He was given the name Gaius Octavius Thurinus, his cognomen possibly commemorating his father's victory at Thurii over a rebellious band of slaves.

* The garage folk band David's Doldrums references Absalom in their song, " my name is Absalom.

* The Progressive Metal band from Barranquilla, Colombia, Absalom has his name.

The band took its name from the Irish constitutional law guaranteeing freedom of the press.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

From listening to their recordings, one had difficulty determining if the Crickets, the name of Buddy's band, were white or black singers.

Love responded to Erlandson's comments in a Twitter post, claiming " he's out of his mind, Hole is my band, my name, and my Trademark ".

He formed the band Largest Living Things, which was the name rejected by Capitol Records in favour of Crowded House.

As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name, rather than as a Neil Finn solo album.

They may be inscribed with a person's details, their beliefs or tastes, a favorite quote, or may bear the name or logo of a band or performer.

Due to the provocative name of the band, they sometimes played under pseudonyms, including " The DK's ", " The Sharks ", " The Creamsicles " and " The Pink Twinkies ".

The band played under name " DK Kennedys " for a few concerts, but later reverted to " Dead Kennedys " permanently.

Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).

The terms for the instrument among classical performers are contrabass ( which comes from the instrument's Italian name, contrabbasso ), string bass ( to distinguish it from a brass bass instrument in a concert band ), or simply bass.

The band refused to negotiate, and sued Lewis in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking a declaratory judgment stating Lewis had no rights to the name or theory of De-evolution.

* Fenriz, stage name of member in Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone

( Hee Haw tapes were later sold using the " 800 " number 1-800-BR54949 ; also, the country music group BR5-49 adopted the number as the name of their band.

The psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft ( who shortened their name to Lovecraft and then Love Craft in the 1970s ) who released the H. P. Lovecraft and H. P. Lovecraft II albums in 1967 and 1968 respectively.

* The poem may have inspired the 2012 song of the same name by groove metal band Lamb of God.

On OG, he introduced his heavy metal band Body Count in a track of the same name.

While performing in Macon, Georgia, having now changed their name to the Flames, a club promoter, Clint Brantley ( then agent of one of Brown's idols, Little Richard ), suggested the band add " Famous " in front of their name to draw more people to his club.

It was right along this time that Brown changed the name of his band from The J. B .' s to the Soul Generals ( or Soul G's ).

Jeffry Ross Hyman ( May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001 ), best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, was an American musician, vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones.

Grammy-winning Mexican rock band " Jaguares " were also influenced by the magnificent animal to choose their band name.

For example, the stereotype of a " Band nerd " comes from the opinion that many high school band students are goofy or socially inept ( except with other band students ), things that would brand a person as a nerd.

In an interview published by Street News Service, Dylan acknowledged the influence of Brave Combo: " This version comes from a band called Brave Combo.

* The black metal band Summoning's latest album's name comes from the Oath of Fëanor and the lyrics are all about the Quenta Silmarillion

* Jon Schneck, a former resident of Eustis and graduate of Eustis High School, plays guitar for the popular Christian rock band Relient K. Also, Christian rock band Fireflight comes from Eustis.

This dichotomy was listed as one of the major determining factors involving the break-up of the band ; regardless of the success, Avery and Navarro's need to abstain and their wanting to live their lives free from addiction and the slavery that comes with it had to be their top priority in life and they couldn't do that while being a part of J. A ..

The name of the band comes from the Bonnie Tyler song " Total Eclipse of the Heart.

The pop band, also described as pop / rock, was part of the second British rock invasion of the 1980s in the United States as R. Serge Denisoff and William L. Schurk said in their book Tarnished gold: the record industry revisited, " Here comes the rock and roll of 1984.

* 2D, the fictional character from Damon Albarn's virtual band Gorillaz, comes from Crawley, according to the back-story created for them.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

* February 2 – " Menudomania " comes to New York as 3, 500 screaming girls crowd Kennedy Airport to catch a glimpse of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, who are playing six sold-out shows at the Felt Forum.

It's just a much better band, and that comes through on the album .”

* Seigmen, a Norwegian alternative rock band, comes from Tønsberg.

It comes from one of the Kwakwaka ' wakw tribes, the Kwagu ' ł, at Fort Rupert, with whom Franz Boas did most of his anthropological work and whose Indian Act band government is the Kwakiutl First Nation.

The name of the Emerald Shiner comes from the greenish emerald band that expands from the back of the gill cover to the tail.

The word wreath comes from Middle English wrethe and from Old English writha, band.

" A bandpass signal is a signal containing a band of frequencies away from zero frequency, such as a signal that comes out of a bandpass filter.

The band has stated since that the way their writing process works, is that someone comes up with a " riff " and everyone else adds onto it and perfects the song around it.

* Christian crossover band Relient K comes from Canton, Ohio

Speaking of Carl Barât and Pete Doherty, Roger Sargent ( a close friend and photographer of the band ) described their relationship as like " first love, and all the jealousy and obsessiveness that comes with that "-adding " I think there's, y ' know, obsession and jealousy on both of their sides.

The unusual title of the strip comes from a concert poster that Darby Conley once created for his brother's band, the Fuzzy Sprouts.

Finally as Horace takes off his coat the band comes to the " Storm " segment of the overture which summons an actual tornado, prompting the audience and Donald to run for their lives.