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Read more: https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/1/29/21112539/prince-halftime-show-oral-history-super-bowl-xli
TIL that during Prince’s Super Bowl halftime show volunteers accidentally ran over and severed three power cables during the stage set up, so a member of the lighting crew stripped the ends and held the cables in place by hand for the entire 12 minute show in the rain.
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Nope. Fuck that. Insurance doesn’t cover shit like that.
The crew risked their life for that? Were they an intern?
I saw that on “Up Periscope”
Stupid. Money & corporation are our masters.
Maybe he got a good view of the dancers. I’ve done more for less.
“Hours before the 2007 Super Bowl in Miami, Florida, producer Don Mischer called up Prince to tell him he’d probably have to perform his halftime show in the middle of a torrential downpour. ‘I want you to know it’s raining,’ Mischer said. ‘Are you OK?’ Prince had a very simple response: ‘Can you make it rain harder?'”
[Source](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-sports/prince-super-bowl-purple-rain-176408/)