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Posted on 04/21/2016 2:43:21 PM PDT by uglybiker
"It is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, iconic performer, Prince Rogers Nelson, has died at his Paisley Park residence this morning," publicist Yvette Noel-Schure said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
By several accounts I’ve read, he was very conservative.
RIP
To me, Prince hands down. All of his music he wrote his own. He played his own instruments. He self-taught himself which shows he was a prodigy. He protected his property and fought the vultures in the music industry, while others sold out for an extra buck.
You can't pin him down in any genre. He was rock, New Wave, pop, funk. Just an outstanding musician.
Tom Jones DIS after his wife died
No. That headline will read-’Dimwit Chuckles Croaks-Camilla Furious’
No. That headline will read-’Dimwit Chuckles Croaks-Camilla Furious’
No no! He’s...he’s, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
Talented-but a weird little dude.
Funny picture. I remember back when the Beatles were taking over the world, Prince Charles, then a teenager asked his mother the Queen if he could start a “beat group.” Her Magesty said “no.”
The black David Bowie is dead. How ironic these musical chameleons both die within weeks of each other.
Michael Jackson was nothing without Quincy Jones producing his records.
“Drudge’s whole page is purple. You know what that means.”
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That you never heard of the film “Purple Rain” or knew that purple is the color of royalty?
(What prize do I get for providing the right answer, BTW?)
Hi gg188,
Rolling Stone article about the backstory of that arrangement in 2004. Note the solo of Prince begins at 3:28.
Prince’s breathtaking guitar solo at the end of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” could be the single greatest musical moment at any Rock Hall induction ceremony in its history. It almost didn’t happen: George Harrison’s widow, Olivia, wanted the performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” to be limited to people who knew George — unlike Prince, who later claimed he had never even heard the song before it was sent to him to learn for the performance.
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Organizers persuaded Olivia to let Prince play. For Prince, the initial attraction was the chance to share a stage with Tom Petty. “It was an honor to play with him,” Prince said later. “’Free Fallin” is one of my favorite songs.”
The delighted look on George’s son Dhani Harrison’s face said it all when Prince stepped to the center of the stage and delivered a two-minute solo complete with fluttering high notes and ringing harmonics. Prince took over completely, leaning backward off the front of the stage so that a handler had to hold him up, and strutting offstage before the song had faded, tossing his guitar high in the air. (”I want to be friends with him,” Dhani said backstage. “We’re the same height.”) “
They rehearsed it a bunch of times, and every time you could see this was going to tear the roof off the place,” says Paul Shaffer, who led the band that night. “But Prince kept a little something in reserve for the actual performance itself. He really did show what a great guitarist he was. He just killed it that night.”
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-princes-incredible-my-guitar-gently-weeps-solo-20160421#ixzz46USjG3jX
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If anybody wonders whether the guy was talented...Google ‘Prince’ ‘guitar solos’ that guy could really play. He does a great solo of my guitar gently weeps
“He’s died at least 4 times today on FR already.”
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Yeah, but I bet everybody remembers where they where and what they were doing the third time they heard the news.
:)
I always liked him. Rest in peace.
:-(
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