“Famous and influential musicians die every year, but 2016 was bewildering. David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Leon Russell, Phife Dawg ... it’s as if we walked out to look at the stars and found major constellations gone. Who had even gotten over Lou Reed yet?

None of those deaths took a bigger plug out of me than that of Prince, mainly because his impact on my childhood had carried such asteroid-level force. To be an 8-year-old white boy in a beige-carpeted basement in southern Indiana and have “1999” come on at the end of 1982 was ... there was no going back from it. ”

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More here:

http://www.nytimes.com/in....html?_r=0

That´s a very interesting story that , to my knowledge, hasn´t been mentioned in any biography before. Thanks for the link.

^ You're welcome KoolEaze, it was new info for me too.