The Real Story Behind The Names Of Music’s Most Iconic Bands

Listening to music from a band you loved can have a magical quality to it. The association of the song can be so strong sometimes that even just seeing the band’s name or logo can instantly transport you to a simpler time when you were blasting their tunes in a car or cheering with thousands of others, demanding an encore.

The names of these famous bands are now iconic, cemented in music history, but these groups didn’t always go by the moniker we know them by today. While they certainly have become household names, it makes you wonder if bands like Queen, Black Sabbath, and many others would have been as popular if they stuck with their original name choices. Check out how the some of music’s most historic groups came up with their name…

The Rolling Stones

The band that would become one of the most famous rock musicians in music history ended up rubbing elbows with music icon Muddy Waters in 1981. They met him at the Checkerboard Lounge, a famous Chicago blues.

Little did the group know how much their lives would change after this meeting. Upon hearing Waters’ 1950 blues tune “Rollin Stone,” they knew this was the name they would go by forever.