Posted March 25, 200817 yr To start off. T. Rex - Tyrannosaurus Rex E.L.O. - Electric Light Orchestra Slade - Ambrose Slade Beatles - Silver Beatles Faces - Small Faces (after a change of line-up) Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
March 25, 200817 yr not sure about this... dunno if i can think of any.. curiosity... curiosity killed the cat erm...
March 25, 200817 yr not sure about this... dunno if i can think of any.. curiosity... curiosity killed the cat erm... Me neither! I was going to go with ELO but was beaten to it! I can think of loads that could be shortened ... Johnny Hates Jazz ... Johnny, Marthat & The Muffins ... Muffins ... no this is just being daft! Norma
March 25, 200817 yr New Kids On The Block to NKOTB Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark to O.M.D. Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship who changed to Starship ......
March 25, 200817 yr Arabicus Pulp became simply Pulp Sultans of Ping FC became Sultans of Ping and then finally just The Sultans. Now they're back to the full moniker.
March 26, 200817 yr Mott the Hoople I think shortened their name to Mott. did they?.... news to me m8!
March 26, 200817 yr Spiritualized did something a bit weird... First album, they just called themselves "Spiritualized", then the second album, they became (rather curiously..) "Spiritualized Electric Mainline", then they reverted to "Spiritualized" again afterwards... Nope, I dunno why it happened either to be honest... I think Jason Pierce was just doing too many drugs at the time.... :lol:
March 27, 200817 yr The Young Rascals became the Rascals A New Found Glory became New Found Glory Puff Daddy became P. Diddy became Diddy Whilst Pink Floyd were known as when playing the London Underground scene in 1966 as The Pink Floyd
March 27, 200817 yr n****** With Attitude became NWA Even though they didnt change their name the stupid Guardian reading Radio 1 bosses turned Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine to Carter :manson: not a name change as such but censorship gone mad
March 28, 200817 yr I dunno, nobody ever referred to Carter with their full title - even Carter USM was too long!
March 31, 200817 yr Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark didn't shorten their name. People who couldn't spell manoeuvres did!
April 1, 200817 yr Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark didn't shorten their name. People who couldn't spell manoeuvres did! yeah as the band have just released a live cd and on the front cover its like ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES In The Dark with OMD - Live below it so they use both - tho think they shortened the band as werent they a 4 piece electronic indie act pretending to be a synthpop duo that actually had about 7 million members at one point before everybody left and then it was only Andy McCluskey left before he decided to sack himself and be replaced by Kerry Katona (a bit like duran duran on rock profile - btw does duranduran count - that is one space less :lol: ) on the other hand not to sure about the Otara Millionaires Club I can think of loads that could be shortened ... Johnny Hates Jazz ... should be lengthened to Johnny Hates Jazz-Funk :lol: - thats a much better name - think i might start a Natalie Imbruglia/Hepburn/Cure/Roxanne Wilde tribute band called that!!!
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