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.

'I've got the butter for your muffins, I just need the key to your room'.
Justin Bieber couldn't write that, could he?

Its strange but i never thought of him being massive in America. All those years ago i just thought he belonged to us in the underground gay bars of some pokey little town. It never crossed my mind that others got him. I was only 17 and a hipster, in my defence.

Each, me too! He was so unique and part of that group of artists that were challenging gender norms and was so experimental. But hey, Culture Club were massive in the States too!

I've not listened to this but it's a BBC radio doc about hunting for Prince's Vault, sounds interesting...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02m3sfd

Have you guys seen/ heard of violet the organ grinder? Pure prince filth! I used to watch it again and again on vhs so much so that it went all crackly at the 'pump' bit!

Sam, thanks for that. Pure fabulous purple filth!!!

www.bing.com/videos/search?q=prince+violet+the+organ+grinder&view=detail&mid=756B02C0BB76CCC20489756B02C0BB76CCC20489&FORM=VIRE

Oh my god! Love it! And still he is respectful to women. It wasn't a video of half naked women draped over him for his pleasure- like most videos by men or women. He was (thankfully) half naked most of the time as well & he didn't touch another person. Brilliant. I hope more visual material does come out of the woodwork as he clearly wasn't just a genius musician but an amazing performing artist as well. In every sense of the word, clearly.

Ooooer! Never seen that before! Crikey, I'm a bit hot under the collar now😵😍

Organ Grinder ! He was good at the double entendres wasn't he!

When I was at university in the mid 80's, everyone loved Prince. Black/white/gay/bi/straight/punk/mainstream/goth/indie/rockabilly/everyone. His appeal was enormous, he resonated with everybody, and everybody liked different parts of him.

The only person who didn't like him was ex dp. I should have realised then....

Buggar can't watch that now!

But it's worth waiting for Poodle😉. Very much so!

I kept thinking l saw him today (in a Sheffield garden centre🤔Highly unlikely)

I last did this when my mum died 10 years ago!

Hands up! Been lurking! I still think about him every day and I'm obsessed with watching him and searching for new info.
I would love to know (but clearly never will)-
What he was really like in the bedroom?!
What sort of father he would have been?

Good GOD thanks for that video sam

douses self in cold water

I was curious to know what younger pp thought of/ knew about Prince, so I posted the question on MN. The results made me so sad, young pp just don't know about him and how brilliant he was, apart from songs like Purple Rain and Kiss!!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2631856-If-you-are-in-your-twenties-can-I-ask-you-a-question-about-music-please?watched=1&msgid=60923930#60923930

Destiny I am early 30's so ok not in my twenties but I could take Prince as my specialist subject on mastermind so please do not lose all hope!

Holy crap! That video! 🙈🙉🙊

destiny your thread actually made me feel old with the various responses like my dad liked him

I always thought the Prince was current and not someone who a nobody sings on X factor.

I like the fact that Prince was always respectful to his back catalogue, where as Madonnas,for example, hasn't been.

I always loved their duet on like a prayer, Prince was the star there

Morning ladies, so dh found a complete recording of the one and only uk festival performance in 2011 at hops farm ( yes he's actually fuelling my prince obsession now which is cute) some lovely person in crowd recorded the whole thing so it's easy to imagine being there..it really is amazing, completely flawless and he looks better than ever Imo, and the bonus of watching it before I went to sleep was that I dreamt about him all night

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-lWlEYUA6c