Last week we learned that the legendary Prince would make an appearance on Lopez Tonight last night to formally announce a 21-night residency here in LA and today we get to watch LOTS of video from Prince‘s appearance on the show. Prince chatted with George Lopez for a good while before he launched into a 3 song performance set. Prince performed his classic song The Beautiful Ones before doing a new song titled Laydown. He closed out his set with his version of the James D Train Williams song You’re the One for Me (a song that Prince actually wrote). Watch all of this amazingness below.

Here is Lopez‘s interview with Prince:

Here is video of Prince performing The Beautiful Ones, a song from his iconic album Purple Rain:


Here is video of Prince performing a newish song titled Laydown. It is featured on the album 20Ten, which Prince released for FREE in Europe last Summer but has not yet released here in the US:


Here is video of Prince performing You’re the One for Me:


OMFG … these are AMAZING performances!!! I am SOOOOO bummed that I can’t see Prince perform the first of his 21 shows here in LA tonight. David and I have a previous engagement with the Alvin Ailey dance troupe tonight so … yeah. Because we will be in NY/CT all next week for Passover/Easter, I’ll have to wait until I get back to LA before I can see any of these Prince shows. Thankfully, these performances on Lopez Tonight are amazing enough to tide me over. If you are here in LA, you MUST MUST MUST see Prince at one of his shows … you must. And with most tickets priced at $25 each, there is no excuse NOT to check him out. He is just the most exciting live performer you will ever see, I promise. These are great clips! I can’t WAIIIIIIIT to see him live in concert again for myself :)

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