Artists reinvent themselves constantly. But there was nothing like Prince changing his name to a symbol in 1993. People assumed the change was Prince’s reaction to a long-running contract dispute with his label, Warner Bros. Records. He chose an unpronounceable symbol to be free of identification. The symbol was a way of existing outside classification. […]
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