Bobby Z, drummer for Prince’s backing band, the Revolution, reflected on how the Prince premiere was essentially the biggest thing that ever happened to the small farming, ranching and coal-mining town of Sheridan.
“It wouldn’t have been the same if it had been in a bigger place — like, say, Duluth — because you really couldn’t take over the town like this has,” Bobby Z says in a quote attributed to the Minneapolis Star and Tribune.
Eleven months after Prince’s death, there is still no published evidence Prince ever entered Duluth city limits, though his lifelong Minnesota residency makes it likely he might have passed through quietly at some point. Duluth was at least home to a giant Prince puppet, but that was stolen in November.