Shock, grief and questions – 24 hours after the death of Prince – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

Since Thursday, the world painted partially purple – or purple to be closer bond that crystallizes the creative majesty of Prince. The rain was not purple, but the covers of newspapers, t-shirts of the fans (Spike Lee to anonymous) that celebrated in the streets and even an image of a nebula NASA or the building Los Angeles chamber put up purple in honor of the author of purple rain . The autopsy of the body of Prince Rogers Nelson takes place this Friday and its full results will take days, even weeks, to be known. Until then, no answers to the whys, dance themselves.

For weeks, a similar phenomenon befell the world before the sudden death of David Bowie. Social networks in an uproar, shock, powerful tribute to other stars (the tears and the piano Stevie Wonder, the voices of Broadway and Jennifer Hudson on the night of Thursday) and assorted curses the year 2016, which seems to take many idols – this was indeed a topic of Friday loss surprise aftermath of an idol that had both hyperbolic on stage as discrete out of it. It was just one more unanswered question needs at a time if they try to reconstruct the last days of the musician, following the New York Times found to be “health evidence in bankruptcy Prince” to realize what led to the death of the musician after 57 years.

thus, from the taxes, the memories of a prolific career and doubts about the circumstances of his death that lives the day after the last day Prince. Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Madonna, Barack Obama, Lionel Richie, Bono, Oprah Winfrey, among many others, reacted with regret the death of Prince. The unexpected disappearance of singer motivated more than eight million tweets in the hours after the confirmation of his death and the issue dominated much of the present, creating parties and tears.

Tears as the trickling of the 3M brand abbreviation, in purple, in social networks – many companies, small business donuts a multinational, pointed more or less well done so the singer’s death, one with a full-page ad in the New York Times with the simple lyrics of the song Little red Corvette of Prince: “ Baby , que was much too fast . ” The US space agency published an image of a nebula purple, Google put its logo dripping purple rain and several buildings around the world were covered that tone. The streets of cities like Washington, New York and Minneapolis have become dance floors and memorials more or less spontaneous. The director and fan Spike Lee joined about a thousand people in your street in Brooklyn to dance, the club Minneapolis where Prince filmed scenes of Purple Rain free opened the door and vigil in the American capital became a track. In Los Angeles hundreds of people lit candles by the musician and some radios decided to play only Prince for hours

Prince by Minneapolis

Now Echoes his last public words . – “Wait a few days before wasting your prayers” – given the party that gave Prince a week ago, with ticket sales and everything in its complex Paisley Park studios around Minneapolis. He had canceled two concerts of his Piano & amp; The Microphone Tour in Atlanta on the 7th, but after that tweeted about his new piano (purple, of course) on the 12th and returned to the stage in Atlanta to 14 to compensate for the previous cancellation, only the piano. In the encores , played Heroes , named after David Bowie.

Day 15, as reconstitutes the local daily Minneapolis Star Tribune, has become one of the events that are all to be associated with death: Prince led into a hospital in Moline, in the state of Illinois, after an emergency landing of his private plane. Not feeling well due to flu-like symptoms that did not leave him for weeks, say their representatives. Hours after his death, the site specializing in gossip TMZ celebrity, who ascended the media ladder since it was the first to report Michael Jackson’s death , revealed not only the transcript of the call to the 911 who met Prince inanimate in an elevator at Paisley Park, but also quoted sources Moline about what motivated the trip to the hospital. These reports, unconfirmed officially but widely cited worldwide, indicate that “doctors administered him a save shot [injection salvation or neutralization, in free translation], which is traditionally given to counteract the effects of an opiate “ -.. indicating a overdose And add also that Prince came out prematurely from hospital later that same day, tweeted” I am #transformed . “

the next day marked up in record stores worldwide Record store day and Prince went shopping. back in Minneapolis, was . the Electric Fetus, one of her favorite stores, according to the Star Tribune , and shared with fans their purchases on Twitter was listening to house one of the selected disks: Talking Book , Stevie Wonder. that same night gave the party in its complex. Sunday he was “rejuvenated” as he put in a hashtag on Twitter, although Scott Gregoria, a fan who was at the party , has told New York Times that he seemed “a bit weaker, a little paler” than before, though festive.

Since Tuesday was a concert of Lizz Wright with colleagues from his band. According to the New York Times , in those days Prince biked the area. There was dressed in his usual purple, notes who saw him on the street. Prince did not like mobile phones and video in their concerts or photographs vampirizadoras celebrities in their day-to-day, but it was a common sight in the streets of his city. Up at 9:45 am Thursday, the time the paramedics were called to Paisley Park following a telephone call to the 911 whose content has since been released by the authorities. Prince was pronounced dead at 10h07.

The Sheriff Carver County, Jim Olson, detailed in a statement that there is an ongoing investigation to establish the circumstances of the death of the musician. The autopsy was scheduled for Friday, as told AFP a spokeswoman for the office of forensic medicine of the Midwest, Martha Weaver, adding that preliminary results should be available within days but the data analyzes, including toxicological, may take several weeks.

in addition to the questions about the circumstances of death, another of the questions that will survive is the degree of control that will remain on the intellectual property of Prince, fierce defender of its copyright, and , as pointed out to Reuters, one of the few musicians who owned the rights to their master (original recordings) and much of its catalog. The fate of your music will depend on who is going to manage your legacy, say lawyers polled by the agency and the magazine Hollywood Reporter – and this, in turn, depends on Prince, divorced, childless and without obvious heirs to his property, or may not have a valid will or a succession plan for your legacy.