IT MAKES IT SOUNDS LIKE
PERHAPS THE SCRUBBING OF THE
TOWERS WORKED.
NEARLY SIX MONTHS AFTER HIS
DEATH FROM AN ACCIDENTAL DRUG
OVERDOSE THE OFFICIAL TRIBUTE
CONCERT HONORING PRINCE IS
TONIGHT.
SOME OF THE BIGGEST STARS ARE
EXPECTED TO PERFORM.
TONIGHT'S
THE NIGHT.
Reporter: TONIGHT IS THE
NIGHT.
GOOD MORNING TO YOU,
KIM.
SOME OF THE BIG
HEADLINERS, STEVIE WONDER, AND
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, ANOTHER
GROUP YOU MAY KNOWN MINNESOTA'S
OWN MINUTE CONDITION.
SOME OF
THE SONGS YOU'LL HEAR ARE SONGS
THEM.
WE WERE ABLE TO SIT DOWN
WITH A U.K.
BAND MEMBERS EARLIER
THIS WEEK.
THEY SAID IT'S AN
HONOR TO BE PART OF THE TRIBUTE
TO THE MAN WHO GAVE THEM SO
MUCH.
THEY SAY MUSIC WAS SO
POWERFUL IT WILL LIVE ON
THROUGH
THEM AND EVERYONE ELSE HE
TOUCHED.
NOT JUST A GREAT MUSICIAN AND
ARTIST, ARRANGER AND WRITER AND
ALL THOSER THINGS.
HE WAS A
COOL DUDE.
EVERY TIME I RAN
INTO PRINCE OUT AT FUNCTIONS,
HE
NEVER PLAYED ME, WELL MAYBE
ONCE, BUT HE WAS ALWAYS COOL.
AND IF I WAS WITH A FRIEND OR
WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, HE WAS
APPROACHABLE.
YOU CONCENTRATE ON THE ENERGY
THAT HE LEFT.
THE PERSON NEVER
REALLY DIES IF YOU KEEP THEIR
SPIRIT ALIVE.
HE'S CREATED SO
MUCH.
HE LIVES THROUGH US, YOU
KNOW, JUST LIKE WHEN YOUR
PARENTS DIE, YOU KNOW, IT'S
LIKE
YOU'RE A PART OF THEM.
YOU
ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE THEM.
WE'RE
NOT CONNECTED BIOLOGICALLY WITH
THE BROTHER BUT MUSICALLY, DNA
IS THERE.
Reporter: NOW, DURING
PRINCE'S ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF
FAME SPEECH BACK IN 2004 HE
DISCUSSED JUST NOW HE WANTED
THE
FREEDOM TO PRODUCE HIS OWN, AND
MINUTE CONDITION WAS REALLY BIG
ON THAT, AND THEY SAID PRINCE
WAS VERY INFLUENTIAL IN THEM
AND
THE LAST FIVE OR SIX OF THEIR
ALBUMS THEY HAVE PRODUCED
INDEPENDENTLY, SO ALL OF THE
PEOPLE YOU'LL SEE PERFORMING
TONIGHT, PRINCE HAS DEFINITELY
MADE A BIG ROLE ON WHERE THEY
ARE TODAY, KIM.
YEAH, IT SHOULD BE QUITE THE
SHOW, AND I DID CHECK STUB HUB,
AND THEY DO HAVE TICKETS
AVAILABLE ON THE RESALE SITES
FOR ABOUT 20 TO $25, SO
DISINFECTED TWO WEEKS AGO.
23
PEOPLE CONTRACTED THE DISEASE
SINCE LAST MONTH.
DIED.
SOME OF THE BIGGEST STARS
IN
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY ARE IN THE
TWIN CITIES TO CELEBRATE THE
LIFE AND MUSIC OF PRINCE.
TONIGHT THEY WILL PERFORM A
CENTER.
Reporter: GOOD MORNING TO
YOU.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST NAMES
PERFORMING HERE TONIGHT STEVIE
WONDER AND CHRISTINA AGUILERA
AS
WELL AS CHAKA KAHN.
ANOTHER
NAME MINNESOTAIANS MAY KNOW IS
MINUTE CONDITION, AND THEY HAVE
A BIG THANKS TO PRINCE FOR
REALLY GETTING PUT ON THE MAP.
OUR OWN REDS CHAPMAN WAS ABLE
TO
SPEAK WITH THEM EARLIER THIS
WEEK.
THEY PERFORMED ALL OVER
THE WORLD, BUT TONIGHT IT'S NOT
ABOUT MINUTE CONDITION.
IT'S
ABOUT PRINCE AND HIS LEGACY.
IT'S ABOUT THE MAN WHO HELPED
HIM REACH THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF
IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
BAND
MEMBERS SAY IT IS AN HONOR TO
BE
A PART OF THIS TRIBUTE TONIGHT
TO THE MAN WHO GAVE THEM SO
MUCH.
FOR ME PRINCE IS THE REASON
I
MEAN I WAS GOING BACK WITH MY
MOVEMENT I WAS A KID.
I WAS,
LIKE, MOM, I NEED TO MOVE TO
MINNESOTA.
SHE WAS LIKE, NO,
YOU'RE TOO YOUNG.
MY DAD WAS,
LIKE, THERE'S 12 KIDS IN THE
HOUSE, YOU NEED TO GO.
FOR ME AND EVERYBODY IN THE
REST OF THE WORLD THE FIRST
THING I HOPE IS SOME HEALING
BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S STILL --
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SIX MONTHS
AGO, IT'S BEEN SINCE APRIL.
IT'S NOT TOO LONG, SO WE'RE IN
THE SAME YEAR.
IT'S A HUGE,
HUGE IMPACT, BEEN A HUGE IMPACT
ON THE WORLD.
AND I THINK A LOT
OF PEOPLE HAVE A LOT OF
DIFFERENT OPINIONS ON THIS VERY
SLOW AND ALL THE TRIBUTES THAT
HAVE BEEN DONE AND ALL THE NEWS
AND MEDIA.
I THINK JUST TAKE
AWAY SOME HEALING AND
CONCENTRATE ON WHAT HE LEFT.
Reporter: NOW THE MEMBERS OF
THE BAND WOULD NOT SAY WHAT
SONGS THEY WILL BE PERFORMING
TONIGHT.
THEY SAID IT'S GOING
TO BE A COLLABORATE EFFORT.
TALKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE LIKE
CHRISTINA AGUILERA WONDERING
WHICH SONGS SHE'LL PERFORM.
THE
PRE-PARTY STARTS AT 4:00.
IT IS
BETWEEN GATES 1 WHERE WE ARE
RIGHT NOW AND THEN GATE 2, AND
MAYOR CHRIS COLEMAN HAS
DECLARED
TODAY PRINCE DAY AND I KNOW HE
WILL BE AT THE CONCERT HERE
TONIGHT, JASON.
DO YOU HAVE A
FAVORITE PRINCE SONG?
MINE IS
PURPLE RAIN.
I WAS AT THE U.S.
BANK OPENER FOR THE VIKINGS AND
WHEN THAT SONG WAS PLAYED
DURING
THE HALFTIME SHOW A VERY
EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE.