Fact #141067

Alan Leeds (tour manager) : We’re in D.C., staying at the Watergate, and Prince, as his habit was, had his hair styled - we’d find a salon that he could then rent out for the day, chase all the employees out, pay them off, and put newspaper in the windows and privatize it for an hour so he’d have the facilities. But somehow the word leaked - maybe the proprietor leaked it, because he’s no fool - and I’m sitting in the hotel with Gwen, my wife, who was my assistant on the tour, and somebody called and said, ‘You got the TV on? Well, turn on channel whatever,’ and it’s like every local station in D.C. had their trucks in front of the salon and Wisconsin Avenue was closed down. The police had closed the street, because the people had come out of every building and clogged the streets and the sidewalks! So, no, nobody anticipated that, nobody really thought that that’s what it was going to mean.
(Source : https://medium.com/cuepoint/when-purple-rain-came-falling-down-2f0babc363b9#.r82butgu4)