Since the death of Prince was known on 21st April, millions of fans all over the world have tweetted, “giffed”, and shared their mourn under the Purple Rain and a Nothing Compares 2 U scream. Leaving aside the picture published on the Warner Bros Music Group website, in deep grey and black, purple is the dominant color for Prince’s mourn pieces, even in The Simpsons lost episode unveiled today.
This is the case of the singer Chris Cornell, who launched the same 21st April his already projected cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U version. A way, he said, to express his mourn tribute to him(to listen Cornel’s the version of the song clic here) .
Prince has been crowned as the king of media last week to the rithm of his Purple Rain, the power ballad that also was the main soundtrack of the film directed by Albert Magnoli under the same title.
Versioned by lots of other talented singers, including Etta James, one of her Royal Majesties of Jazz, the song scored in 1988 platinum just a bit under the one by Wham!’s “Wake me up before you go go”.
The Simpsons Prince lost episode
Al Jean (show runner and writer of The Simpsons) remembered today the scrypt for an episode of the Sympsons animated series that never was aired because the singer was said not to like it.
.@TheSimpsons possibly another objection Prince had to the script… pic.twitter.com/OgRxlZ5EKJ
— Al Jean (@AlJean) April 23, 2016
Prince has even proved most important than POTUS, at least following LexisNexis Newsdesk data reporting more than 8,400 articles published about Prince in the three-and-a-half hours after news of his death broke. This almost doubles the number of articles written about this year’s media darling, the 2016 Presidential Election. Note that the Prince’s share is also colored in purple. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps..but that’s it.
Articles written 3 hours and a half after Prince death was announced double that written on POTUS Election in 2016 pic.twitter.com/BbjZUv7MbD
— eva gonzalez (@jasperrosa) April 22, 2016
Trains in Britain also mourned for the singer on their station and time digital displays inside the wagons.
Some original “purple homages” to Prince shared all over the world
Purple tears over the loss of a man who meant a lot to us. Let's wear purple tomorrow and paint this city #Prince. pic.twitter.com/tBJ8pPuVGt
— Fallon (@fallon) April 22, 2016
More on our Pinterest board “Tributes to Prince”, click here
Image over the headline.- Prince portrait. © Warner Bros Music Group.
