sasha frere-jones: their solo careers were quite close together. ff glor: did they know each other, learn at all from each other? sasha frere-jones: there is a clip where michael jackson are on stage but also james brown. it is a pretty great clip. they are at their most sort of giving and happy -- they know who they are and what they can do. they were definitely competitive with each other. there is evidence of that. it was a pretty fruitful, as gail said, you know, having to step up your game is a good thing. competition is a really good thing when you are a creative force and need someone to push up against, there is that band pushing you. and prince definitely made everyone step their game up. of course, nobody did that more than michael. they were definitely think about each other, and the music that they made concurrently was pretty amazing. you wish there were two forces going at it like that with that kind of, you know, real competitive but sort of affectionate power. you know they respect each other. there was no way they did not. jeff glor

sasha frere-jones: i assume.e did not give away anything that went to the family, a spinoff group, and then she took it. that was an amazing move like aretha taking back from butch and never getting back. and then we also know there is a vault with oodles and oodles of videos and who knows what is in their. it could go in there -- it to go on forever. i hope we get to listen to that. jeff glor: gale, any idea how much is left that we have not heard that we may in the future? gail mitchell: i was going to bring up the vault when i was there and came back. one of my good friends who used to work with prince, he would take you down to the vault. i would say, what is the vault? i had no idea. i have no idea how much is in their. . he did jam sessions at paisley park that are tremendous and on tape. he opened the studio to a lot of different acts to record and do different things. i would love to be one of the ones to go in there and see exactly what is in there. probably lose myself. jeff glor: sasha, can i ask you a

i'm joined by barrel mitchell and sasha frere-jones. >> he was the black rocker, he was the funk guy who played and purple rain destroyed, it was a massive movie, a huge album and kind of went through the entire spectrum and gotten bigger. >> jeff: as president obama travels to saudi arabia and great britton we look at the foreign policy. joined by gid million rose, john micklethwait, jane harman and bret stephens. >> the region is in turmoil from its own internal screw up and we can't fix it from the outsize. obama is trying to cauterize the damage and not let the middle east problem inspect the entire world. >> jeff: remembrance of prince and a look at u.s. foreign policy when we continue >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> jeff: good evening, i'm jeff gloar fill in charlie rose who is traveling this evening. legendary singer music right and legendary pop ico

prince, david bowie, and glenn fry spoke so clearly for and to another musician and cultural critic sasha jones says they also correct generations. >> there's a good chance that if people are watching and pulling out their prince albums, maybe it's something their kids know too. >> what's interesting is the artists who do jump the generational fence and prince was one of them. >> reporter: and so when fans mourn, what are they mourning kpn not just the songs we will now never hear from these artists, but maybe even more so the work they've already given us. he was editorial director at billboard. >> you know, i feel music so deeply. and both for me personally, bowie and prince, i mean these are people i wept when i heard this news. you know, i wept for the loss that i know my friends were experiencing, i wept for the loss of more music. you know that i expected to have. these people would be there and be your beacon, and of course, you know you weep a little bit for your own lost childhood. >> reporter: hit the buttons on your car radio, and simultaneously enter a time machine. >> you know musi

musician and cultural critic sasha jones says they also correct generations. >> there's a good chancee artists who do jump the generational fence and prince was one of them. ♪ ♪ sometimes it snowed in april ♪ >> reporter: and so when fans mourn, what are they mourning kpn not just the songs we will now never hear from these artists, but maybe even more so the work they've already given us. bill wordy was editorial director at billboard. >> you know, i feel music so deeply. and both for me personally, bowie and prince, i mean these are people i wept when i heard this news. you know, i wept for the loss that i know my friends were experiencing, i wept for the loss of more music. you know that i expected to have. you kind of took for granted these people would be there and be your beacon, and of course, you know you weep a little bit for your own lost childhood. >> reporter: hit the buttons on your car radio, and simultaneously enter a time machine. >> you know music is everywhere, and it's easy to revisit. music has this way of kind of tapping you on the shoulder when you least expect i

talking about the death of prince and let's go to sasha frarer jones, write somewhere music critic. tell us what your fondest memory is of prince. >> there are a lot of them. and it's amazing, how long the span is, can start from very early being a kid, going to j&r music world near city hall, buying his album "1999" getting home, it sounds like a guy on one drum machine, one of the most minimal albums ever recorded and so huge. and then the next thing you knew, he was doing psychedelic records the love sexy tour, madison square garden, performing on a bed, i condition see it i think it was a bed. two years ago, friends we stumbled into city winery, new york city, and he was apparently playing but nobody knew. we thought, this can't be true. and the bouncer was so confused he just let us in. he didn't know what was happening. and we watched the band and it seemed like people who might know prince, and then prince came out. you know, he's permeated our lives so many different ways, you know, you know, shah made o'connor doing "nothing compares to you," frank ocean today, the person w

talking about the death of prince and let's go to sasha frarer jones, write somewhere music critic.y early being a kid, going to j&r music world near city hall, buying his album "1999"