I knew the band was named after Pink Anderson (and Floyd Council). I always assumed that Pink was a nickname that Anderson had acquired. But I learned that his actual name was Pinkney Anderson.
Molly Hatchet?
According to Wikipedia, Molly Hatchet wasn’t a real person.
There is a punk band named Sandy Duncan’s Eye
Nevermind. I did a thread search for Jody instead of Jodie and failed to see Jodie Foster’s Army was already mentioned. One of the best band names ever.
Right up there with Dead Kennedys…
(none of whom were in the band. I double-checked.)
Walt Mink named their band after a high school teacher.
Alferd Packer Memorial String Band, a traditional/folk/acoustic band in Kansas. They don’t seem to be playing much these days, but they’ve been around since the late 1970s and are in the Kansas Music Hall of Fame.
Named for one of the handful of men ever convicted of cannibalism in the United States. (His name is sometimes spelled Alfred, sometimes Alferd, and he apparently used both versions at different times.)
I don’t know if this qualifies, but Eve’s Plum is a takeoff of Eve Plumb, who played Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch.
Paul McCartney and Wings
The real Paul died in 1967(?).
Cranberry sauce…
You see? The Hund knows!
Which is code for “I buried Paul” in every code book I have ever written.