Everybody should at least listen to Prince. I'm not going to force him on you, but I consider him one of the best song writers in my lifetime, and I'm old. He could absolutely shred a guitar as well.
That being said, I had a friend of mine that got laid over at O'hare. He approached a bar where a lot of people were laughing and carrying on. When he went in he saw that Prince was in there with his entourage. My friend didn't like Prince's music that much but knew who he was and that he liked college basketball. He walked up to Prince and asked him about the ACC. He told me that some of the entourage looked at him in a weird way, like, "What are you doing talking to Prince?" Prince bought him a beer and talked college basketball until their flight out.
Sorry but I am one of the few people who didn't like Prince's songs.
I thought I might be unfair to him since he always presented a snobby presence that I heard about (He wouldn't let Weird Al do a song of his for example and my college roommate had to escort him in one of his buildings he was managing and he didn't like how Prince treated him).
Anyway, I happen to really like Sheena Easton songs (well I was in love with her as a teenager). Anyway, I heard My Sugar Walls and I couldn't stand it. I hated that song and wondered how I could hate a Sheena Easton song.
Then a few years later, I heard Prince wrote the song. Ergo I just didn't like his type of music.
Of course I heard later he wrote many songs but that is the one that sticks out to me.