# Your music group personnel misconceptions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825 "2017-07-21T19:16:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/41 "2017-07-22T23:39:09Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > The Warrior is now being used as the theme of the Netflix series GLOW. Thanks. Now I know what my wife’s been watching all day. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/42 "2017-07-23T00:32:26Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > For a long time I thought Brian Setzer was British. He’s from NY. That’s understandable. The Stray Cats first became successful in England before returning to the US to record _Built For Speed_, their breakthrough album. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/43 "2017-07-23T00:41:23Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > That’s a cover. The original is by Tom Cochrane. Who is also, strangely enough, the singer from Red Rider and the awesome ‘Lunatic Fringe’. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/44 "2017-07-23T01:40:54Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > The Stray Cats first became successful in England… They were huge back in '65 when [David Essex, Keith Moon and Dave Edmunds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amFcwQsBAww) were in the band. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/45 "2017-07-23T02:22:27Z")
I used to think Les Paul was a member of Peter, Paul & Mary. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/46 "2017-07-23T04:33:08Z")
I once thought that the “folds” in Ben Folds Five was a verb, making the group’s name a typical nonsense name. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/47 "2017-07-23T05:35:12Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > \*it was Patty Smyth, the one hit wonder, **not** the amazing Patti Smith. Well, they both had only big 1 hit single (and only Smyth had a writing credit on hers), but Smyth had more if you count her band and lesser hits outside of the top 10. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/48 "2017-07-23T05:38:00Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Who is also, strangely enough, the singer from Red Rider and the awesome ‘Lunatic Fringe’. Which many people, myself included, thought was a Pink Floyd song. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/49 "2017-07-23T05:39:25Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I confuse Oingo Boingo, Bananarama, and Bow Wow Wow, but just because of the group names and the time period, not any of the members. I started this closely related thread a while ago: [Band Names Easily Confused For One Another](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=533994) (As an aside, I was shocked to see I started this in 2009. If i’d had to guess, I would have thought I posted it in about 2014. Time flies when you’re a Doper! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/50 "2017-07-23T11:15:34Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > I used to think Les Paul was a member of Peter, Paul & Mary. When I first read about Jimmy Page playing a “Les Paul” guitar, I assumed it was a French brand, pronounced “lay paul,” referring collectively to a family with the last name Paul. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/51 "2017-07-23T11:20:14Z")
It wouldn’t surprise me if some young’uns confused Bono and Simon le Bon – lead singers of big-time 80s bands, with names evoking Romance-language words for “good.” (I just found out now that Simon’s is _not_ a self-aggrandizing stage name, but rather his legitimate family name, of Hugenot origins.) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/52 "2017-07-23T12:17:02Z")
What, are you saying Sonny Bono wasn’t in U2? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/53 "2017-07-23T12:21:36Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Who is also, strangely enough, the singer from Red Rider and the awesome ‘Lunatic Fringe’. > [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > Which many people, myself included, thought was a Pink Floyd song. My thoughts exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/54 "2017-07-23T12:25:42Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > What, are you saying Sonny Bono wasn’t in U2? He sang background on their first album. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/55 "2017-07-23T14:54:10Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I was shocked, _shocked_ I tells ya, when I learnt the lead singer of the song [Venus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEhQugz-Ew) by the Shocking Blue was a female. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > It was only within the past 5 years that I found out that Nick Gilder, of “[Hot Child in the City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d02k10Bz6ro)” fame, is male. \*\* nods \*\* From childhood, [Wayne Newton. Danke Schoen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRPILZS1hc8) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/56 "2017-07-23T15:33:04Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > For a long time I thought Brian Setzer was British. He’s from NY. > [@cochrane](#): > > That’s understandable. The Stray Cats first became successful in England before returning to the US to record _Built For Speed_, their breakthrough album. Likewise with Ian Astbury and the Cult. Complicated by their (his) tendency to decorate their tunes with refs to Native American myths (thus a band originally named “Southern Death” Cult must hail from Arizona or New Mexico, right?), and how Astbury will often talk to American audiences (between songs) in an American accent. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/57 "2017-07-23T15:35:27Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > From childhood, [Wayne Newton. Danke Schoen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRPILZS1hc8) Also from childhood: I thought the cookies were named after Wayne Newton… ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/58 "2017-07-23T16:25:03Z")
I didn’t know Stray Cats first got fame in UK. For some odd reason Setzer just looked British to me. Maybe it was his hairstyle. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/59 "2017-07-23T16:49:14Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > For a long time I thought Brian Setzer was British. He’s from NY. Right now, somewhere, someone is learning his name is isn’t Brian Seltzer. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-music-group-personnel-misconceptions/791825/60 "2017-07-23T16:54:20Z")
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