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RIP Prince

John Atkinson  |  Apr 21, 2016

Sad, sad news - and he did the best SuperBowl Show evah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NN3gsSf-Ys

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Stephen Mejias's picture
Submitted by Stephen Mejias on April 21, 2016 - 12:15pm

"Can you make it rain harder?"
--Prince

Anton's picture
Submitted by Anton on April 21, 2016 - 12:22pm

His name was Prince, and he was funky.

I feel like he had a lot left in the tank, too.

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Submitted by John Atkinson on April 21, 2016 - 1:09pm
I only saw him live once, at Madison Square Garden in 2004. Prince and his band did two 90-minute sets and in the intermission, while his band took a break, Prince did a solo set with acoustic guitar - "Little Red Corvette" never sounded so powerful!
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Submitted by John Atkinson on April 21, 2016 - 1:22pm
http://uproxx.com/music/watch-prince-purple-rain-original-1983/ . The soundtrack version in the movie was edited from this longer live version. Dig, if you will, the extended intro, with guitarist Wendy Melvoin!
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Submitted by deckeda on April 22, 2016 - 4:38pm

Same video, better quality? http://antiquiet.com/music/2010/05/prince-purple-rain-1983-video/

Your web browser, if you dig into it, will reveal the Flash file.

And it's an 81.6MB download ...

http://www.antiquiet.com/wp-content/uploads/wordTube/prince-purple-rain-1983.flv

Allen Fant's picture
Submitted by Allen Fant on April 21, 2016 - 2:49pm

R.I.P. Purple One.

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Submitted by volvic on April 21, 2016 - 3:05pm

He recently performed in Montreal and Toronto but several summers ago in Mtl during the Jazz festival he did a show at an old theater converted for concerts. He only showed up at around 11:30 but rocked and performed well into 3 am. No one I can think of could do that. We think of three score years and ten, Bernstein firmly believed it but to leave at 57 years old is truly tragic.

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Submitted by Anon2 on April 22, 2016 - 5:12pm

Radio 3, Radio Nacional de Espana has done a fine job of providing memorable musical biographies of the big losses in the music world. Today, since 6 AM on Como Lo Oyes, the tribute to Prince has figured at the center of their programming:

http://www.rtve.es/radio/radio3/

Natalie Cole, Glenn Frey, David Bowie, Merle Haggard, and now Prince, they have all received a great posthumous review of their lives and music on Radio 3.

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