It's fatuous and narcissistic for someone like me to even pretend to be a "musician" long enough to "pay tribute" to someone like Prince, the greatest musician in living memory. There are certainly enough wonderful and well-written tributes coming thick and fast today (I recommend this one by the great Rob Sheffield) that I don't need to put in my two cents. But I've never been this shaken by the death of someone I didn't know and never met. Stunned, didn't see it coming, still trying to absorb it.
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