Not to be confused with actual royalty, Prince is the original pop pixie at just 5'2", except a) it's not pop music, it's conceptual a-rhythmic meta-sonic trans-generation or something and b) he's not called Prince anymore, he's called squiggle (O(+>) or TAFKAP for short. Originally becoming famous for being tiny-wee, looking like Madonna in drag and wearing a lot of purple crushed   velvet, squiggle had a string of hits throughout the eighties including When Doves Cry (They Get Soggy Feathers) and Purple Rain (Oh, Chernobyl). His other claim to fame includes working with a number of celebs and writing songs with abbreviations and numbers in the title. In 1993 he went a bit bonkers and changed his name to something unpronouncable, changing it back again last year, much to the delight of family, friends, fans, DJs and presenters all over the world who felt ridiculous calling him TAFKAP. MP

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