Rappers In Court Battle
• Legal action to claim damages on the part of GRANDMASTER FLASH from the group going by the name Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five have failed but the group must now be called GRANDMASTER MELLE MEL AND THE FURIOUS FIVE. Flash made the claim after leaving the group last year, along with a couple of other members but was granted only the use of the shortened street name Grandmaster Flash. The group’s lawyers claimed that MEL had written and performed most of the raps the group had recorded and that Flash had appeared on only one Furious Five record, the ‘Adventures on the Wheels of Steel’ single.
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Rip It Up, Issue 82, 1 May 1984, Page 2
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