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    "comment": "Jellybean Johnson, the Minneapolis musician and producer who was the drummer for the Prince-affiliated funk-rock group The Time, passed away in November at the age of 69. Prince recruited Johnson (real name Garry George Johnson), who was self-taught on drums and guitar, in 1981 for The Time, an act born out of the city’s Flyte Tyme. They’d known each other since their high school years in Minneapolis.\n\n\"The drums are physical and violent for me while the guitar is spiritual and emotional,\" Johnson said in a 2018 interview with Australian Musician. He also quipped to the publication, \"When you live here in the cold, you stay in [in] the winter time and you learn how to play.\"\n\nAs a member of The Time — and later, Prince’s The Family — Johnson helped establish the funk-rock, new wave and synth-pop hybrid that became known as the Minneapolis Sound. He appeared as a fictionalized version of himself in 1984’s Academy Award-winning Purple Rain and as himself in 1990’s Graffiti Bridge. Johnson co-founded the non-profit Minneapolis Sound Museum in 2021, with the goal of preserving the history, culture and legacy of the Minneapolis Sound. In 2022, he was awarded a Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award with The Time. https://tinyurl.com/3rac4mdv",
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