By Any Other Name: Santogold Meets Johnny Cougar

Last week, new-wavey Brooklyn singer/producer Santogold announced an abrupt change in the spelling of her name. She's Santigold now, thanks very much, and though she's not talking about the change, reports indicate it has something to do with Santo Gold (a 1980s, um, TV entreprenuer) , who's claiming primacy on the name. Regardless, it got us thinking about rock music's long history of shifting monikers, litigiously-motivated and otherwise. Few involve the tweaking of just a single lette...

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