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Prince bored me rigid

The weirdo recluse pop genius was a girls’ idea of what rock music ought to sound like - an act of debauched sexual communion

30 April 2016

9:00 AM

30 April 2016

9:00 AM

I saw Prince play once. I was bored rigid but couldn’t mention this to the girls I’d gone with: as far as they were concerned, watching the purple sex dwarf (he was 5ft 2in) masturbating with and fellating his guitar and generally getting off on his sublime pixieness was like experiencing the second coming.

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