Another music thread --- when did bands stop using "the" in their names ?

[emeraldknight47]

Molly Hatchet
Blue Oyster Cult
Paul McCartney and Wings (or sometimes just Wings, goes either way)
Bad Company
Badfinger
Jay and the Americans
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Evanescence
Bats for Lashes
Abba
Aerosmith
Ambrosia
Bee Gees
Barenaked Ladies
Boston
Kansas
Camera Obscura
We Are The Fallen
Chicago
Def Leppard

[cockyhoskins]

Thin Lizzy

[Iron Mego]

Talking Heads.

[J.B.]

Misfits, though I think their first album had "The".

[Brazoo]

Hmm. Going through the names my guess is that the earliest formed band listed so far is Herman's Hermits. They originally formed as Herman & the Hermits, but I don't think they released anything under that title.

[Brazoo]

If Herman's Hermits is disqualified then according to Wiki Small Faces formed with that name in '65, so they seem like a close second.

[megomania]

Tons of 70s & 80s bands/groups didn't use 'The'

Yaz
Bourgeois Tagg
One to One/One 2 One
Ambrosia
Ace
Alphaville
Chilliwak
Asia
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds..........

[daz71]

them
tages
shocking blue
honeybus
eire apparent
h.p. lovecraft
zen

[emeraldknight47]

Tons of 70s & 80s bands/groups didn't use 'The'

Yaz
Bourgeois Tagg
One to One/One 2 One
Ambrosia
Ace
Alphaville
Chilliwak
Asia
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds..........

Ambrosia---yes, thoughts of warm, summer evenings with your best girl.

Asia---rocking out to some early to mid-eighties prog-rock!!

ELP---mellowing out with some seventies prog rock...

Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds---non-coitus interruptus.

Chilliwak----