The respective lead singers of each band (Julian Cope, Ian McCulloch, and Pete Wylie) had all previously been together in a very short-lived band named The Crucial Three.
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Good Neighbors The Spinners "Bang a Gong (Get It On)"
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This one, too, must be obscure. The correct answer is that they all had slightly different names in the UK. The British TV series Good Neighbors was originally The Good Life, and T. Rex's hit "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" was simply "Get It On". In the US, these names were already taken.
The venerable US soul group The Spinners became known in the UK as The Detroit Spinners for the same reason.
Next triad is up for grabs.
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They were the girls mentioned in The Who's "I'm a Boy."
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"Money for Nothing" "Money Changes Everything" and "Money is Too Tight to Mention,"
respectively.
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