Today (June 7, 2016) would have been Prince's 58th birthday. Remember his huge impact on modern music with these cover versions of his work by various artists.
Since the passing of the iconic Prince, musicians around the world are still in mourning over the sudden loss of one of music's greatest stars. KISS bassist Gene Simmons, always a lightning rod for controversy, made some unsavory remarks about the musician's death, calling it, in short, "pathetic...
It just so happened that Slipknot / Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor had a gig scheduled in Prince's hometown of Minneapolis that night the night of his death.
Corey Taylor speaks about what Prince meant to him and what it was like covering 'Purple Rain' on the day of Prince's death at Minneapolis' First Avenue.