“We were playing, as the Tea Set, out at an RAF base . . . when, lo and behold, we found that, extraordinarily, there was another band called the Tea Set booked to appear. . . . We rapidly had to come up with an alternative. Syd [Barrett] produced, with little further ado, the name the Pink Floyd Sound, using the first names of two venerable blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. . . . It was very much Syds idea. And it stuck.”

—Nick Mason, from Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd, 2004. Now we know.