"You are in the coolest place on Earth right now," declared the artist forever known as Prince, dressed in white, an electric guitar in his hands, as he looked over the landscape of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival one night in April 2008.


His 24-song performance in Indio would be remembered as an...de history, with guests Morris Day and Jerome Benton from the Time and Sheila E., plus Prince himself unfurling explosive riffs and leads like the guitar hero he always was. There were Prince classics and an aching eight-minute version of Radiohead’s “Creep,” leading to one more boast before his exit from the Coachella stage: “From now on this is Prince’s house!”