gypsy tail windKeine Ahnung, ob wir den Link schon hatten … toller Nachruf von Greg Tate:
http://www.mtv.com/news/2872859/prince-a-eulogy/
Ich habe den Nachruf nicht komplett gelesen. Aber es ist toll – und im Nachhinein völlig klar! – das Greg Tate Prince in die Reihe der afro-amerikanischen Musik-Aristokratie stellt. Zu den Counts, Dukes und Kings kam der Prince dazu. So kann man Prince noch mal in anderem Zusammenhang sehen und hören.
„Then again, your government name was meant to be aristocratic confidence-booster enough. I got a boychile comin’ / He’s gonna be a sonuva gun. Papa Nelson was clearly feeling mighty prophetic, cocksure his progeny would justify being declared at birth a knight of The Realm — that anointed place, unambivalently sacred and profane, liturgical and low-down, where Dukes, Counts, Barons, Sun Gods named Ra, and three guitar-strangling Kings abounded.
He gonna make pretty women jump and shout / Then the world wanna know, what’s this all about …„
Genau genommen zähle ich aber 4 guitar-strangling Kings und einen weiteren King, der allerdings weiß war. 
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“There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death. Conjuring spirits from the past and the future. This gift can bring healing—but it can also attract demons.” (From the movie Sinners by Ryan Coogler)