SEE A LIVE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE FROM PRINCE
2016 HAS ALREADY proven to being an Annus Horribilis of celebrity deaths. David Bowie, comic legend Victoria Wood, Muhammad Ali, Liza Minnelli’s ex-husband David Gest (okay, we’re pushing it there) and Prince.
He out-flounced the New Romantics, played the dandy at least as well as Adam Ant and, in the era of androgeny that brought us Boy George, Marilyn and Pete Burns, His Purpleness – all fingerless lace gloves, eye-liner, high heels and assless patent leather chaps – was a queen.