The legal story sounds correct now that you mention it. The real story is funny to me, I always thought it the name got shortened/refined for the US market because Yazoo sounds sort of like a sneeze/yodel combination, or that the mainstream music market would have rejected buying the records in stores because the name sounds a bit backwater or country. Yaz always sounded more contemporary/new wave to me, which I thought would be a better marketing choice. But then it turns out people were fighting over "Yazoo"! lol
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