12 musicians who recorded songs under fake names
There are all sorts of valid reasons for changing your name when you’re in the business of show business. Maybe you were born with an unfortunate or an awkward surname, or your parents failed to foresee that your future would be onstage, lumbering you with a really normal name like Barry (with apologies to Messrs White and Manilow). Maybe you just fancy the idea of rebuilding yourself as someone completely new, with a flamboyant identity to match – like when David Bowie adopted his Ziggy Stardust alter ego. Hell, even ‘Bowie’ was a stage-name – David Robert Jones and The Spiders From Mars doesn’t quite have the same zing to it, does it? But there are occasions in popular music when a pseudonym or an alias are just necessary. It’s usually because the artist in ques...
