Today (June 7, 2016) would have been Prince's birthday. He would have been 58.

Many people dropped a little Prince tribute here and there after he passed away, and I've gathered some of my favorites for you.

The list is a little heavy on Purple Rain and Nothing Compares 2 U, but at least this way you can choose whose version you want to hear.

  • 1

    Bruce Springsteen -- "Purple Rain"

    They just don't get much bigger than Springsteen (except for one guy on the list). Whether you're a fan or not, when Springsteen drops what he's doing to pay tribute, you know the world has suffered a pretty big loss.

  • 2

    Corey Taylor - "Little Red Corvette"

    Corey Taylor opened his show with Purple Rain, but as this list shows, that was kind of the easy choice. Since that time, a decent video for his version of Little Red Corvette surface and it's a good one.

  • 3

    Paul McCartney - "Hi Hi Hi/Let's Go Crazy"

    I guess you've made it when ONE OF THE FREAKIN' BEATLES pays tribute to you. Paul transitions from one of his own into Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" (with just a touch of Purple Rain in the guitar solo at the end).

  • 4

    Dixie Chicks "Nothing Compares 2 U"

    Let's just say you're one of those knuckleheads who can't get over something someone said a decade or so ago, that still doesn't mean the song and staging won't give you chills for this one.  Natalie NAILS it.

  • 5

    David Gilmour - "Comfortably Numb/Purple Rain"

    This is one of the most tasteful of the tributes. Pink Floyd's David Gilmour slashes his way through the solos of Comfortably Numb then sidetracks into a bit of prince at about 4:41.

  • 6

    Chris Cornell "Nothing Compares 2 U"

    Cornell was already making this song part of his solo show but it took on an additional bit of gravitas after the death of Prince. Here's a pretty good clip of him doing the track a couple weeks later live in Israel.

  • Bonus

    Freemont Street Experience

    Okay, imagine you're on the Vegas strip and this comes on over your head. I think you'd immediately head over to a casino and ask where you could bet on purple.

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