Ahead of Mötley Crüe's 2020 reunion, we survey the most distinguished umlauts in pop history, from Motörhead to Jaÿ-Z
Credit for the first major use of an umlaut in a band name has generally gone to Blue Öyster Cult, who had the inspired if nonsensical idea to stick dots above the “O” in their name around 1971 after going through several previous monikers. But for daring to go where no copy editor would dare, let us bow down before Amon Düül, the groundbreaking krautrock ensemble that emerged from a late-Sixties commune; their 1969 albumis seemingly the first to feature umlauts on a cover.
. Hova also gets a secondary award for being smart enough to ditch the diacritic on every album cover he released after. “I had umlauts over one of the letters,” he admitted in 2013. “I removed that too.”Spın̈al Tap, who never did explain why they went that phonetical route in the movie that made them famous.
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