Thanks. Now I know what my wife’s been watching all day.
That’s understandable. The Stray Cats first became successful in England before returning to the US to record Built For Speed, their breakthrough album.
Who is also, strangely enough, the singer from Red Rider and the awesome ‘Lunatic Fringe’.
They were huge back in '65 when David Essex, Keith Moon and Dave Edmunds were in the band. 
I used to think Les Paul was a member of Peter, Paul & Mary.
I once thought that the “folds” in Ben Folds Five was a verb, making the group’s name a typical nonsense name.
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.
Which many people, myself included, thought was a Pink Floyd song.
I started this closely related thread a while ago:
Band Names Easily Confused For One Another
(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!
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.
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.)
What, are you saying Sonny Bono wasn’t in U2?
My thoughts exactly.
He sang background on their first album. 
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From childhood, Wayne Newton. Danke Schoen
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.
Also from childhood: I thought the cookies were named after Wayne Newton…
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.
Right now, somewhere, someone is learning his name is isn’t Brian Seltzer.
I thought the song What is Love by Haddaway was done by Steve Winwood