RIP Prince

[RobbieGong]

Trail blazing, legend pop rock funk disco superstar genius and ace musician

[rdpx]

Prince has died.



http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7341522/prince-dead

[Oldpinkman]

Bloody Hell

I've avoided commenting on these RIP threads, but they're dropping like flies. I blame global warming

[Gazjam]

Aw man..

2016 has been a horrible year so far.

[Anthony K]

I am trying to stop myself from weeping
Only getting over the fact that his ex girlfriend Vanity passed away in February

[Justjon]

Terribly sad, so much of my youth dedicated to wooing the ladies with his fine music :(

[Spectral Morn]

I remember Kerrang magazine putting him on their front cover, the future of rock ? was the banner. And at the time based on Purple Rain my view would have been no, but later on I came to realise he was a very talented musician, guitar player and I grew to love his music. Not every album was a winner, but those that were were fabulous.

Also need to thank him for Wendy and Lisa, Shelia E, Ingrid Chavez and others.

Very sad, right now :(

[rdpx]

I've just seen an old quote from Eric Clapton.

Apparently he was asked what it felt like to be the best guitarist in the world.

His reply:

"I don't know. Ask Prince."

[RobbieGong]

...and remembering Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor and I Feel For You - Chaka Chan were just two Prince penned songs that were huge hits for other artists

[Firebottle]

Buggeration, another legend gone.

Superb musician, what a loss :eek:

[mikeyb]

The scramble to find his 'vault' begins......

[The Black Adder]

What is going on.... this is getting really quite spooky.

Such a shame, loved Prince.

RIP

[Haselsh1]

Cream, shaboogie Bop

RIP Prince, I did quite like your music.

[The Black Adder]

6SFNW5F8K9Y

This is one of my favorite clips of Prince... Awesome guitarist.

[Floyddroid]

Bloody hell, same age as me. Very sad. Talented geezer. The bafta's and MTV awards are going to go on for a while this year when it comes to the obituary part of the ceremony. It's turning into an Annus horribilous 2016 and it's only bloody April.

[karma67]

Trail blazing, legend pop rock funk disco superstar genius and ace musician
who are you talking about?

[Floyddroid]

As you say, awesome. Bit of a Marty McFly moment though.
6SFNW5F8K9Y

This is one of my favorite clips of Prince... Awesome guitarist.

[Spectral Morn]

who are you talking about?

Prince

[CageyH]

It's a sign o' the times.... :(

[karma67]

Prince
ah i see,it was the description that threw me.

[Spectral Morn]

It's a sign o' the times.... :(

How apt :(

[RichB]

1991 - a mate and the 17 yr old me would spend our Saturday nights around the bars and clubs of South Shields looking to pull girls with varying luck.

One night at a crap club the DJ put Prince's 'get off' on and all the loose ladies hit the floor. We both got lucky that night so I'll always owe Prince for that.:eyebrows:

RIP

[RichB]

Also looks like his publisher has pulled all his catalogue from Spotify just now. Probably to stoke the record sales.

[rdpx]

Also looks like his publisher has pulled all his catalogue from Spotify just now. Probably to stoke the record sales.
Was he on Spotify?
I have a feeling he may not have been.

http://www.theonion.com/article/nation-too-sad-fuck-even-though-its-what-prince-wo-52791

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[RichB]

Was he on Spotify?
I have a feeling he may not have been.

http://www.theonion.com/article/nation-too-sad-fuck-even-though-its-what-prince-wo-52791

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Struggling to find decent versions on YouTube too.

[Spectral Morn]

Struggling to find decent versions on YouTube too.

You won't. Prince pursued any and all copyright infringements ruthlessly, having them taken down. He hired a company to work on it, and sued Ebay and You Tube.

Taken from wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)

Copyright issues

On September 14, 2007, Prince announced that he was going to sue YouTube and eBay because they "are clearly able [to] filter porn and pedophile material but appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business success." Prince hired the international Internet policing company Web Sheriff, and they told Reuters: "The problem is that one can reduce it to zero and then the next day there will be 100 or 500 or whatever. This carries on ad nauseam at Prince's expense."[158][159]

In October 2007, Stephanie Lenz filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Publishing Group claiming that they were abusing copyright law after the music publisher had YouTube take down Lenz's home movie in which the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy" played faintly in the background.[160][161]

On November 5, 2007, several fan sites of Prince formed "Prince Fans United" to fight back against legal requests which, they claim, Prince made to cease and desist all use of photographs, images, lyrics, album covers, and anything linked to Prince's likeness.[162] Prince's lawyers claimed that the use of such representations constituted copyright infringement, while the Prince Fans United claimed that the legal actions were "attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince." A few days later, Prince released a statement denying the fansites' claims, stating, "The action taken earlier this week was not to shut down fansites, or control comment in any way. The issue was simply to do with in regards to copyright and trademark of images and only images, and no lawsuits have been filed." The statement from Prince's promoter AEG asserted that the only "offending items" on the three fansites were live shots from Prince's 21 nights in London at the O2 Arena earlier in the year.[163]

On November 8, 2007, Prince Fans United received a song named "PFUnk", providing a kind of "unofficial answer" to their movement. The song originally debuted on the PFU main site,[164] was retitled "F.U.N.K.", and is available on iTunes.

On November 14, 2007, it was reported that the satirical website b3ta.com had pulled their "image challenge of the week" devoted to Prince after legal threats from the star under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. B3ta co-founder Rob Manuel wrote on the site: "Under threat of legal action from Prince's legal team of 'potential closure of your web site' – We have removed the Prince image challenge and B3ta apologizes unreservedly to AEG / NPG and Prince for any offence caused. We also ask our members to avoid photoshopping Prince and posting them on our boards."[165]

At the 2008 Coachella Music Festival, Prince performed a cover of Radiohead's "Creep", but immediately after he forced YouTube and other sites to remove footage that fans had taken of the performance, despite Radiohead's demand for it to remain on the website.[166] Days later, YouTube reinstated the videos while Radiohead claimed, "it's our song, let people hear it." In 2009, Prince put the video of that Coachella performance on his official website LotusFlow3r.com.

In 2013, the Electronic Frontier Foundation granted to Prince the inaugural "Raspberry Beret Lifetime Aggrievement Award",[167] a reference to resentment of parties who allege unfair treatment and misuse of copyright claims by the artist and his lawyers.[168]

In January 2014, Prince filed a lawsuit titled Prince v. Chodera against 22 online users for direct copyright infringement, unauthorized fixation, and contributory copyright infringement and bootlegging.[169] Several of the users were fans who had shared links to bootlegged versions of several Prince concerts through social media websites like Facebook.[170][171] In the same month, he dismissed the entire action without prejudice.[172]

[rdpx]

You won't. Prince pursued any and all copyright infringements ruthlessly, having them taken down. He hired a company to work on it, and sued Ebay and You Tube.


I hope his lawyers go after News at 10 for showing a clip a fan filmed on their phone at a gig last week.



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[Anthony K]

After Lemmy and Bowie I knew this year would bring some shit news but simply cannot believe this.....the man was young and lived a healthy lifestyle other than the insomnia.
I am f--King gutted.

[Marco]

+1. Bowie was bad enough, but that's another one of my teenage idols gone now (along with Michael Jackson), and both his death and Prince's could've probably been prevented.

Marco.

[daytona600]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkVlZ1kVPCQ

[Mika K]

I'm bit surprised how hard the news hit me. Have never been proper fan for Prince but still his music and performances have been important during the years. Today have been listening few albums and having few single malts to pay my respect. Damn..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyyS0FSztKc

[surv1v0r]

. . . [Prince] was young and lived a healthy lifestyle other than the insomnia.


... both [Bowie's] death and Prince's could've probably been prevented.

Is there any factual evidence for any of these claims? I believe that 57year old Prince was very secretive and I don't think any cause of death has been announced yet. Bowie reportedly died of liver cancer which is pretty much untreatable

[mikeyb]

My money's on painkiller addiction

[Marco]

Is there any factual evidence for any of these claims? I believe that 57year old Prince was very secretive and I don't think any cause of death has been announced yet. Bowie reportedly died of liver cancer which is pretty much untreatable

I wasn't referring to Bowie - I was referring to Michael Jackson, and Prince. And it was just an opinion.

Marco.

[surv1v0r]

Fair comment, I should have read that correctly.

Anyone who abuses anaesthetic as Michael Jackson did is certainly playing Russian Roulette with just one empty chamber. Who knows what will come out in the case of Prince, his death does seem to have been unexpected?

It seems that drug and/or alcohol abuse is for some reason not unusual amongst "eccentric" artists - opportunity or "need"? Keith Richards seems like a most unexpected survivor, Frank Zappa was violently opposed to drug abuse, Eric Clapton appears to have maintained a relatively "normal" lifestyle

[rdpx]

Eric Clapton was massively fucked up on pretty much everything for most of the seventies and eighties...

http://www.delrayrecoverycenter.com/10428/eric-clapton-on-life-after-a-16000-a-week-habit/

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[surv1v0r]

WOW! I wasn't aware of that. So glad Clapton got sorted, he really is a legend (Yardbirds, Mayall, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie, Derek & the Dominoes and a great Solo career).

Good to see that having kicked the habit Clapton set up a rehabilitation clinic (LINK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_Centre))