Saw the thread on Stanley Burrell (aka MC Hammer).

 

Let's try a thread on matching birth names with "known as" names; and see if it catches on or goes down in flames.

 

I'll start with an easy one (and no cheating/Googling):

 

Robert Zimmerman = ?

Bob Dylan

 

Another very easy one:

Richard Starky = ?

Richard Starkey = Ringo

Thanks for playing, dad.

 

Reginald Dwight = ?

David Robert Jones =?

Thanks for playing, dad.

 

Reginald Dwight = ?

 

 

Elton John

David Robert Jones =?

 

Either Davy Jones of The Monkees or David Bowie of Ziggy Stardust fame. But I don't know for sure.

Elton John

 

That is correct.

David Robert Jones =?

 

 

David Bowie

John Sanford = ?

That's Bowie I think...

 

Edward Louis Severson III

That's Bowie I think...

 

Edward Louis Severson III

 

Eddie Vetter

 

Robert James Ritchie?

Eddie Vetter

 

Robert James Ritchie?

 

 

Kid Rock...

Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. ?

Chaim Witz ?