Name Change Controversy
The band was originally named "Death from Above," a name which appears on their second recording, Romantic Rights EP. The duo changed their name after a legal dispute with New York City dance music label DFA Records.
The reason for the seemingly arbitrary date of 1979 comes from Sebastien Grainger's birth date. Sebastien responded to being asked why they chose 1979 by saying "1979 is the year of my birth, 1979 is the year of Off the Wall, 1979 is the year of The Pleasure Principle, 1979 is the last year of the last cool decade, 1979 is scratched into my arm, 1979 is scratched into my arm, 1979 is scratched into my fucking arm."
He also stated in an interview given to MTV: "I was born that year, and it's never going to be wrong."
It was speculated that the seemingly random year came from Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic Apocalypse Now. The words "Death from Above" can be found on a logo on the Huey Helicopters that carry Martin Sheen and his crew to the infamous beach in Vietnam. However, Grainger claims this is simply a coincidence.
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