I don´t know why but I immediately thought of Andy Allo. I´m not a fan and don´t really know her, nor do I know how close she and Prince really were. But with her huge smile she always looked like a happy little kid singing and dancing around an apple tree. She seemed kind of...well, maybe naive. In a good way, so to speak. I hope she has people around to keep her up.

And I thought of Rosie Gaines. I always felt like if Prince would have kept up to the promises he made to her to get her in his band, she could have been huge in the 90s with all of this female balladstuff filling the charts. Or at least releasing her out of her contract with PP when he started to set "focus" on Carmen Electra. The same goes for Jill. I aways felt sorry for them. Especially regarding Rosies state of health lately. I wonder if a shadow of a bad conscience grew inside Prince when he grew older.

And of course Sheila, Fink and the Pre-Revolution came to mind. I´m pretty sure some of them dreamed of a small Reunion to fulfill the circle. I´d have loved to see a few PP- or First Avenue-shows with The Revolution and Dez joining Wendy on guitar. And The Time as supporting act. And Gayle as special guest Everybody making peace with eachother and celebrating the good times they had.

Nobody. I just kept thinking of the tweet about TMZ emergency landing and thinking this isn't true. It was only the next morning that it really hit me. And since then I have only thought of him, his familly (sister and nephews) and close friends like Damaris who was at the basketball with him. Also 3rd eye Girl band who have worked so closely with him the last two years. They must feel so bad.

FragileUndertow said:

who did you think of when news broke?

All of the org and my buddies here

Nice thought. I´m here since 1 week or 2 and wasn´t able to post before yesterday. Probably that´s why that wasn´t on my agenda. But I see how this place provides a ´port´ in this situation.

Bohemian67 said:

Nobody. I just kept thinking of the tweet about TMZ emergency landing and thinking this isn't true. It was only the next morning that it really hit me. And since then I have only thought of him, his familly (sister and nephews) and close friends like Damaris who was at the basketball with him. Also 3rd eye Girl band who have worked so closely with him the last two years. They must feel so bad.

The last thing I heard was that emergency landing after the Atlanta show. I didn´t notice anything after that ´til Thursday night, when I saw a RIP-Meme on 9gag(!) and thought "F***ers, not funny", came to the org and well...there it was.

PRINCE.

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I just thought of Prince.

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I thought, is it true, is he really ok.

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When the news was confirmed I could only think of what he was going through.

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I am distraught that he would have been alone - that he would have been in pain.

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He didn't deserve to leave us in this way.

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I hope God and and a chorus of angels where with him

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There won't be a day that goes by when I won't miss him dearly.

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All of this happened overnight in my timezone and again I found out the hardway. Got up and turned on the computer, and wondered why I had like 10 personal messages in my facebook (It happened like 3am our time) and some said "Our condolences and sorry for your loss" and I was like "What the" and it transpired when one said "I know how much Prince meant to you and put two and two together.

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It was a rude and scary awakening.

TheW00denLeg said:

FragileUndertow said:

Nice thought. I´m here since 1 week or 2 and wasn´t able to post before yesterday. Probably that´s why that wasn´t on my agenda. But I see how this place provides a ´port´ in this situation.

Bohemian67 said:

Nobody. I just kept thinking of the tweet about TMZ emergency landing and thinking this isn't true. It was only the next morning that it really hit me. And since then I have only thought of him, his familly (sister and nephews) and close friends like Damaris who was at the basketball with him. Also 3rd eye Girl band who have worked so closely with him the last two years. They must feel so bad.

The last thing I heard was that emergency landing after the Atlanta show. I didn´t notice anything after that ´til Thursday night, when I saw a RIP-Meme on 9gag(!) and thought "F***ers, not funny", came to the org and well...there it was.

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I did try to come to the org but it was unavailable.... I just wanted to believe it was an 'overstatement' of something gone wrong like the TMZ headline that seemed more serious than it had been. But in retrospect, doesn't feel like that anymore. It was serious. More serious than he thought, even though he swings twice in Atlanta, "I don't need no Dr" at 24.40 onwards. Then in Nothing compares to you.... "Went to the Dr... guess what he told lme" Just F*** man... It's unbelievable.

I'd been bumping along, doing my best to enjoy events (Prince's plane emergency-landing? Oh, H-- hope everything's cool.) and experiencing some good moments until I heard of Prince's death: A friend at work unsparingly broke the news just as I was about to dig into lunch and check on the greater-world's developments. I'm not gonna lie--my first thoughts reflected to poor, selfish me! What am I gonna do? LA,LA, I can't hear you. No, make it stop! Please, can we put things back to when Prince has not died?--just like one of those incredibly sappy, romantic breakup songs and the multi-stages of greif rolled-out in a quick tumble. Then I thought of the poor people who found him; the associated and collaborating artists; and the people of the Minneapolis area. It's been a series of disbelief and a weird kind of pain--maybe like a disassociated extended family member.

Germanegro said:

I'd been bumping along, doing my best to enjoy events (Prince's plane emergency-landing? Oh, H-- hope everything's cool.) and experiencing some good moments until I heard of Prince's death: A friend at work unsparingly broke the news just as I was about to dig into lunch and check on the greater-world's developments. I'm not gonna lie--my first thoughts reflected to poor, selfish me! What am I gonna do? LA,LA, I can't hear you. No, make it stop! Please, can we put things back to when Prince has not died?--just like one of those incredibly sappy, romantic breakup songs and the multi-stages of greif rolled-out in a quick tumble. Then I thought of the poor people who found him; the associated and collaborating artists; and the people of the Minneapolis area. It's been a series of disbelief and a weird kind of pain--maybe like a disassociated extended family member.

That´s exactly how I felt/feel. His music was around since almost 30 years, since I was 9. I loved his (earlier) music - still do - but I was aware of those downsizing aspects of/in his personality, so I´ve never been a ´fanboy´. That´s why I actually didn´t expect to be affected to this degree. But now when he´s gone it really feels the way you describe it.

The headline in my local news' RSS-feed was "Death Reported at Singer Prince's Residence". I thought it was some poor stage-hand or janitor getting killed on the job. Immediate denial, I guess.

"Who did you think of when news broke?"

Him,only him.

I`ve broke the news to my husband and could not understand why him,still can`t,for past couple of days he is the first and last person I think about. what a loss!

Bohemian67 said:

Nobody. I just kept thinking of the tweet about TMZ emergency landing and thinking this isn't true. It was only the next morning that it really hit me. And since then I have only thought of him, his familly (sister and nephews) and close friends like Damaris who was at the basketball with him. Also 3rd eye Girl band who have worked so closely with him the last two years. They must feel so bad.

Same for me. I was so shocked, I didn't think anything at all. It was only yesterday I started contacting friends/fans.