ENGLAND SWINGS: Elastica has been obliged to...

ENGLAND SWINGS: Elastica has been obliged to change the title of its forthcoming debut album after realizing that it was likely to be offensive to U.S. sensibilities. The title “Keys, Money and Fags” comes from a line in the group’s song “Line-Up.” In Britain, the term fag is slang for cigarette, and not the offensive epithet used in the U.S. for gays. The album will now be called simply “Elastica.”

In other British rock news, Nirvana (U.K.), the Anglo-Irish duo whose main contribution to popular culture was the 1968 British hit “Rainbow Chaser,” is back in legal action two years after failing in a move to get the more famous Seattle trio to change its name or pay for its use. The old Nirvana is now preparing to file suit against Oasis for plagiarism, claiming that Oasis’ British hit “Whatever” bears resemblance to the old Nirvana song “Tiny Goddess.”

Representatives of Oasis could not be reached for comment.