CNN’s Wolf Blitzer commemorated the passing of Prince Thursday by praising the 57-year-old music legend for changing the music industry with a song he didn’t write.
“It’s only beginning … to set in that Prince is dead, uh, that he’s not going to be around,” the cable news anchor said shortly after a publicist confirmed to media that the music star passed away Thursday afternoon.
“And he has been so active over all of these years, writing music, performing soundtracks for major motion pictures. All of us, of course, remember ‘Purple Haze’ and what that did for the world of music,” he added.
“Purple Haze,” which was released on March 17, 1967, was written and recorded by guitar legend Jimi Hendrix.
“Purple Rain,” on the other hand, is a song released on an album of the same name written and recorded by Prince.
The track was released on Sept. 26, 1984, the same year that the film “Purple Rain,” which starred Prince in the lead role, hit theaters. Prince wrote the soundtrack for the movie.
