wow you are all so observant ...anyone know what is on the lanyard aroung Prince's neck???

Just my two cents...I had to take more than a double take on this, but these are the characteristics that look like Prince to me...goatee, chest hair, hands, mouth ( he has a generous mouth). I was stumped on the cigarette, though. He is holding the cig like he has experience with smoking.

He really had an array of facial expressions.

Kares said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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FYI that's the centerfold of the December 1981 issue of Playboy, featuring Patricia Farinelli. If you google her name plus the word "centerfold" in Google images, you'll get a ton of NSFW results and some you will recognise from this photo.

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Well, some recognise a Playboy centerfold, others recognise a mixing desk:

That's a Soundcraft 3B desk and that's what Prince had in his Kiowa Trail home studio in the early '80s.
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So you mean you are a nerd and saying that Bart is specialised in Playboy's centerfolds ?

Love this.

Peace to both.

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Look how nice it is that you guys all together are capable of getting so much interesting info;

Allen Beaulieu, centerfold date, type of mixtable, precise date of picture taken, etc...

cool.

I personally think Allen Beaulieu should get a ghostwriter and tell his story (explaining pictures, documents...).

Just a photobook is OK, but he could be the guy knowing a lot! No ?

Since he was aside, not a musician or girlfriend, and mostly there when asked.

Could give some very interesting information.

Or am i wrong ? Maybe he did already write a book, and I get bashed by Bart or someone else, lemme check that first. Cause I have nothing else to do in life besides surfing the .org of course.

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peggyon said:

Just my two cents...I had to take more than a double take on this, but these are the characteristics that look like Prince to me...goatee, chest hair, hands, mouth ( he has a generous mouth). I was stumped on the cigarette, though. He is holding the cig like he has experience with smoking.

He really had an array of facial expressions.

People close to him inhis youth said he smoked weed so maybe that's where the experience comes from. On the other hand how hard is it to hold a cigarette 'properly'?

JorisE73 said:

peggyon said:

Just my two cents...I had to take more than a double take on this, but these are the characteristics that look like Prince to me...goatee, chest hair, hands, mouth ( he has a generous mouth). I was stumped on the cigarette, though. He is holding the cig like he has experience with smoking.

He really had an array of facial expressions.

People close to him inhis youth said he smoked weed so maybe that's where the experience comes from. On the other hand how hard is it to hold a cigarette 'properly'?

Since I used to smoke, I notice when actors, in particular, hold and smoke cigarettes...they look like non-smokers to me. They hold the cigarettes in a more self-conscious way. The way he held it was the reason I did not think it was him. Smoking weed, though, that makes sense.

We gotta keep in mind,in this picture,Prince isn't posing as himself.He's posing as "Jamie Starr" perhaps Jamie was a smoker,lol

SoulAlive said:

We gotta keep in mind,in this picture,Prince isn't posing as himself.He's posing as "Jamie Starr" perhaps Jamie was a smoker,lol

It's a shame you have to point this out lol

JorisE73 said:

peggyon said:

Just my two cents...I had to take more than a double take on this, but these are the characteristics that look like Prince to me...goatee, chest hair, hands, mouth ( he has a generous mouth). I was stumped on the cigarette, though. He is holding the cig like he has experience with smoking.

He really had an array of facial expressions.

People close to him inhis youth said he smoked weed so maybe that's where the experience comes from. On the other hand how hard is it to hold a cigarette 'properly'?

Nobody holds a doobie the way they hold a cigarette.

rdhull said:

SoulAlive said:

We gotta keep in mind,in this picture,Prince isn't posing as himself.He's posing as "Jamie Starr" perhaps Jamie was a smoker,lol

It's a shame you have to point this out lol

SimonCharles said:

I am convinced this is not Prince - it may very well be Prince, there may very well be a host of witnesses who can testify this is Prince, there may very well be a sworn affidavit from Prince confirming this is, indeed, Prince, but this looks like the worst faked photo of the pair ever. To my eyes...and I have no reason to think this other than that, to me, in this photo "Prince" looks the wrong shape...this is not Morris and Prince.

Morris posted this picture on twitter (or FB, can't remember which) and was talking about how he'd miss his brother. He confirmed that it is him and Prince.

Genesia said:

JorisE73 said:

People close to him inhis youth said he smoked weed so maybe that's where the experience comes from. On the other hand how hard is it to hold a cigarette 'properly'?

Nobody holds a doobie the way they hold a cigarette.

I do.

benni said:

SimonCharles said:

I am convinced this is not Prince - it may very well be Prince, there may very well be a host of witnesses who can testify this is Prince, there may very well be a sworn affidavit from Prince confirming this is, indeed, Prince, but this looks like the worst faked photo of the pair ever. To my eyes...and I have no reason to think this other than that, to me, in this photo "Prince" looks the wrong shape...this is not Morris and Prince.

Morris posted this picture on twitter (or FB, can't remember which) and was talking about how he'd miss his brother. He confirmed that it is him and Prince.

I'm slowly coming around to the fact that this may actually be Prince. I mean, I know it isn't really, but it probably is.

SimonCharles said:

benni said:

Morris posted this picture on twitter (or FB, can't remember which) and was talking about how he'd miss his brother. He confirmed that it is him and Prince.

I'm slowly coming around to the fact that this may actually be Prince. I mean, I know it isn't really, but it probably is.

So even when the photographer says it's Prince, you resist?

How inane.

laytonian said:

SimonCharles said:

I'm slowly coming around to the fact that this may actually be Prince. I mean, I know it isn't really, but it probably is.

So even when the photographer says it's Prince, you resist?

How inane.

Just having a laugh, that's all. BUt, yeah, basically...it isn't Prince.

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I even put a "I'm laughing picture thing" with the comment - OMGs.

SimonCharles said:

SimonCharles said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

I can always tell Prince by his chest hair. That's him.

That's oddly specific, but ok.

I spent 8 straight years (puberty through high school) studying pictures and posters of Prince in various states of bare-chested-ness. I just know what I know.

dodger said:

SimonCharles said:

Just having a laugh, that's all. BUt, yeah, basically...it isn't Prince.

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I even put a "I'm laughing picture thing" with the comment - OMGs.

It’s not beyond the realms of possibility the photographer was fooled by a doppelgänger. Morris and P liked playing jokes 🎣

I think we're all ignoring the possibility that Jamie Starr was actually a real person. I mean, some people just like to avoid the limelight, you know? At least he's not out there writing books like some people....

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onlyforaminute said:

My question is why is it hard to believe? We've heard tons of stories of what a jokster Prince was, he's "cough" acted before, do people think his fingers would automatically falloff if he ever touched a cigarette? Is it a generational thing where every single thing has to be laid out in vivid detail. Coming to a conclusion by taking all the information you know a sin now? No wonder anxiety levels are skyrocketing these days. [Edited 4/11/19 17:04pm]

just sayin...he was a non-cigarette smoker who held it like a seasoned tobacco smoker.

peggyon said:

onlyforaminute said:

peggyon said:

just sayin...he was a non-cigarette smoker who held it like a seasoned tobacco smoker.

He wasn't raised in a bubble and holding a cig ain't rocket science. C'mon now y'all

Whatev...

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

SimonCharles said:

That's oddly specific, but ok.

I spent 8 straight years (puberty through high school) studying pictures and posters of Prince in various states of bare-chested-ness. I just know what I know.

That's the kind of dedication to the cause that requires celebration!

dodger said:

SimonCharles said:

Just having a laugh, that's all. BUt, yeah, basically...it isn't Prince.

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I even put a "I'm laughing picture thing" with the comment - OMGs.

It’s not beyond the realms of possibility the photographer was fooled by a doppelgänger. Morris and P liked playing jokes 🎣

Oh, don't do that to me now...I've only just started to concede that it might actually be Prince! (I mean, I know it isn't Prince, of course...)

Mikado said:

dodger said:

SimonCharles said: It’s not beyond the realms of possibility the photographer was fooled by a doppelgänger. Morris and P liked playing jokes 🎣

I think we're all ignoring the possibility that Jamie Starr was actually a real person. I mean, some people just like to avoid the limelight, you know? At least he's not out there writing books like some people....

[Edited 4/11/19 17:20pm]

Of course! That's inspired!

onlyforaminute said:

My question is why is it hard to believe? We've heard tons of stories of what a jokster Prince was, he's "cough" acted before, do people think his fingers would automatically falloff if he ever touched a cigarette? Is it a generational thing where every single thing has to be laid out in vivid detail. Coming to a conclusion by taking all the information you know a sin now? No wonder anxiety levels are skyrocketing these days. [Edited 4/11/19 17:04pm]

It's just the shape of the body and the face don't look like Prince's...I've obviously been fooled by the camera angle and the gurning and the hair.

SimonCharles said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

I spent 8 straight years (puberty through high school) studying pictures and posters of Prince in various states of bare-chested-ness. I just know what I know.

That's the kind of dedication to the cause that requires celebration!

I can relate to the chest-hair studying. He was one sexy dude.

Funny gag pic of Prince & Morris! LOL--what he'd do to set a gag. Miss the bro'!

SimonCharles said: