I was born in 70, and MTV was a big influence on music at the time, and his videos were kind of hard to ignore. I was never muc of a "fan",more into Sabbath, Floyd, etc, but I really liked girls so I had to know something about Prince. Years later to realized what a talent he was with a guitar and piano as much as he was dancing or slithering on the floor.
Tough year for music lovers, kind of sucks. Thank god there is music.