This group was called. How the names of famous musical groups appeared (16 photos)

Bands often change names during their careers, especially to initial stage. Some names hide interesting stories. Many cult groups can boast unusual stories the origin of their names: some took a long time to come up with, while others simply pointed their finger at the dictionary. Nevertheless, it was under these names that the groups became popular, and it is too late to change the name, no matter how much one would like to.

AC/DC


Popular Australian band, pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal. The members of the group claim that the name of the group is English language means direct and alternating current. It was this abbreviation that appeared on the sewing machine on which Angus Young’s sister sewed his stage school costumes.

The Prodigy


There is no mystery in the name of this group. Liam Howlett, the creator and member of the band, simply used the name of his first synthesizer, Moog Prodigy.

Kasabian


At the beginning of their career, the group was called Saracuse, but later the band members changed the name to Kasabian in honor of Linda Kasabian, a member of Charles Manson's Family commune.

Aquarium

The story is about how it would seem easy to come up with a name for a group. Boris Grebenshchikov himself, the permanent soloist of the group, talks about it this way: “It so happened that we were traveling somewhere in Kupchin. We passed this two-story glass block. It was called “Aquarium”. And someone said that this is “Aquarium”. And we decided that yes."

Linkin park


In fact, Lincoln Park is encrypted under this name. But the word Lincoln was replaced by Linkin due to the fact that the linkolnpark.com website already existed and it was not that cheap to buy, and the linkinpark.com domain was available.

Moloko


The name of this trip-hop group is associated funny story. The group members spotted the word Moloko in the book “ A Clockwork Orange”, without even realizing that the slang of the “twelfths” in the work has Russian-language roots.

Pixies


The name for the group was chosen by searching the dictionary. That's why the group got the name Pixies, which means “little, mischievous elves.”

Led Zeppelin


The name of the cult group has a rather interesting history. It arose as a result of a discussion between Jimmy Page and the drummer and bassist from The Who, who insisted that Page's project would collapse like lead. balloon(“to go down like a lead balloon”, that is, “to go to the bottom like a lead balloon”). After a few manipulations with words and grammar, the ball turned into an airship.

Duran Duran


The band members named their team in honor of Dr. Durand-Duran, a character in the cult erotic-fantasy film “Barbarella” with Jane Fonda in leading role.

The Velvet Underground


The Velvet Underground is the name of a pamphlet about the secret sexual subculture of the early 60s, which was shown to the group by Tony Conrad, a friend of John Cale. So the name of the brochure became the name of the group. In addition, by that time the song The Venus in Furs had already been written, inspired by work of the same name Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, which was another reason to adopt the new name.

a-ha


“A-ha” would sound good in some song, one of the band’s musicians thought and wrote this word down in his notebook. And when the question arose about the name of the group, he suggested this word. The group members were hooked by the fact that the name was easy to spell and pronounce and meant approval in many languages.

Jethro Tull

Early on in their career, the band had trouble getting gigs in London, so they had to change their name frequently in order to play the same clubs multiple times. One day the manager suggested the name Jethro Tull in honor of some 18th century agronomist. And under this name the group received a registration in the club, the owner of which suddenly liked them.

Chaif


The author of the name of the group is a member of the first composition of the group - Vadim Kukushkin. “He took two words as a basis: “tea” and “high.” That's what we called strong black tea-chifir, in huge quantities absorbed in rehearsals,” said Vladimir Shakhrin.

Pink Floyd


At the beginning of their career the group was called The Pink Floyd Sound, named after two blues musicians from North and South Carolina, Pink Anderson and Floyd Cancil, was later shortened to The Pink Floyd. And after 1970, the name completely fell off definite article"The".

Rammstein


Participants German group strongly deny the connection between their name and the tragic plane crash on August 28, 1988 at Ramstein Air Base, where three aircraft collided during an air show with the participation of an Italian aerobatic team. But it is still officially accepted that there were no other reasons to name the team “Rammstein”.

Bands often change names throughout their career, especially in the early stages. Some names hide interesting stories. Many cult groups can boast of unusual stories behind the origin of their names: some took a long time to come up with, while others simply pointed their finger at the dictionary. Nevertheless, it was under these names that the groups became popular, and it is too late to change the name, no matter how much one would like to.

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At the beginning of their career, the group was called The Pink Floyd Sound in honor of two blues musicians from North and South Carolina - Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, then the name was shortened to The Pink Floyd. And after 1970, the definite article “The” completely “fell off” from it.

Rammstein

Members of the German group strongly deny any connection between their name and the tragic plane crash on August 28, 1988 at Ramstein Air Base, where three aircraft collided during an air show involving an Italian aerobatic team. But it is still officially accepted that there were no other reasons to name the team “Rammstein”.

Russian Groups
Why are they called that?..

Journalists love to ask musicians: “Why is your band called that?” And this question, naturally, is not without meaning. After all, as it turns out, there is so much mixed in the names of the groups!.. Here you have romance, and cold calculation, and chance, and the help of friends, and the strong will of the producer... That’s why we offer our research to music lovers today.

AQUARIUM
Traveling in 1972 somewhere in Kupchino ( dormitory area Petersburg), BG comrades stumbled upon a glass beer bar, known among the aborigines as “Aquarium”... From that day on, the group was no longer nameless.

ALICE
The smart girl from Lewis Carroll's fairy tale "Alice Through the Looking Glass" was nowhere near here. Just the founder of the group was Slava Zaderiy. And “in life” he had the nickname Alice (why is another question). So, in fact, it turned out that Zaderiy gave his nickname to the team. Then he went to the group NATE!, and Kostya Kinchev was apparently too lazy to change the name.

A-MEGA
The name is unclear whose and unclear what. Swiss watches "Omega" - this is clear, "from alpha to omega" - too famous expression. But A-MEGA - this is not in any language. True, at first the group was called AMEGA, and this is how, with a hyphen, the name was shared by Roman Prygunov, director of the “Legs” video.

AUCTION
Why " The best group Empire", as rock journalists dubbed it, called itself AUCTION, no one will remember - it was a long time ago... But it is known for certain why it, contrary to the rules of the Russian language, is written with "Y". The case, as guitarist Leonid Fedorov claims , it was like this: “One day, after a concert, our drummer was signing autographs for people and signing “AUCTION” everywhere. Then he comes to me and asks: “Laziness, is that right?” I say, "Absolutely." And everyone else agreed with me. Two weeks later the joke was revealed, but they decided to change the name in honor of this. That's basically it."

BG
It is clear that this is just an abbreviation for the name “Boris Grebenshchikov”. But, apparently, Boris Borisych is such a complex person that his fans are everywhere ready to look for a second, or even a third, meaning. As soon as they do not “decipher” these two letters. Here you have “Without a Head”, and “Boris and Gleb” (Gleb is Grebenshchikov’s son), and they even imagine something sinister, like GB. Personally, I am closer to the version of the poet Andrei Voznesensky: “On ancient Russian icons and in chronicles, vowels were not used. And “God” was designated “BG.”

BRAVO
The permanent leader of the group, Zhenya Khavtan, believes that it was this word that brought the team good luck, since it has “some special energy.” The name was suggested by drummer Pavel Kuzin during a brainstorming session.

BRIGADE C
The brainchild of the frantic showman Garik Sukachev was at first called very pretentiously: THE PROLETARIAN JAZZ BRIGADE. Then the matured Garik modestly christened it - BRIGADE S (not to be confused with the SS!), that is, simply - SUKACHEV'S BRIGADE.

VOPLI VIDOPLYASOVA
This is the name that one of the heroes of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s story “The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants” (a graphomaniac lackey) awarded his literary opus. The boys themselves do not philosophize and do not delve into philosophical jungle. "VIDOPLYASOV'S SCREAMS?.. Sounds beautiful!" - they say. Most likely, this name was suggested to the group by bass guitarist Alexander Pipa, who is also a well-read former student.

RESURRECTION
The first team of Lesha Romanov, the founder of RESURRECTION, was called SHLINKING CLOUDS. Later, from a student duet, he turned into a full-fledged rock band. And he began to call himself completely psychedelic - THE GUYS WHO START PLAYING WHEN THE STRIPED HIPPOPOTAMUS CROSSES THE ZAMBEZI RIVER. And the current name was given to the team in 1979 by Evgeniy Margulis, who transferred to Romanov from TIME MACHINE. Then, however, it turned out that Zhenya found him in Leningrad. The RESURRECTION group almost still exists there... Doctors call this “memory provocation.”

DDT
At first, Shevchuk’s brainchild did not have its own corporate name. And it was simply called GENNADIY RODINA GROUP (after the name of the formal artistic director of the group). However, when the provincial group from Ufa passed the first round of correspondence music competition“Golden tuning fork,” Moscow demanded that she “name herself something.” Keyboardist Vova Sigachev accidentally blurted out: DDT. And everyone reluctantly agreed. True, no one was happy with the gloomy associations with the remedy for cockroaches. Therefore, each musician offered his own decoding of the abbreviation: HOUSE OF CHILDREN'S CREATIVITY, FOOLS FROM THE HOUSE OF TECHNOLOGY, etc.

DEADS
This name can be understood both as “dead ears” and as “old people” (since the group members, alas, are not young). Initially, having emerged back in 1981, the group was called STRANGE GAMES and, since it played in the ska style, was considered the most progressive in the country. But, apparently, few people know that at the same time as DEADHOODS, Sologub and Rakhov were considering another variant of the name - POISONS. However, due to the similarity of the English yady with the name of a mafia group, this option was rejected.

BANNED DRUMMERS
It sounds strange, but the logic of the young group from Rostov-on-Don is truly ironclad. DRUMMERS - because, firstly, all musicians are actually drummers, and secondly, they “don’t give a damn!” Well, FORBIDDEN - because the word is beautiful. In addition, two letters "Ш" intersect in the name. However, other options were also considered - PROHIBITED PAKERS, STEAM BATH MAN and even a PAIR OF BATH MAN. Such good, fashionable names with a hint of blue. But, after thinking about it, the musicians decided to remain unfashionable.

I.F.K.
Generally speaking, it is quite difficult to find a name for a band playing in the hardcore style - that hellish mixture of metal, rap and punk. In this troublesome task, the guys from the fashionable Moscow team were helped by... an imported can of dichlorvos. The wandering gaze of one of the musicians accidentally came across the abbreviation "I.F.K." - "Insect Flying Killer", which translates as "Killer of flying insects." However, the group members themselves prefer to decipher I.F.K. otherwise - as a FLYING INSECT KILLER. And what?.. It’s really much cooler. Like Batman and all that...

KALINOV BRIDGE
The name of Dmitry Revyakin’s Novosibirsk group exudes an epic spirit. And indeed it is. The name was given by a Russian fairy tale, where the hero-hero fights for his brothers on the same Kalinov Bridge first with three-headed and six-headed dragons, and then the most terrible, twelve-headed serpent, intended for him, awaits him. As Dima Revyakin comments, this means that the knight took on other people’s karmic tasks. As, in fact, are the musicians of the group. It’s unclear, but patriotic!..

MOVIE
Initially, in 1981, Tsoi’s group was called GARIN AND THE HYPERBOLOIDS. Soon they decided to change the awkward name. There was something false about him—some kind of excessive fantasy. Victor wanted to name the group shorter, clearer, deeper. Together with his colleague Alexei Rybin (Ryba), they spent almost the whole day sorting out the words. In the end, having failed to find anything decent, we settled on the first one we found. This word - in the form of a neon sign burning opposite - was CINEMA.

MONGOL SHUUDAN
For philatelists this is not a question at all. On our postage stamps ex-sister According to the socialist camp there is an inscription in Cyrillic, i.e. almost in Russian - “Mongol Shuudan”, which means “Mongolian post”. It would seem like a common thing, but some of the participants in the Moscow group found the combination of these two words funny.

NAUTILUS POMPILIUS
At first, students from Sverdlovsk called themselves simply NAUTILUS. Considering that the group arose under the Council of Deputies, the meaning of the name was easy to read: you guys build your communism, and we will somehow sail on our own, like the lone captain Nemo in his Nautilus submarine. But the provincial rockers, as always, were spoiled by Moscow. The fact is that in the capital there already existed an ensemble with a similar name (by the way, “machinist” Evgeniy Margulis once played there). When the Sverdlovsk residents learned about this unfortunate fact, they had to change the name of their group. But they didn’t rack their brains for long: they added just one more word—POMPILIUS. And instead of a submarine, a mollusk appeared, scientifically named in Latin.

ACCIDENT
Alexey Kortnev and Valdis Pelsh at one time kept a count of journalists asking: “Why are you called ACCIDENT?” Abandoned after being extradited in Kazan money prize the journalist who was the thousandth on this list. They brought her onto the stage (she was as red as a lobster) and handed her the old “lemon.” In fact, the name has nothing to do with any tragedy. It’s just that in the courtyard of the house where Kortnev lived, a group with the same name was rehearsing. The group soon fled, and the name was “privatized” by Alexey.

MY LEGS ARE SICK!
From the huge list of options that were hotly discussed, Max Pokrovsky remembers only two - ORNAMENT and SINGING ENCOUNTERS (?!!). And he clearly chose the current name because it seemed the most commercially profitable.

NIGHT SNIPERS
The name of this group appeared by chance. Almost like in the song: “It was an ordinary winter evening in St. Petersburg...” Two friends, Diana Arbenina and Svetlana Surganova, went to work in a casino, where they performed their songs. At the intersection, a car stopped next to them: “Are you going hunting, girls?” Apparently, the cases that contained the violin and guitar looked like rifles to the man.

PEP-SEE
Untied girls Inessa, Anya and Asya made their debut in a project with the strange name LUKI. Bummer!.. And then the arrogant (or naive?) girls decided that they would be gladly taken under the wing of the global “cooling” giant. They rolled out their lip!.. Even without them, the capitalists have plenty of Ricky Martins (see also TEA FOR TWO).

PREPINAKI
Initially, this St. Petersburg band playing electronic rock was called PUNCTION MARKS. The current name stuck after a tour in Denmark, as a result of a banal mistake in the poster, and that was 10 years ago.

Professor Lebedinsky
Contrary to the obvious fact of his biography, the All-Russian “boatman” was not named in honor of his professor father. It all started with a joke that Lesha made in his youth. First, he recorded the thieves' song "Masha the Fool" as a bet, and after it the famous "Boatman". Then, when he had collected a whole album of such songs, he wanted to release it, but he tried not to show his face anywhere. And to give credibility to his voice - so that people would think that he was over forty and that he was such a powerful man - he chose “Professor”. A pseudonym under which it was possible to release cassettes for fun. So I was kidding myself. He even named his studio Professor Records.

PUSHKING
A successful example of combining a commercial approach and reflection of national roots. And if you consider that half of the musicians of this cool team are from Pskov, where Pushkin’s Boldino is located, it’s generally “in color.” At first, when the musicians were invited to Germany, the band leader Koha came up with the name LOST & FOUND (LOST AND FOUND). But then this name was “cut down” by German producers. They said that this was a non-commercial name, moreover, “too Americanized” (!). But Russian musicians they wouldn't have changed it if they hadn't found it best replacement. And then one fine day a certain Martin, a German friend, arrived and said that he had a cool name for the team - PUSHKING. That's what they decided on.

DIFFERENT PEOPLE
Monsters of Rock. Cult group, popular in Ukraine along with BB. An example of a successful impromptu. In the summer of 1987, three Kharkov rockers who played in different groups, we went as bunnies to the rock festival in Riga. They didn’t even think about performing there—they were just going to hang out. In the evening, after drinking vodka, the boys came to the city center, to Dom Square, and, sitting there on the cobblestone street, began to take turns singing their “social-perestroika” songs on a shabby guitar. Luckily for them, a member of the festival’s organizing committee was in the crowd of spectators: “Great! I’m signing you up as a participant. By the way, what’s your name?..” - “Yes, we are completely different people, and we also play in different groups in Kharkov.” .”, “Yeah, so that’s what I’m writing down: the group DIFFERENT PEOPLE.” By the way, at that festival the Kharkovites took second place, losing only to the increasingly popular CHAIF.

RUSSIAN SIZE
Kazakh ravers Vitya Bondaryuk and Dima Kopotilov, having moved to Russia, for a long time could not find a name for their group. And suddenly it dawned on Bondaryuk!.. RUSSIAN SIZE is a hint at the physiology of a Russian man. Yes, yes, to this very one" epic strength"However, the musicians themselves admit that what girls like about them is not their size, but the fact that both of them are “cheerful and gentle.”

SECRET
The cult group of the 80s, where Max Leonidov and the now popular showman Nikolai Fomenko once shone, consisted mainly of students theater institute. During lectures on scientific communism, when they were bored and had nothing to do, they began to come up with different names on pieces of paper. At first they decided to call themselves KRISTINA (they had such a gorgeous song in their repertoire). But then everyone noticed that there was a certain “blue” bias in this. And someone once (everyone is a Beatlemaniac) wrote a phrase from BEATLES songs- "Listen, do you want to know a secret?" (“Listen, would you like to know a secret?”). OH SECRET! normal word, beautiful, capacious. And this name was approved by voting.

SPLEEN
Sasha Vasiliev, the leader of SPLIN, knew from the age of 12 that he would someday create his own group. In those days, he was interested in poetry solely from the point of view of whether it was possible to write a rock song to a verse or not. Pushkin was declared a “bad poet” and shelved. But one day Vasiliev read Sasha Cherny’s poem “On the Mute” and came across the mysterious word “spleen”. None of his acquaintances, to his delight, could clearly explain what it meant. And this was what was needed!.. And so the name of the group was born. Meanwhile, if Sasha looked in the dictionary foreign words, he would have learned that “spleen” is “spleen, melancholy mood,” and literally means “anger.”

S.P.O.R.T.
St. Petersburg group, which became the favorite of Tutta Larsen and her team after the cool video “Vacation” was aired on MTV. As the guys themselves explain, the name arose spontaneously. First there was the word, then the form - capitals letters with dots. And only later did understanding come. It turns out that there is a lot in common between sports and music. Both here and there I want to be in the top ten.

TEA FOR TWO
As Denis and Stas themselves admitted, with the word TEA in the name of their duet they really hoped to lure rich sponsors. For example, the Finnish tea concern Forsman. Unfortunately, there were no takers. But practical guys, apparently, do not lose hope...

CHAIFE
The Ural guys approached their self-name like peasants in detail. On the one hand, everyone will understand that they live in the area of ​​a tea-packing factory. On the other hand, the word CHAIF is very reminiscent of “high”. And in rock and roll, as we know, “there is no life without buzz.”

Australian name legendary rock band was inspired by two difficultly compatible objects: English group XTC and local jam maker!

Let's return to Australia again. According to legend, the combination AC/DC means bisexuality in slang. In reality, the group refutes such an interpretation and officially adheres to the tale of how the sister of the Young family, Margaret, saw these letters on an electric sewing machine that could operate on both direct and alternating current. The name immediately charged the group with the right energy and was approved unanimously.

The Prodigy

For connoisseurs of club and electronic spheres the name does not pose a mystery: Liam simply remembered the name of his first synthesizer - Moog Prodigy.

Kasabian

Kasabian is the surname of Linda Kasabian, one of the members of the Charles Manson crime family who was Manson's driver.

Aquarium

Over the years, the name of the group has acquired legends and hidden meanings, however, in their early interviews, BG and his companions openly admitted the following: “We were traveling somewhere in Kupchin. We passed this two-story glass building. It was called "Aquarium". And someone said that this is “Aquarium”. And we decided yes. [It’s] Somewhere on Sofiyskaya or Budapestskaya... Now there’s a kebab shop there.”

Linkin Park

In fact, Lincoln Park is encrypted under this name, which the band members constantly drove past on the way to the studio. However, the word Lincoln was replaced with Linkin purely so that one could stake a domain name on the Internet.

Russians are extremely concerned about the name of this British trip-hop group. There is a clear answer that the participants spotted the word “milk” in the book “A Clockwork Orange.” The trick is that they didn’t even realize that the word was of Russian origin: in the text of “Orange” many slang terms have Russian roots, but this was not explained to English readers. Therefore, the vocalist of Moloko, in one of her early interviews, naively boasted that after a long search she found the source of the word “milk” in some Greek dictionaries.

The Residents

The American avant-garde band could not decide on a name for a long time, but in the meantime they sent out their recordings to labels. As a result, one of the films was returned to them with the mark “To: The Residents” (that is, “To: residents”). The musicians decided that this was a sign from above.

The cult Boston indie rock band chose the name using the scientific method, opening the dictionary and pointing a finger at the first word that came up. So they turned up “pixies”, that is, “fake”. Moreover, the musicians were especially impressed by the decoding of the term: “naughty little elves.”

Led Zeppelin

The origins of the great Led Zeppelin name are well documented and stem from a hilarious, drunken discussion between Jimmy Page and the drummer and bassist from The Who, who insisted that Page's project was doomed and would collapse like a lead balloon. After a few manipulations with words and grammar, the ball turned into an airship. Figuratively speaking, Led Zeppelin is the same as “plywood over Paris.”

Duran Duran

Dr. Durand-Duran is a character in the cult erotic-fantasy film "Barbarella" starring. Fans of the group often joke: they say, thank God they used the name Duran-Duran, and not Dildano... Yes, there was such a character in Barbarella!

fall out Boy

In order to somehow name themselves for the first concert, the group took the name Fall Out Boy from one of the characters in the series “The Simpsons”. More interesting names had already been invented for the second concert, but someone from the audience began shouting: “Oh no! You are Fall Out Boy! There was no point in arguing.

Green Day

“Green Day” originated in the mind of Billie Joe Armstrong when he spent an entire day doing nothing but smoking marijuana. As a result, he wrote a song about this, but it seemed to him that this was not enough, and he gave the group a new (strange and not the most harmonious, to say the least) name.

The Velvet Underground

The band members borrowed the picturesque and at the same time menacing phrase of the Velvet Underground from the cover of a sadomasochistic book that one of them picked up on the sidewalk of New York.

Therapy?

It’s funny that it’s not even the word “therapy” itself (what’s surprising here?), but question mark after him. At the beginning of his career, the vocalist sent cassettes with demo recordings to record labels, personally writing out the name of the group. But in the end I did it unevenly, the name went to the left, but I wanted it beautifully, in the center. So he added another symbol for symmetry. It seems this is the most wild story throughout the article.

Bring Me The Horizon

The vocalist of a now popular metal band from Sheffield admitted that he stole the line for the title from the first film "Pirates" Caribbean Sea" “Now...bring me that horizon,” Johnny Depp’s character says at the very end.

The word “a-ha” would sound great in some song, so one of the musicians wrote it down in a notebook as a keepsake. Some time later, when a question arose about the name of the group, it emerged from the notebook. The group members were struck by two things: first, that the word was beautifully spelled and easy to pronounce. Second: in many languages ​​of the world it means approval or confirmation. That is, the usual “aha” in our Russian.

Butthole Surfers

The group behaved more eccentrically than ever and came up with a new name for each show! But at one of the concerts in 1984, the entertainer forgot how to introduce the group and stupidly said the name of one of the songs - “Butthole Surfer”. It so happened that the concert caused quite a stir, and the name had to be fixed.

Daft Punk

The future members of Daft Punk were at first very sensitive to the work of The Beach Boys and in 1992 they made records under the name Darlin (that was the name of one of The songs Beach Boys). But the music newspaper Melody Maker poured a fair amount of dirt on their activities, calling the music “a daft punky thrash.” After reading this, the guys were very upset, but in the end they realized that they had to somehow move on with this. And they made a curse word the name of their new project. And we won, by the way!

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

The young group rehearsed in what was once a prison cell. There was a poster on the wall with the words “Frankie Goes to Hollywood” printed when he moved from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. In general, as is already clear, the group did not have any major difficulties finding a name.

Five Finger Death Punch

The long and juicy name of the fashionable metal band from Nevada was overheard in the movie “Kill Bill”, where a special secret technique guaranteed certain death to the enemy from the movement of the fingers.

Ramones

Encyclopedias usually write that the band members adapted the surname Ramon only because that was Paul McCartney’s pseudonym when he entered hotels. However, a number of interviews circulate in magazines and books where the Ramones say that this name was taken for provocation and intimidation, because in New York in the 70s, ordinary people were very afraid of Latin American youth gangs.

Jethro Tull

The group has early stages There were great problems with concerts in London, and in order to be able to play several times in the same club, the musicians constantly changed their name. At one of these stages, the manager from the lantern said “Jethro Tull” - the name of some 18th century agronomist. The trouble is that it was under this name that the group received registration in the club, the owner of which suddenly liked them.

Misfits

The name of the group copies the most last film Marilyn Monroe. And the logo with a skull migrated to the band’s arsenal from the 1946 film The Crimson Ghost.

Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor explains that he chose this name only because it is beautifully spelled with an acronym - NIN. And, they say, it does not carry the slightest literal meaning.

Boney M.

As you know, the first single of Boney M. was not recorded by the group itself, but independently by producer Frank Farian. So he urgently needed to come up with a pseudonym. He described the brainstorming process as follows: “I turned on the TV one day, and a detective series was ending. I only found end credits, where it was written Boney. Great name, I thought. Boni, Boni, Boni... Boni M.! This sounds even better!”

Procol Harum

The word Procul Harun denoted a line in the breed Siamese cats, one of which was owned by a friend of the band's manager. The phrase, as you can see, is beautiful and is perfect for baptizing a group. True, the rule of a broken telephone intervened, and one letter in the word was still confused.

The word is derived from the original "Opet", which the group spotted in a Wilbur Smith novella, where it was the name of a fictional city in Africa.