Complex sentence: The band was founded in 1987 by Markus Reinhardt and Pompejo Ricciardi--they were inspired by the name of a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Split into simpler sentences: The band was founded in 1987 by Markus Reinhardt and Pompejo Ricciardi. They were inspired by the name of a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.