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Legendary Music Icon Prince Dead At 57

 
 
 
That is a surprise. Almost as surprising that former female wrestler Chyna also died today at 45.
 
Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called life

Electric word life
It means forever and that's a mighty long time
But I'm here to tell you
There's something else
The after world

A world of never ending happiness
You can always see the sun, day or night

So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
You know the one, Dr. Everything'll Be Alright
Instead of asking him how much of your time is left
Ask him how much of your mind, baby

'Cause in this life
Things are much harder than in the after world
In this life
You're on your own



Read more: Prince - Lets Go Crazy Lyrics | MetroLyrics
 
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Well, apparently he'd been sick for the past week, even forcing his plane to make an emergency landing for medical purposes. I don't know what was wrong with him, but there's even some speculation he knew he was dying.
 
Achwienichtig said:
Well, apparently he'd been sick for the past week, even forcing his plane to make an emergency landing for medical purposes. I don't know what was wrong with him, but there's even some speculation he knew he was dying.
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Someone said they thought he had some congenital disease, lupus or epilepsy.
 
The Colourful Jester said:
Prince reportedly needed double hip-replacement surgery since 2005 but would not undergo the operation unless it was a bloodless surgery because Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept blood transfusions.
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A JW eh? I imagine him going door to door in Minneapolis, with a stack of Watchtower tracts in hand.
 
 Prince (musician) died today, as I write this. Born in 1958, he had a long and very productive career as a pop musician, covering a variety of styles. He not only sang over a wide pitch range, including falsetto, he also played numerous instruments, often playing all the instrument parts on his solo albums -- drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, you name it. He also wrote numerous songs, for himself and for others. He has done much of his work in his Paisley Park studio complex near his birthplace of Minneapolis, MN.

Here's how you do it: play them one by one and record each one on a multitrack tape. One may end up doing several versions of each vocal and instrument part.

But when Prince went on tour, he'd usually sing with some other people playing the instruments. Some of his tour-band players and other such associates have gone on to have separate careers.

About his style, "Rock critics have noted similarities between Prince's later androgynous look, music and vocal style and that of Little Richard." He went farther than Little Richard in one respect. Some of his album covers and videos showed him scantily clad, and even nude. For instance, his Lovesexy cover showed him nude and coyly posed atop some flowers.

Prince got started recording in the late 1970's, and he continued for the rest of his life. In 1981, he introduced spellings that would only become common decades later from texting, spellings like u=you, 2=to, 4=for. One of his biggest successes was his album Purple Rain, followed by a movie with that name.

Google's tribute to him is the company's name in purple letters with purple rain on them.

Some of his work was rather explicitly sexual, but some of his work also has religious aspects. Like how Lovesexy's title track is about "The feeling you get when you fall in love...not with a boy or girl but with the heavens above."

Being hot for God? Like Madonna getting the hots for a Catholic saint in her Like a Prayer music video? I note that Prince and Madonna have collaborated once, in Madonna's album Like a Prayer.

Hollywood Sizzle : People.com
Consider the way she deals in real life with her friend Prince, even as they are supposed to be (read: weren't, aren't, never considered) having an affair. When the 5'3" marvel of Minneapolis and his usual gang of muscle showed up in San Francisco for her recent date, Madonna (5'4") went calling, accompanied by her bodyguard. As the elevator door opened on his floor, she declared: "Well, time to go visit the midget." Later, she castigated him for his attitude: "He usually wants to be treated the exact opposite of the way he is dressed. His outfits say touch me, lick me, love me, lust me, but then he pretends he's wearing a monk's outfit. He needs to step back, look at his clothing and laugh at it." Is this any way to talk about royalty?
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In 1992, Prince and his band released the album Love Symbol Album, with a weird symbol on it that he interpreted as a cross between female (♀) and male (♂). Its most common ASCII approximation is O(+>. A year later, Prince changed his stage name to it, in protest of his contract to music publisher Warner Brothers, and he became known as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" or TAFKAP. But after his Warner Bros. contract expired in 2000, he reverted to being "Prince" again.

Prince has also used numerous other pseudonyms, like Jamie Starr, The Starr Company, Joey Coco, Paisley Park, Alexander Nevermind, and Christopher.

Starting in 2007, he sued sites like YouTube for distributing his productions in violation of his copyrights. He even sued distributors of concert bootlegs.

Prince had been romantically linked to numerous celebrities, like Kim Basinger, Madonna, Vanity, Sheila E., Carmen Electra, Susanna Hoffs, Anna Fantastic, Sherilyn Fenn, and Susan Moonsie. In 1985, he was engaged to Susannah Melvoin, and in 1996, he married Mayte Garcia. They divorced in 1999, and in 2001, he married Manuela Testolini. She filed for divorce in 2006.

Prince joined the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2001, after two years of discussion of the sect and its beliefs with a fellow musician. He claims that it was not a conversion but a "realization". His colleague Michael Jackson had also been a Jehovah's Witness.

That caused problems for him because he needed a double hip replacement, a condition aggravated by his habit of dancing in high-heeled boots. He would have to have gotten surgery without getting a blood transfusion, a no-no in the Jehovah's Witnesses ( Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions).

On April 7, Prince reported that he was suffering from some flu-like illness, and on April 15, he checked into a hospital for treatment. On April 21, he was found unresponsive in an elevator in his Paisley Park studio complex. After failure to revive him, he was declared dead.
 
Prince: new details of plane emergency as fans mourn artist | Music | The Guardian
According to flight records the plane descended 45,000 feet in 17 minutes to land at the airport, at a point when it had been 48 minutes away from its scheduled destination of Minneapolis.

Quad City international airport in Moline, Illinois, confirmed on Thursday that a private plane made an unscheduled landing around 1.35am local time on 15 April, and a person with a medical emergency was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment.
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On how his life ended,
The last time Prince was seen alive was around 8pm Wednesday, when he was dropped off at Paisley Park, Olson said. There were no “obvious signs” of trauma visible on Prince’s body when it was discovered around 9.40am on Thursday, he added.

Three people were present at the home when emergency personnel arrived a half hour later. Prince was pronounced dead at 10.07am.

“CPR was immediately started,” Olson said, “but was unsuccessful.”
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No evidence of either suicide or "foul play".
Prince had recently cancelled shows in Atlanta because of the flu, but rescheduled the performances for last week. On his way home from the two consecutive sets at Atlanta’s Fox Theater, his private jet was abruptly diverted.

The flight left again for Minneapolis just 10 hours after its emergency landing.

The Guardian cannot confirm a report by the website TMZ, which cited multiple anonymous sources in Moline, that Prince was administered a “save shot”, typically used to counteract the effects of an overdose. The medical examiner’s office said it could take weeks to get results from the autopsy toxicology reports.
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Then about how large numbers of people in his hometown have mourned him.

Prince cremated as death baffles those who witnessed a clean life | Music | The Guardian
The publicist’s brief statement repeated that the cause of Prince’s death was unknown, and said autopsy results wouldn’t be received for at least four weeks.
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But his death and final poor health continue to be a mystery.
Prince had previously said he struggled with epilepsy as a child. In recent years, he dealt with hip problems that reportedly stemmed from a performance. Prince was a committed vegan, and his cousin Chazz Smith said this week that he avoided alcohol and drugs throughout his life.

“I can tell you this: what I know is that he was perfectly healthy,” Smith told the Associated Press.

Heather McElhatton, a journalist who worked as a set director for Paisley Park video shoots during the 1990s, said Prince had “limitless energy” and that she never saw him drink or do drugs.

“He could shoot for two days straight, without getting tired, it seems,” she said. “I never saw him eat, like physically eat, anything in 10 years … never saw him drink.”
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After that airplane emergency, he was up and about in the Minneapolis area, having been seen several times there. The Saturday before, he stopped off at a record store called the Electric Fetus, where he bought some CD's. He was also seen riding a bike.
 
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