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The Day Prince Died by Alex Cosper Thursday, April 21, 2016 The death of recording artist Prince sent shockwaves throughout the music world on April 21, 2016. Even though reports spread quickly on social media, there was a lack of musical material to share due to the artist blocking much of his content on YouTube. Several videos that list Prince on YouTube either have muted audio or do not really include original recordings of the artist. Regardless of Prince's feelings about the internet, he leaves behind a great archive of music, which spanned from the late seventies through the present. He will likely be remembered most for his enormously popular albums 1999 and Purple Rain. The list of songs that people danced to at night clubs and parties is very long. Prince's most remembered songs were big hits in the 80s, which included: 1979 - I Wanna Be Your Lover 1981 - Controversy 1982 - 1999 1982 - DMSR 1983 - Little Red Corvette 1983 - Delirious 1983 - Let's Pretend We're Married 1984 - When Doves Cry 1984 - Let's Go Crazy 1984 - Purple Rain 1984 - I Would Die 4U/Baby I'm a Star 1985 - Erotic City 1985 - Take Me With U 1985 - Rasberry Beret 1985 - Pop Life 1985 - A Love Bizarre (with Shiela E) 1986 - Kiss 1987 - Sign O' The Times 1987 - U Got the Look 1987 - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man 1988 - Alphabet Street 1989 - Batdance 1989 - Partyman 1990 - Thieves In The Temple 1991 - Cream Album sales for Prince dropped off in the 1990s, beginning with the 1992 release of the Love Symbol Album, which included the symbol that Prince adopted as his name a year later. From that time on he was often referred to as "the artist formerly known as Prince." He continued to use the symbol as his identity until May 2000 when he reverted to the name Prince. One of the best videos I've found that captures Prince's great live musicianship featured his lead solo guitar work on the Beatles' song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." The performance included Steve Winwood, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison's son Dhani. There is other live footage of Prince available on YouTube, but he did a thorough job blocking most of his best work. |
