April 22, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Seven-time Grammy winner and "consummate showman" Prince dies at home in Minnesota at 57.
- Prince’s autopsy is today, six days after he held a Paisley Park dance party to show everyone he was fine.
- Collection of the most ridiculous stories about Prince—who didn’t believe in time and never cried.
- Questlove: When Prince asks you to play Finding Nemo during a DJ set, you have to say "no."
- Last night, Questlove played Finding Nemo during a DJ set to honor Prince.
- See also: Questlove and Eddie Murphy were invited to go roller-skating with Prince, who kept them waiting but didn’t let them down.
- Picturing Prince’s hair over three and a half decades.
- Prince went door-to-door for the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- Pedestrians on a busy crosswalk become motion blurs, creating new city backgrounds.
- Michael Chabon on Prince's passing: "I looked to him like you look to a clocktower."
- Looking into Prince’s eyes must be like looking at the world. Or, more specifically, the world of one black man loving another.
- Prince was a hitmaker, but much of his business efforts went into controlling every aspect of his songs' distribution.
- Prince was only 50 pages into writing his memoirs, planned for fall 2017.
- Prince’s 40 biggest Billboard hits.
- Spotify won't release streaming data on “Stare,” the only song Prince allowed the company to stream.
- In 2001, Prince was already showing his passion for new ways of distributing music online.
- Lessons learned from rewatching Purple Rain.
- Unpopular but true: Prince believed in chemtrails.
- Also unpopular: Prince started making homophobic comments after becoming a Jehovah's Witness.
- "How a Local Radio Station Became the World’s Prince Memorial."
- In-depth look at 1982's Dirty Mind, which allowed Prince to cross over as a rock’n’roll star.
- When Prince finally sanctioned that “Creep” cover video, he unleashed a small miracle on the world.
- Contents of Prince's fridge.
