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Midway Up The Ceiling
yeahhhh I know that now what is a hoople....
This is what I got from Wikipedia:
While in prison on a drug offence, Stevens read the Willard Manus novel Mott the Hoople about an eccentric who works in a circus freak show, and decided to use it as a band name.[1] Silence reluctantly agreed to a name change following their early 1969 audition for Stevens.