While My Guitar Gently Weeps

“While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” written by George Harrison, performed by Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, Prince, et al., at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 2004, re-edited by director Joel Gallen to focus on Prince’s astounding guitar solo.

More:

“Director’s cut of Prince blowing minds on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ now has more Prince,” Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times

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Prince, Unplugged

Prince plays a medley of his tunes on MTV Unplugged. The audience sings along, and he stops them with a glance when they get it wrong.

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Prince & Kate Bush: ‘My Computer’

Prince Rogers Nelson (1958 – 2016) started with personal computers in the early 1980s, and used the PC as a metaphor in 1983’s “Computer Blue” before writing a song about online dating (“Emale“) and dropping a few more computer references in other tunes. At times Prince mistakes his own computer’s memory for the Internet, which seems a natural consequence of a vast imagination.

Prince and Kate Bush recorded “My Computer” in 1996. It starts and ends with AOL audio prompts:

‘Good-night, sweet prince ….’

Version from the “Purple Rain” film soundtrack  here.

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”
– Hamlet, Act V Scene ii

Prince Rogers Nelson, June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016.

More:

“Prince Dead at 57,” Kory Grow, Rolling Stone

“Fans leave flowers, touch Prince’s star on First Avenue’s wall,” Katie Humphrey and Emma Nelson, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“Beyond Raspberry Berets: What Prince Left Behind,” Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian

“We’ll Never Understand Prince, and That’s Why We Love Him, Brian Raftery, Wired

“Tributes to Prince spring up across the US,” Associated Press

“Purple Pain: World Front Pages Mourn Prince’s Death,” Worldcrunch

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