stranger for permission to take a shit on their living room floor.
