Origin of The Band's Name
Nazz took their name from the song "The Nazz Are Blue" by The Yardbirds from their album Roger the Engineer. That song, in turn, took its title from Lord Buckley's comic monologue, "The Nazz", which is a re-telling of the tale of Jesus of Nazareth.
It is also often erroneously said that the band took its name from a line in David Bowie's song "Ziggy Stardust", but Bowie wrote the lyrics in 1972, four years after the release of the first Nazz album in 1968. Bowie used the term as a slang noun in the sense of "top dog" or "coolest." (“Ziggy played for time / Jiving us that we were voodoo / The kids were just crass / He was the nazz / With god-given ass”)
Although the group's name on all records and press materials is simply "Nazz" (without the definite article), in practice they were almost always referred to as "the Nazz". Band members regularly used this form of their name in radio commercials for their albums and shows.
Another band was briefly called the Nazz, releasing just one single before renaming themselves Alice Cooper.
The term "Nazz" is also slang for "fool" in Nadsat.
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