Topic: Prince
started by: Self-Banished
Posted by Self-Banished on Apr. 21 2016,3:00 pm
< http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/21/entertainment/prince-estate-death/ >I'm not a fan but wtf?
Posted by alcitizens on Apr. 22 2016,12:32 pm
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Posted by grassman on Apr. 24 2016,8:28 am
Where did the guitar go at the end?
Posted by nzeroesc on Apr. 24 2016,9:00 am
He tossed it up to a stage hand on a catwalk that got to keep his job that night.
Posted by alcitizens on Apr. 30 2016,4:06 am
Prince will be one of the Greatest if not the Greatest artist that ever came from the State of Minnesota..Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004..
Won a Golden Globe and 7 Grammy's in his career..
He also won an Oscar for this song/movie..
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Posted by alcitizens on May 06 2016,7:57 am
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Posted by Self-Banished on May 06 2016,9:59 am
So it was a drug OD?
Posted by alcitizens on May 06 2016,11:32 am
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So it was a drug OD?
Painkillers are involved.. The DEA is investigating..
Posted by Self-Banished on May 06 2016,1:59 pm
So is this "once again someone who has it all screws up"?Like Joplin, Bulushi, etc etc etc.
Posted by alcitizens on May 06 2016,4:52 pm
I'm guessing he was anemic with a low hemoglobin.. Long term use of painkillers will eventually make a person bleed out every time they donate a load to a toilet..
The body is slowly deprived of oxygen..
I'm almost positive that Prince needed a blood transfusion when his plane had to make an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois to take him to a hospital..
He was a Jehovah Witness and a blood transfusion is against their religion..
Posted by Self-Banished on May 06 2016,5:20 pm
Maybe if he'd just had a Raspberry purée 
Posted by alcitizens on May 06 2016,10:07 pm
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Posted by alcitizens on May 07 2016,8:47 am
Designing for a SuperstarAlbert Lea native worked for Prince in ’90s
When word spread that music sensation Prince died April 21 at his Paisley Park home in Chanhassen, it hit especially close to home for one Albert Lea native.
Stacia Lang, a 1982 Albert Lea High School graduate, worked as Prince’s designer for three years in the early 1990s.
“I feel like a part of me died when he died because I had spent so much time creating for him and with him,” Lang said.
She started working for Prince in 1990, after attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. After being in New York for eight years, she said she decided she was going to leave New York and move back to Minnesota. In what seemed like happenstance, she was introduced to Prince’s designer and was asked to start with him as a pattern maker.
“They hired me sight unseen,” Lang said.
A short while later, Prince’s designer at the time, Helen Hiatt, gave Lang the opportunity to show her portfolio to the star. When Hiatt decided to leave the position, Lang later that year became Prince’s personal designer. She said she worked with him until 1993 at Paisley Park when he changed his name to what is known as the love symbol, amidst conflict with his record company.
Lang said she was a fan of all of Prince’s costumes over the years, but she particularly loved the years she worked with him.
During those three years, she designed many tailored suits with futuristic, edgy and clean lines, she said. There were also a lot of scroll patterns.
“He was in his early 30s, so he could wear these amazing, body-conscious clothes,” Lang said.
The last time she had contact with him was in 1993, but she said she was happy to hear of his success over the years. She now lives in Los Angeles.
“To me, Prince was inspiring, electrifying, otherworldly, mystical, mysterious, and a pure genius — a wise sage giving his advice,” Lang said.
Once, during a private conversation, he told her it was important for her to develop a business enterprise so she could have “something of your own.”
On the other hand, she said she thought he had a complex personality and could be exasperating and difficult to decipher at times.
“Looking back, I think we in the wardrobe department, and me as his designer, did a fine job in bringing to the world his vision at the time, and bringing to his world, a vision of our own,” Lang said. “Through our work on his clothing, I think we captured the essence of Prince at that very moment in time. I feel satisfied with what we created together.”
She described Prince as inspirational, and said he was an example of someone who could accomplish whatever he put his mind to — despite the limitations people put on him as a child.
“He knew who he was — what he wanted — and he was the most unique person I’ve ever met in my life,” Lang said.
Though she has not had contact with him for more than 20 years, she said she was devastated to hear the news of his death.
“His death was a total shock to everyone, despite reports of an earlier illness,” she said.
She has been touched to see the outpouring of love and sorrow from his fans since the announcement of his death.
“Just seeing all this purple, all these tributes, it just really got me very, very emotional because he touched so many people’s lives,” she said. “I think his mark was deeper than a lot of people even thought.”
In recent years, she said she has started to create what Prince encouraged her to do more than two decades ago in finding something she could call her own.
Her personal website, at www.stacialangfeatherstudio.com shows her love of birds and feather work. She hopes it can be a place of enchantment, where the beauty of birds and their feathers uplift and inspire.
“It is becoming that thing that Prince had encouraged in me — my little corner of the world, something of my own,” Lang said.
The feather studio is featured in a 10-page spread in the Summer 2016 issue of Where Women Create magazine, which hits stands today.
She has also worked on specialty costumes for films such as “Interstellar, “The Amazing Spiderman,” “Star Trek,” “Man of Steel,” “The Cell” and others.
< http://www.albertleatribune.com/2016/05/designing-for-a-superstar/ >
Posted by alcitizens on May 17 2016,7:04 am
It is said that Prince has a vault with enough recorded songs to put out an album every year until 2099..
Posted by Botto 82 on May 17 2016,8:07 am
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When word spread that music sensation Prince died April 21 at his Paisley Park home in Chanhassen, it hit especially close to home for one Albert Lea native.
Stacia Lang, a 1982 Albert Lea High School graduate, worked as Prince’s designer for three years in the early 1990s.
Stacia Lang, a 1982 Albert Lea High School graduate, worked as Prince’s designer for three years in the early 1990s.
Stacia Lang. I remember her at CHS. She was like a goddess amongst us mere mortals. I always had her figured for big things. Good for her.
Posted by alcitizens on May 17 2016,12:04 pm
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When word spread that music sensation Prince died April 21 at his Paisley Park home in Chanhassen, it hit especially close to home for one Albert Lea native.
Stacia Lang, a 1982 Albert Lea High School graduate, worked as Prince’s designer for three years in the early 1990s.
Stacia Lang, a 1982 Albert Lea High School graduate, worked as Prince’s designer for three years in the early 1990s.
Stacia Lang. I remember her at CHS. She was like a goddess amongst us mere mortals. I always had her figured for big things. Good for her.
I will never forget snapping her bra in 6th grade.. Mr Long said "would you like to be forced to stand in front of the class while in your underwear?"..
I never snapped a bra again..
Posted by Botto 82 on May 18 2016,8:28 am
I did the same thing in sixth grade, but to Dori Peterson. She just about destroyed me, then and there.
Posted by alcitizens on May 18 2016,11:31 pm
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I did the same thing in sixth grade, but to Dori Peterson. She just about destroyed me, then and there.
Fellow schoolmate..
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Gaither did note that doctors visited Prince from time to time.
"Only time doctors would come in, they would give him a B-12 shot, something like that, when he might have been feeling sick or low on energy.
< http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/health/prince-bodyguard-speaks/ >
"Only time doctors would come in, they would give him a B-12 shot, something like that, when he might have been feeling sick or low on energy.
< http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/health/prince-bodyguard-speaks/ >
Vitamin B-12 is needed by the body to produce red blood cells(blood).. Meat is a natural source of B-12 which Prince didn't eat..
Don't abuse the use of painkillers especially if you don't eat your meat..
"You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat".. Pink Floyd
Posted by alcitizens on Jun. 02 2016,2:25 am
Prince Smashes Billboard Sales Records Following DeathNEW YORK (AP) — Prince’s death sent fans flocking to buy his music — and set some new standards on the charts at Billboard, the music industry bible.
For the first full sales week following Prince’s death on April 21, five of his albums were in Billboard’s top 10, at Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7. Only Beyoncé’s Lemonade kept him from the top. Billboard says no artist has had that many albums in the Top 10.
Prince had 19 discs in Billboard’s top 200, beating a record of 14 previously set by the Beatles.
Billboard said the top sellers were three hits collections, Purple Rain, and 1999.
The singer sold 4.4 million albums and songs the week after his death, compared to 19,000 the week before.
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It turns out that Prince is the Greatest Artist from Minnesota..
Posted by Whiskero on Jun. 02 2016,2:14 pm
Report just came out: Opioid overdose.
Posted by alcitizens on Jun. 02 2016,5:47 pm
Prince died of accidental overdose of opioid fentanyl, medical examiner saysRamsey, Minnesota (CNN)Toxicology tests for Prince concluded that the entertainer died from an accidental overdose of the opioid fentanyl, according to a report on his death by the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office.
Fentanyl, prescribed by doctors for cancer treatment, can be made illicitly and is blamed for a spike in overdose deaths in the United States. It's 25 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Prince, whose full name was Prince Rogers Nelson, died April 21 at age 57, after being found unresponsive in an elevator at Paisley Park, his home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
The report from the medical examiner's office, which was released on Twitter, didn't provide many details. "How injury occurred: The decedent self-administered fentanyl," the report said. For manner of death, a box was marked for "accident."
The report didn't specify how the drug was taken and if the fentanyl was prescribed or illegally made.
The music superstar weighed 112 pounds and was 63 inches tall when he died, the report said. He was wearing a black cap, shirt, pants, boxer briefs and socks and a gray undershirt, the report said. His occupation was listed as "artist" and his business as "music."
The full autopsy and toxicology reports will not be released, the office told CNN.
Since his death, information has emerged about the entertainer's alleged abuse of prescription drugs.
A law enforcement source told CNN's Evan Perez in April that the entertainer was found with opioid medication at the time of his death. Investigators so far haven't found any indication that Prince had a valid prescription for the recovered opioid medications
An attorney for Prince's half-siblings said they revealed the singer had an addiction to Percocet decades before he died. One half-sibling said Prince started using the drug to help him deal with the rigors of performing, not for recreational use.
On April 15, on his way home after performing in Atlanta, Prince's plane made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois. Prince was unresponsive and taken to a hospital. A law enforcement official told CNN he was treated for a potential overdose of pain medication.
The day before Prince died, his team called an eminent opioid addiction specialist in California seeking urgent help for the singer, an attorney working for the specialist and his son said.
The specialist, Dr. Howard Kornfeld, couldn't get there immediately so he sent his son, Andrew Kornfeld, on an overnight flight to Minnesota. The goal was for the younger Kornfeld to help evaluate Prince's health and encourage him to enter treatment for pain management and potential addiction issues, attorney William Mauzy told reporters.
Prince's complicated history with painkillers
But by the time Andrew Kornfeld arrived at the singer's Paisley Park complex on the morning of April 21, it was too late. He and two Prince representatives found the 57-year-old entertainer unresponsive in an elevator. Andrew Kornfeld was the person who called 911, Mauzy said.
Why are opioids so addictive?
Authorities have also said the investigation into Prince's death is a criminal investigation. It was not immediately clear if Kornfeld is the subject of a separate investigation.
Federal prosecutors and the Drug Enforcement Administration are investigating how Prince obtained prescription medications and from whom, the agencies said.
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