Check Out How Your Favorite Musicians Stumbled Into Choosing Their Now-Iconic Names

Pink Floyd Combines The Names Of Two Blues Musicians

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Pink Floyd is another artist who’s gone through a litany of names. One of the most regrettable was “Tea Set” (yup, it can always be worse). Back when Pink Floyd was called Tea Set, they found themselves on a bill with a band that had the same name – what are the odds?

In a pinch, one of the members came up with an alternative: The Pink Floyd Sound. The name came from two blues musicians – Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. The band flip-flopped between Tea Set and The Pink Floyd Sound until they finally settled on The Pink Floyd. “The” wasn’t dropped until the ’70s.