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最早我是在《Music Heaven》杂志上了解到有Prince这号人的，当时的选曲是这个（点击音乐条即可进入播放界面查看歌词）： 杂志的编辑介绍说，你们看迈克尔杰克逊的太空步很炫很牛B是吗，告诉你们，Prince大人简直就是体操高手转行唱歌，舞台上没有他做不出来的动作！下面这段视频是纯音乐版的《When Doves Cry》，看看此公的舞台表现： Prince去世的消息震惊了世界流行乐坛，连白宫也发了声明表示哀悼： Prince音乐生涯的“一生之敌”是迈克尔杰克逊，令我们欣慰的是两人还曾经有过同台演出，这是1983年的事，重点在4分钟开始： 最后我们再来听听Prince的两首经典名曲： ------------------------ Prince去世的新闻报道，标题： Prince Rushed To Hospital After Plane Emergency Landing Prince was rushed to the hospital early Friday after his plane made an emergency landing in Illinois. Now there’s conflicting information about the severity of his condition. Prince was onboard a private jet when something necessitated the plane to land at Quad City International Airport in Moline around 1 a.m. local time. The music icon was then rushed to the hospital via ambulance. It’s unclear, however, if he suffered a medical emergency during the flight, or was injured during an unexpected landing. In fact, TMZ is reporting that while one source says he is still hospitalized and “not doing well,” another maintains that he’s fine and has already been released. Gossip Cop is attempting to obtain accurate information. Oddly, Prince’s Twitter account was updated three times on Friday. At 11:33 a.m., a message was posted reading, “I am #transformed.” Two subsequent tweets were reviews of his Thursday night concert in Atlanta. The music legend was returning from the city when the reported flight incident occurred. Prince has been on his “Piano & A Microphone Tour.” His Georgia show was originally scheduled for last week, but had been postponed after he came down with the flu. Gossip Cop will update as soon as more information becomes available. ------------------------ Prince生平与成就综述文章，标题： Remembering Prince, a prodigy and provocateur He was a prodigy, a provocateur and a complete game-changer in popular music. It would be difficult to imagine, in fact, what pop and R&B would sound like today had Prince, who died on Thursday at 57, had never recorded or performed. Like all great artists, Prince was himself a synthesizer of influences; his ranged from Sly Stone to Joni Mitchell to Todd Rundgren. The music he produced as a result — as a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist — defied genre, blending a mastery of pop hooks and funk grooves on singles that could be as lush as Purple Rain, as muscular and rocking as Let's Go Crazy and as ferociously propulsive as When Doves Cry — and that was just on one album, 1984's commercial behemoth Purple Rain. Prince performs at the 10th Anniversary Essence Music Festival at the Superdome on July 2, 2004 in New Orleans. The Minnesota native — who kept living and working in Minneapolis, at his Paisley Park Studios —released his first album, For You, at 19. From the start, his songs were as notable for their flouting of sexual taboos as they were for their crackling musicality, as subsequent titles such as Dirty Mind and Controversy suggested. 1983's 1999 — his first album to feature The Revolution, one of several outfits he would lead — offered the sly Let's Pretend We're Married and the charging, metaphor-driven Little Red Corvette. Not long after that, the Parents Music Resource Center (co-founded by Tipper Gore) cited Darling Nikki, from Purple Rain, in objections to content that eventually led to the use of parental-advisory labels. A film accompanying Purple Rain, and sharing its title, introduced Prince as an actor and multi-media superstar. 1986's Under the Cherry Moon was less well-received as a movie, though its soundtrack, the album Parade, produced a chart-topping smash in the oft-sampled Kiss. 1987's Sign O' The Times, released as a solo album, marked a critical high point and yielded a few popular singles, including U Got The Look, which paired him with Sheena Easton. Prince collaborated with and championed female musicians throughout his career, among them singer/percussionist Sheila E. and the Revolution's Susanna and Wendy Melvoin (who also contributed to Times). His appreciation of women as artists and, well, women, combined with his own androgynous sex appeal, marked the most unique and striking approach to gender that pop music had seen since David Bowie. In the '90s, Prince's struggles with his record company earned as much attention as his music; he began appearing with the word "slave" marked on his face, and briefly changed his name to a wordless symbol. But he remained prolific in the studio and as a writer and performer, delivering live shows renowned for their energy and prowess. More recently, the social consciousness that had figured into his music became more prominent. His 2015 song Baltimore responded to the death of Freddie Gray and other racially charged events with a positive, indeed exuberant spirit. Prince's productivity never waned; last year he released Hit N Run as two albums, as Phase One and Phase Two, and he had announced in March he was working on a memoir, due next year. Prince broke the news himself at a Manhattan club, where he also performed, naturally. A press release for the project described it as "an unconventional and poetic journey" — as Prince's life and art were, to our benefit. © |
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