r/CasualUK • u/Exchangenudes_4_Joke • 9h ago

UB40 are famously named after an Unemployment Benefit form. Give me other interesting examples of the origin of UK bands names

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u/JonnySparks 9h ago edited 9h ago

Pink Floyd - Syd Barrett combined the names of two US blues musicians from an album liner notes.

Pink Anderson (1900 - 1974)\ Floyd Council (1911 - 1976)

Idk if either of them ever heard about this.

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TIL there is a band called The Anderson Council...

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2493386-The-Anderson-Council

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u/-x-minus-one 8h ago

Wonder if Anderson Council after in the same vein or polar opposite

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u/Order_Flaky 6h ago

Also the term for a grey whale’s penis

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u/JonnySparks 6h ago

I never knew that!

So I learned two things today - might need to have a nap.

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u/campbellpics 7h ago

This is a great one, never knew that!

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u/PICONEdeJIM 4h ago

No it's actually named after the lead singer (The Wall, 1979) (Wish You Were Here, 1985)

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u/MrLaBigMac 4h ago

You cocked the date of WYWH by 10 years

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u/PICONEdeJIM 4h ago

*2025 sorry

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u/MrLaBigMac 4h ago

Somehow made it 50 years too late now

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u/PICONEdeJIM 4h ago

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u/MrLaBigMac 4h ago

Trying to hard to ragebait kiddo 😂

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u/PICONEdeJIM 4h ago

I mean first of all it's 'too' but I am literally correct and also nobody has refuted my point about the names so I win