Probably one of my favorite Prince stories

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o9iVXxFt1Wg

Nominate Him for Sainthood!

Anonymous wrote:I love the fact that he worked with and promoted the careers of so many female musicians.

YES!!!

He was an enigma though because his performances were so different from his interviews. I wonder if he used drugs to enhance his performances. In an interview, he denied to Barbara Walters that he was shy, but he seemed soft spoken and said he had his quiet moments. He definitely acted shy when he was 19 in an interview with Dick Clark. If OD'ing does wind up being the cause of death, we may never know what prompted him to take the drugs, whether it was hip pain or something else.

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Anonymous wrote:He was never a person into drinking and drugs
He may have become addicted to pain medicine, but was not an addiction borne of hard partying that included recreational drug use.
He was known for deliberately steering clear of people who use drugs.
He kicked Vanity out of Purple Rain due to her drug use!!

Yeah, I never got the impression that he was a druggie/heavy drinker. Too vibrant, too much energy and just always spot on with his vocals, instruments, dancing. I don't think he could have done what he did if he had had drug/drinking issues.

I also think that the addiction stemmed from a *need* for the pain killers. His body was hurting.

This. All the way.

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Anonymous wrote:It was probably hard to feel euphoric at his age (without drugs) after all the success he had, especially after a long MN winter. I wonder if he had seasonal affective disorder? The sad thing is his demise was probably a result of his fame and performances for the fans doing the splits. I don't get why people close to him didn't know or do anything about it until it was too late, unless he was avoiding getting treatment for whatever reason.

Are you kidding? If he was addicted to pain medication it was a result of a physical ailment this man wasn't partying hard and using drugs. Do you know anything about Prince, a highly religious Jehovah's Witness. There were songs from his early career, darling Nikki etc. that he wouldn't even perform anymore.
Dude was not out drinking and drugging.

If you read the 'forgotten' Rolling Stone interview from 2014, he was practically a monk.

Anonymous wrote:He was never a person into drinking and drugs
He may have become addicted to pain medicine, but was not an addiction borne of hard partying that included recreational drug use.
He was known for deliberately steering clear of people who use drugs.
He kicked Vanity out of Purple Rain due to her drug use!!

Yeah, I never got the impression that he was a druggie/heavy drinker. Too vibrant, too much energy and just always spot on with his vocals, instruments, dancing. I don't think he could have done what he did if he had had drug/drinking issues.

I also think that the addiction stemmed from a *need* for the pain killers. His body was hurting.

Anonymous wrote:There wasn't a party the night he died. He was home alone after the chef left and didn't eat his dinner. Supposedly he wasn't even much of a partier. You have to realize there is the image of Prince and the real man which were two different things. I think he changed his ways and he was no longer a spring chicken or a partier, but old habits die hard. No pun intended.

That's right. I heard that about him not eating his dinner. Sounds like he just wasn't feeling good and had lost his appetite. Maybe with no food on his stomach the medication he took was just too much that night. I'm 50 and 57 is not that old as long as you're feeling good. He wasn't feeling good . I never partied with Prince of course and I never met him but I often partied to his music over the years. Danced to his songs last weekend as a matter of fact .

He was never a person into drinking and drugs
He may have become addicted to pain medicine, but was not an addiction borne of hard partying that included recreational drug use.
He was known for deliberately steering clear of people who use drugs.
He kicked Vanity out of Purple Rain due to her drug use!!

There wasn't a party the night he died. He was home alone after the chef left and didn't eat his dinner. Supposedly he wasn't even much of a partier. You have to realize there is the image of Prince and the real man which were two different things. I think he changed his ways and he was no longer a spring chicken or a partier, but old habits die hard. No pun intended.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight at 6:07PM it will be 7 hours and 13 days since prince died, which is also the opening line to his hit song Nothing Compares 2 U. Radio stations will simultaneously broadcast the song at 6:07pm this evening. Not sure which of our local stations are participating.

http://meredith.worldnow.com/story/31888286/radio-stations-to-simulcast-princes-nothing-compares-2-u-nationwide-wednesday

Thank you -- I listened and cried like a baby. Thank you and soar on, Prince.

OMG, that was amazing. He was a f'ing genius. I am sooooo sorry I never got to see him live. As for everyone talking about addiction & addicts - I can guarantee you that not a single person alive aspires to addiction. And I'd also bet everything I have that any addict would rather be clean. I don't know if he was addicted or not. I don't care one way or the other except to feel incredible compassion for him and the pain (mental, physical, whatever) that he must have been in.

PRINCE FAN GIRL HERE. sorry for screaming, but the line is "It's been 7 HOURS and 15 days..."

Nothing compares 2u

No. It is 7 hours and 13 days. Sinead changed the lyrics in her rendition.

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Anonymous wrote:It was probably hard to feel euphoric at his age (without drugs) after all the success he had, especially after a long MN winter. I wonder if he had seasonal affective disorder? The sad thing is his demise was probably a result of his fame and performances for the fans doing the splits. I don't get why people close to him didn't know or do anything about it until it was too late, unless he was avoiding getting treatment for whatever reason.

Are you kidding? If he was addicted to pain medication it was a result of a physical ailment this man wasn't partying hard and using drugs. Do you know anything about Prince, a highly religious Jehovah's Witness. There were songs from his early career, darling Nikki etc. that he wouldn't even perform anymore.
Dude was not out drinking and drugging.

I bet this is true. The problem with drugs that are opiate based is that it doesn't matter if you take them for pain or because you are partying. Your brain chemistry changes and you need the drugs or you will go into horrible withdrawal. This is also why there is a huge heroin epidemic in our country. Heroin is morphine. It is very sad that Prince died this way. The one benefit would be for people to recognize how many people die everyday from oxy pulls or heroin. My relative died from heroin and she started with pills. It is a tragic epidemic in our country.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight at 6:07PM it will be 7 hours and 13 days since prince died, which is also the opening line to his hit song Nothing Compares 2 U. Radio stations will simultaneously broadcast the song at 6:07pm this evening. Not sure which of our local stations are participating.

http://meredith.worldnow.com/story/31888286/radio-stations-to-simulcast-princes-nothing-compares-2-u-nationwide-wednesday

Thank you -- I listened and cried like a baby. Thank you and soar on, Prince.

OMG, that was amazing. He was a f'ing genius. I am sooooo sorry I never got to see him live. As for everyone talking about addiction & addicts - I can guarantee you that not a single person alive aspires to addiction. And I'd also bet everything I have that any addict would rather be clean. I don't know if he was addicted or not. I don't care one way or the other except to feel incredible compassion for him and the pain (mental, physical, whatever) that he must have been in.

PRINCE FAN GIRL HERE. sorry for screaming, but the line is "It's been 7 HOURS and 15 days..."

Nothing compares 2u

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Anonymous wrote:It was probably hard to feel euphoric at his age (without drugs) after all the success he had, especially after a long MN winter. I wonder if he had seasonal affective disorder? The sad thing is his demise was probably a result of his fame and performances for the fans doing the splits. I don't get why people close to him didn't know or do anything about it until it was too late, unless he was avoiding getting treatment for whatever reason.

Are you kidding? If he was addicted to pain medication it was a result of a physical ailment this man wasn't partying hard and using drugs. Do you know anything about Prince, a highly religious Jehovah's Witness. There were songs from his early career, darling Nikki etc. that he wouldn't even perform anymore.
Dude was not out drinking and drugging.

I've heard that he had a big party the night that he died. I don't know if that's true or not but I would be sort of surprised if Prince had totally given up partying - doesn't really seem like his personality. I doubt that he drank much because of his size alone. But I don't know that he wasn't doing other stuff. I don't really need to know that either.

I do think that Prince still liked to have fun and that was getting harder and harder for him to do given the pain that he was in.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think cocaine is a pain med.

And I don't think that was the cause of death was it?