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The artist known as Prince has died at age 57

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kris.

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i just googled princestagram in the hopes that he'd had the good judgment to make an instagram account with that name because it fucking rules and of course he did. dude was a legend for sure.
 
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Alligatorjandro said:
He didn't have any kids did he?
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His first wife gave birth to a son, who unfortunately had severe birth defects. He died after a few days, which devastated Prince when it happened.

After that I think his second wife may have had a miscarriage.

No other blood children that we know of
 
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This makes me so sad, I don't usually cry when a celebrity dies but I teared up big time when Prince passed today, last time I teared up like this was when Robin Williams died. His George Harrison cover was incredible. And to top it off they were playing his greatest hits at Barnes and Noble today during my break. :(

jman2050 said:
That doesn't really add up though. They don't accept blood transfusions but they're totally fine with any other medical treatment
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Correct, the only medical treatment a Jehovah's Witness will refuse is a procedure involving either whole blood or whole blood components like plasma (due to the very sacred view of blood outlined both in the Mosaic law, Acts chapter 15 and their faith in the sacrificial value of Jesus' blood). A JW may even accept certain blood fragments in their treatment if it doesn't bother the individual's conscience. JWs encourage healthy eating, moderate drinking and regular doctor visits. A Jehovah's Witness can also be a doctor and practice both medicine and surgery, again, as long as it doesn't involve blood due to their strict adherence to the spiritual value of Jesus' blood.

As someone else said, Jehovah's Witnesses are also major advocates for modern medicine, in decades past they even worked with Johns Hopkins University in the influence and creation of the university's Center For Bloodless Medicine and Surgery. Found some more info about this here on the Johns Hopkins resource site and a lengthy article from the New Yorker last year about the impact they have had on modern medicine:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/bloodless_medicine_surgery/news.html

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine?intcid=mod-yml

...and I certainly wouldn't expect anything as audacious as "God cured your AIDS" from them.
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Also correct. Even if he had AIDS as that somewhat tacky tabloid article speculated, there is no way Prince was told "Hey, don't take your meds cuz God cured you!" as JWs do not believe in carasmatic "miracle" rituals and believe that only the Hebrew prophets, Jesus and the apostles were empowered to miraculously cure people and also for the reasons outlined above.

TLDR version? Yes, Prince was a Jehovah's Witness (he said he converted after studying with his friend Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone who is also a devout member) but even if that tabloid site linked is correct that he died in part due to AIDS (which would make his passing even more sad and tragic), he would not have been told by JWs "Don't take your meds, God cured you!" because the only medical procedure JWs do not accept are whole blood transfusions and they do not believe in modern day miracle cures. But since an icon has died, some people just have to have their Elvis style conspiracy stories. If he had been a Christian Scientist I could see why people would lean towards reading into a theory like that, otherwise that article is way off the mark.

Now let's watch Prince shred on While My Guitar Gently Weeps:

http://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
 
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Haha roger that, only woke up a few hours ago here in Japan and have had it on repeat since.
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It deserves to be posted. Great performance by everyone, and an incredible guitar performance by Prince. And he has a big giant smile on his face doing it.
 
Gouty

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I really hope whoever takes over his estate remasters his older albums and puts together thoughtful and comprehensive vault releases similar to Bob Dylan's bootleg series and nothing like how Jimi Hendrix's legacy has been handled.
 
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Toparaman

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I don't think it gets mentioned enough just how fucking good of a guitarist Prince was. I guess it's a testament to his level of talent that he was just as good at making dance-pop, soul ballads, etc. I never really got into his recorded music, but his Super Bowl performance was incredible.
 
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DrFunk said:
The Purple Rain scene is on MTV now
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MTV can eat a dick. When I turned it on earlier when news first broke they had some random reality show on. CNN and local news had more music and coverage before they did anything lol.

Sign O' Times indeed.
 
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Gouty said:
I really hope whoever takes over his estate remasters his older albums and puts together thoughtful and comprehensive vault releases similar to Bob Dylan's bootleg series and nothing like how Jimi Hendrix's legacy has been handled.
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...or Bruce Springsteen's remasters.
 
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Caj814 said:
MTV can eat a dick. When I turned it on earlier when news first broke they had some random reality show on. CNN and local news had more music and coverage before they did anything lol.
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They pre-empted Rob Dyrdek's shows by 2pm EST and have not strayed from Prince programming since, and will not until at least tomorrow morning. I'm sure it took MTV a little time to break from regular programming(especially since when they finally did so it was less than an hour after the likes of CNN confirmed anything), what more do you want from them?
 
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Gouty said:
I really hope whoever takes over his estate remasters his older albums and puts together thoughtful and comprehensive vault releases similar to Bob Dylan's bootleg series and nothing like how Jimi Hendrix's legacy has been handled.
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Not even counting his vaulted unreleased material Prince has an enormous amount of bootleg/b-side/live performance material out there for listeners to discover.

Pretty much every concert perfomance he has ever done is a different set than the night before, you could spend a lifetime trying to listen to it all. It makes you wonder how much of Prince's time was spent not making music.
 
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someday

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Mango Madness said:
I don't think it gets mentioned enough just how fucking good of a guitarist Prince was. I guess it's a testament to his level of talent that he was just as good at making dance-pop, soul ballads, etc. I never really got into his recorded music, but his Super Bowl performance was incredible.
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I was a hardcore metal-head in the 80s and was totally into the great guitarists.

But, the first time I listened to Let's Go Crazy and that guitar solo towards the end, I was blown away. Prince was incredible. I've been sad all day. I feel like we lost something great today and we're a bit worse for it.
 
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Mango Madness said:
I don't think it gets mentioned enough just how fucking good of a guitarist Prince was. I guess it's a testament to his level of talent that he was just as good at making dance-pop, soul ballads, etc. I never really got into his recorded music, but his Super Bowl performance was incredible.
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Such an amazing guitarist. Funny how it took second stage to his voice and stage presence.Dude was legend.
 
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U2NUMB

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Man I should have gone down tonight... celebration of his life tonight in Minneapolis

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Cheebo said:
TMZ is saying it was a drug overdose.
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Not quite to that point yet. They said they have confirmation that he was treated for an overdose when his plane made that emergency landing last week. That's likely where we are headed, but TMZ hasn't gone there yet
 
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Officerrob said:
Not quite to that point yet. They said they have confirmation that he was treated for an overdose when his plane made that emergency landing last week. That's likely where we are headed, but TMZ hasn't gone there yet
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Prince was famously anti-drug. I'd be absolutely floored if drugs were the cause of him leaving us.
 
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