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Bands Named After Song Lyrics


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The Rolling Stones are named after a Muddy Waters record called "Rollin' Stone".

Which got me thinking about other bands named after a line in a song, and... I can't think of any!

I don't mean bands with a name that just happens to be in a song, so you can't have "Yes". They have to be named explicitly after a song lyric.

Anyone else think of any?

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From Wikipedia: 

The band name Wet Wet Wet was chosen from a line in the 1982 Scritti Polliti song "Gettin' Havin' & Holdin'" ("it's tired of joking... wet, wet with tears").

They added another Wet to get away from the other double-barrelled names around then (Duran Duran, Talk Talk, etc) and also because Wet Wet is an even worse band name than Wet Wet Wet.

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10 hours ago, casapete said:

Just trying to think of some more - surely Roxette can’t have been named after the Dr Feelgood classic?

:) According to Wikipedia (and other sources) Roxette were named after the Feelgoods' song.

"Capitol (Records) ... insisted on a different name for the band. Gessle and the other members of Gyllene Tider (Swedish for "Golden Times" or "Golden Age") chose the title of a 1975 Dr. Feelgood song, "Roxette"

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2 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

:) According to Wikipedia (and other sources) Roxette were named after the Feelgoods' song.

"Capitol (Records) ... insisted on a different name for the band. Gessle and the other members of Gyllene Tider (Swedish for "Golden Times" or "Golden Age") chose the title of a 1975 Dr. Feelgood song, "Roxette"

And Dr Feelgood themselves were named after an old blues song.. not sure which version they had in mind though.

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