Apparently it was Dhani Harrison who extended the invitation to Prince to play at the show. Dhani was a huge Prince fan.

ANOTHERLOVE is recent and, for me, easily ranks right up there with his best work. Impossible to rank them (how many #1 can you have on a list from 1-300?), but it’s in there.

Prince just had the foresight to throw it to himself in heaven so he could catch it some 12 years later.

That’s his version of “dropping the mic.” Only difference is, no one is worthy of touching a guitar that Prince “blessed...”

Coming up from a split, swinging the guitar to the front, and breaking into the riff? So cool. One of the coolest moves from the greatest performer I ever saw.

You mean Dhani Harrison? Spittin’ image of his dad George.

That move where he gets humped by a pile of men and pops up out of the splits playing the guitar? Coolest ever.

YES. This performance is exactly what made my mom tell me I couldn’t watch MTV anymore. I was 8. She made me watch VH1 instead and I didn’t care too much because they still played Prince.

As far as I'm concerned that's a true story, whether it actually happened or not.

Have heard an apocryphal story where someone asked Eric Clapton what it felt like to be the greatest guitar player on the planet. His response: “I don’t know. Ask Prince.”

It gets kind of lost behind his lyrics, his persona, and the drama that has always sort of surrounded him, but it's worth noting that Prince was one of the greatest guitar players of this or any other generation. That cover is instantly elevated the moment his starts his solo. And that strut off the stage after he…

Can you please re-post the clip from when he fucking tore apart SNL last year. Can’t seem to find that anywhere.

The way people speak of Mozart now is how they’ll speak of Prince in 200 years. I’m only slightly exaggerating.

Transcendent is a good descriptor. Seems so strange to think we've now lost three transcendent figures in a few short months: Prince, Garry Shandling and David Bowie.

He had the balls to cover Joni Mitchell....and fucking killed it. (“A Case of You”)

He was legitimately transcendent. Like...there are no words. He’ll be one of those people look back on in 20 years and go “wait, how did you guys get gifted this?” Also I loved how he always played covers of other people’s stuff and would put a hell of a spin on them like Foo Fighters at that Super Bowl show.

I saw him play at Paisley Park years ago. Not only did he tear it up, but he also cooked grilled cheese for people after.

It’s been grey and raining all day in the Twin Cities. And God as my witness, right now the sky is purple. Unreal.

a musician so superhuman that he was convincingly able to go by a single name even though that name is also a word

As a child of the 80's and MTV this is crushing. Prince and Madonna seemed like they were MTV and all of pop culture.