Band names: Origins and Meanings

[BimboBob]

Simple Minds were indeed a bit simple.The band members named the group after jim 'thick as two short planks' Kerr due to his inability to count any further than 6.

 

[richardtheref]

Not a group but went to school with Gem Archer. Real name Colin. 1st Nickname at school was Archie then later Gemmell. Finally settled on Gem

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Can anyone explain Milli Vanilli. ?

Named after an Italian ice cream wholesaler.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

A-ha were Norwegian physicists in the early 80's.Being a country a bit behind the rest of the world they got their name when their lead singer Horton Market jumped into a hot bath and had to leap out shouting "a-ha" and subsequently discovered he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged.

My gran used to have a stall on there.

 

[MCFCTrick]

Cheap Trick .... then called Sick Man Of Europe, when guitarist Rick Neilsen and 12 string bass (inventor) player Tom Petersson saw Slade in the UK early 70's and one remarked to the other, that they use 'every cheap trick in the book' ...

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Will Tony Hadley be in your top ten male artists?

 

[Xhavenjoe]

The Monkees were all infact Monkeys apart from Davey Jones who was a tall upright metal box used for storage in workplaces up and down the country.

David Bowie's locker doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Badly drawn boy - viz character.
Elbow - line from the singing detective, describing the the word as the loveliest word in the English language.

I thought that was ‘cellardoor’ ?

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Deacon Blue after the Steely Dan track
Heaven 17 from a Clockwork Orange

Moloko also from A Clockwork Orange

 

[TueartsOHK]

Moloko also from A Clockwork Orange

Was that the drink they had in the bar?