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What do The Beatles, Hootie and the Blowfish and the Bee Gees have in common? Apart from the fact that all these musicians are male, notice anything unique about their names? Ahha.. there you go! All these bands have an animal embedded in their names.

The Beatles (mix of Beat and The Beetles) were so named partly in homage to the American rock and roll band, The Crickets (notice, another animal name). The Bee Gees were first called the Rattlesnakes, then Wee Johnny Hayes & the Bluecats (notice, more animal names involved) before settling for the initials of two people who discovered them; DJ Bill Gates and racetrack promoter Bill Goode (B and G).

Here are a few more bands with ‘animal’ names:

Alien Ant Farm – one of the guitarists had a twisted idea about aliens; he was wondering if aliens were monitoring humans the same way as how a kid watches an ant farm develop and colonize; hence the origin of the band name.

Feline related bands include Atomic Kitten; the Brit girl group which was established in 1999 and the Pussy Cat Dolls; the extremely famous American pop girl group and dance ensemble.

‘Flying’ bands include Counting Crows, McFly and the Eagles.

Canine related musicians are the Blood hound gang and Snoop Dogg.  

Icky yucky creatures (not the artists, just the animals) include Crazy Frog, Scorpions, Skunk Anansie, Whitesnake and Seal.

‘Bigger’ bands include Pitbull and Gorrillaz.