Prince of Clubs
By Patrick Donovan
October 24, 2003

Another thump on the barbed wire-topped gate. "Only a riot could thwart our mission now," I thought, increasingly concerned. But at least they were only Prince fans, not an angry Black Sabbath mob. No, we weren't prisoners of war, we were supposedly the lucky 80 people on the invite list to Prince's "secret" warm-up show at city jazz bar Bennetts Lane. Someone had obviously shared the secret with 1000 other die-hard fans who were queued up around the corner, some of whom were banging on the gate in anger at those they wrongly thought were getting chaperoned in from the courtyard. The bar owner, Michael Tortoni, who was visited by Prince 24 hours earlier requesting a small warm-up show for his eight-piece band, said he had no idea how the word spread like wildfire. The hysteria had almost convinced the band to call off the show.

But it did...

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anyone else see this article?
*mochalox*