The Brady Bunch) and Jim Nabors all had to endure the demands thanks to Kevheads. You can still hear these calls today virtually anywhere, be it at a performance of Mamma Mia or even at a hockey game.You know the kind: Mötley Crüe, Queensrÿche and, of course, Motörhead. “Rock dots,” as they’re sometimes known, are Swedish and German in origin and technically known as a “diacritic,” which is a type of accent.
Why would anyone use them? Because they look cool, foreign, Gothic and exotic.As far as we know, the first band to use umlauts/rock dots in this way was Blue Öyster Cult for no purpose other than it seemed like fun.
They may have been inspired by Amon Düül, a psychedelic band from the ’60s who were, in fact, very German. We can also include the American hardcore band Hüsker Dü — except that they use umlauts correctly. “Hüsker Dü” is actually Swedish for “Do you remember?”Long hair on men has gone in and out of style over the centuries and was sometimes the target of scorn.
In 1842, The London Saturday Journal wrote: “Many vagrants are musicians, but it does not follow that all musicians are vagrants.