Best Rock & Roll Pseudonyms

Lenny Kravitz does.

Which is funny, because he started out with the pseudonym “Romeo Blue,” which is just awful.

No, I’m pretty sure Sonny Bono was born that way…

But Biff Blumfumgagnge is, I suspect, one o’ them made-up names.

'Strewth, gov’nr, he’s got a wiki.

Rudi Protrudi and Deb O’Nair (members of The Fuzztones).

Pseudonyms, schmeudonyms, so long as they’re nice to their mothers, already.

But his pop’s name is Dick.

Mike Rivers put out a couple 4-songs 45-rpm records in the 60s, a time when many RnR artists in Spain used English names because it sounded cooler; the trend was so big that many people are surprised to find out that a few of those artists actually were English, American or Australian. Miguel Ríos just retired from a long career spanning more than 40 years.

If we’re going for nicknames, David Freiberg’s names for Paul Kantner and Grace Slick aren’t bad: Baron von Tolbooth and the Chrome Nun.

Miguel Ríos, kicking musical ass across decades…“…el rock es un bumerán, por eso siempre volverá…

No, not as bad.