Changed name to Dead Sara

Having briefly gone by the name Epiphany, in mid-2005, the band changed their name to Dead Sara as a reference to the Fleetwood Mac song ” Sara ” and its lyric “…said Sara”; the band misheard the line as “dead Sara”. Both Armstrong and Medley have publicly cited Stevie Nicks , the singer and writer of the song “Sara”, as a primary influence. Around this time, Medley began styling her first name as “Siouxsie”, as a nod to the Sioux Indians tribe and the Native American heritage of one of her great-grandparents (rather than a reference to the musical artist Siouxsie Sioux ).