“You know the time when I will retire? When I can hear them nail a lid on my box. And then I’ll f***ing do an encore. I’m the Prince of Darkness.” – Ozzy OsbourneRead more
“Otis Redding was a natural prince. When you were with him, he communicated love and a tremendous faith in human possibility, a promise that great and happy events were coming.” – Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records, at Otis Redding’s funeral, December, 1967Read more
Prince had thousands of unreleased songs in a vault to which he’d forgotten the combination. After he died, a professional safecracker had to be hired to break into it.Read more
Maceo Parker, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, also played with Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s & Prince in the 2000s.Read more
James Brown once spotted Prince and Michael Jackson in his audience and got them on stage to perform. There is video footage.Read more
Rick James reportedly stole Prince’s specially-programmed synthesizers & used them on his own 1981 album “Street Songs” then mailed it back with a thank you note.Read more
At the end of production of Prince’s movie “Purple Rain”, the director asked for one more song to tie the movie’s theme together; By morning, Prince had written “When Doves Cry”, singing & playing all instruments on the track. It rocketed to #1.Read more
