Watch Prince Perform at Coachella in 2008

Article by: Laura Mason|@masonlazarus

Thu April 21, 2016 | 00:00 AM


If you're already blasting Prince in your office/headphones/home in tribute to our fallen purple angel, add one more song to your playlist. 

Back in 2008 Prince performed on the main stage at Coachella , captivating an audience of superfans with a rare and bewitching festival appearance. If you're familiar with the Purple One, you know he's famously strict about keeping his songs and filmed performances off the internet – so it was quite the coup to find footage of his simply amazing cover of Radiohead's "Creep" during his Coachella set. Bathed in dark blue light, Prince renders the haunting song in his signature guitar tone, soulful vocal acrobatics and gorgeous falsetto, before shredding on an epic guitar solo during the outro. His astounding multi-instrumentalism and versatility as an artist are truly on grand display here. If you didn't know any better, you'd think the song was his. 

And the song is probably pretty close his heart. As we know from binge watching the biographical Purple Rain over and over, Prince grew up an outsider with a troubled home life. He used music to rise above that and into greatness – similar to Radiohead's cathartic masterpiece "Creep." Watch and remind yourself of what a legend we lost today.