Pink Floyd was almost The Tea Set.

Yes. Before they became Pink Floyd, the band went by The Tea Set. That was the name Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright used in the mid-1960s.

The original lineup played under The Tea Set for a while. Then they found out another band had the same name (or something close—details vary). So they scrambled for a new one. Syd Barrett grabbed two names from a blues record: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. The Pink Floyd Sound stuck, then got shortened.

(There were even earlier incarnations like Sigma 6 and The Abdabs, but The Tea Set is the one that almost made it.)

So next time you hear “Comfortably Numb,” thank a lucky name change. The Tea Set just doesn’t hit the same.