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This is your final warning.\u003cbr>\nYou know I give you life.\u003cbr>\nIf you try this sh*t again,\u003cbr>\nYou gon' lose your wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_m411tm0KQN1qma32qo2_400.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23110\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_m411tm0KQN1qma32qo2_400.gif\" alt=\"beyonce carmen mad gif\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">6. Headed to the club, I ain't thinking 'bout you.\u003cbr>\nMe and my ladies sip my D'USSÉ cup.\u003cbr>\nI don't give a f*ck, chucking my deuces up.\u003cbr>\nSuck on my balls, pause, I had enough.\u003cbr>\nI ain't thinking 'bout you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/large.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23111\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23111\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/large.gif\" alt=\"beyonce over gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">7. Middle fingers up, put them hands high.\u003cbr>\nWave it in his face, tell him, \"Boy, bye!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/beyonceprettyhurts.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23112\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/beyonceprettyhurts.gif\" alt=\"beyonce+pretty+hurts\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">8. Looking at my watch, he shoulda been home.\u003cbr>\nToday I regret the night I put that ring on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_nf52dbyJaP1sy4wkto1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23113\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_nf52dbyJaP1sy4wkto1_500.gif\" alt=\"beyonce ring gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">9. My daddy warned me about men like you.\u003cbr>\nHe said, \"Baby girl, he's playing you.\u003cbr>\nHe's playing you.\u003cbr>\nCause when trouble comes in town\u003cbr>\nAnd men like me come around,\"\u003cbr>\nOh, my daddy said, \"Shoot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Beyonce-and-Nicki-Minaj-Feeling-Myself-Water-Guns.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23115\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Beyonce-and-Nicki-Minaj-Feeling-Myself-Water-Guns.gif\" alt=\"beyonce nicki water gun gif\" width=\"556\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">10. 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Headed to the club, I ain't thinking 'bout you.\u003cbr>\nMe and my ladies sip my D'USSÉ cup.\u003cbr>\nI don't give a f*ck, chucking my deuces up.\u003cbr>\nSuck on my balls, pause, I had enough.\u003cbr>\nI ain't thinking 'bout you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/large.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23111\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23111\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/large.gif\" alt=\"beyonce over gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">7. Middle fingers up, put them hands high.\u003cbr>\nWave it in his face, tell him, \"Boy, bye!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/beyonceprettyhurts.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23112\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/beyonceprettyhurts.gif\" alt=\"beyonce+pretty+hurts\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">8. Looking at my watch, he shoulda been home.\u003cbr>\nToday I regret the night I put that ring on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_nf52dbyJaP1sy4wkto1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23113\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_nf52dbyJaP1sy4wkto1_500.gif\" alt=\"beyonce ring gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">9. My daddy warned me about men like you.\u003cbr>\nHe said, \"Baby girl, he's playing you.\u003cbr>\nHe's playing you.\u003cbr>\nCause when trouble comes in town\u003cbr>\nAnd men like me come around,\"\u003cbr>\nOh, my daddy said, \"Shoot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Beyonce-and-Nicki-Minaj-Feeling-Myself-Water-Guns.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23115\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Beyonce-and-Nicki-Minaj-Feeling-Myself-Water-Guns.gif\" alt=\"beyonce nicki water gun gif\" width=\"556\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">10. 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"content": "\u003cp>Beyoncé’s \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> arrived tonight via HBO, and now, in its immediate aftermath, there is no other way to say it: we have all witnessed the greatest pop moment thus far of the 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m old enough to remember watching the premiere of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video on TV as a kid, how mesmerizing it felt, and how everyone was talking about it the next day, the next month, the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Beyoncé has done is “Thriller” times 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A visual album about the real-life trauma of Jay-Z’s cheating on Beyoncé, \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> follows an adapted version of the Kübler-Ross model, a.k.a. the five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — around the realization of Jay-Z’s unfaithfulness. Numerous references to coming home late, not being able to look his wife in the eye, Bey’s regrets about her wedding ring and “side chicks” prevail. Prominently, Bey’s confidence eventually takes center stage; this is a feminist album that operates on reality and not a PC narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re aware of the Kübler-Ross model, you know that the final stage is “acceptance.” This is why, even when Beyoncé sang of anger and depression in the first half, I \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/724044941530255361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started to believe\u003c/a> that \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> was not going to be a divorce album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11520971\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11520971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Bay.1-1180x778.jpg\" alt=\"Beyoncé in 'Lemonade.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Bay.1-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Bay.1-400x264.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Bay.1-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Bay.1-768x506.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Bay.1-960x633.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Bay.1.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beyoncé in ‘Lemonade.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This gave me slight disappointment. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>“Dearly beloved: we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there a more accurate mission statement for all of pop music?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pop music — the best of it, at least — knows that life is messy and unkempt. Life is not easy. It rips our hearts to pieces. It inherently causes friction, tension, anxiety. It dangles illusory promises, and then takes them away, leaving us in need of comfort and solace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life rarely offers us that solace. But Prince always, always did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11514049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/PrinceUpscaled.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Prince performing in the hit film 'Purple Rain.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11514049\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/PrinceUpscaled.jpg.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/PrinceUpscaled.jpg-400x269.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/PrinceUpscaled.jpg-768x516.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince performing in the hit film ‘Purple Rain.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prince, who died today at age 57, whose musical genius and cultural impact is impossible to fit into any obituary, was more than a brilliant songwriter. More than a dynamic singer. More than an impossibly lithe dancer. Prince was something most pop stars aren’t: he was there for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prince knew the heartbreak of losing a love so strong that life doesn’t feel worth living. The song? “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Prince knew the tumult of growing up in a house with fighting and resentment. The song? “When Doves Cry.” Prince knew the joys of sex, accepted and explored its many forms, and made it feel like the most natural thing in the world instead of a taboo that we’re supposed to feel weird about. The song — well, too many to name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what Prince did for us: put words to our feelings, when those feelings were most complex. When society gave us no framework for understanding situations, Prince built one for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a woman / I’m not a man / I’m something that you’ll never understand” spoke for thousands in the shadows during the Reagan years. “Am I black or white? Am I straight or gay?” were more than just lyrics to “Controversy” — they were forbidden questions in an America still guided by Phyllis Schlafly and Jerry Falwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10959927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Prince.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" single, which was played in the background of the video under dispute. (Photo: Paisley Park)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10959927\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Prince.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Prince-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” single.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Have you ever trusted someone so much that you became blind to their betrayal, and only loved them more afterward? That’s “When You Were Mine.” Have you ever been hit on by someone who’s obviously so much on the rebound that, even though you’re lonesome too, you decline their advances because it’d just be messy? That’s “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.” Have you ever pleaded with someone keeping you on hand as a second option to just \u003cem>choose\u003c/em> already? That’s “The Beautiful Ones.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this music emerged so effortlessly that it felt like breathing air. I last saw Prince \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/02/29/live-review-prince-alone-with-a-piano-at-the-paramount-theatre-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just two months ago, at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland\u003c/a>, and the only way I can describe it is to say that music simply poured out of the man. At the piano, Prince unreeled song after song with a glorious skill that could break the resolve of any atheist in the room, for here, surely, was the apparatus of divine creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some would call it genius, but Prince transcended “genius.” Today, testimonials came from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/21/prince-celebrities-react-to-the-the-loss-of-the-purple-one/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every possible celebrity\u003c/a>, from Katy Perry and Neil deGrasse Tyson to Barack Obama. This is how massive Prince’s impact was: the President of the United States declared that “nobody’s spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative,” and it \u003cem>still\u003c/em> feels inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there were so many moments. Performing the \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/7NN3gsSf-Ys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">greatest Super Bowl halftime show\u003c/a> in history. Starring in the \u003ca>best midnight movie\u003c/a> of the 1980s. Recording his biggest hit single \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Rain_%28song%29#Recording\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live in one take\u003c/a>, at its very first public performance. Laying a group of rock ‘n’rollers to waste with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guitar solo to end all guitar solos\u003c/a>, and then throwing the guitar up into the air like a boss. (Of course, it doesn’t come down; my only explanation is that God wanted it as a souvenir.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These moments were not extraordinary; they were just part of what it was to be Prince. In 2011, I saw him \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2013/04/25/live-review-prince-at-the-dna-lounge-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco with 800 other people\u003c/a>. It cost $275. It was worth every dime, and here was the biggest takeaway: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Can you name any other musician who WANTS to play as much as Prince?… This is what Prince \u003cem>does\u003c/em>, people. He shows up and sings as perfectly as he’s ever sung, plays the shit out of every instrument in range, he twists his guitar pegs to tune his strings mid-solo, he turns around and mixes his own monitor board mid-song, he plays guitar behind his head, he gyrates his pelvis and commands sing-alongs and throws out his guitar picks and plays, plays, plays, all in a day’s work — except for him it isn’t work, it’s normal life, the same way you or I walk down the street or buy milk or complain about the internet.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11515137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 632px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/prpdbd.jpg\" alt=\"Prince's pedal board, DNA Lounge, 2013.\" width=\"632\" height=\"406\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11515137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/prpdbd.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/prpdbd-400x257.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince’s pedal board, DNA Lounge, 2013. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When an artist is that gifted, they usually let their ego swell. They lose touch with the world. Prince didn’t. In recent months, he spoke of Black Lives Matter, and of the water crisis in Flint. He quoted Kendrick Lamar. He was never overtly political, but his actions showed that he still, at age 57, wanted a better world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for our personal worlds, it is a gift to us all that Prince left behind so much music. This is why he was so universally loved; Prince gave so much in return, across races, genders, borders and generations. At \u003ca href=\"http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/2016/fox-theater-atlanta-ga-4bf1fbf6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his last concert\u003c/a>, in Atlanta, the very final song Prince performed was “Diamonds and Pearls,” and the last line of that last song seems more relevant than ever right now: “All I can do,” he sang, “is just offer you my love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that love, Prince — may there never be another like him — helped us all through the highs and lows, the heartbreak and joy, of this thing called life. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Photo: Paisley Park)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10959927\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Prince.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Prince-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” single.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Have you ever trusted someone so much that you became blind to their betrayal, and only loved them more afterward? That’s “When You Were Mine.” Have you ever been hit on by someone who’s obviously so much on the rebound that, even though you’re lonesome too, you decline their advances because it’d just be messy? That’s “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.” Have you ever pleaded with someone keeping you on hand as a second option to just \u003cem>choose\u003c/em> already? That’s “The Beautiful Ones.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this music emerged so effortlessly that it felt like breathing air. I last saw Prince \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/02/29/live-review-prince-alone-with-a-piano-at-the-paramount-theatre-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just two months ago, at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland\u003c/a>, and the only way I can describe it is to say that music simply poured out of the man. At the piano, Prince unreeled song after song with a glorious skill that could break the resolve of any atheist in the room, for here, surely, was the apparatus of divine creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some would call it genius, but Prince transcended “genius.” Today, testimonials came from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/21/prince-celebrities-react-to-the-the-loss-of-the-purple-one/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every possible celebrity\u003c/a>, from Katy Perry and Neil deGrasse Tyson to Barack Obama. This is how massive Prince’s impact was: the President of the United States declared that “nobody’s spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative,” and it \u003cem>still\u003c/em> feels inadequate.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6SFNW5F8K9Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6SFNW5F8K9Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>That’s because there were so many moments. Performing the \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/7NN3gsSf-Ys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">greatest Super Bowl halftime show\u003c/a> in history. Starring in the \u003ca>best midnight movie\u003c/a> of the 1980s. Recording his biggest hit single \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Rain_%28song%29#Recording\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live in one take\u003c/a>, at its very first public performance. Laying a group of rock ‘n’rollers to waste with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guitar solo to end all guitar solos\u003c/a>, and then throwing the guitar up into the air like a boss. (Of course, it doesn’t come down; my only explanation is that God wanted it as a souvenir.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These moments were not extraordinary; they were just part of what it was to be Prince. In 2011, I saw him \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2013/04/25/live-review-prince-at-the-dna-lounge-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco with 800 other people\u003c/a>. It cost $275. It was worth every dime, and here was the biggest takeaway: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Can you name any other musician who WANTS to play as much as Prince?… This is what Prince \u003cem>does\u003c/em>, people. He shows up and sings as perfectly as he’s ever sung, plays the shit out of every instrument in range, he twists his guitar pegs to tune his strings mid-solo, he turns around and mixes his own monitor board mid-song, he plays guitar behind his head, he gyrates his pelvis and commands sing-alongs and throws out his guitar picks and plays, plays, plays, all in a day’s work — except for him it isn’t work, it’s normal life, the same way you or I walk down the street or buy milk or complain about the internet.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11515137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 632px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/prpdbd.jpg\" alt=\"Prince's pedal board, DNA Lounge, 2013.\" width=\"632\" height=\"406\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11515137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/prpdbd.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/prpdbd-400x257.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince’s pedal board, DNA Lounge, 2013. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When an artist is that gifted, they usually let their ego swell. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003ch4>KQED’s Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2016/04/TDL20160422.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 28: \u003c/strong> People have been comparing Page Burkum and Jack Torrey’s of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.thecactusblossoms.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Cactus Blossoms\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everly Brothers\u003c/a>, because despite the different last names, they really are two brothers singing in close harmony. But there’s also a little Bob Wills and Buddy Holly in their look and inspiration. 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