If the heavy metal umlaut demonstrates anything, it is a simultaneous dissatisfaction with English and an inability to escape it. To adorn an English band name or album title with an umlaut reveals an ...
For Mötley Crüe, inspiration struck—as it often does—while under the influence. It was the early 1980s, and bandmates Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, and Nikki Sixx were imbibing Löwenbräu beer, a German ...