Prince becomes a symbol
1993 · Event
In a war with Warner Bros over his recordings, Prince changes his name to an unpronounceable glyph and appears with 'slave' written on his cheek.
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- Can I Kick It? (A Tribe Called Quest) (1990)
- Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye) (1982)
- The Weight (The Band) (1968)
- I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges) (1969)
- Mama Tried (Merle Haggard) (1968)
- He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones) (1980)
- Where Is My Mind? (Pixies) (1988)
- Sex Machine (James Brown) (1970)
Around 1993
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)