I visited my hometown of Terrell, Texas, this past weekend to attend my grandmother's 98th birthday party. Terrell still has the same population it did when I was in high school which is about 15,000. As we were leaving town to return to Shreveport, I noticed a billboard on the side of the road advertising the new Jamie Foxx movie, Sleepless...
I think it was Shakespeare that said, "What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." That might work for roses, but I don't think that is true for music groups.
I saw on Buzzfeed "40 Names of Bands Before They Were Famous." Some of them I was familiar with, like Pearl Jam was originally Mookie Blaylock in honor of their favorite New Jersey Nets player.