and it was jimi hendrix who led the charge. adored by fans and revered by critics, he crafted a unique sound that was spell binding. he went from the streets of seattle to the mess halls of fort campbell in kentucky. that's where he met this man, billy cox. cox, a bass player, would eventually tour the world with hendricks and become one of his closest friends. >> i heard this guitar. i said that's a unique way of playing. i said i used to play bass in the high school symphony. but i don't play anymore. he said they've got new electric basses. check it out and we'll do some the rest is history. >> reporter: after leaving the army, the two formed a band called the king casuals. they played at small venues in tennessee and nashville. eventually he moved to england and formed the jimi hendrix experience. within months, he was cranking out top 10 hits like hey, joe, and purple haze. when he grew tired of the experience, he knew who to call, his old friend, billy cox. cox was busy performing with stars like sam cook, little richard

i've seen jimi hendrix. >> have you? >> i've seen janis joplin. seen colleen dewhurst and jason robars on broadway considered one of the greatest productions ever. this was the greatest show i've ever seen in my life! it had it all! it was the greatest show in the history of entertainment. i don't understand it. i'm completely confused. there's like 100 people working on that show. millions of dollars of robots and technology. how do they make money? >> one thing for sure about this area, quite a lot of businesses are spoken but governed by the yakusa. >> yakusa, that's the fraternal organization prominent in the entertainment and financial services sector, as they say, who is said to supervise things here. principally, your arcades, gambling, pachenko, adult entertainment, porn shops and sex clubs, along with other ancillary services. but how much actual boning is going on in the sex district? generally speaking, it's more a field of dreams than the actual act of sex. hostess cafes, where a lonely overworked salary man can find the attention of c

it was jimi hendrixs meets james brown meets michael jackson meets stevie wonder. he could do all of those things at the same time. you know he was happy in a recording studio. happy when creating and making new things. but there was this really interesting tension with him that went on for, you know, his whole career, was he a huge arena level, stadium level superstar or was he the world's biggest cult artist who had a million people who would follow him no matter where he went, no matter what he did. you would see him kind of turn up -- turn one of those sides up and turn one down when he wanted to go out and big the star, he would give the greatest performance at the super bowl or put out a record that fit with his old catalog and play the hits. other times he'd go out and play clubs. he'd play new music, instrumental music, work on ideas. he could work both sides of that and never fully resolved, you know, he wanted to be both. that's a pretty incredible ambition to have. >> yeah, indeed. stay with us. we're going to talk to you later. i want to bring in a danc

what they must've gone through the week that jimi hendrix came to town.ee it. the whole -- a window opens up into a whole new thing. and you think, "what does this mean? what do i have left to say? what do i do now?" ♪ welcome to tokyo. you are not invited. this is the other tokyo. 12 hour flight, and i'm baked. no sleep. might as well -- must go out. ♪ the kabukicho district near my hotel has the advantage of being where the subterranean life, the repressed ids of the japanese male and some females, too, comes out to play. joining me is japanese film producer and production manager masa kakubo. always a good sign when protective chains separate entertainers from the soon to be entertained, right? prepare yourself for the greatest show in the history of entertainment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ no, no, it can't be over. not yet. no! but yet, yet it is. with a series of chased high fives with the hard working performers. okay, i gotta tell you, uh, i've seen jimi hendrix -- >> masa: uh, have you? >> anthony: i've seen janis joplin. i've seen david bowie. >> masa: uh huh.

hits included "when doves cry," "little red corvette" drew on james brown and jimmy hendrix. one of his biggest hits made the lyrics "let's party like it's 1999" an ingrained part of pop culture. as recently as 2014, he turned in a show stopping eight-minute performance on "saturday night live." >> we would think of him as someone who is ageless. if you look at him across the spectrum of his career, he seems so youthful even know. >> reporter: prince brought an innovation to his sound that made a man just standing 5'2" a giant in pop culture. >>> fans and those who knew him acknowledging that the music scene has lost an icon. tracy wilkins is live in silver springs with a local connection to prince. >> reporter: we're here at 102.3 talking to donnie simpson about prince and how important he was here i a first of all, i didn't believe it. i know you felt the same way. after that, the thought was i've got to get to donnie simpson. i was 9 years old when you played "purple rain" nonstop on the radio when it first came out. you knew him. you've been to paisley park. >> just shock

you see jimi hendrix, james brown all rolled into one. >> yeah. well, he was, he was the soul.ul of is that music. if it wasn't for prince in our decade, i think those artists wouldn't be as, as sort of like balanced as they are. they'd be in their own genre, whereas prince put them into all of his music. i mean, he was just, and not to take that away from him, because he was in no way, no way a copycat. the man was just a man on his own feet, and just seeing him, seeing the artist today that love prince and love his music. i mean, that's a testament to how great the guy was, and not only that, as a woman, you know, just, he was such a man. you know? [ laughter ] >> even with the straightened hair and the makeup and the eyeliner, he was such a man. >> it didn't matter. it is. he was such a man. i can remember being backstage at the mtv music awards, walking around, knowing he was going to perform. i was like oh, my gosh, and i was dressed head to toe in purple. even purple underwear. i have no idea why i did that. but just to be in the same building as him, same room. and on th

jimmy hendrix, smoking a join with jimmy hendrix. >> he's an interesting person. >> john stamos. because i want to marry my best friend. come organization jesse! i don't care what his hobbies are. >> i was thinking, i would say kaitlyn jenner. you get the whole package. you have a big sister who you can play ball with and she's a right winger so you can watch fox with her. it would be great. you would have a great date. nothing could go wrong. nothing. i'll shut up now. next. larry, what behavior or act that is currently illegal once it became legal would you instantly engage in? >> i would say murder. >> well, someone will try to kill me. >> speeding. >> i don't know. there's nothing i want to do that i wouldn't do. >> so if it's legal and you would be breaking the law, it is illegal. >> i just take what i want. >> lorenzo, wait on old ladies in front of you. get the blank out. >> i don't have a good answer for this. i was going to say speeding. smoke weed. i would smoke weed. the other day i said i'm too hungry and paranoid and people said no, you'll be happy. >> so to go color

he has released everything in jimi hendrix to nirvana and the beastie boys. >> is it a resurgence likeow. it's not going to go anywhere. >> cassen says he believes newer isn't necessarily better. ash-har quraishi, al jazeera, salina kansas. >> i'm roxana saberi, ray suarez is up next for "inside story." >> the national institutes of health is an enormous organization. a medical research agency dedicated to preserving health, extending life. and given $1 billion a year doing it. the nih director is one of the pioneers sequencing the human jeno, a tireless advocate for biomedical r&d. and he's my guest. precision medicineev

he studied james brown, jimi hendrix.think that the greatest prince song, the most influential prince music may be in a reel to reel tape canister, on a thumb drive, in a laptop? >> it could be. when we think about tupac and other people, the label could go in there and have us listening to new prince music for a decade or more. i mean, if he was truly doing a song a day, that could be 600, 900 songs created in a three, four year period that we haven't heard most of them. so yeah, i'm interested to hear that music and see what comes out of it. rickey was talking about the performance, but he would always leave that show and do a little show at some club somewhere. i remember seeing him at s.o.b.s with quest love on the drums and deangelo on the keyboards, and it was amazing. >> rickey minor, and toure. thank you for being with us. at least you had the chance to work with him. another break and our remembrance of prince will continue. een smashed and driven. it's perceptive enough to detect other vehicles on the road. een

guys like jimi hendrix and rick james.as finally being recognized and acknowledged how great these guys were as artists especially prince. i mean, who do you know that plays 27 instruments, write and compose his own songs and even with the presentation, it was just no boundaries of his creativity. he pushed the envelope. that opened the doors for a lot of artists that we see today like bruno bars or a deangelo or miguel or beyonce. he made it okay for artists to have freedom of expression and not be controlled by record companies as we saw back in the mid-9'90s when he wrote slave o his face. he was a tremendous musician but also conscious of the business around him and he also was conscious of owning his own and have his own creations. >> absolutely. very well said. i want to bring in the publicists and founder of the brido agency. vanessa is here. talk a bit about that aspect. sway makes a great point. prince pioneered this idea of artists really taking care of their business. >> he pioneered artists become g ing brands.

right up there with clap ton, very hendrix like. he was the close toast hendrix on the guard tar. that where is he shined. never seemed to get into the politics of it all or the head games. all about the music to this guy. >> joe, we heard that he was intensely shy, said again and again, and you get there and you overcome that, but he wouldn't even do practice sessions or stick around to either before promote a concert or movie, like by purple rain "which was thought to have been a disaster in the making. was anything but. but staying around afterwards, at an award show, he didn't want to do that. >> what a great point. when he was at -- we always did the afterparti' at snl inle 80, and and '801 and he was huddle in the corner never came out. very much to himself. to your point, what i loved was the guy stayed in minnesota, man. he stayed true -- and i got to tell you, too, my dear friend -- hope the doesn't mind me telling you -- the guy all over fox, he was, like -- mike went to a part of his life where he was partying so he was out once, he ran into prince, spent a night partyi

a belt oboot, but for this jimi hendrix military look, very little change.e to the men we behind this look, dean and dan caton. >> we wanted to make sure it was easy and quick to get on. straining. it's about the silhouette, the shape. she knocked it out. >> spectacular as always. >> i'm just she gave jay z some love. come on. >> definitely call it beyonce's world. could it blow up any bigger? this happened. look at it. instagram talking about beyonce and mariah carey working on, quote, something special. >> here is the deal. it posted by diane martell. she's direc videos for both. there's no official announcement yet, but don't forget, our big mariah exclusive is just 14 minutes away, she is in rare form. >> they would be so great together. >>> did you see this? kelly ripa on today with wild animals. but it is kelly who may have had the biggest bite. >> i'm t it into contract negotiations with me. >> yep, she ssid that. michael didn't blink, but i think kelly identified with this screaming hairyarmadillo. >> the reason he's screaming is he's small, he has n

had seven grammy awards and he was an incredible influence on popular music, part james brown, part hendrix, among his influences. he was one the few would could play all of the instruments on a song: song, base, key boards, guitar. he had the first hit believe it or not in 1979 with "i want to be your lover," 37 years ago. here is what a fan in berkeley had to say about the death at age vern. >> 57 seems so young. >> it is very young. i have a daughter that is 50 and i am like, wow...it is nowhere. he hasn't stepped out into life yet. he lived it to the fullest the he did a great job with what he was chosen to do. i know he will be missed. >> a prolific songwriter he wrote songs for sanity, and speaking of vanity 6, the group, his let jay demeese matthews died early this year and she was 57 and had been living in fremont at the time she died. again, prince at aim of veteran the you might remember last weekend he as was mying to a concert from minneapolis his plane made an emergency landing in northern illinois so he could be rushed to the message room. don't know what the link is between t

he studied jimi hendrix. he was a great songwriter, a great artist. but he was a great musician.al prince music, may be in a reel-to-reel tape canister, it may be on a thumb drive, it may be on a laptop? >> it could be. we think about tupac and other people, the music keeps on coming out. the label could go in there and have us listening to new prince muse folk ar decade or more. if he was truly doing a song a day, that could be 600, 900 songs created in a three, four-year period that we haven't heard most of them. so yeah, i mean, you know, i'm interested to hear that muse and i can see what comes out of it, you know. too ricky was talking about the performance. and it was one thing to be at a prince concert, like at madison square garden or something. but he would always leave that show and do a little show at some club somewhere. i remember seeing him at sobs with quest love on the drums and deangelo playing the keyboards and it was amazing. >> rickey minor, toure who will stay with us here in the studio, thank you ricky very much for join us. at least you had the great pleasu

well, especially because we have jimmy hendrix as one of the panelists. so i just want to say it's a pleasure to always join my peers here at nlga. and the conversations are always inspiring and enlightening. and it is good to, every once in a while, have their experience and they give us a chance to keep the dialogue going and get the conversation and the debate ongoing. the folks from nlga, we have partners, and the partners program. they bring diverse points of views and different perspectives to inform us and keep us really on the cutting edge. so i want to thank the partners. thank you so much for being a part of this. and let me bring to the podium the leader of the nlga partner program, chris riley of archer daniels midland, or adm. he was just telling me what they do. it's really quite interesting. so welcome, chris. >> thank you, lieutenant governor potter. i appreciate that, thank you. enjoy those. good afternoon. thank you for fostering these partner shns that allow public/private partnerships to build fruit. i want to say thank you to the lieu

into the presence because they had such an influence on him. >> they would talk to us about jimi hendrixth us and he would talk to us about jimi and want to know different things about jimi. jimi, living at our house at the time. another musician that he knew about was elton john played with us when we were -- when we were in england. and so we would talk about all those -- just about everything and just -- and everybody. yeah. >> yeah. what do you think his greatest hit was? >> "purple rain." "purple rain". the movie and just the whole nine. we thought so much of that, you know. and god bless his family and -- it's just -- he's going to really be missed. he was one of the greatest. >> yeah. what are you going to miss -- how often -- you said you guys -- i know that you said he would come over and you would talk to him. when is the last time you had spoken to him? had you spoken to him recently? >> we were in minnesota, i think it was october, around october, we played minnesota. and at the theater. i think that would be the last time. >> yeah. what do you think about most when you think

electrifying, called him a renegade in the manner of such black rock artists as sly stone and jimi hendrix. but then the culmination of his review was this. and i said that the freak-out over prince and prince's frankness and glorification of six was an unsubtle thing. it was very, very unsubtle. even in the pages of the old gray lady, the "new york times." just check this out. i'll quote directly from steven holden's review of that prince show in 1981. ready? "prince sings exclusively in a falsetto which he pushes at times to an eerie cater wahling intensity. this style is ideally suited to the theatrical lasciviousness that is tral to prince's act. on stage prince displays an unbridled street ear rot simple wearing black bikini briefs, fringed high heel boots, thick thigh high stockings. hi is sexual license incarnate." i don't even know how steven holden got home from that show that night. if that was the experience that he had in that club. you're sure you can still walk, sir? but actually the way he ends that review is just as important. this is the end of the review. "prince is such

he studied jimi hendrix. he was a great songwriter, a great artist. but he was a great musician.t influential prince music, may be in a reel rooil-tape conadminister, it may be on a thumb drive, it may be on a laptop? >> it could be. we think about tupac and other people, the music keeps on coming out. the label could go in there and have us listening to new prince muse folk ar decade or more. if he was truly doing a song a day, that could be 600, 900 songs created in a three, four-year period that we haven't heard most of them. so yeah, i mean, you know, i'm interested to hear that muse and i can see what comes out of it, you know. too ricky was talking about the performance. and it was one thing to be at a prince concert, like at madison square garden or something. but he would always leave that show and do a little show at some club somewhere. i remember seeing him at sobs with quest love on the drums and deangelo playing the keyboards and it was amazing. >> rickey minor, toure who will stay with us here in the studio, thank you ricky very much for join us. at least you had th

the rappers are rock and roll, but gene simmons disagreed saying respectfully let me know when jimi hendrixinto the hip- hop hall of fame and then you'll have a point. he's questioned others as well. >>> a customer at a florida starbucks is steamed over a barista's rude comment. >> it wasn't the man's name, but it was a snide comment scrawled on the side of his coffee cup. >> that first word just automatically brought the picture of both sisters in my head. >> on the side of his drink the words diabetes, here i come. for this customer it hit too close to home. >> when you saw diabetes, what memories did that trigger? >> just the struggles they went through, some of the doctors' appointments. >> reporter: the man said his two sisters suffer from type 1 diabetes. the 16-ounce white mocha has 470 calories. the store management was stunned seeing the cup's label. is this something starbucks condones? >> no. this is something we definitely don't condone. >> reporter: the manager said the only thing that should be written on the label is the drink type and customer's name. the customer wrote a no

i wasn't in the old days and sly stone and hendrix and duke ellington and mozart.is and he really revolutionized everything. i can't believe we're here talking about this. >> that's the thing about prince, though. he brought it altogether musically. when you talk to anyone, i know a couple people in the music business, you talk to a rock n roller, blues, jazz, country, folk, rap, hip hop, r&b, everyone has been touched by this man. >> oh yeah. i woke up. my first facetime call the morning, i work with lenny kravitz. we basically connected in the '80s because of prince's music. like we were family friends and he would say, oh yeah, dirty mind. you like that? i'd say, listen to the b-side of this record. and this morning my first facetime call with lenny who was so devastated and same time you mentioned, chris rock and we have listened to prince music together and talked about prince. we're all -- quest love. all fanatics. but lenny was really devastated and kept saying this can't be true. please find out. this is a hoax. because for him prince was also such an inspi

superstardom, he does like james brown, he moved like michael jackson and he played guitar like jimi hendrix. jenn: he also had his own unique style that influenced a generation. >> there were days where some of the more heated three costume changes on a day when he didn't have a show. reporter: alan whyte introduced him many times. but not once. >> he would pursue whatever reporter: yet somehow he belonged to no past or present moment. always to some distant future. to which the rest of us may not have ever arrived. >> if there is a single most important thing about him, it was his absolute sentiments independence of bravery, risk-taking. if not falling under any under lesser categories. >> prince asked listeners if i am black or white, straight or gay? >> he didn't like being defied. that is what he would change his name and changed his style. reporter: this senior editor recalled the hieroglyphic lollipop symbol to which he changed his name to read all of those outfits that he wore. the album covers, and the place >> fancher collis much of his style as they do of his music. >> he wore whe

widely acclaimed as one of the most innovative musicians james era, joining on brown, beatles, to jimi hendrixe minneapolis native broke through in the late 1970's and soared over the falling -- following decade. earlier today, i spoke by phone with the vice president of -- >> boundary busting timeless songs sound of his like they could of been made today. >> fans gathered in the rain outside his music studio, where his gold records are on the walls and the purple motorcycle is on display. prince was reported to have been hospitalized on friday on his way back from atlanta. he subsequently appeared at a dance party. prince was 57 years old. donald trump has a double digit lead in california. show trump leading the gop field with 41%. ted cruz is second with 23%. john kasich with 21% california holds its primary's june 7. noes comey says there is timetable for the agency to complete its investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state trade state. director komi says the fbi does not set timetables on any investigations. investigation is looking

innovative musicians of his era, drawing upon influences ranging from james brown to the beatles to jimi hendrixminneapolis native broke through in the late 1970's with "he hits "want to be her lover and purple rain. ♪ >> ♪ purple rain, purple rain the title song includes one of the most popular refrains . he subsequently appeared at a prince was 57 years old. president obama is trying to persuade saudi arabia and other gulf states to contribute more to the fight against islamic state the president met with the gulf cooperation council to discuss ways to strengthen the us-led war against isil >>. we remain united in our fight to destroy daesh. the united states will help our partners in making sure our forces are interoperable. president obama also said the u.s. is committed to helping the gulf states contain iran. the president has left saudi arabia and is in route to london global news 24 hours a day, powered by our 2400 journalists in more than 150 news bureaus around the world. i'm mark crumpton. david: commodity markets closed in new york. we will take a look at the day's biggest movers, st

i started asking about the fate of richard hendrix, the main character who was fired by his company atlast season in a epic -- an epic cliffhanger. >> when we did research, we wanted to see what would happen if a guy like richard got fired. all the engineered wondered -- all the engineers wondered if it would work. and others aside, yes, we get rid of founders all the time. so people have different ideas of what reality would be. emily: what was the dose of reality you brought to the writers room? >> it would be hard to understate my influence on anything you're going to see this season, other than sitting in the back room and saying you could totally do that, that had absolutely happen. you could do worse than that. emily: anything you said no? dick: very rarely. you could make it more dramatic than that. emily: what was a like having a real ceo in the writers room? >> it was amazing. we get stuck a lot, and oftentimes we have to call people to ask them whether it would really happen or not. having him in the room was amazing because as we were thinking things, we could be looking at

i hebb -- i remember hendrix doing that. >> so what was the problem? >> that it was disrespectful, unpatriotic, according to some. now, if you have a problem with this, find that rosanne barr thing -- >> and that puts this one in perspective? >> i think so. flea, what's he been up to? they still -- >> oh, yeah, they're out there touring. they're very good. >> remember music is my airplane? when which i think was a euphemism. good stuff. >> mike woods is standing by to talk weather patiently. >> no problem at all. we've got not much going on with back in the picture, and it's here to stay for a while. the averages in the month of april, what we've seen so far, the average temperature, 47 degrees which is 3.1 degrees below normal. the warmest was on the 1st when we had 79. anyhow, that's how it's shaping up. total precip, about .91 inches below normal, so we could use a little more rainfall, but so far for the year we're only a little bit off the mark from what is normal. we've got a clear sky, 45 now out at central park and a lot of sunshine coming at y

inventive musicians of his era, drawing upon influences ranging from james brown to the beatles to jimi hendrix. let's go hits included " crazy" and "when doves cry." the minneapolis native broke through with the hit "wanna be your lover." earlier i spoke by phone with the vice president of mac presents. boundary busting, timeless music. iconic songs are 30 or 40 years old and they sound like they could have been made today. mark: fans gathered in the rain outside prince's music studio, where his gold records are on the wall. prince was reported to have been hospitalized in illinois on friday on his way back from a concert in atlanta. he subsequently appeared at a dance party at paisley park. prince, whose given name was prince rogers nelson, was 57 years old. democratic presidential candidates are spending plenty of cash on the road to the nomination. about 29linton spent billion -- $29 million in march. sanders spent even more, nearly $85 million between february and march. that is three times what trumps spent and nearly four times what cruz spent for the same time period. an ocean front str

. >> he could play guitar like hendrix, sing like james brown, and the one and only prince, fans are still shocked over the loss. ♪ let moves go crazy >> a history people rank that performance as the best all time found unresponsive inside an elevator at his compound in minnesota yesterday, and paramedics could not revisit him and pronounced the 2357-year-old dead shortly after 8:00 a.m. our time and an autopsy is scheduled for today. prince had suffered from the any for months and authorities do not believe the delegate to to to -- the death to be suspicious with no sign it is a suicide. >> fans are stunned. >> it hours. he is in my heart. >> a last us are feeling that way. seven grammys. five number one systems and an oscar made him the most successful artists of his time. four decades he give us music. he has enough unreleased songs to release an album every year until the next century. fans packed the nightclub and that is in downtown minneapolis his club the site of his hit movie "purple rain," and another party this tonight and tomorrow. he sometimes showed up unannounced to pe

hits include "when doves cry," "little red corvette," drew upon influences as wide ranging as jimmy hendrix. one of his biggest hits made the lyric "let's party like it's 1999" ingrained in pop culture. as recently as 2014, he turned in a show stopping eight-minute performance on "saturday night live." >> we would think of someone whose ageless. he seems so youthful even now. >> reporter: prince brought an energy and innovation to his sound that made a man standing just 5'2" a giant in popular music. mark barger, nbc news. >>> reaction came quickly from the streets to the radio stations. people were sharing their thoughts on the loss of a music icon. our coverage continues tonight with the impact on fans here. let's begin with tracee wilkins. she is live in >> reporter: this was such an amazing opportunity to hear prince. i had the opportunity to do that several yiears ago. i remember the entire verizon center being mez msmerizmesmeri. there's definitely a hole felt for those who were fans of his. today we had the opportunity to talk with donnie simpson, a man who interviewed him and actual

simmons didn't let it go tweeting, let me go let me know when jimi hendrix gets into the hip-hop hall of fame. >> then you will have a point. >> mtv movie awards takes place last night. doing johnson and kevin hart had one of the most memorable entrances in the social history. >> have a look. >> . [cheering] it was an entrance inspired by mad max. dozens of extras dressed in costume/ he was even wearing a face mask. shirley is there and one for her role in the movie. it was the 25th anniversary popcorn trophy. >> she was stunning. i don't know about that dress but she is incredible. >> there is a new bus at the box office. >> the hardest thing right now in hollywood. she took another one in a spot for her movie the boss and its debut weekend. 23.5 million bumping superman to the number two spot and it was a close one. he brought in 23.4 million in rounded out the top three. let's do it . >> the disney animated utopia brought in 14 million. >> who cares? >> saturday night live poked fun at hillary clinton and it was really funny. >> . >> they poke fun at the president who rode the subw

. >> reporter: his songs all drew upon influences of james brown, the beatles, and jimmy hendrix. one of his biggest hits made the lyric "let's party like it's 1999" an ingrained part of pop culture. as recently as 2014, he turned in a show stopping eight-minute performance on "saturday night live." >> we would think of him as someone who is ageless. if you look at him across the spectrum of his career, he seems so youthful eve energy and innovation to his sound that made a man standing just 5'2" a giant in popular music. >> the death of prince has been a shock to all of us. we've got team coverage tonight with reaction from people who grew up listening to prince as musical tributes break out in the streets. we begin with tracee wilkins live. >> reporter: i'm one of the people who grew up listening to prince. i saw him several years ago in concert. in the middle of the concert, he had the entire verizon center learning and singing a new song by parts. before we knew it, we were all in song. this is the power of this singer and this artist who touched folks not only from this area,

still eulogizing jimi hendrix. birthday wishes in order for queen elizabeth. 90 years old today.y is a lot longer when your only job is waving at people. there's the queen with some of the members of her motorcycle gang cutting the cut with no candles. i guess it must be undig if ied for the queen to blow things in public or it's too dangerous to light that many candles with a hat like that. i can't tell where the cake stops and the hat starts. [ applause ] >> jimmy: while we're on the subject of birthdays. made an offer last night, i volunteered to name people's babies for them. there are companies charging up to 30$,000 to do this, but i, i'll do it for free. i'm happy to do it. i just need to see the baby and it's really all i need. i instructed our baby to post a picture of their newborn baby with the hash tag "jimmy kimmel name my baby". we got a lot of responses. it's time now. go through them and i'll name them. this one. let's go with allen. that baby is allen. derek. that will be a derek. grandpa. [ laughter ] >> julia louis dreyfus. i don't know if it's a boy or a girl.

deliberately a black man because he saw what happened to james brown, he saw the struggles of the jimi hendrixtone, of larry graham, all of his greats who had come before him, all of them the industry beat them, and he emerged victorious before he died. and i give thanks and honor and praise to faydra ellis lampkin and i will take that to my dying die day to see prince get his music back. >> in order to do that, you have tore strong, you have to be fearless. even lose your name. he lost his name at one point and got it back, as van said. >> it's the ultimate story of betting on yourself. i've been talking to a lot of celebrities today that i'm good friends with and, like van said, if you bragged about being friends with prince, you weren't going to be friends with him the next day. people i'm very close to finding out these relationships they had with prince that i didn't even know about and how close they were with him and talking about -- van was mentioning this but, yes, he was a gentleman but just funny and he was a man and he was a home boy and he was all of these things that a lot of peo

i saw it on tape was jimmy hendrix, the experience. >> you would have to be his handler. >> i'm goinggood. nice choice. >> you would blend in. straight out of compton is one of best rap album of all time. >> what is with it young white guys and rap? >> that's another segment. >> this is really embarrassing now. i would like to be a back-up rammer. have you seen them? they do nothing. they just stand back there. yeah. after that, my answer is horrible. >> you could be a back-up singer? >> no, back up rapper. >> both the cover bands. >> tt would be good. >> i would pick cold play. so in one evening i could poison them. >> that's not nice. >> poison them with love. and poison. we'll go this way. if you could eat one thing only, for the rest of your life, what would it be? >> in and out. >> it has to be in and out. >> i'm going to leave that one alone. >> lobster. >> lobster? are not they hike insects in boston? >> they ran out. >> yeah. i hate it. >> keep it going, people. >> you have to eat it forever and ever. >> i would eat blue crab covered with old bay. >> interesting. you know what

." >> his looks with the hair, you see little richard, you see jimmy hendrix, i say james brown all rolledoul. i mean, he was the soul of that music. if it wasn't for prince in our decade, i think those artists wouldn't be as sort of like balanced as they are. they'd be in their own genre, whereas prince put them into all of his music. i mean, he was just -- and not to take that away from him because in no way a copycat. the man was just a man on his own feet. and just seeing him -- seeing the artist today that loved prince and love his music, i mean, that's a testament to how great the guy was. and not only that, as a woman, you know, just he was such a man, you know? >> even with the straightened hair and the make-up and the eyeliner, he was still a man, right? that's what every woman is saying. >> it didn't matter. he was such a man. i can remember being backstage at the mtv music awards, walking around knowing he was going to perform and i was like, oh, my gosh, i was dressed head to toe in purple, even purple underwear, i had no idea why dithdi did that. just to be in the same buildin

he was influenced heavily by the god father of soul, the beetles, jimi hendrix. he was famously private, mysterious. his battles with the record industry was well documented. notably in 1993 when he changed his name to that symbol during the dispute with warner brothers. last year he performed with stevie wonder. today president obama calling him quote, one of the most gifted and prolific musicians of our time. as well as a virtuoso instrumentalist and electrifying performer. fans gathering outside paisley park, outside his home there. hugging and it is, we're told, poignantly raining there at paisley mark. a makeshift memorial at that estate. at the apollo, nothing compares to you. the team was reportedly single little red corvette in the clubhouse. he was the face of mtv and carson, my wife and i were talking earlier about, you know, back in the '80s, prince videos on mtv were cause to stop whatever you were doing and watch and sing along and dance along if you could. he will most sorely be missed. what will you miss, sir? >> i don't know where to begin, craig.

and people also compare the guitar and the style to jimi hendrix. and you're right about that.o, the musicianship that he displayed. that's something that you almost have to be a virtuoso to appreciate. and it's one of the things that are lost on people. but you do appreciate the scope of his career and the depth of his music. and song-writing. as you played the clip from the super bowl from 2007, that's the biggest venue you can play. and he made it so intimate and immediate, which is an almost impossible thing to do. >> dana, one of the interesting things about prince was that he never got involved in the l.a. scene. a lot of musicians get fame and they go straight to l.a. and it goes right to their head. >> stayed in minneapolis. >> he seemed so grounded. i was a fan. i don't know a lot about him. i was admiring all that you knew about him. this is what i do remember hearing about him, that he was a very generous mentor to other potentially people who wanted to play music or wanted to write music or wanted to be in the music business, that he was always willing to lend a han

imagine if michael jackson could play the guitar like jimmy hendrix and that is prince.e blurred all these lines of sexuality and gender and music generas. and race. but at the core, he was a phenomenal musician. he played all the instruments. >> he was extraordinary. he didn't just capture and reflect our adolescence, he also inspired all these musicians and they inspired him. he was obsessed with joanny mitchell, which is interesting for us to have in terms of the cultural conversation that culture and art shouldn't mix. there should be borrowing, even co-opting. prince being covered by bru springsteen, that's incredible. >> to me, i have never been accused of being particularly musically inclined, but when you look at a guy like prince, this is one of these individuals that everybody knows. you know him for whatever reason. it might be the music. the man had his own color, purple. how many people have their own color? it's an extraordinary thing. i wear these fingerless gloves while it's freezing outside, but those are prince. he owns everything. he owns so much about

miles davis said, you know, he was a combination of james brown, marvin gaye and jimi hendrix. then when he got up on stage, he channeled charlie chaplin. think about it, it is true. deirdre: good description. >> right, isn't it? deirdre: sounds like a good description. other musicians like james brown, had such admiration. i was talking earlier about a quote that i saw where eric clapton, somebody asked eric clapton how does it feel to be the best guitarist in the world, he said, i don't know, ask prince. which is how a lost musicians and artists fell about him. lauren, as stacy alluded to, modern pop, modern r&b, a lot of people say prince changed the different kinds of music we listen to now? >> he has been a musician a long time. actually i got off the phone with friend of mine. she has been crying all afternoon. everybody has been crying all afternoon. these people actually worked with him as background singers and other musicians. she said i remember going to the club years ago in minneapolis, dive club, paying five dollars cover hearing prince and jimmy jam lewis at begi