I had the vertical version of this poster on my wall for about a year in the mid-1980s.

I was on vacation last Thursday when my fellow Minneapolitan, and fellow graduate of Bryant Junior High School, Prince Rogers Nelson, died at the age of 57. Here are a few articles worth checking out. I'll keep adding to them as I come across them. 

• Via Romenesko, the headlines from around the world. 
• The New York Times' obit by Jon Parales. 
• “He was ours”: My friend Jim Walsh was with Prince 12 weeks before his death. 
• This one really hit home for me: Steve Fennessy in Atlanta Magazine on “Prince and My Evolution,” about middle class white kids confronting all the contradictions of his Purple Badness in 1984.
• A must-read: a great oral history of Prince via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. 
• Even the sportswriters had to say something. Joe Posnanski on why Prince's was the only Super Bowl halftime show that mattered. 
• But mostly we've been hearing from the musicians: Members of Pearl Jam said Prince was the greatest guitarist they'd ever seen. 
• Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top spent two hours talking guitar-playing with Prince and walked away mesmerized. 
• Paul Westerberg has some of my favorite quotes. Among them: “He may have been a little more normal than he would've liked people to know. That's the treasure that we got, to be able to sit in the big atrium where you're taking a break and Prince shuffles by in his slippers and makes some popcorn in the microwave.”
• City Pages posted one of the last photos of Prince: biking to work at Paisley Park. 
• And all the world turned purple. 
• And sang.
• And sang.

ADDITION:

• Jim Walsh finds a long-lost note from Prince in his basement. 
• The Minnesota Daily finds its long-lost article about Prince from 1978.
• Suzanne Vega finds the letter Prince wrote her after the release of “Luka.”
• YouTube: Questlove sets up a ping-pong match between Jimmy Fallon and his Purple Badness. 

AND AGAIN:

• An insane Prince discography: chronologically.