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===Band name=== Del Amitri's founding member and main songwriter, [[Justin Currie]], explained in 2010 that the band's name "was invented to be meaningless β basically a corruption of the Greek name 'Dimitri'."<ref>Steinfeld, Dave. (2010). "[http://beyondrace.com/columns/catching-up/2712-catching-up-with-justin-currie Catching Up with Justin Currie] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903024429/http://www.beyondrace.com/columns/catching-up/2712-catching-up-with-justin-currie|date=3 September 2010}}." ''[[Beyond Race Magazine]]''. Retrieved 23 May 2011.</ref> In 2018, Currie clarified that 'Del Amitri' is a bastardisation of the name of a film producer who appeared in the [[closing credits]] of a film he saw in 1979: "probably Dimitri-something, but we couldn't remember... so eventually through osmosis or maybe [[Chinese whispers|Chinese Whispers]] 'Dimitri' became 'Del Amitri'."<ref>{{Cite book|title=These Are Such Perfect Days: The Del Amitri Story|last=Rawlings-Way|first=Charles|publisher=Urbane Publications|year=2018|isbn=978-1911331414|pages=35β36}}</ref> Many sources have repeated a claim that the name was chosen because it is [[Greek language|Greek]] for "from the womb",<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fie47qSuTsoC&pg=PA1835|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|first=Rough|last=Guides (Firm)|date=16 December 2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=9781858284576|via=Google Books}}</ref> but this is untrue.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/del-amitri-we-dont-even-like-ourselves-9191662.html|title=Del Amitri: We don't even like ourselves|date=5 April 2002|website=The Independent}}</ref>
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