Prince Rogers Nelson (1958-2016), the Purple One, was an American musician. Hugely talented, he wrote over a thousand songs, came out with 39 studio albums in 38 years, and sold over 100 million records worldwide, half overseas. In the 1980s in the US his star was second only to Michael Jackson.
His top ten hits on the US R&B and pop charts:
- 1979: I Wanna Be Your Lover (#1 R&B, #11 pop)
- 1980: Uptown (5, 101)
- 1981: Controversy (3, 70)
- 1981: Let’s Work (9, 104)
- 1982: 1999 (4, 12)
- 1983: Little Red Corvette (15, 6)
- 1983: Delirious (18, 8)
- 1984: When Doves Cry (1, 1)
- 1984: Let’s Go Crazy (1, 1)
- 1984: Purple Rain (4, 2)
- 1984: I Would Die 4 U (11, 8)
- 1985: Raspberry Beret (3, 2)
- 1985: Pop Life (8, 7)
- 1985: A Love Bizarre (2, 11) – with Sheila E.
- 1986: Kiss (1, 1)
- 1987: Sing o’ the Times (1, 3)
- 1987: U Got the Look (11, 2) – with Sheena Easton
- 1987: I Could Never take the Place of Your Man (14, 10)
- 1988: Alphabet St (3, 8)
- 1989: Batdance (1, 1)
- 1989: Partyman (5, 18)
- 1989: Scandalous (5, -)
- 1990: Thieves in the Temple (1, 6)
- 1991: Gett Off (6, 21)
- 1991: Cream (-, 1)
- 1991: Insatiable (3, 77)
- 1991: Diamonds and Pearls (1, 3)
- 1992: 7 (61, 7)
- 1994: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2, 3)
- 1994: Letitgo (10, 31)
- 1995: I Hate U (3, 12)
And that does not even count his top ten songs performed by others, like:
- 1982: Vanity 6: Nasty Girl (7, -)
- 1984: Sheila E: The Glamorous Life (9, 7)
- 1984: Chaka Khan: I Feel for You (1, 3)
- 1984: The Time: Jungle Love (6, 20)
- 1985: Sheena Easton: Sugar Walls (3, 9)
- 1985: Meli’sa Morgan: Do Me Baby (1, 46)
- 1986: The Bangles: Manic Monday (-, 2)
- 1989: Patti Labelle: Yo Mister (6, -)
- 1990: The Time: Jerk Out (1, 9)
- 1990: Sinead O’Connor: Nothing Compare 2 U (-, 1)
- 1990: Tevin Campbell: Round and Round (3, 12)
- 1991: Martika: Love … Thy Will Be Done (-, 10)
And that does not even count music produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and others who were part of Prince’s Minneapolis sound.
Both Blacks and Whites liked his music. Some said he was selling out. Others say he had “transcended race”. Prince says that he grew up in a Black and White world and that comes out in his music. Both his parents were Black.
Influences: Little Richard, James Brown, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, etc. Almost anything he heard growing up – rock, jazz, funk, pop, soul, etc. He was a musical sponge. His father was himself a jazz pianist. Of newer artists, he liked Janelle Monae, Lianne La Havas and Esperanza Spalding.
Talent: He taught himself to play piano, bass guitar, drums and so on. He played nearly all the instruments on much of his early music. Warner Brothers, a big US record company, was so amazed they gave him not only a recording contract, but complete creative control – at the age of 18! Their faith was not misplaced.
The slave prince: By the 1990s, Prince and Warner were fighting over control of his huge and growing music catalogue. He wrote “SLAVE” on his face in protest and changed his stage name to an unpronounceable, androgynous ankhoid squiggle:
The press called him “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”, a name he had from 1993 to 2000.
Music distribution: in the 2000s, having left Warner, he experimented with different ways of getting his music out: through the Internet, through concert tickets, through free newspaper inserts, etc. None (yet) had the reach and reliability of a big record company.
Prince left us this past week for causes yet unknown – just two months after Vanity, also aged 57.
– Abagond, 2016.
See also:
- In memoriam: Prince
- songs I have posted (note that Prince videos are subject to high rates of link rot):
- Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis:
- Michael Jackson
- Jimi Hendrix
- Lianne La Havas: What You Don’t Do
- Esperanza Spalding ft Algebra Blessett – Black Gold
- Janelle Monae: Tightrope
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I thought it was raspberry beret?
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Beautiful tribute to Prince, Abagond. Prince was also a socially-conscious humanitarian. The man was a gift to diverse people worldwide. His artistic talents will always be honored by those who appreciate geniuses like Prince, Maurice White, Michael Jackson, James Brown, The Bee Gees, Al Green and The Temptations (among others). #RIP.
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@ sharina
LOL! You are right. Thank you for your kind correction..
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Learning so many things about him he could play over 20 instruments i knew he played the guitar and piano and drums but i didn’t know he played over 20 instruments. I learned he was an activist especially when Freddy Gray was killed. He also was a passionate advocate for Black youth. He did a lot of behind the scenes philanthropic work for children in public housing with activist Van Jones Yes We Code. I feel the universe was blessed with a beautiful soul and today i feel such sadness of his passing away. I the same sadness i felt when Michael Jackson made his transition. May he rest in peace and power, and Purple Majesty.
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Love watching the Youtube video of him and the Muppets doing Starfish and Coffee from the Sign of The Times album.
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It’s just my personal opinion but the beautiful women he was involved with seemed like mirror images of himself. He had the most beautiful facial features. It was tragic he and his first wife Mayte Garcia had a child that died a week after birth of a rare genetic disorder in 1996. He would have had beautiful children.I didn’t know he had a second wife Manuela Testolini. They were married from 2001 to 2006.
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Plus he was smart about the music business he took control of his music catalog and he wasn’t afraid to challenge the so called powers that be in the music industry.
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So another or maybe the other extremely musically talented ,effeminate maybe homosexual ,mulluloto African american male is dead.
Great achievements in the one area African Americans are officially allowed to excellent in – entertainment.
While I liked MJ (apparently) because he didn’t, or was not forced to renounce his masculinity ,unlike prince who seems openly homosexual.
I wonder how they would fare now that american society is allegedly more accepting of homosexuality? Nope already know the answer – they were black males – and unless black males in particular and black people in general show extreme unconditional submission (and even then) their our my life is worthless.
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@ Mbeti
Prince was a Jehovah Witness and that particular Christian sect opposes homosexuality. I think his image was the art of being androgynous and part of his musical theater.
I don’t know if prince was gay or not and to me I couldn’t care one way or the other. I have a gay son and I love him unconditionally.
One thing I have observed is that gay Black males are considered lower then low but white gay males are viewed way more positively.
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This group was discovered by Prince on the internet when they covered one of his songs. I love how in this video they talked about meeting him and did an accapella version of their song. Check it out
(https://youtu.be/fBtw1MOG8Es)
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(https://youtu.be/fBtw1MOG8Es)
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RIP we saw him in 1985 in Syracuse, it was pretty good!
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@Mbeti and @MJ Barker,
If my son or daughter ever approached me and said something to his effect: Dad, I’m feeling some strong vibrations and leanings towards claiming the opposite sex. The first thing I will do is knock the sh%t out of him or her and then proceed to immediately DISOWN him or her.
Unconditional love is not really a part of my vocabulary, only conditional love is what I will claim! The rest of you folks could accept what you want to accept, (effeminate, androgynous, conflicted, indeterminate or whatever), perhaps because both of you lack understanding and standards of moral expectations. Huh, carry on!
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I remember the day I bought Sign O’ the Times. I walked into an HMV and they were playing Prince but it was all stuff I’d never heard. I had no idea he had released a new album. I thought they were playing older stuff but it was all Sign o the Times tracks.
Listening to music is very personal (for me) and I can’t sink my teeth into material until I take it home and play it privately for myself. I knew Sign O’ the Times was going to be good but I also knew that I wouldn’t know just how good until I could get home and go into private space mode. The “Transmississippi Rap by Sheila E. sent me into paroxysms of joy the first time heard it!; but there is so much more to the album as well. I’ve been playing “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man” in my head since yesturday evening; I love that one too!
Rest in peace titan!, rest in peace.
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Recollecting:
Initially I didn’t understand what he was on about when he dropped his name and became that symbol. When I realized he had begun a noble war against Warner Bros. [his record company] I fell more in love with him!
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So Blacksage what you are saying is love is only conditional given to those that reflect your personal preferences rooted in the moral ideological construct of your religion. That you would attack your own child and disown him I find unsettling.
My son is gay not by choice but because he was born that way. We have a close father/son relationship and would gladly lie my life down for him just as any other parent would to protect their child.
Unconditional love means loving humanity enough to allow for a diversity of opinion and lifestyles that we may not agree with and may find personally immoral
We have a collective obligation to protect the rights and ideas of people we disagree with. If their actions are not affecting your life or property then you have no right to interfere with their right to pursue their happiness.
Mutual respect allows for coexistence amongst different religious, racial, political, economic, gender and social groups.
But how quick we are to point our difference and rely on force and coercion to correct a perceived wrong in society in the name of morality.
“Liberty, finally, isn’t a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space where people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says eternally, only that we can.” Karl Hess
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@blakksage
“Conditional love” is an oxymoron, in other words, it is neither based on rational conditions nor is it love in its deepest, truest sense. “Conditional love” to me is another way of saying “my way or the highway”. It is using the language of care, affection and unselfishness to express control, contempt and self-interest.
To me, all true love is based on acceptance, putting the needs of others before your own and loyalty. Using violence and the threat of violence to control other people is the opposite of love.
As to “standards of moral expectations”, please share with me how you created your standards and what is moral to you? I also want to know why you would place “standards of moral expectations” above the some of the most precious relationships in your life—those of your beautiful and priceless children?
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MJ Barker asked and said: “So Blacksage what you are saying is love is only conditional given to those that reflect your personal preferences rooted in the moral ideological construct of your religion. That you would attack your own child and disown him I find unsettling.”
Nope, … you’re putting words in my words. It has nothing to do with my personal preference, wishes or desires. However, it all to do with a Higher Power’s preference. The Most High’s wishes, His commandments and His laws.
It is an abomination for a woman to treat what’s sandwiched between another woman’s leg and eat deliciously as if it is a morsel of a delicacy at a five star restaurant. Proverbs 30:20 “Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.”
It is an abomination for a man to willingly accept another man’s rod into him as well: Leviticus 20:13 “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
When you correct someone, that’s really an act of love. But when you witness someone doing wrong and refuse to correct him or her, rest assured, that is hate! Therefore, I’m flummoxed as to why correction of my own flesh and blood is unsettling to you, what I said I’d do is actually true love. However, you on the other hand will accept your loved one and still accept his engagement in this immoral behavior. Huh, … to each his own I guess. Carry on folks!
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@ Blacksage
When you seem to be saying is that your preferences aren’t important because you follow the preferences of the most High God. Therefore it God’s will that you smack the sh*t out of your son be cause you are but a vessel of the Most High.
Biblical law states that homosexuals should be publicly stoned but in America I’m sure the Most High will give you a pass if you just disown him. To bad you don’t live in places where throwing gays off roof tops, beheading them or settin them on fire would exemplify your love of God.
As you have written love is correction and intolerance and hate is indifference in allowing the Most High’s Holy word to be ignored and not acted upon.
If unconditional love if foreign to you then so is empathy and forgiveness.
As parent I love my children and I feel my role in their lives is to help them pursue their dreams. I challenge them to think critically but don’t dictate my world view on them.
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Correction *Raspberry beret* not strawberry
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Mbeti
I never thought of Prince as homosexual, more comfortable expressing his feminine side sometimes almost to the point of androgyny.
To the gay basher, not sure what nationality you are but remember that groups like the kkk and other racist individuals slso use / misuse the bible for self serving purposes to excuse their behaviour towards minorities over the years.
Yes, have your own personal beliefs but to want to injure someone and linking this to holiness, think you need to think again ‘Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways’ Proverbs 3.31
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blakksage
Your response to feelings of or an admission to homosexuality by your own offspring with violence and abandonment is what I would consider the primitive ignorance that keeps black people social subordinate to white people.
If your that harsh and unforgiving with your our child I’m sure at the slightest hint of displeasure with any black person you probablly refer to them by the racist term invented by white people.
I would suggests you try reason and research but such a attempt is probably futile and unesscary as expecting more from some people may be pathologically naive and delusional.
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“It is an abomination for a woman to treat what’s sandwiched between another woman’s leg and eat deliciously as if it is a morsel of a delicacy at a five star restaurant. Proverbs 30:20 “Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.””
ROTFWL!
I haven’t laughed so hard in quite a while. Thank you for breaking through my blues.
Sounds like it was written by Spike Milligan: “The Bible according to Spike Milligan.”
GCM! And I thought serial killers were wicked, not female epicures eating in between another woman’s leg (sic).
“eat deliciously as if it is a morsel of a delicacy at a five star restaurant”.
“Now I shall eateth you, you wicked wench, offering up to me such a tempting and tantalizing treat!” she saith after she wipethed her mouth.
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On a serious note, you what know is an abomination? Homophobia. Not affording another human being to live by his or her own lights.
I often think how very difficult it must be and the tremendous courage a Black homosexual atheist has to have to navigate in a world of close-minded, intolerant, moralizing bigots.
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correction: you know what is an abomination?
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@Taotesan:
I am suspicious about people who are that concerned with other peoples’ love life. Who cares( as long as the man isn’t 6’5 with a six pack!)?
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@Herneith
Yeah, in the case of our holy homophobe: I saith “the lady doth too much, methinks.”
“(as long as the man isn’t 6’5 with a six pack!)” and as long as he throws in developed intercostal and serratus muscles. Pass the smelling salts.
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@taotesan
You make some good points about the homophobic diatribe written by blakksage. Really, all of that salacious and juicy detail about sandwiches, rods and and mouth wiping is a clue that someone spends a lot of time at the computer keyboard engaged in heavy breathing exercises. LOL!
A few years back, I read about how people in the most religious states of the US are also heavy consumers of pornography (and you know how men love fantasy lesbian sex scenes). Pretty hilarious stuff!
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/05/rocket_city_listed_as_no_1_rel.html/
I grew up in the South and lived in the Midwest for years. People in the South and Midwest have a hard time with the idea of “live and let live”. Yet, their personal lives are incredibly messy with wild sexual extremes (careening between total abstinence and sexual binges), guns, religion, teen pregnancy and domestic violence.
The US as a whole has problems with these issues; Southerners and Midwesterners take it to the nth degree. Perhaps sometime in the near future, when people tire of religious violence and hypocrisy, they will develop healthy, life affirming attitudes toward sex, love and relationships.
Until then, it will be a jarring and unpleasant ride.
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“The first thing I will do is knock the sh%t out of him or her and then proceed to immediately DISOWN him or her.”
This type of parental reaction is one of the main reasons so many LGBT youths end up homeless or commit suicide (regardless of race). All over something that scientific research increasingly indicates is innate (i.e.”born that way”).
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@Solitaire
At most,10 percent of the population at any given time is sexually oriented to persons of the same gender. Yet, homophobes act as if LGBTQ people were part of a zombie plague…one bite and your whole town is at risk.
Why all the fuss about ten percent of the population? I think the real fear of LGBTQ people is that they show that sexuality is for more than baby-making.
It can be used for love, bonding and (horror of horrors) fun. That scares some folk who cling to patriarchy like drowning people on pieces of a shipwreck.
I believe patriarchy is all about damming the sexual energy river to promote aggression, violence and control over other people. LGBTQ people are part of the river finding its way around the dam.
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Growing up in my teens I was homophobic as well as most of my friends. I think sitting around telling Gay jokes deflected away from our own insecurities about how we approached women and was more about ourselves projecting our own sexual inadequacies.
As I grew older and met and did business with Gay people my attitude changed from being homophobic to being indifferent. A sort of live and let live outlook.
It was my wife that first told me my oldest son was Gay. Mothers must have that kind of radar. At first I was in denial not because I was homophobic but because I wasn’t sure as a straight dad how I would be able to “relate” to my son. And their were other unfounded worries as well. Was he going to catch some incurable disease, was he going to get beat up in school, how do I protect him ect. In the end I found nothing changes. You just be a loving, supporting father.
I raised my family in a secular setting. Their was no God, we never attended church but we did have conversations about philosophy and ethics.
My son at the time wasn’t comfortable “coming out” to us so we would have these conversations about how we supported gay marriage, rights ect as a way to help put him at ease in our home.
Something also changed within myself. Whereas before the things Gays were fighting for were things I didn’t oppose they still were not things I spent a lot of time thinking about. When it became personal only then did I begin to look at the validity of Gay right arguments because I didn’t want my son’s life to be interfered with.
My views regarding race also changed when I fathered biracial children. When you have family members whose lives can be interfered with fighting racism becomes personal.
For many whites bigotry is an ideological abstraction. Theirs an attempt at empathy but it can vanish instantly if their own sense of identity is threatened.
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@ Michael Jon Barker
I agree, and I want to add that it doesn’t necessarily have to be a family member but a close friend or someone else that you care about.
I think I mentioned somewhere here at least once before that some of my partner’s LGBTQ college students have shown up at the beginning of a semester with the bruises still visible from where one or both of their parents have tried “to beat the gay” out of them. Blakksage speaks about it as a theoretical, but I’ve actually seen the result. Once you’ve spent hours holding the hand of a sobbing teenager who’s living on your couch because they’ve been kicked out of their home, who can barely sleep due to the pain from the beatings but refuse to press charges because they still love their mama and daddy … well, it does something to your heart and your soul. I can never see these kids as evil incarnate.
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@ Afrofem
“I believe patriarchy is all about damming the sexual energy river to promote aggression, violence and control over other people. LGBTQ people are part of the river finding its way around the dam.”
That’s a excellent metaphor. I hope you don’t mind if I borrow it? 🙂
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@Legion
I grew up in a home listening to Prince. I had more of an attachment to Under the Cherry Moon album than sign o’ the Times. Sadly I realize I may get my sexualidad nature from repeated sneak listening of his more sexualidad songs.
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@Solitaire
Be my guest.
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I think the real fear of LGBTQ people is that they show that sexuality is for more than baby-making.
@Afrofem
Aaarghh! Afrofem stop! You’re making my ears bleed!
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@Sharina
Haha! You naughty thing you! Well dear, confession is good for the soul and so at last we have the origins of our resident horny toad. LOL!
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If you haven’t heard Dirty Mind (it’s an album and a title track to the same album), you really should. The title track is lyrically explicit about sex in a wonderfully melodic but still no nonsense and unapolegetic way; it’s positively delicious and addicting. The song declaratively celebrates having a Dirty Mind for the person that you’re into; I see that as being alive to life. 🙂
Parade [the Under the Cherry Moon album] is another great one. I lulled myself to sleep many nights as a teenager to the sounds of Venus de Milo and Sometimes it Snows in April.
“I often dream of Heaven and I know that Tracey’s there.
-from Sometimes it Snows in April
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He left no will that’s strange. Prince was an enigma in life and a mystery in death.
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@Legion
“Aaarghh! Afrofem stop! You’re making my ears bleed!”
LOL! I seem to have that effect on some people.
Did anything get in before they started bleeding?
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@Mary Burrell
Thank you for dragging us back to the subject at hand, Prince.
It is very, very strange for a wealthy person to not leave a will.
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I was laughing at an interview Chris Rock and Prince they were talking about MJ’s Bad. Prince said “The line “You’re butt is mine” Prince said “Who is supposed to say this? Me saying this to you? Or you saying this to me?” I’m that Wesley Snipes character in the video” This is a problem and it’s not happening.” Then Prince and Chris Rock have a laugh. Poor MJ he wanted Prince to collaborate with him and not thinking about the big picture. They were two androgynous men and not thinking about how a line like “Your butt is mine” would be construed in the wrong way. MJ was just naive too a pathetic degree bless his heart. May they both rest in peace.
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^^ androgynous looking men^^
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@Afrofem
Did anything get in before they started bleeding?
Some crazy ideas about unconditional love and such *shudders*, nothing a committed misreading of the Bible won’t fix though. 🙂
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I’m wondering will his Paisley Park Studios be like Graceland for us fans?
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Ballerina Misty Copeland and Prince were special friends I wonder will she put a special dance piece as a tribute to him. I am enjoying all the wonderful tributes to Prince from all over the world to all over America. He was so prolific.
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Really good eye opening piece on Prince. Talks about growth changes he went through on the road to becoming happier and more relaxed; the influence of Larry Graham; his approach to life that kept him young (he didn’t think about marking off human time the way society says that we should). He knew his view was unconventional and thought the magazine wouldn’t print it but they did.
It’s a scan of an original article:
http://prince.org/msg/7/319219
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And horror of horrors I hope Lifetime doesn’t attempt to do movie biopic they do such a hatchet job on these type of things. Whitney Houston and Aaliya were examples of this. But I am sure someone somewhere will attempt to make one.
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@ Blakksage
Some thoughts about “correction.”
What I find most disturbing is that you would “correct” the thought with beating and disownment. Is it not the act itself that is the abomination? A person can be tempted to sin and consider sinning, yet ultimately choose not to sin. Reacting to the desire as if it were the sin itself seems to me both over the top and self-defeating.
Why self-defeating? Because if you cast out your child from your home, you greatly increase the likelihood of that child resorting to prostitution to survive. And in the case of a son, prostitution will invariably mean selling his body to men. So your “correction” will result in the commission of the sin that you intended to prevent, as well as a second sin (prostitution) that your child never desired or considered while under the shelter of your roof.
Any child of yours, having grown up in your home within your religion and your moral belief structure, would most probably come to you to confess thoughts of homosexual desire because they too believe it is wrong and because they are seeking your help, guidance, and advice.
There are at least two schools of thought I’m aware of, one of which holds that people can overcome these desires and live a fulfilling heterosexual life, the other that an individual may not be able to change their sexual orientation but can still refrain from sin by living in celibacy.
Personally I have my doubts about conversion therapy, but it may truly be effective for some, especially people who are more on the bisexual range of the spectrum. I don’t believe anyone should be forced into conversion therapy but have no objection if someone chooses freely to explore that path in an attempt to reconcile their sexual feelings and their religious beliefs.
My question to you: would it not be a better form of “correction” to say to your child, “Satan is tempting you, and we will fight him together.” To pray with your child, to open up the bible and study it together, to consult with your religious leader(s), to research the two options I described above?
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prince had like this silver jumpsuit with giant holes all over it and like a g string or something on in concert, it was pretty radical in 85, i was never really able to figure out where he was going with that all, if you see that snl tape of the first show he did there he has like garters and stockings ie in total drag
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purple rain, the movie introduced us white kids to morris day and the time, and prince obviously had the soul and r/b influences and some funk so it was early ‘crossover’ ie white black music like red hot chili peppers and maybe faith no more to some degree plus a lot of underground bands did back in the 80’s
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eg run dmc/aerosmith
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I like ‘Uptown’. His most homo erotic song but I still like the tune.
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We still don’t know what the cause of is death was and it will probably be month before we know what the real truth is instead of all this speculation.
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*his*
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they’re saying narcotics now
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Prince’s philanthropy:
(https://youtu.be/TmYYvZASoks?t=21m30s)
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@Legion
Today I decided to listen to Sometimes it Snows in April. It was honestly the first time in a long time that I actually listened to that song. Great relaxation song, but also a sad reminder that one of the greatest musicians of all time has left us.
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