Big Book of Rock & Roll Names: How Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Vampire Weekend, and 532 Other Bands Got Their Names

Did you know Bad Brains originally played jazz fusion and called themselves Mind Power before flipping the name on its head and becoming a punk rock band? Or that Arcade Fire's Win Butler named his band after a story his bully used to tell? From ABBA to ZZ Top, this completely updated and expanded enclyclopedia of band names tells the stories of how over 500 influential rock and pop bands got their names.  

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