Some Band Fact's
B-52's
The beehive hairstyle popular in the 1950's was called a B-52. Also a type of U.S. Air Force bomber.
BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE
A combination of band members' last names and the trucker's magazine 'Overdrive'. They were originally called Brave Belt, then Bachman-Turner, then the final name.
BAD COMPANY
A 1972 movie starring Jeff Bridges.
BADFINGER
The working title of the Beatles song "A Little Help From My Friends".
BAUHAUS
Named after the style of graphic design and famous school of architecture
BAY CITY ROLLERS
They blindly stuck a pin on a map. It landed on Bay City, Michigan.
BEASTIE BOYS
'Beastie' is an acronym for 'Boys Entering Anarchistic States Toward Internal Excellence'.
BEATLES
A few stories floating around about this one. Stuart Sutcliffe came up with the Beetles in 1960, which was evidently a play on Buddy Holly's Crickets. They went by the Quarrymen and the Silver Beetles a while later, then shortened and mutated that to the Beatles. Lennon and Sutcliffe may have also been influenced by the film 'The Wild One', which featured a motorcycle gang called the Beetles. John Lennon is generally credited with combining Beetles and Beat to come up with the Beatles spelling. 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'....
BEE GEES
Their name was not derived from 'Brothers Gibb' as most people assume. Two friends that helped them out early on were Bill Goode and a disc jockey named Bill Gates.... ('B. G.'s)
BIRTHDAY PARTY
The name of a play by Harold Pinter.
BIG T
He wasn't in a physical position to call himself "Small T".
BLACK CROWES
Originally named Uncle Crowe's Garden after a children's fairy tale.
BLACK FLAG
The flag flown by pirates and the brand name of a bug killer. When Adam Ant first played in California, Black Flag gave out buttons that read: 'Black Flag kills Ants'
BLACK SABBATH
Named after a 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff. They released an album as Earth before changing their name to Black Sabbath.
BLUE OYSTER CULT
A combination of a recipe the band's manager read in a book and the band's fascination with the occult. The name is also an anagram of 'Cully's Stout Beer'.
BONO
The singer with U2, Paul Hewson was inspired by a hearing aid store in Dublin, Ireland called 'Bono Vox'.
BOOKER T. & THE M.G.'S
Booker T. led the band and M.G. stands for Memphis Group.
BOOMTOWN RATS
From a gang in Woody Guthrie's 'Bound for Glory' novel.
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Topic: Music Bands in Alphabetical order (B) Day 2 (Read 2415 times)