This
Irish heavy metal band from Dublin arrived at its name after a fairly complex
detour. The record sleeve of the famous album Blues Breakers (1966) by John
Mayall and Eric Clapton gave the band an idea.
On this sleeve Eric 'Slowhand' Clapton is looking into a copy of children's magazine Beano as if fascinated. The
Irish wanted that too! They grabbed a number of Dandy (the third oldest
children's comic in the world that is still in existence) and leaved through it until they
came to the Tin Lizzie comic.

To avoid problems with trademark law the name was changed a little bit: an ‘h’ was added to the word Tin and the letters 'ie' in Lizzie were changed into a y.
Active: 1969-1984; 1996-2001, 2004-present, IRL
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