*Wearing white pants and a loose white shirt with glittery fringes, Prince took the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival just after 11 p.m. Saturday and gave fans something to remember for years to come.

      "You are the coolest place on earth right now!" Prince declared to the thousands attending the three-day festival in Indio, Calif. Organizers had been trying to book the performer since its inaugural outing nine years ago.  It didn't take long for the singer to prove that patience pays off.

      Prince and his band — complete with a horn section and background singers — set things off with The Time's "Jungle Love." Morris Day came out to sing his song, while Prince strolled around the stage with his guitar, according to the Associated Press.

       He also welcomed the singer and drummer Sheila E, who took the lead for a song and then joined Prince in an extended jam. The set list also included a performance of "1999" and "Little Red Corvette."      

       Perhaps the evening's biggest surprise was Prince's cover of Radiohead's "Creep." With some lyrics adjusted, a ripping guitar solo and extended falsetto crooning for a finale, Prince's version "had the crowd slack-jawed," wrote the AP in its review of the performance.      

       To close the set, Prince put his own spin on the Beatles' "Come Together," urging the audience — whom he called his "choir" — to sing "Come together, yeah" over and over.      

       In classic Prince tradition, he said goodnight and bounced without playing his signature hit "Purple Rain," leaving fans perplexed and on the verge of disappointment. But moments later, he returned and gave the crowd what they wanted.

       "They're telling me that we got to go, but I can't leave!" Prince shouted after rocking "Purple Rain." He then flew through a "torrid" version of "Let's Go Crazy," the AP wrote.      

       Prince had widely been considered the one act most all concertgoers — a diverse 60,000 of indie rockers, electronica dancers and pop fans — were certain to see. When it was all said and done, he left the stage with these words: "From now on, this is Prince's house."