"Well, at first the band were simply called……" — David Eugene Edwards

Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot… - David Eugene Edwards

"Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. “I got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses."

— David Eugene Edwards

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