Stereophonics chose name from old radiogram

The 'Dakota' hitmakers took their moniker from an old musical device they found in the house of late drummer Stuart Cable's parents and jokingly claim they would have been called something else if the equipment – a cross between a radio and a gramophone – had been manufactured by another company.

Frontman Kelly Jones explained on Absolute Radio's 'Ronnie Wood Show': "There's an old radiogram in the studio, and that’s what we got the band’s name from. Stuart’s dad used to have an old radiogram in his house and it said Falcon Stereophonic on it, so that’s where we nicked the name, just off one of those things there".