Prince RIP (3 Viewers)

[GO]

He died 31 years to the day of recording Sometimes it Snows in April.


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That's my fave song of his.
A poignant coincidence if ever there was one.

Rip maestro.

 

[Lili Marlene]

My top 10 fav prince trax, off the top of my head:

1.17 Days
2. Mountains
3. Paisley Park
4. Computer Blue
5. How Come U Don't Call me Anymore
6. When You Were Mine
7. Pink Cashmere
8. Good Love
9. Pop Life
10. Strange Relationship


1 and 2 are a bit of a tie though.

 

[GO]

Pop life is a fucking whopper

 

[hugh]

When You Were Mine is such a great song. Love it.

 

[Lili Marlene]

When You Were Mine is such a great song. Love it.

Everytime I saw him live I spent half the gig thinking he was about to break into it, I ALWAYS wanted to hear it live. It never happened though, even though he pulled it out now and then on most tours.

 

[hugh]

To my shame the only time I ever saw him was Parc Ui Choimh back in the stone age. Had tickets for one of his London shows a few years ago and didn't bother making the trip in the end. Big time regret now.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

the only time I ever saw him was Parc Ui Choimh

I was at that

 

[Lili Marlene]

Seems a lot of people were at that gig.

Being a bit younger I didn't get to see him till 2010 in France, saw him again in 2011 (here) and in 2014 in Birmingham. I'd say each gig was better than the last.

I shoulda just taken the week off work in 2014, flown to London and chased the gigs as they were announced. I've never seen anyone close to as good as he was live.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I was looking at the Smash Hits 10/10 review for Parade - which made me run out and buy Parade - and the article before it is about what CDs are and the ad on the next page is for a Sinclair Spectrum 128 computer.
We have had him for a wonderfully long time.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Which I suppose only makes the hole he leaves all the bigger

 

[nooleen]

chortle

 

[dudley]

Saw him twice, first in Cork, then on the Diamonds and Pearls tour in the RDS, which was even better than Cork.

Had tickets to see him in the Point about 12 years ago but my then girlfriend (now wife!) had a really nasty bike crash that day, and I felt bad leaving her side. Doh.

 

[Anthony]

We were in "the pit" for the RDS D&P gig. It was absolutely amazing. I'm not just saying that now, it has been in my top gigs ever since. Saw him in the Point when the squiggle album came out (zero memory of that other than it was way longer than 12 years ago) and again in Malahide which was fantastic.

Seeing all this Prince stuff on the internet these days, I reckon if he had not been so against it he would have been as big now as ever.

 

[Lili Marlene]

He was in such a good mood in Malahide

Prince Malahide Castle Part 1-1

(@pete make this embed already)

He posted up a few of the photos he took at the start there although I seem to have mislaid them.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The two best written eulogies I've come across:

Greg Tate: Prince: A Eulogy

Neil Kulkarni: F.U.N.K: PRINCE ROGERS NELSON 1958-2016 RIP

The Gold Standard.

 

[hugh]

I like Neil Kulkarni

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

How does a man that controlled his output so carefully not have a will?

His sister becomes the arbiter of what's released and what's in ads?
I hope they don't go Star Wars on this.

 

[pete]

How does a man that controlled his output so carefully not have a will?

He probably wasn't expecting to die.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

He probably wasn't expecting to die.

Ah, come on. It's the first thing people of any means are told to do.
He had financial advisers and all that gear, they're the ones handling the administration.

You could see not wanting to accept that he would die one day, but you'd have thought his inner control freak would want some safeguards put on his image and art post mortem?
Who knows? Just seems odd.

 

[Unicron]

He probably wasn't expecting to die.

Neither am I but I have one. And I'm not worth a hundred mill