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Following his well-publicised 1993 name change to a seemingly unpronounceable symbol, fans and journalists have wrestled with what to call the artist formerly known as Prince. Indeed, many people have taken to simply calling him “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince”. That’s all well and good for a print article, or when time is not an issue, but it’s a bit of a mouthful should somebody need to attract his attention urgently – how should we address The Artist Formerly Known As Prince in an emergency?
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