S.O.D. "Sometimes It Snows In April" by Prince and the Revolution

4/23/2016     How do you put this into words? I certainly can't do this man justice but maybe his debut album kind of does that.  "For You" was its title consisting of the genres, pop, rock, soul, funk and R&B.  Prince provided all of the vocals and music which totaled 27 instruments. 29 if you count the handclaps and finger snaps.  He was always switching genres with some parts of songs being so complex, nobody knew what to call the style.  

     Music critic Simon Reynolds referred to Prince as a "pop polymath, flitting between funkadelia, acid rock, deep soul and schmaltz–often within the same song, creating music that exceeded each category simultaneously."  Out of his 39 albums, eight went to #1.  He also created 15 worldwide #1 singles, released 104 and sold more than 100 million records.  

     He was born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis to musical parents and was named after his father who's stage name was Prince Rogers and played piano with a jazz group called the Prince Rogers Trio. His mother was a jazz singer. At age 7 on his father's piano, Prince wrote his first song called "Funk Machine."  Born an epileptic, he would have seizures as a boy and one day told his mother that he would not be sick anymore because an angel told him so.  Please look him up as there is so much more.