“I’m so sad about the death of Prince, he was a true genius, and a huge inspiration for me, in a very real way…. In the the eighties, I was out on the road in a massive downward spiral with drink and drugs, I saw Purple Rain in a cinema in Canada, I had no idea who he was, it was like a bolt of lightning! In the middle of my depression, and the dreadful state of the music culture at that time it gave me hope, he was like a light in the darkness… I went back to my hotel, and surrounded by empty beer cans, wrote Holy Mother…. I can’t believe he’s gone….”
Eric Clapton April 23, 2016 – Photo used with permission: ©Jerome Brunet
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