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    RIFFS FIT FOR A PRINCE

    May 21, 2020 4 minutes

    The response to Prince’s death in April 2016 was a global rainstorm of emotion. He was many things to many people: a whirling funketeer who woke up sexual urges, an iconoclast who inspired individual expression, a symbol of everything pop could be.

    Belatedly, though, a consensus is forming behind his primary status as a fearsome guitarist. Prince was so gifted, he overshadowed this trait himself, with tastefully plucked hits like Kiss, Cream and Raspberry Beret. You already know those tunes.

    Here, however, is a list of the truly mind-blowing numbers – some of them deep cuts, others from Prince’s essential 1984 masterpiece Purple Rain – that should convince even

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