David Bowie, who died four months earlier, Prince existed in a liminal realm: between genres, between genders, between sexualities, and, like a sprite in platform heels, was never happier than when he could confound.And so they came, each story more eccentric than the last.
Music producers remembered Prince thrashing Michael Jackson at table tennis, complete with manful boasting, during a recording session in the 1980s.Journalists recounted walking up a candlelit staircase in Paisley Park, Prince’s vast Minnesota residence, and passing ‘a huge white birdhouse filled with doves’ on their way to his office, where they found numerous chess boards seemingly abandoned mid-game.One fan recalled leaving a Prince gig early to avoid the rush, only.
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