Full Description
This book details the origins of the names of 240 musical acts, focusing on the most popular groups (and a few individual performers) from the 1960s through today. Even casual music fans will recognize almost all of the acts discussed. A few one-hit wonders are included simply because their name is so unusual (Mungo Jerry, for example) that they warrant a place in the study.
Each entry focuses on the meaning and/or origin of the act's name, what it had been called previously, and any other names that were considered and rejected during the naming process. Also included are facts and figures about the act's history and place in the rock music pantheon, the year the act was formed, the names of original members and later members of note and the act's best known hit. The book lists bands alphabetically to give the casual reader the opportunity to open it to any page and read at leisure, the historian the ability to easily pinpoint the subject of his or her research, or the die-hard rock fan the chance to learn from A to Z the name origins of the biggest acts in rock and pop music history.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
ABBA
AC/DC
Ace of Base
Aerosmith
a-ha
Alice in Chains
The All-American Rejects
The Amboy Dukes
Ambrosia
America
The Animals
Art of Noise
Asia
The B-52's
The Babys
Backstreet Boys
Bad Company
Bad English
Badfinger
Bananarama
The Bangles
Barenaked Ladies
Bay City Rollers
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Bee Gees
Berlin
Big Brother & the Holding Company
The Black Crowes
Black Sabbath
Blind Melon
blink-182
Blondie
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blue Öyster Cult
Blues Traveler
Blur
Jon Bon Jovi / Bon Jovi
The Boomtown Rats
David Bowie
The Box Tops
Bread
Buffalo Springfield
Bush
The Byrds
The Cars
Cheap Trick
Chubby Checker
Chic
Cinderella
The Clash
Coldplay
Collective Soul
Commodores
Alice Cooper
Elvis Costello
Counting Crows
The Cranberries
Cream
Creed
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Culture Club
The Cure
Bobby Darin
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Depeche Mode
Derek and the Dominos
Devo
Dire Straits
Dr. Hook
The Doobie Brothers
The Doors
Duran Duran
Bob Dylan
The Eagles
Earth, Wind & Fire
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
Eurythmics
Evanescence
Fastball
The 5th Dimension
Firefall
Five for Fighting
The Flaming Lips
Fleetwood Mac
Foghat
Foo Fighters
Foreigner
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons
Garbage
Genesis
Gin Blossoms
Go-Go's
Goo Goo Dolls
Grand Funk Railroad
Grateful Dead
Green Day
The Guess Who
Guns n' Roses
Heart
Herman's Hermits
The Hollies
The Honeydrippers
Hoobastank
The Hooters
Hootie & the Blowfish
The Human League
Icehouse
Billy Idol
INXS
Jefferson Airplane
Jethro Tull
Jimmy Eat World
Elton John
Journey
Keane
Chaka Khan / Rufus
The Kinks
Kiss
Kool & the Gang
Led Zeppelin
Level 42
Loverboy
The Lovin' Spoonful
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Madness
The Mamas & The Papas
Marilyn Manson
Maroon 5
matchbox twenty
Meat Loaf
Metallica
Milli Vanilli
Moby
The Moody Blues
The Mothers of Invention
Mötley Crüe
Mott the Hoople
Mungo Jerry
Naked Eyes
New Order
Nickelback
Night Ranger
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
No Doubt
Oasis
Ohio Players
Oingo Boingo
The O'Jays
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
The Outfield
Pablo Cruise
Parliament / Funkadelic
Pearl Jam
Pet Shop Boys
Phish
Pink Floyd
Poco
The Pretenders
Procol Harum
Psychedelic Furs
Puddle of Mudd
Pure Prairie League
Quarterflash
Queen / Freddie Mercury
? & the Mysterians
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Ramones
Red Hot Chili Peppers
R.E.M.
REO Speedwagon
Paul Revere & the Raiders
The Righteous Brothers
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
The Rolling Stones
Roxette
Roxy Music
Rush
Savage Garden
Scorpions
Scritti Politti
Sex Pistols
Simple Minds
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Sixpence None the Richer
Skid Row
Smash Mouth
Smashing Pumpkins
Soundgarden
Spice Girls
Spin Doctors
Spinners
Steely Dan
Steppenwolf
Cat Stevens
Sting / The Police
Stone Temple Pilots
Styx
Sugar Ray
Supertramp
The Supremes
Survivor
(The) Sweet
Talk Talk
Talking Heads
Tears for Fears
The Temptations
10cc
10,000 Maniacs
Tesla
Thin Lizzy
Third Eye Blind (3eb)
.38 Special
Thompson Twins
Three Dog Night
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Toto
Traveling Wilburys
The Troggs
The Tubes
The Turtles
Shania Twain
Twisted Sister
U2 / Bono / The Edge
Uriah Heep
The Velvet Underground
Vertical Horizon
Village People
The Wallflowers
Wang Chung
War
The Who
Stevie Wonder
XTC
Yes
ZZ Top
Appendix 1: Pervious Names
Appendix 2: Names Considered and Rejected
Index
