From New York Times:
Prince, the singularly flamboyant and prolific songwriter and performer whose decades of music transcended and remade genres like funk, rock and R&B, died on Thursday at his Paisley Park studio and estate in Minnesota, according to The Associated Press. He was 57.
Across a career of more than 35 years, Prince released 39 albums while being lauded not only for his songs, but their visual presentation both onstage and on camera. His 1984 film “Purple Rain” is widely considered one of the best and most influential music films ever, while its accompanying soundtrack spawned the No. 1 hits “Let’s Go Crazy” and “When Doves Cry.” He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
This is a major loss for Pop Music!!
Good Morning Gloucester 
I am still in shock over this, what a huge loss. TMZ broke the story, I saw it online a few minutes later and didn’t want to believe it, but they do break a lot of major stories and they are usually accurate. Just devastating for the music industry and personally have been a fan since i was a teenager. Luckily got to see him perform at Mohegan Sun a few years ago, it was a different type of show, he basically was jamming with the band and not playing a lot of hit hits, did brief medleys of some, but you could tell he was so happy just jamming with the band.
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so very sad.. really loved his music and Prince ..
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He sure could play too and was very popular music coming up! It’s not what you have it’s what you leave behind for other’s to carry forward! 🙂 Dave & Kim 🙂
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