Editing Prince

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{{Character
|name = Prince
|image = [[File:Prince.png|100px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Black
|age = 
|status = Alive
|job = Guitarist<br>Singer
|relatives = 
|appearance = "[[Radioactive Man]]"
|voiced by = Unknown
}}

'''Prince''' is an American guitarist and singer.

== History ==
When [[Comic Book Guy]] went online to find out who was going to star in the forthcoming [[Radioactive Man (character)|Radioactive Man]] film, Prince was among the geeks who received his "Need know star RM pic" inquiry. <ref name="Radioactive Man">"[[Radioactive Man]]"</ref>

[[Homer]] told the story of how [[Lisa]] got her saxophone. To place the story in its setting (in 1990), one of the pieces of background information he cited was "Back then, 'The Artist Formerly Known as Prince' was currently known as 'Prince'."<ref name="Lisa's Sax">"[[Lisa's Sax]]"</ref>

=== Non-Canon ===
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When Homer was killing celebrities, one of his victims was Prince, whom he beat and stabbed with his own guitar."<ref name="THOH 19">"[[Treehouse of Horror XIX]]"</ref>

[[Kang]] and [[Kodos]] hosted a television special where all the celebrity guests were killed and their bodies placed to spell out the episode title. Prince was the "S" in "TREEHOUSE OF HORROR XXV".<ref name="THOH 25">"[[Treehouse of Horror XXV]]"</ref>

== Behind the Laughter ==
[[File:Prince on computer.jpg|thumb|250px|Prince on his computer as [[Comic Book Guy]]'s "Need know star RM pic" query makes its way through cyberspace.]]
In 1993, due to a dispute with his record company, Prince changed his stage name to the "Love Symbol", which he explained as being a combination of the {{w|Gender symbol|symbols}} for male and female. There was no pronunciation for the symbol, so in written and spoken discourse he was referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", or simply "The Artist". The change lasted until 2000, when The Artist changed his stage name back to "Prince", so he was performing as the Love Symbol when "Lisa's Sax" originally aired, as referenced by Homer when he tells the story.

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Radioactive Man}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Sax|(mentioned)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIX}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV|(opening scene)}}

== External links ==
*{{Wikipedialink|Prince (musician)|Prince}}

== References ==
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{{Deceased characters|real world=yes}}
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