Editing Metal umlaut (section)

==History==
The first gratuitous use of the umlaut in the name of a hard rock or metal band appears to have been by [[Blue Öyster Cult]] in 1970. Blue Öyster Cult's website states it was added by guitarist and keyboardist [[Allen Lanier]],<ref name="Blue_Öyster_1">{{cite web |url=http://www.blueoystercult.com/History/history3.html |title=BÖC Retrospectively: Stalk Forrest Group 1969–1970 |access-date=September 12, 2006 |publisher=blueoystercult.com}}</ref> but rock critic [[Richard Meltzer]] claims to have suggested it to their producer and manager [[Sandy Pearlman]] just after Pearlman came up with the name: "I said, 'How about an umlaut over the O?' Metal had a [[Richard Wagner|Wagnerian]] aspect anyway."<ref name="Sandy_Pearlman">{{cite web | url=http://www.spiraling.com/words/umlaut.html |title=Hell Holes: Spin̈al Tap's main man explains the importance of the umlaut |access-date=September 12, 2006|author=Lisa Gidley |publisher=CMJ |year=2000}}</ref>