The Beautiful Ones - Prince tribute thread.

[Destinysdaughter]

Here we are, a week after Prince suddenly passed away. This is a thread to grieve, share your memories, thoughts, stories, videos and songs.

Let's keep on supporting each other in the name of The Beautiful One.

At 11.07 I think, there's a broadcast of nothing compares 2 u, I think on us radio but British ones may follow, as it's 7 hrs and 15 days.
Oh god. :(

The current.org are playing some tunes now

Oh I was totally in lust with the man. He was just sex personified. It so sad to think he must have died in pain. I understand he needed hip transplants for at least a decade but his religion wouldn't allow it because he would need a blood transfusion? Next time the JWs coming knocking on my door I will have a few questions for them!! I have never been this upset about a celeb dying. He was a god, a genius. I used to dream he was singing those beautiful songs just to me. I was the most beautiful girl in the world! Now I have to sleep.

Exactly HRH, Prince was sex! I loved MJ but I didn't cry when he died, I was sad but I didn't feel like it affected me personally, like this feels. Mummymafia and Augustus, I was just thinking today that I'm behaving like a lovesick teenager and I'm 48, but I don't care.
Trying to decide where to get my tattoo and I did think about my chest, nice idea. But I think I want everyone to see it so probably gonna go for my wrist. I did speak to the lady at the tattoo shop down the road and said I was thinking my wrist or my shoulder and she said if its just a little symbol my wrist would be better,as i should have something bigger on my shoulder, hmm not sure, might google Pronce tattoos again for some inspiration.

mummymafia So glad to have been lucky enough to breathe the same air as you once or twice So glad to have lived at the same time as the greatest musician and artist of all time. Even luckier to have seen him live many times.

I've been feeling a bit angry at him lately for not taking better care of himself. This was so unnecessary and preventable!

Also been reading on the prince.org forum about pp tweeting him and him replying!

So wish I'd made more of an effort but he'd been under the radar for so long and made it difficult to be a fan - apart from the 21 shows at the O2, which were great!

Coco, hope your tattoo heals soon. I also saw SOTT film at my Uni cinema, it wasn't Warwick was it?

bouncy I too have been thinking about getting the symbol on my wrist. Just something for me.

destiny I don't know if Im annoyed at him or more annoyed at the people who were with him and supposedly cared about him and didn't get him help for him months ago. I believe his death was preventable and he should be alive today.

I know what you mean but I think he was very stubborn...

Such a loss 💜

God, I'm annoyed at those who left a seemingly poorly man alone.

I don't want to speculate, because he's gone and I'll wait until the report is out.

The family are keeping quiet about it all, as his staff and medical staff

This is a v comprehensive article about his life. Apparently he was living in an apartment at PP on his own at the end.

www.rollingstone.com/music/features/prince-remembering-the-rock-star-funk-lord-provocateur-genius-20160504

I don't know how to do YouTube links but search for-

Prince summertime Japan

It's magical.

Have been lurking on these threads.

It's says on prince.org that the toxicology results took about 2 months for MJ and Whitney. Wish it was sooner.

destiny & binders Yes, definately the way he died too. I just imagine him alone in that massive building and I keep wondering why he was in the lift...was he trying to get help? I can't believe he didn't have staff or someone with him atall. I've felt a bit angry too, I remember years ago reading that he often just stayed up all night in the recording studio drinking milkshakes!! Christ!! Prince is dead and the hell raisers are all still alive and well... Well except for Lemmy and I think even he'd be surprised he made it to 70...although I shed a tear when his funeral was televised.
Prince was SO special, I hope he knew how much his British fans loved him. When he played Manchester in 2014 my DD who was 25 then, came with us to see him. Shes grown up listening to him ( obviously) and wanted to come. By the end, when he did Purple Rain she was crying and said however good she thought he was going to be, she never expected that or to feel so emotional!! And that's it isn't it?
That's the feeling... That night in Manchester was the last time I saw him and when he started to put dates out last year she was so excited and I was quite relaxed about it and was like 'Oh you know Prince, he likes to play with us all, he'll do another UK tour soon, definately....

I think it is definitely some kind of midlife crisis for me! I'm 47.
I think I must have been imprinted with Prince as a hormonal adolescent in a similar way to how ducklings get imprinted with the first mother figure they see. And to lose him now, especially at this particular age, which is already a time of saying goodbye to so many things associated with your youth, is a real hit.
Plus the sad sad way he left us. So hard to think about him rattling around in that big complex all alone.

Yes darlingnikki I feel the same.

It's also a reality check. When I was listening to Prince as a teenager he really added glamour, fantasy and aspiration into my life. I thought I could go on to do anything. It brings you back down with a bump when you look at what Prince did with his short life and compare your own pedestrian existance.

*existence

Very well put darlingnikki. I feel the same too. xxx

There is a brilliant video on the Prince Museum Facebook page. Can't add the link here from my phone. It's been 7 hours & 15 days. I'm off again. Snivelling.

Poodle - yes!

Poor Mayte. I hope she has found happiness now. Here's a clip with her and Maunela, his second wife, seems like they're friends!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=suSGH-0-Io8

This article talks about his friends trying to help him and how he may have been suffering from depression.

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augustus you set me off again. Haven't cried for a few days. I was at the Manchester concert too and I also cried. I remember him doing the intro to Purple Rain and it lasted for ages and he said 'I love this song' and as he kept repeating the intro, he said 'let it breathe'. He was in Leeds a few days later and I just couldn't get tickets. I drove past First Direct Arena and they turned it purple and I imagined him singing on stage and how lucky all those people were. There were people on the stairs outside of the building, just listening to him from outside. If I had known you could hear him, I would have been there too.