Nope.
YES- they briefly got a sponsorship from the M & B brewery by calling themselves the MB5.
After they lost the sponsorship, they no longer saw any reason to plug the brewery, so they kept the initials but adopted the name Moody Blues.
correctomundo
My only unsolved question:
- This band named itself after a Western that co-starred Jeff Bridges.
I will tell you that it’s an English band, and that the Western was made VERY early in Jeff’s career.
39. This band named itself after a disfiguring medical condition often suffered by heavy drinkers (like W.C. Fields).
39: Gin Blossoms
Bad Company.
- This group prefixed their name with their nationality after finding out about an American band with the same name as themselves.
Mmmh… The English Beat?
Correct.
- This group got its name from a pseudonym Paul McCartney once used to check in to hotels.
The Ramones
- This group took its name from the title of a 1960 film starring a famously married couple.
Also Canadian!
43 . This band named themselves after a public art work in one of the parks in their hometown.
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According to the band members, the item they misspelled to use as a name made an unscheduled appearance in a sex act performance they watched at a party. Although that story is probably apocryphal and the name likely just the result of listing random words and picking one.
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This band used the name of a deceased friend of the families of two of the members who took care of them when children as an homage.
Number 40:
Also, X Japan!
yes!
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This British female group have a name that is a direct reaction to a different British female group who had been extremely successful a few years earlier. (This is, however, only one of a few stories about how the group got their name. I think it is the most likely)
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Named after a form of Greek dance.
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A word made from the first letter of each member’s first name.
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A word made from the last letter of each member’s first name.
Extra hint/push in the right direction: all of these are pop groups/bands.
Okay, my last two posts have been solved:
The Jeff Bridges Western was Bad Company,
And Gin Blossoms is a slang term for rosacea, the condition that gives many alcoholics big, bulbous noses.
ABBA
49 is NSYNC
Now, the question you have to answer is… how did you know?
- This group was named after a blind piano tuner whose business card they found lying around in their rehearsal studio.
- This band named itself after an early model of pickup truck, one that became very popular among fire departments in the 1930s.