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At the urging of their new manager, The Mob changed their name to Queensrÿche.

The name is derived from the title track of their demo, " Queen of the Reich ", and is the only known use of the letter Y with an umlaut in English.

It was a modification of the spelling " Queensreich " to prevent association of the band with Nazism.

As they later joked: " The umlaut over the ' y ' has haunted us for years.

We spent eleven years trying to explain how to pronounce it.