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Prince Has Died(confirmed)

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  • #122
    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭KomradeBishop


    Thread title should be "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince".

    Relatively young age to die, RIP.


  • #123
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    KomradeBishop wrote: »
    Thread title should be "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince".

    Relatively young age to die, RIP.

    He went back to being Prince a long time ago and will always be known by that.


  • #124
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Ah Jaysus, first I found out was this thread.

    Raspberry Beret, 1999, Little Red Corvette, I would die for you, Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, Kiss, If I was your Girlfriend, U got the look...

    The songs of my teenage years. Probably a bad thing for teenage sexual yearning in good old rural Catholic Ireland!

    Guy could write a love song for all the "sexier, funky" stuff.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #125
    Deep Six
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Deep Six


    RIP Prince.

    Why does death have to be taking all the genuine talent this year while the likes of Bieber and One Direction are still walking around? Take them next please and leave our legends alone.


  • #126
    PropJoe10
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    Deep Six wrote: »
    RIP Prince.

    Why does death have to be taking all the genuine talent this year while the likes of Bieber and One Direction are still walking around? Take them next please and leave our legends alone.

    Couldnt have said it any better!

    RIP Prince, an unparalleled talent. Such a sad loss!


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  • #127
    cowboyBuilder
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    RIP

    So sad, I remember listening to his CDs in the early to late 90's, I grew up as an awkward teenager listening to his great music.

    :(


  • #128
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    nehe milner skudder wrote: »
    2016 out to kill everyone

    Funny I just listened to a BBC more or less podcast who checked this out and it does seem more stars died in the first 3 months of 16 compared to 2012, they don't have a big sample size though. They used BBC obituaries as the basis.

    A big part was the break out of rock and roll and pop in the 60's, you didn't have as many music icons previous to that. I'd argue film broke out a little bit later, Bonnie and Clyde but mostly the 70's, so it was a bit later. You just had more iconic figures from the 60's on.

    Prince is gone way too young.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #129
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    KomradeBishop wrote: »
    Thread title should be "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince".

    Relatively young age to die, RIP.
    humberklog wrote: »
    Now he really is "The artist formerly known as Prince".

    I'll say nothing as I don't want to be banned but in my case, it's the thought that counts.


  • #130
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    A part of me wanted this to be Prince Charles that died.


  • #131
    cowboyBuilder
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    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Well Vimeo has a Sign of the Times remix if thats any good. https://vimeo.com/45217411

    Sign O the times is also a fantastic film !


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  • #132
    cowboyBuilder
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    eamonnq wrote: »
    The Ultimate Live Experience

    Dublin 95

    P***Y CONTROL absolutely rocked the place.

    Heard it was a great gig, missed it unfortunately but my brother went to it, was right up at the front said it was unreal, the dancers and the way Prince was interacting with them and the crowd was amazing.

    Gonna ring him now actually..


  • #133
    PressRun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭PressRun


    God almighty. Seriously, Prince and Bowie were two of the most talented artists we're likely to see. Two artists that truly had the full package.

    Prince had a seemingly bottomless pit of talent and buckets of charisma. He was a pure musician, through and through, and an icon by any objective standard.

    What a ****ty year for music this is turning out to be.


  • #134
    Halloween Jack
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    humberklog wrote: »
    Now he really is "The artist formerly known as Prince".

    Been waiting to dust that one off have you? Gormless ****ing clown....


  • #135
    elaney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭elaney


    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


  • #136
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,974 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    The greatest artist of the 70s and the greatest of the 80s both gone, too soon, within weeks :(

    Saw Bowie in the Point in 2005, Prince in Cork in 1990 and RDS in 1994(?), wasn't holding out any hope of Bowie touring again but I was hoping Prince would return here as I couldn't go in 2011.

    Sadly, not to be...

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #137
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I'm not sure how to process this. I've been a massive Prince fan most of my life. I remember when he played in Cork years and years ago I wanted to go so badly but was too young. My father and brother went to it and I'm still jealous to this day of that.
    Genius does not describe him, it doesn't do him justice.

    I'm delighted that my kids are fans of his and that they have a amazing discography to discover.

    I'm delighted that I have his music.

    RIP Prince. RIP.


  • #138
    French_Girl
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    R.I.P. - Rain. In. Purple.


  • #139
    Estrellita
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    eamonnq wrote: »
    2016 is just taking the piss now!!

    And now the PG Tips chimpanzee. What the hell is going on :(


  • #140
    dubstarr
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    Absolutley in shock,still hasnt sunk in.

    Im speechless.R.I.P Heaven must be rocking now.


  • #141
    KomradeBishop
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    Birneybau wrote: »
    I'll say nothing as I don't want to be banned but in my case, it's the thought that counts.
    Indeed - especially when, after a little more thought, it isn't actually at anyones expense.


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  • #142
    wdmfapq4zs83hv
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    Really shocked when I heard that today. A true legend. I know this year has been bad for celeb death but I can't think of anyone except Bowie. Who else was there?


  • #143
    mansize
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    Teresa Shaggy Disk wrote: »
    Really shocked when I heard that today. A true legend. I know this year has been bad for celeb death but I can't think of anyone except Bowie. Who else was there?

    Lemmy from Motorhead


  • #144
    BMMachine
    Site Banned Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭BMMachine


    What a guy. Loved him so much.



    "You will never get another like him again"

    Yeah because you keep buying sh1te music and watching sh1te films and continue to distort the meaning of quality in order to justify and protect yourselves. get standards. be objective. stop pretending sh1te is good.


  • #145
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    Teresa Shaggy Disk wrote: »
    Really shocked when I heard that today. A true legend. I know this year has been bad for celeb death but I can't think of anyone except Bowie. Who else was there?

    The singer 'Vanity' died back in February. 57, same age as Prince. Prince wrote this 80's classic for her RnB girl band, the tune from the strip club in Beverly Hills cop.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #146
    ThisRegard
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    Saw him around 2001/2 in the Point, it wasn't a greatest hits show or anything, a great big excellent jam session. I loved it but you had the usual people disappointed about the lack of hits.

    One good memory of I have is that around the time of the Burton Batman and when MTV was actually music television, late 80s. I was in my grandads and he was flicking through the channels and game to the start of the rather excellent Bat Dance. He actually left it on and watched all 7 minutes of it.


  • #147
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Another fantastic artist leaves the stage. Rest in peace Prince Rogers Nelson.


  • #148
    donegaLroad
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    while Keith Richards and Shane McGowan continue to defy all laws of nature...


  • #149
    Halloween Jack
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Saw him around 2001/2 in the Point, it wasn't a greatest hits show or anything, a great big excellent jam session. I loved it but you had the usual people disappointed about the lack of hits.

    One good memory of I have is that around the time of the Burton Batman and when MTV was actually music television, late 80s. I was in my grandads and he was flicking through the channels and game to the start of the rather excellent Bat Dance. He actually left it on and watched all 7 minutes of it.

    Was at that gig myself, big funk jam followed by hits followed by a piano set, he could do it all :)

    http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/2002/point-theatre-dublin-ireland-5bd3af70.html


  • #150
    petrolcan
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    I'm off to the wrecka stow to buy me a Sam Cooke album.


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  • #151
    magick
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    He will be purifying himself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka in heaven now


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