DETAILS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ARTIST YOU KNEW AS PRINCE

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