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

Frankie (Blue Eyes) Goes To Hollywood

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British new wave group, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, began as the Hollycausts but decided they needed to tone down some of the controversies. The band said they practiced in a room where there was a cutting from the front page of The New Yorker hanging up. The headline on it said “Frankie Goes To Hollywood” in reference to Frank Sinatra, and the rest is history.

Well, kind of. The band stuck with that name and that story for many years until recently when a few band members said that “Frankie” was inspired by British singer Frankie Vaughan.