COOL CRITICS BID FAREWELL TO LEGENDARY PRINCE / THE ARTIST

       I can remember quite a few singers, performers that I met through my career.  I did radio for a long time saw a lot of people come and go.  I often wonder with the way people act, do ants have celebrities?  Or is this life we live just a circus of events.  Do elephants, gorillas?  Do they have meetings, and in their animalistic way - sign autographs?  Or is that special performance just for us humans?  And if humans are so great - why do they die?  Does it matter?

     I saw the sad faces when Michael Jackson left - and I understand when you have a mental bond with someone who sang a record that may have sparked a relationship, someone portrayed someone in a movie that parallelled your life to the point it was soothing, so when they're gone - it hits you.

      The most difficult exits are probably ones where you're not aware of any illness, then suddenly they're gone, like in the case of Gregory Hines - at 55 he was out of here, and now this - PRINCE at 57.  The cool critics take a look at it from all angles.  347-205-9366.