Today marks exactly 25 years since pop star Prince changed his name to an abstract symbol.. Infuriated by a long-running contract dispute with his record label, Warner Brothers, Prince reached the ...

Mitch Monson was a young creative in Minneapolis when he worked with Prince to create the infamous Love Symbol. We talk to him as part of The Drum’s Entertainment Focus.

In fact, the symbol meant so much to him that he continued to use it long after he changed his stage name back to Prince… which he did in 2000 when his contract with Warner Bros. finally expired.

We found Prince’s original Love Symbol font, and here’s how to use it The Love Symbol will live on for eternity. Mike Wehner. Updated on June 15 2025 6:58 am CDT ...

The symbol, originally a combination of the common gender symbols for male and female, previously had appeared in slightly different form in the artwork of several Prince albums, first on “1999 ...

But Prince’s halftime performance, though celebrated, came in a much different cultural environment, where even the fleeting outline of a man and his guitar could, for some, suggest shaded depravity. ...

The music world has seen countless reinventions, rehabilitations, transformations and image overhauls, but there’s never been anything quite like Prince changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol ...

A retired North Dakota farmer paid tribute to Prince by plowing the iconic singer’s symbol into a cornfield. Gene Hanson found a photo of the late singer’s symbol online, placed it on the dash ...

The new hue, represented in color charts by Prince's famous “Love Symbol #2” icon, was inspired by his purple piano, which was scheduled to go on tour with the performer before his death.

During his "Love Symbol" album era, Prince was steering toward a new approach to music and the business. A look back, 30 years later.

Prince's then-lawyer Londell McMillan tells "20/20" how he addressed the artist. — -- When Prince changed his name to a symbol in 1993, even those in his inner circle were puzzled about how ...

Gene Hanson, a 75-year-old residing in Edgeley, North Dakota, dedicated his cornfield to Prince by plowing a large "Love Symbol" into it.