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The World Mourns A Prince

Paris Harlem. LA Minneapolis. New York. Throw on your purple. Prince lives in the path of the stars. In The Purple Rain Nebula To hear PURPLE RAIN, please go to this URL

PRINCE RIP

Prince’s first show was at the Minneapolis’ Capri Theater on January 5, 1979. Throughout his long career the rock star performed his music at 1,332 concerts. I was lucky enough to catch his Palladium gig in December 1981. Richie Boy, my coke connection, and I was walking down West 14th Street and the concert hall’s […]

Prince Turns 50

In December of 1982 I was walking down East 14th Street with Richie Boy Winick. Our destination was a nightclub or a bar in the neighborhood. Passing under the marquee of the Palladium, I spotted Benji was at the ropes of the concert hall. I had worked with the portly Jamaican at Arthur Weinstein’s infamous after-hour […]