Prince is changing his name. Dead silence! I finally said, “To what?” “The symbol.” Now, I knew what that meant, because when we were on the road, at a couple of gigs, he made me take a ...

“The first step I have taken towards the ultimate goal of emancipation from the chains that bind me to Warner Brothers was to change my name from Prince to (symbol),” he explained in a press ...

On this day in 1993, Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. And his reason for doing so makes a lot of sense.

Investopedia / Michela Buttignol A stock symbol is an abbreviation that's used to identify a stock for trading and often derives from the company's name. Stock symbols are a shorthand way of ...