Roger "Syd" Barrett, Radovan "Bob" Klose, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright probably gave each other the name The Pink Floyd Sound in January 1965 at a dance on the grounds of the Royal Air Force in Uxbridge (West London). And that in the middle of the performance, because the quintet, originally announced as The Tea Set, was sharpening its grip on the fact that another band, which also played that evening, was trading under the same name. Even if there are other rumours about the origin of the name Pink Floyd, it probably goes back to a suggestion of Syd Barrett, who combined the first names of the old Carolina blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. "When we later became part of the London Underground, this name was a lucky coincidence because the combination of 'Pink' and 'Floyd' has a psychedelic ambiguity," commented Mason in 2004.
