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I was just looking at my copy of the Space Jam Soundtrack, and I saw that Jay-Z spelled his name with an umlaut over the y in 'Jay.' What other artists have kept the same name but changed the way they write it?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

BC-52's

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

God, speed you black emperor.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Kurdt Kobain to thread.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

M'es'hell N'deg'ocellO changes it on every album, doesn't she?

Schooolly D has instable numbers of o's and l's

Dion(n)(e) Warwick(e) (actually I think her first name stayed the same)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Jim Mguinn of the Byrds thinks you spell Jim, R-O-G-E-R

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Wang Chung
Cluster

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Mike Rossi of Status Quo.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

didn't the lead singer of New Order go back and forth between the surnames "Albrecht" and "Sumner"?

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Ellen Amos

xpost Yes, and Dicken also.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Lusine (AKA L'usine AKA Lusine Icl)
Christiina Carter

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Keith Richard(s)
Kris(t) Novoselic

― A Study In Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Rythm Syndicate corrected their name to "Rhythm" at some point after their two hits.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I think Belle & Sebastian alternate with Belle And Sebastian on every other release.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

how about plunderphonic whackjobs Big City Orchestra? they've recorded as bXg cXty XrchXstrX, Big City Orchestre, Beig Sittie Orkssstraug, Pig Shity Orgestraw, Biegg Cittie Arkestraugh, BX6 Sitie Orkistraw(e), Bilge City Oarcrusher, Bhig Ceity Okrasteew, Bigcityorchesttre, Beig Sitty Orckestrau, Beeg Ceedee Orcheestra, Bigcityorchestre, Big City Orchester, Bxzvig City Orchestrko, Biiiig Chity Or'estrew, Big Xity Marketstraw, Bieevg Sietty Archestraw, Big City Orckestra, Bigcityorchestra, Beeg Ceety Orcheestra, Big City Orchesstra, Bxg Cxiy Orchxstre, Bif Cify Ofcxestfa, Bigestetyorchestraw, Bfg Cfty Oggettwstre, Xix Xixx Oxxxex, Baah Sleepy Orchestra, Biggcietyorcheestr, Bigggcittttorchhhhestttreeeee, and Bg Cty Rchstr.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

ian matthews changed his first name to iain, hardly seems worth the bother (i think his birth name was ian mcdonald)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Schooolly D has instable numbers of o's and l's

I think people never bothered to spell Schoolly D's name correctly, including publicists and record labels.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Does the annual (?) renaming of spizzenergi, Athletico Spizz 80, etc. count?

― A Study In Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

The country singer Janie Fricke changed her last name to "Frickie" so people would stop pronouncing it "Frick."

And yeah, Dionne briefly added an E to the end of her last name on the advice of her numerologist.

― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

there's also the legal troubled: Green Jello/Jelly, Death From Above (1979), Red Cross/Kross

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

And MC John Cougar Mellencamp Starship Hammer.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

David J was David Jay at first as I recall.

Didn't the Skywalker have to change his name to Skyywalker?

― Dark Floyd (dark floyd), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Pocket Fish(e)Rmen
Jen(n)ifer Convertible

― A Study In Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Eddie Kendricks -> Eddie Kendrick

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

MARVIN GAYE, people! or "marvin gay", as was. seriously.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm more than willing to bet the Jay-Z thing was a typo.

On the second Timbaland album, a pre-Incognegro Ludacris spelled his name as "Ludachris"!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Also can we just back up to "I was just looking at my copy of the Space Jam Soundtrack"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Didn't the Skywalker have to change his name to Skyywalker?

If you look at the original pressings of the first 2 Live Crew album from 1986, his Jeep Cherokee has a name plate at the bottom of the door that reads "Luke Skywalker", but the casette spine says "Luke Skyywalker". The logo has two Y's, but thy overlap each other, as if they applied it last minute. In 1989, Luke Skyywalker records changed to Skyywalker records, sprading out the y's. In 1991, they just became Luke Records, and he began going by his real name. The one MC Shy D called him by in his lawsuit.

Also:

Pretty Ricky/Rickie
Bruce Li/Lee
Fat/Phat

― PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Also can we just back up to "I was just looking at my copy of the Space Jam Soundtrack"

I was 7 years old when it came out; I'm not too ashamed. Oh, and I just looked on Google, and some blogger said he has a Reasonable Doubt record with the umlaut over the y, too.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Google Images showed this: http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/Jay_Z_-_Reasonable_Doubt-front.jpg

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Jigga = \m/

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

Also re. Dionne Warwick: Her birth name was Warrick. The record company flubbed it early in her career spelling it Warwick, which she accepted, until that e thing came along.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

tim kinsella went by "tim kinsellaS" (caps mine) for a time, didn't he? speaking of "not worth the effort"...

red (c/k)rayola, too, which is awesome.

― Adolescence Mokushiroku! (gendo ikari), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

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