Boy the music business is taking an ass kicking in 2016. Glenn Frey, David Bowie, Maurice White and Merle Haggard. And now Prince. So many great talents gone.
Almost all of us can say we have driven down the road, in the summer, windows open, with a Prince song blaring. Just a few days ago my kids were laughing because I did just that to Raspberry Beret.
I think we are so shocked when a celebrity dies because we imagine they are larger than life. Somehow they will live forever. This is most evident in Elvis and Michael Jackson fans. Graceland is sacred ground and I'm sure Neverland Ranch would have been the same had the Jackson estate kept it.
The outpouring of love yesterday for Prince shows just how much music and movies can affect us. These artists are strangers to us. And yet their passing fills us with sadness and a sense of real loss.
So in his own immortal words........
Dearly beloved,
we are gathered here today
to get through this thing
called life.
-Prince
Ang
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