My favorite entertainer of all time.

Wow... only 57! I'm not feeling too good myself now.

(04-21-2016 01:04 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  Wow... only 57! I'm not feeling too good myself now.

Me guess you probably haven't lived as hard

Michael Jackson born 8-29-58.
Prince born 6-7-58.

Which 80s icon is next-Madonna born 8-16-58.

(04-21-2016 01:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  Michael Jackson born 8-29-58.
Prince born 6-7-58.

Which 80s icon is next-Madonna born 8-16-58.

That was my thought exactly, except I did include Whitney Houston in the already deceased category. I think she was born after those three.

(04-21-2016 01:38 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(04-21-2016 01:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  Michael Jackson born 8-29-58.
Prince born 6-7-58.

Which 80s icon is next-Madonna born 8-16-58.

That was my thought exactly, except I did include Whitney Houston in the already deceased category. I think she was born after those three.

Younger, but also a summer birthday 8-9-63.

Glenn Frey and David Bowie was huge back in the 1980s. They blew up thanks to the music video decade.

Prince ex-girl toy Vanity died earlier this year.

(04-21-2016 02:26 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Glenn Frey and David Bowie was huge back in the 1980s. They blew up thanks to the music video decade.

Prince ex-girl toy Vanity died earlier this year.

Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane/Starship and Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire also passed earlier this year.

I liked Prince. He was very eccentric. But he was himself and never allowed himself to be caught up in foolish scandals. May he rest in peace.

After all these years, I learned Prince was his first real name? I thought it was a stage name.

The news of his death just buried former WWE superstar Chyna's death to the bottom.

Prince never seemed to worry about what would sell, he made music he liked and some of that didn't sell well but he never bought into the corporate use a computer to vomit out something that sound like your last hit thing.

Unbelievable

(04-21-2016 03:30 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Prince never seemed to worry about what would sell, he made music he liked and some of that didn't sell well but he never bought into the corporate use a computer to vomit out something that sound like your last hit thing.

Not just for himself, he wrote songs for others.


Sugar Walls- Sheena Easton

Nothin' Compares 2 U- Sinead O'Conner

Kiss- Art of Noise and Tom Jones

Manic Monday- The Bangles

I Feel For You-Chaka Kahn

When You Are Mine-Cyndi Laupar

Love Song- Madonna

Pray- MC Hammer

Stand Back- Stevie Nicks

The Bird- Morris Day and The Time

The Glamorous Life- Shelia E.

Jungle Love- Morris Day and The Time

A Love Bizarre- Shelia E. and Prince

Nasty Girl- Vanity 6

Round and Round- Tevin Campbell

The Belle of St. Mark- Shelia E.

Jerk Out- Morris Day and the Time

Don't Say You Love Me- Martika

Some Kind of Lover- Apollonia 6

You're My Love- Kenny Rogers

With This Tear- Celine Dion

Waiting Room- No Doubt

He wrote songs for Jill Jones, Madhouse, The Family, Deborah Allen, El DeBarge, Paula Abduhl, Patti Labelle, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Joe Cocker, Carmen Electra, Earth Wind and Fire, George Clinton and many others. He is a genius that his music cross all boundaries including a song on the country music charts.

(04-21-2016 04:09 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(04-21-2016 03:30 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Prince never seemed to worry about what would sell, he made music he liked and some of that didn't sell well but he never bought into the corporate use a computer to vomit out something that sound like your last hit thing.

Not just for himself, he wrote songs for others.


Sugar Walls- Sheena Easton

Nothin' Compares 2 U- Sinead O'Conner

Kiss- Art of Noise and Tom Jones

Manic Monday- The Bangles

I Feel For You-Chaka Kahn

When You Are Mine-Cyndi Laupar

Love Song- Madonna

Pray- MC Hammer

Stand Back- Stevie Nicks

The Bird- Morris Day and The Time

The Glamorous Life- Shelia E.

Jungle Love- Morris Day and The Time

A Love Bizarre- Shelia E. and Prince

Nasty Girl- Vanity 6

Round and Round- Tevin Campbell

The Belle of St. Mark- Shelia E.

Jerk Out- Morris Day and the Time

Don't Say You Love Me- Martika

Some Kind of Lover- Apollonia 6

You're My Love- Kenny Rogers

With This Tear- Celine Dion

Waiting Room- No Doubt

He wrote songs for Jill Jones, Madhouse, The Family, Deborah Allen, El DeBarge, Paula Abduhl, Patti Labelle, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Joe Cocker, Carmen Electra, Earth Wind and Fire, George Clinton and many others. He is a genius that his music cross all boundaries including a song on the country music charts.

Great Info. Thanks for sharing.

Tremendously talented and could make that guitar sing

Just read that he played the guitar rifts on Madonna's Like A Prayer and Stevie Wonder's What's the Fuss.

Simple Minds also did Sign O The Times
Love...Thy Will Be Done by Martika
I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man- Jordan Knight
How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore- Alicia Keys
2003 Bonnie and Clyde- Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles
Get It Up- TLC

A true OG. No one can be him, no one can replace him. A true original.

Purple Rain Soundtrack was the first tape I ever got.

And that Charlie Murphy skit never gets old...never...

Prince's death coverage totally removed all the election coverage from the news networks.

A gift from god.