Prince Death Update: Singer's Former Band The Revolution To Perform Again After Shocking Passing [VIDEO]
Prince's former band The Revolution is going to honor the late singer with new performances.
On Wednesday, the band announced in a video that they will be putting on "some shows" after grieving the loss of Prince.
The video starts off with five random people saying that they're members of the band when they get up and switch with the real members of the group. When the musicians introduce themselves, guitarist Wendy Melvoin mentions that they spent "three or four days together" dealing with the shock of Prince's death. But they would like to perform again with no specifics revealed.
Check it out below.
As for what caused Prince's death, it appears that drugs could've been a part of it. In a report from Daily Mail, a man who goes by the name Doctor D claims to be the singer's dealer and that he was addicted to opiates for years.
"I first met Prince in 1984 when he was filming the movie Purple Rain and he was already majorly addicted to opiates," Doctor D said. "I didn't hook him on drugs and he was already a really heavy user. In the beginning he would by speed as well as Dilaudid. I would sell him Black Beauties which were a black pill and Cross Tops which were also speed pills."
The reason why Prince allegedly used these substances was to help his anxiety before performing, according to the dealer.
"He needed the drugs because he was so nervous--he could be nervous in a room with just five people in it," he explained. "He was scared to go out in public, he was scared to talk to people and didn't like to go on stage--he had the worst case of stage fright I'd ever seen. A lot of performers rely on drugs to make them feel confident on stage, but he was by far the worst."
