The album of the week has to be Purple Rain by Prince, following the sad announcement of his death yesterday at age 57. If I had been writing my blog daily this week, Purple Rain, the single, would have followed Manic Monday. I am not going to say paragraph on paragraph about each song as I feel that Social Media, News sites and Twitter are doing that already. I am to give you two bits of trivial that I have on Prince.(1) We shared the same birthday - 7th June, both Gemini. Please don't worry I am not going to say something weird like I can call the spirit of Prince, but I always thought it was cool that I had such a talented musician born on my birthday, who had respect and showed the world that you don't have to be tall to make your presence felt.
(2) If I had to pick one Prince song, it would be Darling Nikki as this song reminds me of being on holiday in the West Coast of Scotland as a teenage. Again, the faith mix tape was presence, of course belonging to my sister, and this song would be played against the backdrop of some of the most beautiful mountains of Scotland. I could imagine Nikki being in a remote castle and looking like a gothic vamp. It is one of those songs that you can allow your imagination get carried away. A writer's paradise was to be found in his lyrics of nearly all his songs.
Over the next week, there is going to be a bit of a Prince Tribute going on in the Jukebox as Prince was an iconic of music, and like David Bowie, you just wonder where the music scene would be today without in and you know no one can fill the gap he has now left.
Prince's Purple Rain
