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* [[Simon and Garfunkel]]
* Peter, Paul, and Mary
* [[The Ramones]] also doubles as a "The" band, as all their members had "Ramone" as their stage surname.
** Likewise The Corrs, except it's their real surname. Many other examples in the same vein.
** The same except with first names goes for The Bens, which consisted of Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, and Ben Lee.
* Tackey & Tsubasa
* The Jackson Five scores a hat-trick for being (The) (Member Names) (Number).
* Variation: [[Bon Jovi]] is named after only ''one'' of its members.
** Same with [[Dokken]].
** And the [[Ur Example]], Santana.
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* ''[[Fleetwood Mac]]'', named after their drummer (Mick Fleetwood) and bass player (John McVie). Sort of an aversion - Fleetwood and Peter Green decided to call the band this to ''persuade McVie to join'', not because he was already a member.
* Obfuscated by the band Good Old War. Good for Goodwin, Old for Arnold, and War for Schwartz.
* [[Run DMC]] (another partial case; of their three members, the name comes from the nickname of one and the initials of another, omitting the late Jam Master Jay).
** There was also "Salt-N-Pepa" in the same genre, although like Run-DMC, they were a trio (Salt, Pepa, and their DJ Spinderella)
* Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, which would've been [[Yes]] if they weren't sued by existing members of the band. And they have indeed drawn the law-firm comparison.
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* Wilson Phillips
* Matt & Kim
* Almost any duo will
* Schuyler, Knobloch and Overstreet. They became just S-K-O one single into their career, however. After Paul Overstreet left, they became S-K-B for about 30 seconds while Craig Bickhardt took over.
* Dolenz, Jones, Boyce, & Hart (two Monkees with two songwriters)
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* Mel & Kim (a duo created largely to share a name with the above as a gag, male comedian Mel Smith and singer Kim Wilde.)
* Aversion: the female comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates. Neither member is named either of those things, rather the name is [[Garfunkel|a takeoff]] on the names of two well-known bands that ''are'' legitimate examples of this convention.
* Sharon, Lois and Bram (performers of children's music, later just "Sharon and Bram")
* [[Kenny Loggins|Loggins]] and Messina; technically an aversion since Jim Messina was simply a producer. Moreover, it was meant to just be Kenny Loggins as a solo artist (which would eventually happen for real), but Messina made such a significant contribution, that the first album was called "Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin' In".
* Hanson, the band with three brothers whose last name is... you guessed it, Hanson. Often mistakenly referred to as The Hanson Brothers.
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* The Nields - two sisters, Nerissa and Katryna Nields, with Nerissa's husband David who took her last name along with Dave Chalfant and Dave Hower, leaving them with three Daves and three Nields.
* [[Paul and Storm]], although Storm is a nickname.
* [[Tegan and Sara]]
* Ford & Lopatin. They started out as Games, but adopted a "listing band members" name due to potential confusion with the rapper Game.
* Jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross
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