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Deaths of Minor Celebrities

The trouble with constant repeats is that I never even realised Everybody Loves Raymond ended over ten years ago. so I was thinking "she wasn't that old", I had no idea she was 90. Still, she was clearly the best one in that show, and it's great that she found the defining role of her career so late in life.
 
Shit :( This is truly an awful year for high profile deaths. You just never know what you're gonna wake up to.
 
Just walked into work to be told by one of the guys I work with that Prince has died.

Like David Bowie, Prince played a huge part of my teen years music wise. I can still see the poster of Prince hanging up on the wall in my sister's room and us listening to his music driving dear old dad insane, having it turned up so loud.

The music world has lost another megastar. :(

R.I.P and thankyou for your wonderful music and talent.
 
I am 99.9% certain that "RAGE" will have a tribute program for Prince over the weekend like they did for David Bowie.

I will be definitely taping this.
 
From Kevin Smiths Facebook..
The music of ‪#‎Prince‬ was essentially the soundtrack to my life. My first girlfriend introduced me to his work, so any teenage heavy petting session was scored by the lusty purple pipes of his Royal Badness. #1999 and ‪#‎PurpleRain‬ were some of the first albums I ever bought. In 1989, his ‪#‎Batman‬ soundtrack never left my rack system. When we made ‪#‎Clerks‬ in 1993, the Love Symbol album was on a constant loop in my car's cassette player. @samosier & I were almost killed on the Turnpike in the pouring rain when our car momentarily slid under an 18-wheeler as we were funking out to 'My Name Is Prince' (we sang only 'The Morning Papers' for the rest of the way home). My wife & I flew to Minnesota for the Rave Un2 the Y2K concert at‪#‎PaisleyPark‬ at the turn of the century, solely as fans. Less than a year later, I'd meet and work with the icon himself when I returned to Paisley Park to shoot a documentary with Prince during his Rainbow Children album listening party. I was lucky to have spent any time with him at all but I was far luckier just simply being alive in the Prince era. His music moved me, his lyrics captured my imagination, his journey from musical Minnesotan to worldwide superstar inspired me. I honestly thought I'd die before Prince - so it's sad to think there will be no new music in which he could sing us his point-of-view on the rest of his unique and legendary life. But having spent time at Paisley Park with the prolific Prince, I know there's a vault full of unreleased tracks we've still yet to hear. I told a long story about my week-long experience of working with Prince on the first Evening with Kevin Smith DVD - a story that would go on to help solidify my reputation outside of filmmaking as a raconteur. So as much as I got from Prince as a fan of good music, he also helped to shape ol' Silent Bob's second career as a talker. I cried today because I realized what a role model Prince always was to me: an Artist with a capital A who was not afraid to bite the hand that fed, never hesitated to reinvent himself, and was always entertaining on any stage. Today we lost one of the greatest Artists who ever lived. RIP, purple genius. Nothing compared 2 U...
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Boooooo!!!! The little red corvette has disappeared into the purple rain for ever :frown:
 

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justintimberlakeIt was Raspberry Beret. I was 4 years old. Yes, 4. I remember that I instantly loved it. "Mommy, who is that singing?" Seems weird but it's true.
More than a "once in a lifetime" artist... Just a ONCE IN FOREVER ARTIST. I'm still in shock as I write this and I feel this overwhelming grief. But, we should all turn away from that and HONOR this musician that changed all of our lives, our perspectives, our feeling, our whole being. From another planet? Probably. Royalty, for sure. Us worthy..? Laughable.

They say don't meet your idols... That they let you down. But, some of my greatest, funniest (yes, he was hilarious), and most prolific encounters and conversations about music came from the moments that I spent with him. It would be silly to say that he has inspired our music... It's beyond that. He's somewhere within every song I've ever written.

I am sad, but I will smile when I think of every second that I had the fortune of being in his company. We have lost our greatest living musician. But his music will never die.

Prince, NOTHING COMPARES...
#RIPPrince
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I'm feeling very sad tonight that another one of my all time favourite artists has passed away.

First, David Bowie. Then Percy Sledge and now Prince. :cry:

This has been a shocker of year so far that we have lost such talented, geniuses in the music industry.

Gutted.
 
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