Nᴏ. I’ᴍ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴀ BBS-ᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ-ᴍᴏʀᴘʜɪᴄ ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴɪғɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ.
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ooo - not familiar, but nice.
A song by Morris Day and the Time, written by Prince…:
And a video directed by Spike Lee:
His first TV interview (ETA - first MTV interview, rather - he was on American Bandstand in 1980, aparently):
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Many, many, MANY tracks, and completed albums, enough that there’s a wikipedia page devoted to the topic : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreleased_Prince_projects
Now, whether the Paisley Park inheritors decide to release any - well, we’ll see.
(Given that they might not share his personal reticence for promotion of his charitable works, they might start doing massive releases for charities? Could be interesting.)
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The video set of the George Harrison Tribute Concert A Concert for George is excellent from start to finish. I highly recommend it.
Dhani has this great expression the whole time, like, OMG I am up here with these rock GODS!!! And he looks just like his dad.
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“Hey, that state of the art in iconic videos? GOALPOSTS, MOVED. Keep up, y’all.”
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Prince on American Bandstand:
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She’s wicked talented.
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Janelle Monae’s Giving you What you Love with Prince:
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Let me guess… Prince ate the salmon mousse?
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Sort of a shitty video, but Stevie Wonder, Shelia E., and Prince playing Superstitious in 2010:
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Another shit video, but Shelia E performing her classic Glamorous Life at a prince concert:
Dude had an eye for talent, too. His support of her as a musician was a gift to the world.
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I’ve got it on VHS somewhere. They were re-running Bandstand for a season or so in the 90s and I hit record. The performance is lip-synched, and then the interview between Clark and him is a cringe-fest. He’s cool of course but he’s trying a bit hard, with no TV experience, and his shyness sort of sabotages the whole thing. It’s kind of cute, though.
ETA: Oh, I see you found it. it says he was 21? He always did look young.
Sadly due to his aversion to the internet and especially youtube, most of the only videos available to the public are shitty quality.
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Yᴇᴀʜ, I ɢᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴀ ʟᴏᴛ.
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great link. I listened to it at intervals thru the whole day. Thanks, man.
Why so many celebrities have died in 2016
“Enough, 2016” and a more vulgar alternative are phrases people are uttering more and more regularly. So is this wave of celebrity deaths the new normal?
Obituaries used (January 1 to March 31)
It’s a jump from only five between January and late March 2012 to a staggering 24 in the same period this year - an almost five-fold increase, according to research by the BBC Radio 4’s More or Less programme.
And that’s before counting some of the notable deaths in April, including American singer Merle Haggard, the former drug smuggler Howard Marks and this week’s two notable departures.
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Exponential increase? Can we extrapolate to the celebrity extinction event?
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