Prince Has Died(confirmed)

KungPao

Suas11 wrote: »

I'm in my mid-20's and I've been a fan of his for years.

There are always exceptions.

I suppose his point was that Prince kind of fell off the radar in the mid '90s (at a stretch) and before that he was HUGE, so most young'uns wouldn't really know him that well.

Sure, I'm 35, and I feel that Prince was a little before my time...in his prime at least.

DEFTLEFTHAND

bodhrandude wrote: »

Add:
Keith Emerson
Robbie Brennan
Kit West

Joanie Laurer aka 'Chyna' also died yesterday.

My name is URL

Was never really a huge fan of the music he produced apart from a few songs.

Was undoubtedly one of the best musicians of the last 50 years though. Even if you don't like his stuff you could almost be guaranteed that stuff you did like was produced by people inspired in one way or another by him.

KungPao

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Joanie Laurer aka 'Chyna' also died yesterday.

So many WWE wrestlers don't last the course.

The list is depressing. One after the other. RIP the lot of you.

dubgurl

Add - Victoria Wood

Dirty Dingus McGee

DUBACC wrote: »

Ah in fairness mtv died years ago. It's all kardashian style garbage these days. Music tv my left ball!! Bbc4 has taken that mantle.

You do know that MTV have a bucket load of channels and that music is played constantly on everyone of them apart from the basic MTV channel.

For Forks Sake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFXZNt4oLkE

AudreyHepburn

What is going this year!! All these legends of stage and screen dropping dead.

I love Prince even though I am too young to remember when him in the 80s when he first came out....Raspberry Beret and When Doves Cry are among my favourite songs of all time.

RIP Prince.

Malari

My husband was a massive fan. Is a massive fan. He brought out all his concert stuff and memorabilia last night and we watched hours of clips on the news interspersed with some of Prince's great songs, old and new. What a talent. I'm so glad I got to see him live in concert once.

fryup

if i was a celebrity i'd be a nervous wreck right now, somebody up there doesn't like them

Badly Drunk Boy

elaney wrote: »

Fun memories of shuffling round the dance floor to purple rain when
the slow sets came on at the local disco.

RIP Prince gone too soon

My first slow set was to Purple Rain, with a Prince freak, in the late 80s. (It didn't last...)

Even though I wouldn't be a major Prince fan, I can see how talented he was as a musician, song-writer, and performer, and a very interesting character too. His music style doesn't really appeal to me, yet I love Beck's Prince rip-offs (Midnight Vulture-era especially).

Dolbert

TMZ are reporting that his "flu" last week was actually an opiate overdose. He'd been in frail health for a number of years, it wouldn't surprise me if there was some self-medication going on

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^

so maybe not such "clean living" afterall, ah well

elaney

Dolbert wrote: »

TMZ are reporting that his "flu" last week was actually an opiate overdose. He'd been in frail health for a number of years, it wouldn't surprise me if there was some self-medication going on

Ya the daily fail are saying it was an overdose as well . Thats really sad id say the death of his son really affected him by reading about it. Hopefully they are now together.

irish coldplayer

Rip Prince...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZxYjqqjZM

irishguitarlad

I still cant get over it, what a legend, the bridge section on computer blue one of the best ive heard. The man could groove like no other. RIP

Corvo

The carcass formerly known as Prince

Footoo

I remember hearing a great story from Questlove (drummer from The Roots) who was DJing one of Prince’s after-parties. Prince fired him mid-set because he didn’t like the music (Questlove was playing some Fela Kuti at the time) and replaced him with a DVD of Finding Nemo on the big screen.

endabob1

critic_12 wrote: »

Prince in 1995 went to what was called the POD now The Red Box I think and remember reading he said it was the best nightclub venue he had ever seen in Europe.
At his concert in Cork I was lucky enough to be right up front and apart from remembering being in musical bliss remember also how nearly angelical looking he and all his backing singers were.
Then during the concert there was like a bit of instrumental and the crowding started doing this corny ole ole ole ole ( Ireland were in the middle of Italia 90) and Prince went "hey I thought I was the one doing the show here"
Also remember the support group was some traditional Irish piece with the fiddle. Couldn't figure that one out. The crowd booed when they played. Wasn't the right act for supporting the legend that is the iconic rock funk star Prince.
RIP Prince.

I remember that bit, something like "Whose show is this?" but he was absolutely electric, still whenever anyone asks me about best gigs I've been to it ranks up in the very top few shows I've ever seen.

I caught him in 2007 in London too at the O2, he was as enigmatic as ever, playing cover versions and odd album tracks and then just running through 3 or 4 absolute smash hits, cream, U got the look, if I was your girlfriend.

He had a talent unlike anyone else, writer, musician, singer, performer, producer, he could do it all and did do it all and he did it on his own terms.

Chris_Bradley

In fairness when I heard the "Flu-Like Symptoms"........ I smelt a bit of self-medicating had gotten out of hand.

Obviously nothing confirmed yet but this guy died far too young that's for sure.

K-9

Tbh does it really matter? I suppose covering it up leads to journalists "investigating", but it's hardly scoop of the year.

RikkFlair

irishguitarlad wrote: »

I still cant get over it, what a legend, the bridge section on computer blue one of the best ive heard. The man could groove like no other. RIP

One of my favourite guitar solos, still trying to learn it and failing miserably :pac:

HensVassal

tampopo wrote: »

Victoria Wood, yesterday.
Ronnie Corbett, the other week.

Not a global celebrity but certainly one in Ireland and UK -- Terry Wogan

Alan Rickman

and for all football lovers -- the legendary Johan Cruyff

eamonnq

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Joanie Laurer aka 'Chyna' also died yesterday.

Balls Mahoney earlier this month also.

bodhrandude

Birneybau

Memories of the time I saw him in the Point, 2002, coming back. Not only the best live guitarist I've ever seen but very funny too.

Doing a shuffling walk, he called it the 'Ozzy Osbourne', and claimed that the Edge owed him money for a car or something.

Yamanoto

Great piece by Brian Boyd in the IT today.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/sweet-madness-of-a-prince-interview-no-pens-no-past-tense-no-irish-1.2620734

FatherTed

For Forks Sake wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFXZNt4oLkE

He always played other people's music like at the 2007 Superbowl Half time show he played We Will Rock You, Proud Mary, All Along the Watchtower and Best of You by the Foo Fighters. In the pouring rain, he of course finished with Purple Rain.

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

The flying mouse

RiP
Great talented artist.

Gizmo55

RIP. Absolute legend.

Sometimes it snows in April.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlZONgpmw58

French_Girl

But life is just a party and parties weren't meant to last...

edbrez

How come his songs never got sampled by other acts, was he against it?

French_Girl

edbrez wrote:

How come his songs never got sampled by other acts, was he against it?

He didn't particularly like other performers covering his songs.

LightsStillOn

edbrez wrote: »

How come his songs never got sampled by other acts, was he against it?

377 songs have been made by sampling Prince according to Whosampled! And on the other side of things he sampled 87 songs himself so not against it at all by the looks of things

dublinman1990

I watched his on stage version of Nothing Compares 2 U for the very first time on The One Show on BBC1 tonight. I have to say I really loved it.

In music terms it's without a doubt a much better version of the song than Sinead O'Connor's version.

sporina

any TV program's on in honour/memory of him?

Gizmo55

sporina wrote: »

any TV program's on in honour/memory of him?

Prince: A Purple Reign is on BBC4 at 10pm. MTV are playing his videos all day too.

buried

sporina wrote: »

any TV program's on in honour/memory of him?

Documentary about him on BBC 4 tonight at 10pm I think

A Dub in Glasgo

His set at the Brits Awards in 2006 was top notch stuff

Let's Go crazy
https://vid.me/l9hk

Fury
https://vid.me/d3Nu

Purple Rain
https://vid.me/p8Aa

Te Amo Corazon
https://vid.me/ISI6

Gizmo55

A friend posted this on Facebook. Amazing performance.

https://www.yahoo.com/music/video/lets-crazy-manchester-uk-feb-141216992.html

French_Girl

sporina wrote:

any TV program's on in honour/memory of him?

I watched Good Morning America Prince special today.
It's all uploaded on YouTube.

fryup

this is causing bit of a stir...:pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAgiuN_BB54

edbrez

What did Prince name his pet dog?

BrayRep

I'd say he put aside a few classic songs for his after death legacy releases. Maybe some stuff in there that he wrote back in the 80's. Will be interesting to hear.

bodhrandude

edbrez wrote: »

What did Prince name his pet dog?

I don't know, what did he name his pet dog?

A Dub in Glasgo

bodhrandude wrote: »

I don't know, what did he name his pet dog?

edbrez

K-9

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The Colour Purple tribute is pretty cool.

buried

Listening to 'Erotic City' today, kept thinking its hard to believe the man made that tune way back in 1984. He had all the makings of the futuristic and timeless funk wrapped into that brilliant track.

FatherTed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwH-4pA1NA

Van Jones talking about all the humanitarian work Prince did but did not seek the attention(unlike some Irish rocker).

French_Girl

FatherTed wrote:

Van Jones talking about all the humanitarian work Prince did but did not seek the attention(unlike some Irish rocker).

I have watched that yesterday.

I actually welled up listening to him talking about how much Prince has done for others and almost requested not to be recognized for it.

As one of his lyrics go... He was not a human. He was a dove.