Stevens picked the name “The Exies” from a John Lennon biography, stating on Rockline (11/9/2002) that it was the only Beatles-related name left that was not taken. When the Beatles were touring around Hamburg, Germany in the 1960s, they encountered three distinct social groups among the kids: the mods, the rockers, and the art students (who referred to themselves as “the existentialists”). John Lennon coined the term “the exies” to refer to the art students.
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