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Acclaimed musical genius, pop icon, director, actor, and producer Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson) has passed away.<\/p>\n
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A largely eccentric figure in music, Prince became a global phenomenon in 1979, when his self-titled sophomore album went platinum, while the following three would continue the trend. Known for his flamboyant showmanship and iconic repertoire of hits – including “Party Like It’s 1999”, “Cream”, “Purple Rain”, “When Doves Cry”, and many, many<\/em> more, Prince also dabbled in both big and small screen projects, including his semi-autobiographical film Purple Rain<\/em>, in 1984. He is credited in three other features – Under The Cherry Moon, Sign ‘o The Times<\/em>, and Graffiti Bridge<\/em>, while his television exploits include an appearance on The Muppet Show<\/em> back in 1997, and a cameo in comedy series New Girl,<\/em> in 2014. Prince famously contributed to the 1989 Batman<\/em> <\/a>soundtrack album alongside composer Danny Elfman.<\/p>\n His passing on April 21st leaves the entertainment industry losing another of its long-standing mega-stars, following the passing of David Bowie earlier this year.<\/p>\n Prince, aka The Artist Formerly Known As Prince aka Love Symbol, was 57.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acclaimed musical genius, pop icon, director, actor, and producer Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson) has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":42658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",630,428,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert-300x204.jpg",300,204,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",630,428,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",630,428,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",630,428,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",630,428,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",630,428,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",500,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",24,16,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",48,33,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",96,65,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",150,102,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",300,204,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg",268,182,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Prince](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-in-concert.jpg\")