How Lemmy and Motorhead Gave Metal Its Umlaut.
"I thought it looked mean," late icon once said of infamous diacritic
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"I thought it looked mean," late icon once said of infamous diacritic
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Motörhead were, of course, not the first band to stick dots above one or more letters in their name for no practical phonetic reason.
In 1971, Blue Öyster Cult gave the mark its first brush with mainstream crossover...
In 1971, Blue Öyster Cult gave the mark its first brush with mainstream crossover...
Blue Öyster Cult was formed in 1967 as Soft White Underbelly (a name the group would occasionally use in the 1970s and 1980s to play small club gigs around the United States and UK)
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The band's name came from Winston Churchill's description of Italy as "the soft underbelly of the Axis."
originally called the Rome-Berlin Axis
originally called the Rome-Berlin Axis
"After the Second World War ended, the discovery of the Nazis' Black Book in September 1945 showed that all the group's members were to be arrested as soon as Britain had been invaded by the Axis."
Lady Astor: "the terrible lie"..
Lady Astor: "the terrible lie"..
The Sonderfahndungsliste G.B. ("Special Search List Great Britain") was a secret list of prominent British residents to be arrested, produced in 1940 by the SS as part of the preparation for the proposed invasion of Britain.
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After the war, the list became known as The Black Book. 🍿
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