
Many people think that Wayne took on this alias to please his record company, the Philips sublabel Fontana.
But that is not so: Wayne 'borrowed' a large part of his stage name from the permanent drummer of Elvis Presley, D.J. Montana, the man who keeps the beat on nearly 500 recordings of The King.
And the Mindbenders? When they were chosing a band name they took a close look at a poster of a 1962 film, entitled The Mind Benders, starring Dirk Bogarde as the brainwashing specialist Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman.
Active: 1963-1968, GBR
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