Lady Gaga

The artist known as Lady Gaga was born as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was reborn with a name adapted from a Queen song.

Music producer Rob Fusari claims to have created the "Lady Gaga" stage name because some of Stefani's vocals reminded him of Queen's Freddie mercury. The Ga Ga comes from the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga". The song became attached to her and an inadvertent text message autocorrect created a "Lady Gaga" that Stefani decided was the stage name to use.

Another version of the origin story claims that the name resulted from a marketing meeting.

Either way, the word "gaga" entered the English lexicon in the early 1900s as a term for "crazy" or "silly." Though its origin is unknown, it may come from the French imitative gaga meaning "senile" or "foolish."

Today the word is most commonly used in the sense of deep infatuation, where going gaga for something is the same thing at "mooning over" it. Considering Lady Gaga's record sales and fan base, that meaning seems pretty accurate too.

Led Zeppelin

      

Led Zeppelin is the English rock band formed in 1968, consisting of Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals, harmonica), John Paul Jones (bass guitar, keyboards, mandolin), and John Bonham (drums).

Their guitar-driven blues, hard rock sound, makes them one of the early bands to be labeled "heavy metal" and "hard rock." The fact that they didn't release songs as singles in the UK also ranks them as early bands promoting "album-oriented rock".

They disbanded following Bonham's death in 1980, but continues to be popular and has sold over 200 million albums worldwide.

     

The story goes when Page's band The Yardbirds broke up he wanted to create a "supergroup" with Jeff Beck on guitar and The Who's drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwhistle.

Page put together a new lineup to fulfill two outstanding commitments. The band that would become Led Zeppelin do those Scandinavian gigs billed as The New Yardbirds, playing together for the first time in front of a live audience in Denmark in 1968

After getting a record contract, the group took the new name and deliberately dropped the 'a' in lead at the suggestion of their manager, Peter Grant, so that Americans wouldn't mispronounce it "leed."

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