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.

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good morning all

Thanks for starting the new thread Destiny

Morning everyone thanks for all your links and photos Destiny. I will catch up in a bit.

What l don't understand is why it's affecting me so much. I mean l've always liked him, a lot, but l wasn't obsessed or anything.

But now I'm absolutely gutted. It's the first thing l think about in the morning. It feels,like a punch in the stomach. David Bowie affected me, but not like this.

Is it because l associate Prince with my misspent student days? I just admired him so much for being so individual

Darlingnikki I can very much relate to what you've said, I've woken up today feeling like I need to pull myself together and try and move on a bit, all part of the grieving process I guess, but I can't help but think that this past week of reflecting on Prince has awoken something in me which I don't want to let go of and I won't, but I just want to be able to listen to his music and enjoy it without crying!! Guess it just takes time

Also orange I wasn't a massive fan either, or so I thought! always loved him and his music but never saw him live, which is something im definitely regretting now..dh is like 'where has all this come from' but I guess I never thought he would die and now he has it pretty clear he's irreplaceable and that's sad

Morning all - totally get the guilt of kinda loosing "touch" with him - was also a diamonds and pearls era gal. DH (who I met 5 years ago) is a massive fan so started listening to him again and had a lot of catching up to do. Still, never saw him live (last time DH went - Birmingham 2014 - I was at home with DD), was going to see him when he was doing the smaller shows but then he cancelled.

It's really taken me by surprise how bereft I am, was just putting the washing in the machine yesterday and just started crying! I cried a lot for Bowie as well but the sadness was different and much easier to get over/accept.

Was looking at the sleeve to one of his albums yesterday - aghhhh he was hot.

I just foundd this. It was when he was dating girlfriend Damarius Lewis and she woke him whilst she was in the middle of a radio interview in Sydney by telephone. Could you imagine just having him talk to you with that beautiful sexy, sleepy voice over the telephone.

By the way - The Prince Museum page on FB is regularly posting videos/pictures/stories:

www.facebook.com/PrinceMuseum/

Thank you cuppa. Watched the unseen footage of him singing with Cheryl Crow and found myself crying again! It just gets me off guard. Why is he gone - it's such a waste.

Binders that was brilliant, must be pretty recent? Think in fact that has been one of my favourite clips yet, because it was him exactly how he was, he wasn't 'weird' at all, he played a role to protect his privacy and in a world of over hyped no bodies, that is to be applauded, but under it all he was just a lovely guy who loved basket ball and women of course.. How cute is damaris as well? He had great taste !

Sitting waiting for my tattoo

I might run out

Yes photo please - Coco. Be brave, I am sure you will love it!

Orange, yes I thought I was a bigger fan of Bowie (and I had seen him live), and I was sad when he died but not like this. I think Bowie was always cool/removed whereas Prince was personal/vulnerable and also more joyous, always searching for the transcendent too, so rare.

Morning all and thank you Destinys for the new thread. So many people here in the same bereft state... coco can't believe you're getting the tattoo - good on you, can't wait to see it. Still so much stuff to watch, even though lots has been taken down. One of my friend put a mixcloud recording of his last full gig on fb earlier but I can't get it to work/not sure I could watch yet. I was smiling last night when I went to bed thinking of whoever said on the other thread - can you imagine being married to him, and the AIBUs?

Coco be brave, think of Prince! 💽

I feel the same as so many of you - can't believe how much it has affected me and only wanting to listen to his music. It is such a huge loss to music.

I love the Kiss video too, commutergirl. It is so funny seeing Wendy's face and his sense of humour really comes across.

I never thought I would still be feeling so bereft a week later - I am not an obsessive fan. I never realised just how much he meant to me, but I suppose his music has been with me since I was about 11.

www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Prince+with+Balerina+Copeland&&view=detail&mid=061737524D9AC3B6119E061737524D9AC3B6119E&rvsmid=818A05EC4C33624C2F73818A05EC4C33624C2F73&fsscr=-3465&FORM=VDFSRV

Prince used to spend hours watching videos of the Balerina Misty Copeland and made contact with her and asked her to dance for him. This link is to Beautiful One's with Misty on Tonight with Lopez.

This is from prince.org, a fan site. Pp are discussing which stage of grieving they are at.

prince.org/msg/7/423971

For me I've gone through the denial and now feeling angry about what happened and there's been a lot of what ifs and if onlys, a lot of which is actually sadness about my own life. Lost youth, lost loves, missed opportunities. It's definitely triggered a lot of stuff for me!

Going by how I am today - don't know what's wrong with me but feel like I did the first day I heard the news. I've been crying on and off - probably need to just step away from the videos for a bit. Perhaps acceptance/realisation that he is really gone. I hope he wasn't in too much pain. I hope he wasn't frightened. I have heard him speak many times about getting older, god and the afterlife.

I like it but the dove on the stencil was better, it got rubbed out and he did it freehand but I think its a bit too skinny?