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- Taking Back Sunday — The band is named after a song by Long Island band The Waiting Process who were inspired by their grandmother, Tina, that they should take back Sunday from the Christian people in Long Island.
- Thompson Twins – From Thomson and Thompson, the bumbling detectives in Hergé's comic strip series The Adventures of Tintin.
- Tokio Hotel – The band named themselves after "Tokio", the German spelling of the Japanese city Tokyo, due to a love of the city, and "Hotel" due to their constant touring and living in hotels.
- Two Door Cinema Club – The band's name came about after Member, Sam Halliday mispronounced the name of the local cinema, Tudor Cinema, and this stuck.
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