Prince has left London - well, he might still be about somewhere I suppose - but he has completed the final night of his 21-date residency at the O2 arena. The purple one played a storming 2-hour set to a crowd that had been well-supplied with thousands of purple coloured glow sticks, fitting in renditions of classics like '1999' and 'Kiss' before boasting: "I've got more hits than the number on my back [21]".
For fans of celeb spotting, designer Matthew Williamson - whose London Fashion Week show Prince gatecrashed last week - watched the main event, while both Amy Winehouse and Beverley Knight (who supported him on some of the dates) appeared at the aftershow party, performing to a small crowd that had, in some cases, paid around £500 a ticket.
Critics have been nearly universal in their praise for the singer's much hyped O2 residency, with The Independent calling one date: "the single greatest concert I have been to in my entire life", while the Daily Telegraph compared him to, erm, a "latter-day Cliff Richard". Presumably the reviewers went to different dates.
Anyone who missed out will have to wait for the inevitable DVD release - given Prince's somewhat spoilsport tendency to demand any phone-made recordings of the show be removed from YouTube et al.