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ลำดับตอนที่ #101 : Prince death spurs tributes in purple
Buildings,
newspaper front pages and websites across the US and beyond have changed colour
in his honour.
Prince
was found dead at his Minnesota home on Thursday. He became a superstar in the
1980s, with the albums 1999, Purple Rain and Sign O' the Times.
No
cause of death has been stated and a post-mortem examination will take place on Friday.
US
President Barack Obama said the world had "lost a creative icon".
Prince's
innovative music spanned rock, funk and jazz. He sold more than 100 million
records during his career.
In Prince's native Minneapolis, the
Minnesota Twins baseball team turned their stadium purple, as did the Lowry
Avenue Bridge in the centre of the city.
Other
prominent buildings
in New York and New Orleans were also given a new purple look. And while the
Niagara Falls were turned purple to mark the Queen's 90th birthday, the
coincidence was welcomed by Prince fans online.
MTV's
Twitter logo has also turned purple. In the UK, the front page of the Sun
newspaper featured a photo of Prince against a purple background with the
headline: "Purple reign
is over."
Hundreds
of people gathered in the centre of Minneapolis into the early hours of Friday.
At one point, they all came together to sing Prince's 1984 hit Purple Rain.
Vigils for the singer were also held outside
his home as well as in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, where the film director Spike
Lee, a friend of Prince's, led an impromptu street party.
In a statement,
Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said his deputies responded to a medical call at about
09:43 local time (14:43 GMT) and later found an unresponsive adult male in an
elevator at Paisley Park Studios.
First
responders tried to revive
him but he was pronounced dead at 10:07.
At the scene: James Cook, BBC News, Paisley Park
Paisley Park feels
like the new Graceland.
Prince's home and recording studio is awash with tears and tributes.
Well into the night,
thousands of fans came here to lay flowers, cards and balloons at a makeshift shrine.
Others gathered in
central Minneapolis, dancing and singing as they paid their respects to a local
and global superstar, whose unique, sexually-charged blend of funk, rock and
soul revolutionised music.
Here in the twin
cities, Minneapolis and St Paul, there is shock and grief but also pride. One local radio
station is urging its listeners to wear purple on Friday in tribute.
Many residents point
out that Prince could have lived anywhere in the world. They feel honoured,
they say, that he chose to remain until the very end in the place where he was
born.
Born in 1958, Prince
was a prolific
writer and performer from a young age - reportedly writing his first song when
he was seven.
He was also and
arranger and multi-instrumentalist, and recorded more than 30 albums. His
best-known hits include Let's Go Crazy and When Doves Cry.
He also wrote music
for other artists. Nothing Compares 2U, written for The Family, was later made
famous by Sinead O'Connor in 1990.
In 1984, he won an
Oscar for the score to Purple Rain, a film in which he also starred.
Throughout
his career he had a reputation for secrecy and eccentricity, once changing his name to an unpronounceable
symbol.
In
2004, Prince was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which said he "rewrote the
rulebook".
He had a mercurial relationship
with technology. In 2000, he released singles via the pioneering music-sharing service Napster,
but he later declared the internet "completely over" and refused to
allow his music on major streaming platforms.
Prince's latest album,
HITnRUN Phase Two, was released last year and he had been touring as recently
as last week.
On 15 April he was
taken to hospital after his private plane made an emergency landing in
Illinois. It happened just hours after he had performed on stage in Georgia. He
was treated and released after a few hours.
Tributes have been
pouring in from artists young and old, across the musical spectrum.
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Madonna, who dated Prince briefly, described him as a "visionary
who changed the world"
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Chic guitarist Nile Rogers said
there were "tears and love on our tour bus"
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Mick Jagger said Prince's talent was
"limitless", calling him a "revolutionary artist, a great musician,
a wonderful lyricist"
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President Obama said: "Few artists
have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with
their talent"
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"Musically, he could do it all: sing play and
produce,"said Beach Boys singerBrian Wilson
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Guitarist Slash said
Prince was "one of the greatest musical talents of my lifetime. Maybe of
the 20th century"
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"And just like that...the world lost a lot of magic," singer Katy Perry tweeted
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"I can't believe it, I'm in total shock. So many wonderful
memories," wroteLionel Richie
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"It's such a blow. It's really . It's just kind of
unbelievable," Aretha Franklin told
MSNBC. "He was definitely an original and a one of a kind. Truly there was
only one Prince."
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