Blue Monster 65 wrote:Lianachan wrote:I accidentally saw him live once, in London.
I think there’s a story here ...
Not much of one really. Prince played 21 nights at the O2 arena (inside the millennium dome) in London throughout August and September 2007 and I had tickets for about half a dozen of those. For most of those 21 nights, Prince had also booked out the Indigo (a smaller venue in the millennium dome, next to the arena) in case he felt like having one of his famous post-concert aftershow performances. I’d been given tickets for the Indigo for each of the nights I had an arena ticket, so went there after each show in case Prince turned up and played. On one night, Prince didn’t play (or, in fact, turn up at all) but Dr John came on stage. Normally when we got the nod and wink that Prince wouldn’t be there we’d just leave, but we stayed and watched Dr John. He was really good. On another of those nights, the last one, Amy Winehouse walked onto the stage at 01:30 singing and Prince came on a couple of mins afterwards, accompanying her on guitar. This was totally wonderful. She left after that one song, but Prince played blues and jazz covers and deep cuts until after 4am. Quite something after a 2.5 hour proper Prince concert in the arena. Happy days!
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Amy Winehouse and Prince audience recording but you get the idea. We were at the mixing desk, so much better view and sound quality).