OMG! I am floored. And it is with deep regrets that I report that the recording artist known as Prince, real name Prince Nelson Rogers was found dead at his home today, he was just 57 yrs old. The cause of death was not released and the police are conducting a death investigation. Prince burst on the music scene in 1978 with the release of his first album "For You". I was lucky enough to see him in concert 1981 in believe at the SF Convention Center. This is when he was wearing the tiny briefs and the overcoat and bandana. hahahaha
Prince released his debut album, For You, in 1978, followed by Prince (1979), Dirty Mind (1980) and Controversy (1981). All of them traded in his trademark sound - deep synth funk grooves with provocatively sexual lyrics and heart-piercing ballads sung in pure falsetto.
His mainstream breakthrough came with back-to-back albums with his backing band the Revolution: In 1982, 1999 launched several pop and dance floor hits onto the charts, including “Little Red Corvette” and the title song, a post-apocalyptic party anthem.
Two years later he released the album - a soundtrack, actually, to his movie-starring debut - that would launch him into the same superstar stratosphere of other 1980s pop titans like Michael Jackson and Madonna.
The soundtrack was 1984’s Purple Rain, a searing musical backdrop to a semi-autobiographical tale of “The Kid,” a Minneapolis rocker from an abusive family. The album launched five singles, two of which - “When Doves Cry” and Let’s Go Crazy" - went to Number 1 on the Billboard chart. The title ballad reached Number 2 and has gone on to become one of the most recognizable rock anthems in history. The soundtrack itself is frequently cited on music critics’ polls as being one of the best of all time, and Prince won an Oscar for original score in 1985.
Subsequent releases grew more experimental in nature, including the psychedelic Around the World in a Day (1985) and Sign “O” the Times (1987), a double-album recorded partly before a live audience in Paris that dispensed with the Revolution and which is widely considered to have been produced at Prince’s creative peak. (Among the compositions on it are “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker,” “If I was Your Girlfriend,” and “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.”)
Prince married a couple of times but they never lasted very long and always ended in divorce. As far as I know he never had any children. There was a rumor of a pregnancy with Troy Beyer but I don't know what happened or if that was just a rumor. Sigh. Oh well, so I guess Prince is not survived by anyone. And his family is now over since he never had any children. So sad. Rest in peace Prince.
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