Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park studio compound on April 21, His death sparked a national outpouring of grief and prompted a joint investigation by Carver County and federal authorities to find out how and why he had died. An autopsy found he died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl , a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin.
But Carver County Attorney Mark Metz said Thursday that Prince thought he was taking a common painkiller, Vicodin, but instead was taking counterfeit Vicodin laced with fentanyl. Metz said it remains a mystery how Prince obtained the deadly pills he was taking or from whom, and there was not enough evidence to prosecute anyone for a crime in connection with his death. The pictures and videos of Prince and the inside of Paisley Park on the day he was found dead do not provide any insight to those questions, either.
One photo shows Prince on April 20, , the day before his death at the office of Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg, the local family physician who had been treating him after being referred by his patient, Kirk Johnson, one of Prince's oldest friends and top aide.
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April 21, Prince fans worldwide mourn the musician's death from an overdose of prescription drugs. Since his death, however, fans have been afforded the occasional glimpse into his life - some funny, some enlightening, all of them elevating his status as a visionary, and a musical genius.
Here are 12 things we've learned in the last 12 months. With songs like Erotic City and Sexy Dancer, Prince became known as a rampant sex machine - but he was also a devoutly religious vegan, who became a Jehovah's Witness in After that, he excised swear words from his music Sexy MF was never played live again and kept a "cuss bucket" in his recording studio. You had to pay in cash in the bucket.
He would charge you between three and 10 dollars per swear word. He said, 'What did you say? On one occasion, Lundstrom recalled, a foul-mouthed musician stuffed a handful of hundred dollar bills in the swear jar as a down-payment for the rest of the day. Prince was cremated at a private ceremony for family and close friends on Saturday, 23 April.
Among the songs played at the service was Comeback, an acoustic lament the star originally recorded in for his son, Ahmir, who was born with a rare genetic disorder and died seven days later. Released on the fanclub-only album The Truth, the song's lyrics were equally apt for Prince's funeral. Prince's former art director Steve Parke recently published a book featuring the intimate, behind-the-scenes photographs he took of the star during his time at Paisley Park.
He also recounts the time Prince invited him to watch a montage of old performances he was preparing for the American Music Awards. When a scene from Purple Rain appeared, the star bellowed, "Look at that wig! Parke later asked Prince's hair stylist Earl Jones about the comment. He explained the star had had to reshoot a few scenes after the filming wrapped - but he had already cut his hair and bleached it blond - necessitating the bouffant hairpiece.
Jones added that Prince had reacted so badly to the bleach that his hair started breaking off, so he had to let it grow out, and dye it back to black. It's no secret that Prince was a perfectionist - but some of the stories that emerged after his death highlighted the star's ruthless attitude towards his bandmates. That night, when it came to the solo, Prince walked up to him with his "golden gun" microphone pictured above and held it to his head.
And it was like a week of him doing this, and I'm freaking out. It wasn't showbiz at that point. It was, 'Don't you ever do that again'.
Five days before his death, Prince celebrated Record Store Day by cycling to his local record store and snapping up a few bargains. Prince then set off on his bike, waving to fans at a nearby hair salon before visiting a local coffee store. According to barista, Alya Al-Hilwani, he preferred a mocha, with no whipped cream.
In summer , the Minneapolis house that featured as Prince's childhood home in the film Purple Rain went up for sale. It turns out that Prince bought it himself. After his death, Prince's estate put it up for sale, saying "the costs of repair and ongoing maintenance" were such that keeping hold of the house was "not in the Estate's best interest".
Incredibly, Prince was the biggest-selling artist in the US last year, in terms of album sales. He shifted more than 2. He was the only artist to sell more than one million digital and physical albums in ; and sold a total of 5. When his music finally became available on Spotify, Apple, Amazon and Google Play this February, it was streamed 17 million times in one week - with Purple Rain alone racking up 1 million plays. But unsealed court documents show, released earlier this week, show that the star, an intensely private person, travelled under the name Peter Bravestrong to help conceal his identity.
That name was on a luggage tag he used while travelling to Atlanta for what proved to be his final concert.
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