The Miami deluge made the performance extra electrifying - yet amazingly, not electrocuted. Prince did get a nice budget for the 2007 Super Bowl Halftime Show, and used it to create a truly impressive spectacle played in the pouring rain. It was so hot on that stage it fried your head," bandmate Lisa Coleman tells Matt Thorne in his book, "Prince: The Man and His Music." Still, Prince told Coleman to soldier on, and that "We're gonna rock Sheridan." Prince rocked Sheridan so hard that Deadline once reported the story was in talks to be made into a movie starring Elizabeth Banks. The keys on the synth curved from the heat. "I was up on a riser but the ceiling was so low. While the movie premiere reportedly played to slightly puzzled crowds, the post-premiere concert at the town's Holiday Inn was a clear-cut success - for the audience. He was kind to me and so natural and down-to-earth." "He helped me to open up a little and feel more at ease about myself. "I was so nervous, but he told jokes in the car while he drove us to the movie theater, and I could tell he was doing his best to help me relax," Barber told People in a 2016 Prince remembrance. The 20-year-old hotel maid became Prince's belle of the ball, and his date to the movie premiere.
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