scott715 wrote:
I just met a girl named Icy. What about the name for the artist formally known as Prince?
I think that said author of "Purple Rain" would likely have a hard time having his name/symbol be stated onto official government records, like a driver's license, social security card, or birth certificate. I think it would set a precedent for people to just make up nonsensical symbols that would make them hard to identify, which criminals would surely embrace. That said, I think that having a symbol that is actually used sometimes, which is incorporated into some part of an alphabet-based name, might still be okay. Things like : !@#$%^&*. I think the problem is when people just want the symbol, and numbers screw up database records and things like that
That said, I think that any other name he has been known by would work: Prince Rogers Nelson, Christopher, Alexander Nevermind, Joey Coco, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, and then just 'The Artist'.