Article on the BBC website. Can't wait for the tabloid storys to start hitting us

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...925857.stm

Here's the story:

Maybe Amy will get Prince to do drugs and he'll become more reasonable

Rack um Amy!

CarrieLee said:

haha can just picture him n amy and a bottle of jack

MetalMonkey said:

welcome 2 the dawn

I was watching youtube videos of Amy the other day. She's very talented but obviously a mess. In her video for 'F me pumps' she looks great. Her body is healthy looking and her total appearance is just beautiful. Now she's bone thin and a mess. Too bad, she's got great talent and style. Oh well, another one bites the dust!

A up Prince Lad its my turn woop woop he he
[Edited 8/1/07 7:31am]

Here's the article:

Prince begins 21-gig London run

Prince opens a 7-week run of shows at London's 02 on 1 August
Prince is preparing to perform the first of 21 shows at London's O2 arena.
The artist, known for hits such as Kiss and Raspberry Beret, will be in residence at the former Millennium Dome from 1 August to 21 September.

Tickets for the event cost £31.21 - the same figure used by the 48-year-old to name his album, website and perfume.

Included in the price is a copy of Prince's new album, Planet Earth, which he previously gave away for free with The Mail on Sunday newspaper.

Prince - who famously changed his name to a squiggle symbol in the 1990s after falling out with his record label - is hoping to be joined on stage by soul singer Amy Winehouse, having declared himself a big fan.

Fans will be also be hoping to catch a glimpse of Prince at his official after-show parties at the venue.

Revamp

A post on the artist's 3121 website reads: "Prince and the band are not guaranteed 2 per4m, but as we all know with these cats - xpect the unexpected."

The O2 arena has undergone a refit to host music, entertainment and sporting events.

Owners of the 20,000-seater arena, AEG Europe, said the acoustics have been designed specifically for modern musicians and every seat will have a clear view.

A smaller venue in the Greenwich complex, Indigo, will host the after-show parties.

oh, and here's the link to the article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...925857.stm

horatio said:

isn't this how the thread started?

As an Englishman who pays his licence fee money I will be complaining to the BBC for stating Prince's age as 48 and not 49.

Anxiety said:

horatio said:

now my head hurts and i'm about to cry.

Anxiety said:

Great. It would be great if Amy joined him onstage.

** Dumb Question but... Who is Amy?

Thanks!
[Edited 8/1/07 8:43am]

One of the most talented singers of her generation. She is retro like Joss Stone, but less poppy than Joss is now.

www.amywinehouse.com

GustavoRibas said:

If she does i hope she is not high. She will probably embarass him. She always seems to look like she is stoned. Amy is a great singer though when she is sober.

I am not up on london time, is it almost concert time yet there?

mellow1 said:

- Very true!
There is a video on YouTube of Amy very high singing ´Beat it´...even the fans said she sucked. I hope it doesnt happen with Princey.

Anxiety said:

The line about the post from 3121 has me worried.

Do you reckon he'll really not perform at every aftershow party??

I'm possibly looking forward to that more than the main show!!

ConsciousContact said:

hear hear lets get an retraction and the resercher publicly flogged

alxndrstff said:

- I would too. The aftershows are usually much more interesting than the actual shows...

GOOD LUCK PRINCE.

mattj said:

Here's the first review from (yes you've guessed it: "The Daily Mail)!


His diva demands may be the stuff of legends, but Prince is also famous for giving his fans value for money - and the small perfectly-formed singer did exactly that last night.

The 49-year-old American broke new ground last month when he gave away his new studio album, Plant Earth, as a free cover-mount with our sister paper The Mail on Sunday.

And tickets for last night's sold-out show at the O2 Arena - the venue formerly known as the Millennium Dome - were attractively priced at £31.21 apiece.

A snip compared to the £550 charged for some seats at the recent Barbra Streisand shows in the same place, the unusual figure was chosen as 3121 is also the title of a 2006 Prince album and the name of the singer's own-brand perfume.

With last night's exhilarating show being the first of 21 that Prince is playing in Docklands between now and the end of September, you might have expected him to ease himself gently into proceedings but the singer, notorious for his marathon performances and sexually charged lyrics was a ball of energy from the moment that he appeared from behind a puff of smoke on a stage which consisted of an elaborate series of catwalks in the centre of the 23,000 capacity venue.

Wearing a cream suit and high-heeled shoes which in no way impaired his ability to gyrate around the stage, Prince opened the show with Purple Rain. It was a song which perfectly encapsulated his ability to mix the rhythms of American soul with the guitar sounds of white rock music.

A custom-made purple guitar, slung behind his shoulders as he started the song was given more gainful employment as he closed the anthemic ballad with an exquisite solo.

In addition to his four-piece band the singer was accompanied by two dancers. Dressed in pink raincoats, they waved purple flags as he sang.

"London, I'm here," he told the crowd minutes later, before adding, teasingly "Did you miss me?"

The whoops and screams of delight, especially from the females present, gave him his resounding answer.

Signalling to an engineer to dim the lights he then complained about the brightness on stage, although this turned out to be merely an excuse for the showman in him to demand that everybody makes things "a little sexy".

For the most part however Prince, who confessed to having being kept awake by nerves the previous evening, lets his music do the talking. And it spoke volumes.

Apart from one bluesy interlude, the early part of the night was dominated by a series of funky, jam-like numbers. The singer, who quickly discarded his jacket, was joined by a four-piece brass section. The latter were expertly led by the veteran saxophonist Maceo Parker, whose jittery, intricate blowing was a constant delight.

Among the other early highlights were a sumptuous version of I Feel For You, a song that Prince wrote for Chaka Khan in the 80s. That led into a brisk interpretation of his own hit Controversy, a song featuring the immortal but very apt line "People call me rude".

While Prince, on a musical level at least, was defiantly back to his wicked old ways, it wasn't all lascivious fare. Taking his cue from such showmen as Little Richard and James Brown, he toyed playfully with his audiences' affections. At one point he even pretended to get bored and walk off stage before being called vociferously back.

His joking extended to the occasional bout of between-song banter. "Shall I sing Diamonds and Pearls or Pop Life now?" he said before tearing into a completely different song, Kiss.

He even adapted the latter's lyrics to suit the current TV schedule, inserting Big Brother and Desperate Housewives into the line, "You don't have to watch Dynasty to have an attitude".

Apparently without a preordained set list, the singer made great play of the fact that this was a show of "Real music by real musicians" and occasionally asked for requests from the crowd.

Mostly, however he seemed content to go where his own artistic instincts took him.

Towards the end of the show those inclinations took him away from his R&B roots back towards rockier territory.

A cover the Beatles' Come Together plus a high octane version of Guitar, a track from his new album were both illuminated by searing solos. It was proof once more of his seemingly effortless versatility.

Even at the end of the show however Prince wasn't finished. Determined to party like it was 2007, he left the stage to prepare himself for another performance at his after-show party in the adjacent Indigo venue, a show which was due to continue well into the early hours.



http://www.dailymail.co.u...ge_id=1924

The song was not 'written for' but 'covered' by Chaka Khan. DM journo's not getting the facts right again!

Smittyrock70 said: