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Fact #35169

When:

09051976

Short story:

Influential Piedmont-style blues guitarist, mandolin player, and singer Floyd Council dies of a heart attack in Sanford, North Carolina, USA. He is known to an audience outside of the blues genre because his name was half of the inspiration for the name of rock band Pink Floyd. [The other half was Pink Anderson].