The actor and comedian remembers a rooftop assembly and how he couldn’t believe his luck when he found out Prince was playing guitar for an album he was singing on for Kate BushIt’s a year of fallen heroes. Bowie was a enormous loss,Wogan’s charm was incredible, Ronnie Corbett was always kind. As for Victoria Wood, and in the pantheon of national treasures,she was up there with the Queen. I thought I was handling all this negative stuff pretty well. And then it was announced that Prince had died. There was a maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) quality about Prince from the very beginning. He was a multi-instrumentalist, played guitar, and bass,drums, keyboards. I never saw him with a euphonium but I bet he could get a tune out of one. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com