I was at an auto dealer buying a car, a friend sent a text to see if I'd heard the news. I just replied "is it Prince?" and he said "yeah, sorry man".

I later smashed that car up pretty bad, always felt it was jinxed

At my machine in work, my m8 texted me........not very exiting

In my car driving back to my farm. At first I thought it was a hoax.........

Teaching (4th grade) ELA lesson. Students were coming back from lunch/recess. My sister sent me a text. Usually I don't answer my phone in class but I saw it was from my sister and figured that it was an emergency, which it was. I read the text message and just had to sit down for what seemed like forever!! The students asked if I was okay and I had to give the students 30-45 minutes of work so that I could compose myself. That last 2 hours of the school day was slow. Like slow motion.

Yup. I was here on the org that morning. An orger posted that an ambulance had just arrived at Paisley Park. I didn't think much of it (thought it might have been a staff member) and went to the gym. Came home later and my mother texted me the news. I knew she was telling me the truth because she was the first one who told me about MJ's passing....I tried to go back on the org, but I couldn't get on. Turned on CNN and my phone started blowing up with texts.

In a tree, then I started getting texts

On my way to a job interview

I was at home, playing with my 7 year old son, when my mother called me. My mam always called me with stuff she heard and then ask me: "Did you hear about this/that?" I mostly knew already, especially about Prince, and then we would laugh about that. "You knew already again. When will there be something you don't know already about Prince?" Now she "surprised" me with that question. I answered I didn't know, curious about her news. Just when my mother started to tell her "news", my wife starts yelling something at me. Me being annoyed by the confusion asked what the hell they were trying to tell me and they both say "Prince is dead!"................................ It felt like they both hit me with a brick in the face. After a few mumbles I hung up the phone and went online, to the Org to search for news.

When the news was confirmed and sank in, I went downstairs and told my wife and son. Then I sort of broke down and started to cry, telling my son I wanted to take him to a Prince show so much and that that dream was never going to happen. Shitty days!

Anyway, I took my son to the cinema for Sign O' The Times and went to several NPG shows in the years coming. I keep a movie clip of my son on my phone when the NPG is finishing Days Of Wild. The sheer euphoric joy on his face is one of my dearest moments. Never seen him happier.

herb4 said:

On my way to a job interview

That must have been horrible.

Genesia said:

herb4 said:

On my way to a job interview

That must have been horrible.

That's only part of it. My wife had filed for divorce 2 days earlier. Good times.

I used to think 2016 was the worst year of my life but 2020 is giving it a run for its money.

Oh...BTW...I got the job but it was only temporary

No, I don't remember. I don't remember where I was on 9/11 either.

I was at work and was pretty busy so I wasn't checking the internet or Facebook.

My buddy texted me with a cryptic "Dude, Prince?" and I immediately hopped online to read the news. The news reports were very vague at that moment, saying only that someone had been found unresponsive at Paisley Park.

Not that I would've wanted anyone else to die that day, but I remember hoping that it wasn't Prince. I felt that it was a party-goer who maybe indulged too much or something like that.

Saddest of days when the news actually broke that it was Prince. I felt like going home, but I finished out the day.

I was sitting on my couch and got a text from a friend saying "I'm sorry man". I had no idea what he was talking about at first. Then when he told me I looked it up online to be sure. Then the TV show I was watching was interrupted by the news. My wife was on her phone with a friend. I looked at her and said "Prince died". She told her friend "I gotta go". Even though she isn't a fan she knows how much time and money I have invested in Prince and she stopped what she was doing so she could just hug me while I sorted out what was happening in my mind. It felt kind of weird for me to mourn for so long a person I never met.

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FunkiestOne said:

No, I don't remember. I don't remember where I was on 9/11 either.

I'm English in the UK and remember where I was for 9/11. I was off sick, sitting on my sofa and watching TV when the news broke.

I read about the Moline incident on here a week before he died but like everyone else I did not know how serious it was believing it was just a flu like they told us. His death came totally unexpected and really hit me hard.

I was at home having a great time listening to Primal Screams "Some Velvet Morning" several times in a row. Then I opened my favorite news site Spiegel Online like i do several times a day and there it was: Breaking News Prince is Dead. Of course it was big shock and I went to the Org but could not access it.

None of my friends who knew i was a big fan texted or phoned me and I dont think even my Partner did really understand what Prince meant to me. It was like a part of my youth broke away and i was pretty much alone in my grief.

Not very exciting but thats how it was.

Heard it on twitter. Clearly doumbfounded.

But like someone who posted earler, It also didnt hit me REAL hard until a year or two later when I randomly heard "Love We Make"....especially where he says "Put down the needle, put down the spoon". Everytime I hear that and "Still Would Stand All Time" I get emotional.

To theplejades, Post #46

"None of my friends who knew i was a big fan texted or phoned me"

Ain't that a Bitch! To your so-called friends. I would have and I don't even know you!

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I was at Home and off of work when I heard the Terrible news....

I was at home and noticed that Prince was trending on Twitter, clicked on the hastag and read the news. I tried to visit here, but the site was down because of all the traffic. I cried so much - his death is the ony celebrity's death that has made me cry. He helped me get through my teenage years and beyond. Comeback is even more special to me since his death.

theplejades said:

theplejades said:

I had been to a "job interview" which was a formality, in reality. I was taking the light rail home & as usual, it was a very sunny, very bright day in the Denver metropolitan area. just flipping through my phone. 1 of the apps I have on the phone is for the NY Post, & from that app I get notifications for "major news" stories, sports updates & entertainment news.

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the text simply popped up on my phone. maybe around or after 12 noon mountain time.

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"Prince dead at 57"

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I saw it, I read it. I blinked. as if I didn't believe what I'd just read.

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my head & upper body jolted back.

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after I read it there, I checked yahoo, CNN.

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same news.

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it took several days for the news to sink in.

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about a week later, I heard 1 of his songs - maybe "snows in April?" - that's when I lost it. I cried off & on for weeks. certain songs & certain memories would simply get to me.

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I too remember it as if it were yesterday.

6pm in London, on the underground, in between stations, at an open air station so checked my phone and it showed TMZ with the headline 'Prince dead at 57'. I wasn't surprised at the timing as I feared the worst after hearing about the emergency plane landing but I was shocked at Prince dying and said "oh no!" out loud and teared up.