Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet were forced to modify their original name, Yazoo, to Yaz in the US as some other US band, of course, who were just small potatoes and were never heard from again--I think they were going by the name, "Yazoo City" somthing-or-another--won a legal battle over who could be the "real Yazoo" here in the US. Another case of our Yankee pursuit of the Frivolous Lawsuit-No-Matter-What: only in America! :P
Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet were forced to modify their original name, Yazoo, to Yaz in the US as some other US band, of course, who were just small potatoes and were never heard from again--I think they were going by the name, "Yazoo City" somthing-or-another--won a legal battle over who could be the "real Yazoo" here in the US. Another case of our Yankee pursuit of the Frivolous Lawsuit-No-Matter-What: only in America! :P