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The artist formerly known as Prince
« on: April 21, 2016, 06:22:48 PM »
What the hell is going on this year I do not know ... Prince has died suddenly aged 57: http://goo.gl/7blSvG
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2016, 06:33:49 PM »
Good grief.  :(
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2016, 06:49:04 PM »
2016 The year of the Icons..
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2016, 07:32:40 PM »
Quote from: Shaker on April 21, 2016, 06:22:48 PM
What the hell is going on this year I do not know ... Prince has died suddenly aged 57: http://goo.gl/7blSvG

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« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2016, 07:36:13 PM »
Apart from feeling sadness at the passing of these icons my concern is that it is our own age that is significant here.

A lot of them, we spent many of our younger years listening too.

Like the stones, Alice cooper etc and some of them are at least 20 years older than some of us.

 :(

I have this hunch every generation sees its icons start dying off.
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2016, 05:55:59 AM »
It is quite shocking.  Prince was found in a lift apparently, poor soul.  RIP our prince.
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2016, 07:24:21 AM »
Quote from: Shaker on April 21, 2016, 06:22:48 PM
What the hell is going on this year I do not know ... Prince has died suddenly aged 57: http://goo.gl/7blSvG

There was a comment in one of the papers yeaterday that the toll is unlikely to slow as a result of the fifties baby-boom and it is those born during that time that are now dying.

If this is true that arts and entertainment worlds are going to be decimated over the next couple of years.

What an horrenous thought
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2016, 10:48:38 AM »
Quote from: Owlswing on April 22, 2016, 07:24:21 AM

What an horrenous thought

Sorry to have to break it to you, but we all die eventually.
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2016, 11:23:58 AM »
We seem to be in the middle of a long-running obituary. 

I didn't realize that Prince hated Youtube, so it is full of [video deleted] under his name.

Well, he was a prodigy.  He could play almost any instrument, played the guitar like ringing a bell, wrote songs by the ton, played jazz, funk, pop, rock.   

Just listening to his guitar playing on 'While my guitar gently weeps', a tour de force, and it is on youtube.   
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2016, 11:27:34 AM »
Dear Jeremyp,

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Sorry to have to break it to you, but we all die eventually.

What!! Next you will telling me I can't escape taxes, Mr Cameron has views on this >:(

RIP Mr Prince, I was never a fan but listening to all your fans, you certainly helped a lot of people through some hard times.

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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2016, 01:33:04 PM »
Quote from: Gonnagle on April 22, 2016, 11:27:34 AM
RIP Mr Prince, I was never a fan ...
Likewise, but its hard not to accept that he was a huge influence on music, fashion and art.  Whether as much of one as the early rock'n'rollers, the Beatles, etc. is hard to tell, but significant.
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2016, 01:34:24 PM »
Quote from: Owlswing on April 22, 2016, 07:24:21 AM
There was a comment in one of the papers yeaterday that the toll is unlikely to slow as a result of the fifties baby-boom and it is those born during that time that are now dying.

If this is true that arts and entertainment worlds are going to be decimated over the next couple of years.

What an horrenous thought
If they are decimated, it still leaves 90% of them, Owl.
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2016, 04:05:56 PM »
I'm alright then, just managed to squeeze into the 1940s (31st Dec '49);  floo was born a couple of weeks later, Jan '50, so she'd better watch out!

Seriously, it has been a bad year so far and I wonder, who will we hear of next?  Yet people die all the time, we just don't know of them, so it probably isn't that remarkable, just coincidental that so many are famous.

I just heard that Prince converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2001 and that really surprised me.  I wouldn't have thought he was the religious type, at least not in that way.  Ah well, it takes all sorts.
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2016, 05:25:10 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on April 22, 2016, 10:48:38 AM

Sorry to have to break it to you, but we all die eventually.


We are not all in the "arts and entertainment worlds" that I was saying would be decimated.

And I do not need you to tell me that we all die eventually - I have been far too close to it twice already to not be fully aware of my own  mortality.
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2016, 05:26:45 PM »
Quote from: Hope on April 22, 2016, 01:34:24 PM

If they are decimated, it still leaves 90% of them, Owl.


No, it would leave 10%!
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2016, 07:39:34 AM »
Quote from: Owlswing on April 22, 2016, 05:26:45 PM
No, it would leave 10%!
To decimate is to kill/destroy/remove 10% of a population.
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2016, 07:47:09 AM »
Quote from: Hope on April 23, 2016, 07:39:34 AM
To decimate is to kill/destroy/remove 10% of a population.

The most commonly accepted meaning of decimate is to destroy the majority of something, i.e. about 90%.
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« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2016, 08:01:52 AM »
It's used interchangeably with annihilate these days. But it actually means to destroy one tenth of - it comes from the Roman punishment of killing every tenth man.
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« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2016, 08:04:40 AM »
LJ, I am aware that many people use it in this very general way - but when Owl specifies a proportion as he did, we are into detail, and detail is 10% not 90%.  I've heard people use it to refer to 51%, or 60%.  The Oxford Dictionary has three main definitions, the first two of which refer to "a large proportion" or "drastically reduce".  The only one that refers to specific figures is the 1 in 10 (10%).
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2016, 08:04:46 AM »
Quote from: Leonard James on April 23, 2016, 07:47:09 AM
The most commonly accepted meaning of decimate is to destroy the majority of something, i.e. about 90%.

Don't you think that he didn't know that when he made his original post? The 10% jibe was just because it was me who made the post and Hope doesn't like it that I don't like his religion and his claims to be know everything about everything! That he is one step down from his God in that respect!

But this thread is about Prince not King Hope so let's leave it at that shall we?
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2016, 08:05:28 AM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on April 23, 2016, 08:01:52 AM
It's used interchangeably with annihilate these days. But it actually means to destroy one tenth of - it comes from the Roman punishment of killing every tenth man.

Both meanings are acceptable, but in this case there is no doubt as to what was meant. The majority of.

Hope just didn't like to accept that.  :)
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« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2016, 08:07:37 AM »
It's one of those words where the meaning's shifted. But it also happens to be one where that really, really irritates me.  :-[
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2016, 08:08:02 AM »
Quote from: Owlswing on April 23, 2016, 08:04:46 AM
Don't you think that he didn't know that when he made his original post? The 10% jibe was just because it was me who made the post and Hope doesn't like it that I don't like his religion and his claims to be know everything about everything! That he is one step down from his God in that respect!

But this thread is about Prince not King Hope so let's leave it at that shall we?

Yes, I accept that. I made my last post before I saw this one.
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2016, 08:08:23 AM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on April 23, 2016, 08:01:52 AM
It's used interchangeably with annihilate these days. But it actually means to destroy one tenth of - it comes from the Roman punishment of killing every tenth man.

Trust Hope to call on pre-history to try to make a point, but see #19
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Re: The artist formerly known as Prince
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2016, 08:09:18 AM »
Quote from: Leonard James on April 23, 2016, 08:08:02 AM
Yes, I accept that. I made my last post before I saw this one.

Pax, bruv!
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