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Once in a while we are blessed with these people who are completely authentic to themselves, incredibly talented, and willing to share with us. Let's be thankful.

Why does Prince (or Björk or Bowie) do anything? Only they know.

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I really don't think "completely authentic to themselve" is an accurate description at least for David Bowie, who had to come up with "personas" to embody so he could feel comfortable on stage.

I mean, in Bowie's case at least, probably loads and loads of cocaine.

As opposed to Zappa, who did not.

Thinking of symbology and zappa, I think of "ship too late to save a drowning witch"

Zappa smoked like a chimney and drank coffee incessantly. He was hardly as sober as he claimed to be.

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