Music group listed under two separate names.

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First they were The Dust Brothers. Then for legal reasons they had to change their name to The Chemical Brothers. But both names have listings on IMDb.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1906503
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1739242

I assume this is the same situation as when a single person changes their name - all the credits are combined together, those with the current name are listed normally and those with the previous name are listed (as ____).

Not sure how to do that.

Thanks!
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2 years ago
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Jen: From what I can see, there should be two different pages here for two different groups.

The Dust Brothers are a team of American songwriter/producers, Michael "E.Z. Mike" Simpson and John "King Gizmo" King. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Brothers

The Chemical Brothers are a British group consisting of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. They originally called their group The Dust Brothers in homage to the American production team, but E.Z. Mike and King Gizmo objected, so they adopted the name The Chemical Brothers instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Brothers

So the IMDb Dust Brothers page (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1906503/) should be reserved for the American group, and the Chemical Brothers page (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1739242/) should be reserved for the British group. 

If there are any credits on one page that belong to the other group, those credits ought to be corrected. I don't know most of the credits for either group, but I can see that each group has at least some correct credits on its page.

I hope this helps.
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Oops - thanks for calling me on that. The credits under "Dust Brothers" seemed to be related to projects the Chemical Brothers worked on. My bad.
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You know, it almost got me: I thought it was one of those cases when I for years thought that Donald Glover and Childish Gambino were two separate people who kinda look similar. 

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