This is cool. Nice way to keep honoring him. BTW, out of curiosity I just happened to read some of the comments below in that section and some of those readers clearly don't appear to be P fans.

That's great! Prince made it known how much he loved Minnesota, and it was nice to know that he loved the fair. Personally, I've always thought that Prince showed more love for Minnesota than Minnesota did for him, because it seems like he wasn't that big of a deal to them, until after his death, when they really saw how big he was, and how much he meant to the world. Only then did it seem that Minnesota realized just what they had in their midst. Now, I could be wrong, but that's how it always seemed to me.

looby said:

That's great! Prince made it known how much he loved Minnesota, and it was nice to know that he loved the fair. Personally, I've always thought that Prince showed more love for Minnesota than Minnesota did for him, because it seems like he wasn't that big of a deal to them, until after his death, when they really saw how big he was, and how much he meant to the world. Only then did it seem that Minnesota realized just what they had in their midst. Now, I could be wrong, but that's how it always seemed to me.

I think it's more of an situation where Prince didn't want to be treated as someone special when he was out and about in Minneapolis and the residents honored that request. There were times when he would be shopping at the mall and folks might say 'Hey, Prince.' to him but they didn't mob him. He was able to live a somewhat normal life in 'his' city like riding his bike to the parks, etc. This is why he made Minneapolis his home. Also that the cold kept 'all of the bad people out'.

kingricefan said:

looby said:

That's great! Prince made it known how much he loved Minnesota, and it was nice to know that he loved the fair. Personally, I've always thought that Prince showed more love for Minnesota than Minnesota did for him, because it seems like he wasn't that big of a deal to them, until after his death, when they really saw how big he was, and how much he meant to the world. Only then did it seem that Minnesota realized just what they had in their midst. Now, I could be wrong, but that's how it always seemed to me.

I think it's more of an situation where Prince didn't want to be treated as someone special when he was out and about in Minneapolis and the residents honored that request. There were times when he would be shopping at the mall and folks might say 'Hey, Prince.' to him but they didn't mob him. He was able to live a somewhat normal life in 'his' city like riding his bike to the parks, etc. This is why he made Minneapolis his home. Also that the cold kept 'all of the bad people out'.

Yes and I loved that he stayed in his hometown and didn't go "all Hollywood". I think it kept him grounded and focused on concentrating on his craft of music and not get distracted by the fame.