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| Members named their new band after a comment that a motorist called out to the lead singer, a beautiful woman. | |
| The band took their name after a friend remarked, 'What a___looking____' The inspiration to add the two sets of umlauts supposedly came from the German beer they were drinking. | |
| Named for a Muddy Waters song. | |
| A Techno-Pop group from Basildon, Essex, England, they took their name from a French fashion magazine. | |
| The manager came up with the name. It was inspired by his punk clothing shop called 'Sex'. | |
| While the group members searched for an appropriate name, guitarist Peter Banks suggested they called the group this, a short positive word. | |
| The Pendletones' name changed after a young promotions worker named Russ Regan changed the band's name to more obviously tie the group in with other surf bands. | |
| The original bassist came up with the name in 1960, which was a play on Buddy Holly's Crickets. | |
| An acronym for the first names of the band members. | |
| Their manager suggested it, the name of a British farmer who, in the mid-1700s, invented the seed drill. Ian Anderson strongly disliked the name, but it stuck. | |
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| The band was originally called 'Sparrow', until lead singer John Kay came up the new name after being inspired by a novel by cult author Herman Hesse. | |
| Inspired by a drawing the lead singer made of a cat with no ears | |
| Taken from a newspaper headline describing 'A...With Police' | |
| The guitarist was determined to keep the act going, renaming a new line-up The New Yardbirds. Keith Moon of The Who is rumored to have said 'it'll probably go over like a... | |
| Refers to a tale where a traveler pays a dead mans debts, and buries him. He then is saved later in his journey by the man's ghost. | |
| Starting out in 1961 as The Tradewinds, they finally outgrew that name and chose...after the mythical river that people cross over to go into Hell. | |
| Slang for girls in England, but because the band members did not want to be called the Girls, they came up with a different spelling of the word. | |
| A combination of the last names of drummer and bassist. | |
| The guitarist says that the band, originally known as Pud, were sitting around a breakfast table when a friend said 'why don’t you call yourselves the___ ___ | |
| The lead singer of this grunge band wanted a name that was kind of beautiful or nice and pretty, instead of a mean, raunchy, punk-rock name. | |
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