prince week
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‘I Am Something That You’ll Never Comprehend’: Defining the Legacy of Prince
I still have a hard time processing the idea that Prince is no longer here. Now, I was never a super fan. I never made a pilgrimage to Paisley Park. I only saw him in concert once. And that was only because my bestie followed Prince around the country and insisted that I see him…
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Watch: Morris Day Remembers the Day He Met His Friend Prince
Imagine it: It’s 1970s Minneapolis. A 15-year-old Morris Day is skipping school to go hang out with this band his friend André Cymone formed called Grand Central. (When retelling this story, Day peeped his eyes over his dark sunglasses and said, “Kids, don’t follow my lead on that!”) His friend Cymone invited Day to come…
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Watch: Your Favorite Celebs Sing Their Favorite Prince Songs
April 21, 2017, marks the one-year anniversary of Prince’s death. Yeah, I can’t believe it, either. It’s been an entire 365 (and counting) days since we lost one of the most prolific artists of all time. To say Prince impacted the music industry is an understatement. He shifted an entire culture, creating a lane for…
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So, About That Old Interview in Which Prince Mentioned Gay Marriage …
Like many fans, I remember exactly where I was when I found out Prince had died. I was near the end of a lunch meeting when my phone started moving as if it were possessed by a Bedroom Kandi product. The same thing happened to the person I was meeting with. Given how both our…
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Watch: Damaris Lewis, Prince’s ‘Black Muse’
Once a Prince muse, always a Prince muse. Model Damaris Lewis met Prince in 2010 after receiving a strange call from his manager: An unnamed artist wanted to meet her. The end. Lewis agreed, and weeks later, Prince invited her on his Welcome 2 Australia tour (after she said no to an earlier invitation to…
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Since You’ve Been Gone: A Year Without Prince
On April 21, 2016, the royal purple star who took the earthly name of Prince Rogers Nelson exploded into a supernova and ceased to exist on this plane. We called him Prince. Astrophysicists say that when a star dies, it creates a black hole whose gravitational pull is so strong, nothing—not even light—can escape it.…
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1st New Track Off Prince’s Posthumous Album Released
It’s been a year since Prince’s death, and now his fans have been blessed with new music from his posthumous album. On Friday, Deliverance, which includes six unreleased tracks, will be available, but the title track is now streaming on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon.com. All of the songs on the album were written between…
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Forget Purple Rain: I Rewatched Prince’s Under the Cherry Moon Just for You and Hated Every Minute
Have you ever seen a film where a man and another man have a conversation while that man is in a bathtub, taking a bath, nekkid, wearing a sombrero while talking to the other man about made-up nonsense? I have seen that film. And that man in the bathtub was Prince, and that nonsensical scene…
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8 Songs You Probably Didn’t Know Were Touched by Prince’s Magic
Prince Rogers Nelson was arguably the most musically gifted artist in history (and by “arguably” I mean “definitely,” and I will fight anyone who says otherwise). Luckily for us and the music industry, he was willing to share those musical gifts with a wide range of artists. From helping to launch the careers of Sheila…
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‘But I’m Here to Tell You, There’s Something Else’ … Prince Week at The Root
Man, 2016 really took a weird turn after Prince died. Russians invading our elections. Wave after wave of surprising deaths. The ascension of Donald Trump against all the best logic and reason. So much happened, it made you wonder if the only thing holding the fabric of the universe together was a petite man with…