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for his fans, it is still so hard to believe he s gone. good evening. i m brian williams. thank you for being here with us tonight. as we continue to look at our lead story all day today, we have for you tonight a look back at the extraordinary career of the music icon known around the world simply as prince. just a week ago tonight, he was in atlanta. he played two shows last thursday at the famous fox theater in atlanta. they were stripped-down performances by design, featuring prince alone on stage with just a piano for accompaniment. those in attendance say he ended the night by playing his classic purple rain. it was that same song, of course, that gave prince his real breakthrough to a mainstream audience back in 1984. he collected seven grammys across a career which he constantly reinvented his own sound and his own image. and even ditched his own name at one point for this unpronounceable symbol. but even the backstory there is important and we ll get to that toni
thank you for being with us tonight as we continue to look at our lead story all day today, we have for you tonight a look back at the extraordinary career of the music icon known around the world simply as prince. just a week ago tonight he was in atlanta. he played two shows last thursday at the famous fox theater in atlanta. they were strip down performances by design, featuring prince alone on stage, with just a piano for accompaniment. those in a interrupted its programming. little red corvette but he was much more than a musician, an artist in every sense of the world, a man who understood the business and making money. who was prince? i don t know. and that s kind of the way he wanted it. late last week, hours after a performance in atlanta, during which concert-goers reported nothing out of the ordinary, prince fell ill on the private plane ride home which made an emergency landing in illinois. hospitalized he was released early in the morning and then throu
reporter: to industry giants like aretha franklin who spoke to brian soon after getting the news that prince was dead at age 57. prince is gone. but the music will go on. what was bit him, do you think? well, i don t know. young adults and adults loved prince. the sky was all purple there were people running everywhere reporter: mtv, which came into its own about the time prince was turning into a mega star in the early 80s, interrupted its programming. his music was transcendent evidenced by the multi-cultural, multi-generational crowd that paid respects throughout the day and evening. but he was much more than a musician. an artist in every sense of the word who was a masterful show man. a man who understood the business of making music and money, grappling with studios at points to carve a bigger slice of the dough and control for himself. who was prince? i don t know. and that s kind of the way he wanted it. reporter: late last week, hours after a per