10CC

The line-up of these art rockers from Stockport (England) is impressive, with names as Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, Lol Creme and, in particular, Graham Gouldman (the latter the spiritual father of such splendid songs as For Your Love, Bus Stop, Look Through Any Window and No Milk Today). 

Producer Jonathan King is supposed to have been the inventor of the name 10CC, convinced as he was that an average ejaculation yields about 9 cc semen and therefore that 10 cc is an enviable quantity. 

Two comments need to be made on this subject. One is that later King came back on his words and claimed the name 'had come to him in a dream' (can happen to any man of course), the other is that the '9 cc-story' is wrong from a biological viewpoint: the end shot of an average man - whoever he may be - actually can not be estimated very well; it varies from 0.1 cc to (yes!) 10 cc.

Volume-wise Premier League, this English band. 

Active: 1972-1983; 1991-1995; 1999-present, GBR

See also: Lovin' Spoonful

10,000 Maniacs band name meaning

Still raving after all these years, this college rock band from Jamestown, New York - although over time the line-up has often been shaken up.

The band name was taken from a B-movie recorded in 1965, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis and given a more modest title: Two Thousand Maniacs, to be exact.

It should be added that the original plan was to call the movie Five Thousand Maniacs. May be this caused the band to - quite wrongly – trust on some kind of collective memory and persist in believing that the correct movie title was 10,000 Maniacs.

By the way, in 2005 a horror movie by director Tim Sullivan was brought out entitled 2001 Maniacs. Do not despair; before you know it we will have reached the ten thousand madmen.