Fans of Pink Floyd know the origin story by heart. Band member Syd Barrett combined the names of two blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. But the name Pink Floyd predates all of that.
We’ve got the Pink Floyd who, in 1889, killed Cornelius Lowden:
Then, of course, there’s the Michigan Pink Floyd who made an illegal left turn in 1952 and was fined $4:
And who can forget the famed Pink Floyd of Marietta, North Carolina, who caught a 15-pound fish?
