Named after a 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff. The group's name came from a schizophrenic artist named Alfred McMoore that the pair knew he would leave incoherent messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers as "black keys" such as "D flat" when he was upset with them. When Adam Ant first played in California, Black Flag gave out buttons that read: 'Black Flag kills Ants' The flag flown by pirates and the brand name of a bug killer. ![]() Originally named Uncle Crowe's Garden after a children's fairy tale. He wasn't in a physical position to call himself "Small T". Two friends that helped them out early on were Bill Goode and a disc jockey named Bill Gates. Their name was not derived from 'Brothers Gibb' as most people assume. Lennon was also fond of saying he had a vision as a child of a flaming pie in the sky that said 'You are Beatles with an 'A'. John Lennon is generally credited with combining Beetles and Beat to come up with the Beatles spelling. ![]() Lennon and Sutcliffe may have also been influenced by the film 'The Wild One', which featured a motorcycle gang called the Beetles. They went by the Quarrymen and the Silver Beetles a while later, then shortened and mutated that to the Beatles. Stuart Sutcliffe came up with the Beetles in 1960, which was evidently a play on Buddy Holly's Crickets. 'Beastie' is an acronym for 'Boys Entering Anarchistic States Toward Internal Excellence'.Ī few stories floating around about this one. Named after the style of graphic design and famous school of architecture The working title of the Beatles song "A Little Help From My Friends". They were originally called Brave Belt, then Bachman-Turner, then the final name. Air Force bomber.Ī combination of band members' last names and the trucker's magazine 'Overdrive'. The beehive hairstyle popular in the 1950's was called a B-52. Russolo made noise machines, wrote music for them, and also recorded sounds from the environment for musical pleasure. Named after the 1913 manifesto called 'The Art of Noises' by Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo. The band's name refers to a story that Win Butler had heard about a fire in an arcade. ![]() Some think they were inspired by the 1925 book 'Arrowsmith' by Sinclair Lewis. It was evidently a word Joey Kramer wrote all over his notebooks in high school. A silly rumour claims the acronym 'Anti-Christ Devil's Children'. The band didn't realise it was also slang for bi-sexual, which caused a few awkward moments in their early days. He was right, it means 'Alternating Current / Direct Current'. Inspired by an old horror movie called '2000 Maniacs'.Īn acronym for the first names of the band members: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Anderson and Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad.Ī band member saw AC/DC on a sewing machine and figured it has something to do with power. The average man ejaculates around 10cc of semen.
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