Prince is mourned and celebrated by Bay Area fans

Prince is mourned and celebrated by Bay Area fans The store had about 25 LPs when it opened, but in less than an hour, the record bin was empty, save for a little yellow sticky note taped to one of the black dividers that read: “R.I.P. Prince!” Up the street at Rasputin Music, by 1 p.m. the store’s 50 CDs — two full rows — and 20 DVDs had sold out. “It’s been crazy, man,” said T.J. Hamilton, Rasputin’s soul music buyer. San Francisco City Hall was to glow purple Thursday night, while hundreds of fans had gathered outside Prince’s home and studio complex, called Paisley Park, near Minneapolis. Prince, the great Purple One who brought music lovers to their feet with hits like “Let’s Go Crazy” and “1999,” had been in the Bay Area just a couple months ago. Rasputin’s Hamilton managed to get into one of the concerts at the Paramount. “It was shocking ’cuz, actually, I wasn’t really supposed to be there,” he said. When I was a kid, my older sister — she was a teenager back then; I was 7 or 8 — I just remember her dressing us up, putting on makeup and dancing and singing around the house to Prince. “I want my own, ’cuz I don’t want to share with you,” Johnson-Colbert said, teasing her mom. If I had known, I would have been here first in line and grabbed every single CD, every vinyl record, every movie. Ryan Kost is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.