DETAILS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ARTIST YOU KNEW AS PRINCE
Added on: 2nd Dec 2016
IN 2013 PRINCE PERFORMED AT THE WEDDING
OF STAR WARS DIRECTOR GEORGE LUCAS TO
HIS SWEETHEART MELLODY HOBSON
PRINCE ORIGINALLY WANTED STEVIE NICKS
TO SING ON “PURPLE RAIN,” BUT IT DIDN’T WORK
BECAUSE HE WANTED MORE THAN JUST A
MUSICAL COLLABORATION AND STEVIE
WASN’T DOWN FOR THAT
PRINCE ONCE STATED IN AN INTERVIEW THAT
WHEN HE WAS STILL A STRUGGLING MUSICIAN
HE WAS SO BROKE THAT HE’D HANG AROUND
OUTSIDE MCDONALD’S JUST TO SMELL THE FOOD
PRINCE WROTE “NOTHING COMPARES 2 U”
ABOUT BANDMATE WENDY MELVOIN’S, SISTER
SUSANNAH, BUT THE SONG BECAME A
WORLDWIDE HIT BY SINEAD O’CONNOR IN 1990
PRINCE WAS A VERY RELIGIOUS MAN; HE WAS A
JEHOVAH’S WITNESS. FOR THIS REASON HE DID
NOT SWEAR IN HIS SONGS AND WAS STRICT
ABOUT ADHERING TO THIS IN PRACTICE
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS ONLY FIVE TWO, PRINCE
WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER
AND USED TO PLAY FOR ONE OF THE BEST
SCHOOLS IN MINNESOTA
PRINCE WAS A HUGE FAN OF THE BEATLES
AND USED TO COVER SOME OF THEIR MOST
POPULAR SONGS, SUCH AS “COME TOGETHER.”
WHEN JOHN LENNON WAS MURDERED IN
NEW YORK, PRINCE WAS LIVING ONLY A
COUPLE OF BLOCKS AWAY
UNFORTUNATELY, PRINCE DID NOT LEAVE ANY
DESCENDANTS BEHIND. HE AND HIS FORMER
WIFE, MAYTE GARCIA, HAD A SON IN 1996 NAMED
BOY GREGORY. THE BABY DIED WITHIN A WEEK,
DUE TO A SKELETAL ABNORMALITY KNOWN
AS PFEIFFER’S SYNDROME
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