PRINCE rocked the Gansevoort Hotel rooftop over the weekend, but the show was nearly KO’d by audience members who refused to turn off their cellphones.
As the “Purple Rain” pop star prepared to take the stage, a panicked emcee announced the hundreds of cellphones in the room had knocked out Prince’s high-tech sound system. He begged fans to shut them or “there may not be a show.”
Some did, but many ignored the plea – including one publicist involved with the show – claiming they had to have them on at all times. “It was so obnoxious,” one fan said. “To think a bunch of idiots can’t exist without their precious cells for an hour.”
Once the problem was solved, Dave Chappelle, Spike Lee, Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern and Dennis Rodman bopped to tunes like “1999″ at the Inocente Tequila event benefiting Love 4 One Another. Earlier, Prince had Gansevoort staffers working hard to meet his fussy demands. “He’s very anal and required a humidifier in every room of his suite and the windows blacked out,” a source told us.
Meanwhile, as super-pregnant M.I.A. performed at the Diesel XXX party in Dumbo, Lindsay Lohan desperately tried to get the attention of Chace Crawford. Lohan, who launched her 6126 line at Henri Bendel last night, pulled on the “Gossip Girl” boy’s shirt and grabbed his shoulder, but “Crawford was more interested in talking with Taylor Momsen,” our spy said.
Lohan got dissed again at Madonna’s Madison Square Garden show Sunday when Madge gave Kelly Ripa her mike during her rendition of “Give It to Me” instead of to the rehabbed starlet, who was standing next to Ripa in the front row.
Designer Betsey Johnson was also spotted rocking out to the 50-year-old pop queen when Madonna shouted at her, “Show some respect and get off your ass!”
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