Pop Star Real Names
Celebrity worship is a strange concept to me that I can’t seem to wrap my mind around. Maybe that’s why I find this list of 182 real names of musicians to be so amusing. Here are a few of my favorites:
167: Conway Twitty – Harold Jenkins (“Twitty” was somehow an improvement?)
162: Ice T – Tracey Marrow (understandable!)
148: Gene Simmons – Chaim Witz
122: Ozzy Osborne – John Michael Osborne (logical nickname)
108: George Michael – Yorgos Panayiotou
106: Meat Loaf – Marvin Lee Aday (sorry, real name is WAY better!)
78: Elton John – Reginald Dwight
70: Vanilla Ice – Robert Van Winkle (18 years later and I still find this one funny!)
68: Englebert Humperdinck – Arnold Dorsey (Wow! Why?)
40: Bobby Darin – Walden Waldo Robert Cassotto
35: Alice Cooper – Vincent Furnier (because a boy named Sue would be too weird)
20: Jon Bon Jovi – John Francis BonGiovi (Interesting! Almost his real name)
