No doubt that some of U are familiar with the old 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon internet game, where the idea is to link Kevin Bacon to any other famous actor.

Well why not start one with Prince?

Here are the rules...

If U are the first person 2 guess the artist that I name at the end of this post, then it is your turn 2 name an artist that everyone else has 2 guess. Whoever guesses that one names the next artist and so on!

The musician must be familiar (ie not your best friend who played the triangle at school!)

The way that U link the stars can be obscure and ridiculous if U like! BUT they must be true! (ie, to link Bruce Springsteen and Prince U can't say that Bruce watched Purple Rain in the movies once!)


Here is an example of how 2 link people...

Artist- Axl Rose

Axl Rose was in guns n Roses with Slash who played guitar on Michael Jackson's Give in to me. Michael appeared on stage with James Brown and James Brown invited Prince up onto stage with him!

Axl- Slash- MJ- James Brown- Prince


OK, now U know how it works, let's get the ball rolling!

The first artist that I will name is...

Whitney Houston


(thanks livewire for correcting me there!)
[This message was edited Wed Feb 12 19:37:48 PST 2003 by JimmyNothing]

i love this game!
whitney houston sang a duet with aretha franklin called "it isn't, it wasn't, it ain't ever gonna be", from aretha's 1989 album.
on the same album, aretha did a duet with james brown called "gimme your love". the 12 in re-mix was produced by paisley park! so there ya go...
now who wants to try this one: queen?

The lead singer of Queen is Freddie Mercury. The Jackson's hit "State Of Shock" was originally intended to be a duet between Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson. And Michael Jackson originally wanted Prince to duet with him on his hit "Bad" but Prince turned him down.

Next: David Bowie

End.

I have a couple for Bowie...

BOWIE sang a duet with MICK JAGGER ('Dancing In The Street'), JAGGER duetted live with TINA TURNER ('State of Shock'), TINA TURNER in concert sang 'Lets Pretend Were Married' by PRINCE!

BOWIE did a remix with ICE CUBE ("I'm Afraid of Americans"), ICE CUBE starred in 'Anaconda' with J-LO, J-LO did a video for JANET JACKSON 'That's The Way', JANET'S song was produced by JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS, JAM & LEWIS were in the TIME produced by PRINCE!

Next: GWENYTH PALTROW (I know it's left-field one..but it's possible!)

Gwyneth Paltrow dated Ben Affleck who's best friend is Matt Damon who shared songs on The Talented Mr. Ripley soundtrack with Sinead O'Connor who dedicated her last album to Steve Fargnoli, a long-time manager for Prince.

Next: Big Bird

Big Bird is on Sesame street which is run by Jim Henson who also was responsible for The Muppet Show which Prince was on!

Barbara Striesland

I don't think I will be very good at this, but I am bored, so here goes...
Big Bird was a friend of Elmo who was a character on Sesame Street where Rosie O'Donnel did a guest appearance and then became the host of her own talk show titled The Rosie O'Donnel Show and had as a guest star???
(lame...i know)

Next: Madonna

oops..sorry JimmyNothing..I guess I took too long.

Barbara Streisand made a surprise appearance on SNL during a "Coffee Talk" segment staring Mike Meyers, Madonna and Rosanne.

Madonna has a good friend named Rosie O'Donnell

Rosie O'Donnell interviewed Prince on her show.

What's the next person Nothinbutjoy??

Lame, but easy one:

EMINEM done mic battles in Detroit against:

KID ROCK, who's now married to:

PAMELA ANDERSON, who was married to:

TOMMY LEE, who now dates:

MAYTE, who was once married to:

PRINCE



Next Person -

Busta Rhymes

I forgot to name someone lol

Thanks for picking up the ball dna


If I can still name someone....John Travolta
[This message was edited Sun Feb 9 14:27:13 PST 2003 by Nothinbutjoy]

kinda short, but anyway:

Busta Rhymes worked with Janet Jackson

Janet has a brotehr called Michael

Michael turned down a song (Wouldn't u love 2 love me?) for the Bad album, offered to him by...

Prince!


Next one: Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy worked with Rick James on his first solo album, Rick James worked with Teena Marie, who Jill Jones sang back up for.
Next: Mariah Carey
[This message was edited Sun Feb 9 15:14:58 PST 2003 by lovebizzare]

Mariah Carey worked with Jam & Lewis, they were in the time.

Do we gotta have 5, or 5 or less?!!

Next: Pete Burns of Dead Or Alive. (their #1 single, You Spin Me Round you may know)
[This message was edited Sun Feb 9 15:12:44 PST 2003 by MiaBocca]

MiaBocca said:

Within 5 moves Mia

Okay, now do John Travolta...that is if the Mariah Carey link was acceptable...and no one was named for the next link..

Nothinbutjoy said:

john travolta was in those God-awful 'look who's talking' movies with kirstie allie...kirstie allie appears on the symbol album and in the 'my name is prince' video as vanessa bartholemew...


next person:
tony bennett...

rio said:

Is this the same Tony Bennett from Some Like It Hot??

This is a tough one! Well done, it's good to have a challenge!

JimmyNothing said:

it's tony bennett the singer..i think you're thinking of tony curtis..(but it would def'ly not be easy to make that connection...)

i have a prince/tony bennett connection...but i'm waiting to see if anybody else comes up with one...

OK, I think I have a Tony Bennett connection!

TONY BENNETT has worked with, and has a new CD out with:

KD LANG, who has worked with, friends with (and no doubt got down with):

WENDY & LISA, who as we all know worked with:

PRINCE!

Ok, next one's easy, and can be done in less than 3:

JAMIE KENNEDY
[This message was edited Mon Feb 10 3:44:56 PST 2003 by dnaplaya]

Harrison Ford was in a little movie called "Star Wars" with Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher-both of whom were in "jay in Silent Bob Strikes BAck" with Kevin Smith. Kevin Smith made the unreleased documentary about the 2001 Celebration.

dnaplaya said:

Jamie Kennedy was in Scream with Courtney Cox, who appeared in a Bruce Springsteen video, who once got up on stage with Madonna to back Prince on Baby I'm A Star.

Next Danny La Rue

ConsciousContact said:

Can't help ya with Danny La Rue

U're answer to Jamie Kennnedy was well done. I was thinking more on the lines of:

JAMIE KENNEDY was the coffee boy in "JAY & SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK" for:

CHRIS ROCK who is a fan of, and interviwed:

PRINCE!

dnaplaya said:

Yeah, Danny La Rue is a piss take. He's an old British drag queen. Speaking of old British drag queens how about Boy George as the next one up.

Here's one kids...


John Stamos...from Full House and General Hospital fame...

JOHN STAMOS stared in a movie called "Never Too Young To Die."

This film also starred VANITY...

VANITY...former girlfriend of PRINCE.


Try Quincy Jones...w/o mentioning MJ and the Bad album...
[This message was edited Mon Feb 10 4:40:40 PST 2003 by June19]

ConsciousContact said:

A bit of a stretch, but here goes:

Danny La Rue was awarded an OBE in the 2002 Queen’s Honours List, alongside…

60s artist Peter Blake, who created the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt Peppers album, which included (greatest non-Prince song)…

A Day In The Life, which is included in the WNPG play list in the ONA…Live booklet.

next, and I can't believe no one has suggested this, KEVIN BACON!

kevin bacon has been a guest host of snl, prince was the musical guest on a couple of occasions...i kinda cheated here, as i was first gonna reply to the streisand post this way, and after thinking about it some, you can hook prince up to anyone who has ever appeared on snl in the last 25 years!

June19 said:

Quincy Jones' latest album From Q, With Love has a track performed by Tevin Campbell who sang the Prince songs Round and Round and Shhh

Next up... Buddy Holly