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>> reporter: to industry giants like aretha franklin who spoke to brian soon after getting the news that prince was dead at age 57. >> prince is gone. but the music will go on. >> what was bit him, do you think? >> well, i dont know.

>> does it bother you that it discomforts others, that it may make it difficult for them to interact with you? >> to some degree. but there again, its just one of the many rules that we as humans have to get used to. and im just trying to get unused to it, i guess. >> not only did prince go by an unprudenceable symbol which forced warner brothers to e-mail to journalists on a floppy disk so they could write about the artist, a great thing to do, the people that are screwing you over and dont lik...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i cant disguise the pounding of my heart ♪ ♪ beats so strong ♪ ooh, what can i say, honey ♪ you turn me on ♪ i dont care where we go ♪ i dont care what you do ♪ ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ i dont care, pretty baby ♪ take me with you >> that doesnt happen over at real sport the on hbo, does it? here in the studio with us is

Related to a drug overdose, that that stop we saw him make in moline, illinois, coming out of atlanta, was not the flu, that it could have been a shot to save his life from the aftereffects of opiates. what can you add to this? none of this has been confirmed by this news organization. >> thats right, none of its confirmed. i dont know what happened to him and his body in the last week, but i can tell you i have talked to people who knew prince throughout his life, from his teenage years to his ...

Other ♪ ♪ this is what it sounds like when doves cry ♪ >> anybody struggling, anywhere in the world, he was sending checks, he was making phone calls and he didnt want us to say it. im going to say it because the world needs to know it wasnt just the music. the music was one way he tried to help the world but he was helping every single day of his life. ♪ only want to see you in the purple rain ♪ ♪ purple rain purple rain ♪ >> had to say i called my mother when i first heard the ne...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i cant disguise the pounding of my heart ♪ ♪ its in your eyes oh what can i say hey ♪ ♪ you turn me on ♪ i dont care where we go i dont care what we do ♪ ♪ i dont care pretty baby take me with you ♪ >> this doesnt happen over at real sports on hbo, does it. here in the studio with us is toure who wrote the book on prince. he was also in on the joke.

The last clip, you showed the afro and glasses. he found no boundaries, and he absorbed creativity from every source. it was amazing. >> what a lot of people dont realize, there was a lot of activism prince was involved with, you and he did together. what was it like to know him in that way? >> well, you know, he was my friend. he was not the kind of guy would call you when you were having a good day, if you had a best selling book, if you had did something good, not calling you then. when youre...

Reporting tonight. dean, thank you. the rock n roll hall of fame says that prince "rewrote the rule book, forging a synthesis of black funk and white rock that served as a blueprint for cutting edge music in the 80s." vladimir duthiers has the man and his music. ♪ this is what it sounds like when doves cry ♪ >> reporter: he was a prodigy, an icon, and a provocateur. earning him the nickname "his royal badness" with songs like "darling nikki" about a one- night stand prompting warning labels ...

Have flowers and balloons for 20, 30, 40 minutes, seemingly unable to pull themselves away from this fence. prince, of course, was a fixture here in the minneapolis/st. paul twin cities area. folks have been streaming down this street all day, the street closed much of the day. they have parked across the highway and walked across this highway to pay respects to a man who was an icon of this community but really belonged to the world. ♪ purple rain purple rain >> reporter: over the years he wa...

Prince first broke through in the music world in the late 1970s with hits like "i want to be your lover" ♪ little red corvette but it was his music in the 1980s, forging funk and rock, that catapulted prince to stardom with "little red corvette" and 1999. ♪ so tonight im going to party like its 1999 ♪ ♪ just another manic monday he wrote for other musicians, too, from the bangles to sinead oconnor. ♪ nothing compares to you he won seven grammys during his career and an oscar for origin...