The extraordinary evolving insight about Prince’s passing at his Minneapolis Minnesota creative retreat on Thursday, was the post mortem press conference…pre autopsy, the findings about the Sheriff ande other officials finding the versatile singer dancer poet Gospel giant (five foot two inches tall)
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The representative from the investigating adjunct of thepreliminary post script remarks, the Sheriff finishing the interrogation by the press, she seemed to script a lasting statement.
Not to put a larger than life profile but if I may the passing of Prince, his life ad genius, at the apex of our own lives and work. Prince is within the realm of the singer troubadour (Colonel Parker’s Elvis Presley)………Ira Gershwin”.
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On that note, the lady investigator from Minneapolis, gripped her attaché case, stopping back from the press conference . Leaving the issue of the of the family Gershwin ‘Tin Pan Alley’ odyssey.
“IRA GERSHWIN” ?
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An amazing recognition of the older brother of George’s(“I got rhythm”) (“Porgy and Bess), “Someone is watching over me”)lyricism and poetry, originating in Bernie Sanders Brooklyn, children of immigrants.
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Bigger than the Cro-Magnon man’s disco very, Charles Darwin’s discovery of his Galapagos voyage embarking from Cambridge University, England. Natural selection. Molecularbiology. .
“What ho? Minneapolis Minnesota?
It’s “cool!” in the vernacular of the Prince’s magic and songbook.
”Where the Doves cry?”
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Hubert Humphrey, the Minneapolis Mayor, United States Senator, subsequent nominee for the Presidency of the United States. Walter Mondale assuming the ambition, losing in a landslide. Bill Stout, the UCLA Daily Bruin editor debuting his “cool” in the Minneapolis press.
NBA basketball Celtics Hall of Famer Kevin McHale, University of Minnesota power forward, debuting his coaching “cool” as Prince’s own genius.
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How the Gospel and the Jehovah Witnesses impacted the musical jargon of the Prince’s own Darwinian revolution , but the spirituality and intensity of his musical genre heightened his 5 foot two stature, with the spiked heels, a gladiator of Wilt Chamberlain’s 7 foot+ trajectory...
April 25, 2016 Ira Gershwin and the City that never sleeps.
