Another One Gone !

[bazwillrun]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3552300/Fatality-Prince-s-estate-Minnesota-days-musician-rushed-hospital.html.....

[wolf63]

That was a shock. I knew that he had been unwell but this is still a surprise.

[ummmm]

Shocking.

[Mamyalynne]

RIP Prince.

[jourdain2]

I sort of noticed him (couldn't name a song), but he was another who is terribly young to have died. RIP. Not a good year so far for actors and entertainers.

[mikey4444]

I don't listen to pop music these days, but he did seem to be very popular.

Never understood though, why he called himself the artist formally known as Prince.

[Old_Geezer]

Marketing ploy. Act daft & mysterious and the yooth will lap it up (or a large portion of them).

[chelle7272]

//Never understood though, why he called himself the artist formally known as Prince. //

Formerly known. After he changed his name to a symbol after dispute with his record company Warner bros.

[mikey4444]

I think OG has it right here. But its a shame that he died so comparatively young.

[dave50]

Why do people weep at the death of someone they dont know?

[ummmm]

It's not the person, it's the artist.

[fiction-factory]

Do they? I don't know anyone who has cried at the death of Prince, Bowie. Wogan, Corbett,- but I suppose someone who grew up at the same time and was influenced by them and followed them closely throughout their life might shed a tear as they realise things will never be quite the same again for them and maybe it's their turn next

[sandyRoe]

Dave50, ask not for whom the bell tolls

[anotheoldgit]

fiction-factory

/// but I suppose someone who grew up at the same time and was influenced by them and followed them closely throughout their life might shed a tear as they realise things will never be quite the same again for
them ///

Yes but surely unless one has personal contact with them, they will in a way never die, seeing that one can listen to their voice on CD or see them preform on DVD etc.

[fiction-factory]

I said "might" and I must be right because some do

[anotheoldgit]

dave50

/// Why do people weep at the death of someone they dont know? ///

fiction-factory

/// Do they? ///

Yes.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/21/22/336A979300000578-3552300-image-m-91_1461274027378.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/21/22/336A80A600000578-3552300-image-a-92_1461274040756.jpg

Just answering your question, you understand?

[fiction-factory]

I'm glad we're all in agreement. I think there is an other category- some who are obsessed.
And it needn't be someone famous. I think at some stage nearly allof us have shed a tear at something in a fiim (though it's not real) or on the news (eg when those two young girls' bodies were found in Soham)

[Cloverjo]

I can't help getting a bit weepy during awards ceremonies when they show pictures of people in their industry who have died that year, even though I didn't know them.

[Prudie]

I do that too cloverjo but I think that's very much driven by the accompanying music played as the pics pop up. I probably wouldn't well up if it was done in silence.

[retrocop]

Never knew his music. Not someone I will be crying in my beer for tonight. Looked a bit freakish from what I saw on the news.Wonder what the cause of death was for someone relatively young.

[retrocop]

One time,I confess, I hadn't read the link first.Oh well now I have I am not surprised. Self inflicted OD by the look of it.