Top 5 best group name changes

1.     The Quarrymen to The Beatles

2.     Hour Glass to the Allman Brothers

3.     Chicago Transit Authority to just Chicago

4.     Crosby Stills and Nash to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (well, they sort of had to, right?)

5.     Little Rascals to just The Rascals (maybe the most underrated pop group of the Sixties)

Top 5 worst group name changes

Just one: Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship…ugh.

Ok ok, so the Allmans show up again. And the Beatles could’ve been called the Bugs and done just as well.

Another bias of ours shows up early on: The Rascals. If you doubt their influence, just find Steve Van Zandt’s Hall of Fame induction speech for them; you will cry. Seriously. More on them to come.

And Grace Slick. Why Starship? Ok, money. Still, We Built This City on Rock and Roll, bad as it is, doesn’t make our “Lunge to Change the Station List” top 5 but almost. But ah, good old Airplane, not Starship, will be a frequent visitor here.