Not mine, but my brother’s. He thought that Barry Goudreau was the lead singer of Boston, possibly because Goudreau released an album in 1980 on which Brad Delp, the actual lead singer of Boston, sang vocals.
A girl Like You sure has a Bowie feel to it.
The Belly song?
Patty Smyth Myers/Hell McEnroe was the singer for an early-80 pop band called Scandal.
“The Warrior”
"Goodbye to You"
The “Myers/Hell” thing is due to her first husband, punk singer Lester Myers, who performed under the pseudonym Richard Hell with his band The Voidoids. This is probably their best-known song. (Title may be NSFW.)
The story I remember is that Patty and Richard met at a record industry function and married a few months later - and that at the time they met, neither had ever heard of the other. :eek: She had never followed the punk scene; he did not watch MTV or listen to Top 40 radio. They had a child a year or so later, and divorced a few years after that. She then married John McEnroe.The Eagles’ “Desperado” is about Jackson Browne.
When I first heard songs by Electric Light Orchestra (like “Livin’ Thing” and “Telephone Line”), in '76 or so, I was convinced that they had a female singer in the band. Nope, just bassist Kelly Groucutt, who had a strong falsetto voice.
A few years later, I’d become a big ELO fan. In the summer of '81, I heard what I was sure was a new ELO song on the radio. It turned out to actually be the new Moody Blues song, Gemini Dream. But, hey, I wound up getting into the Moodies because of it. 
Similarly, I’ve heard/seen a few people who believe that** Mazzy Star** is the name of the singer.
Her name, of course, is Hope Sandoval. The band is called Mazzy Star.
On a related note, I was surprised when I found out Limahl, lead singer of Kajagoogoo, who also had a solo hit with Neverending Story was a man.
(Obviously, I only knew Kajagoogoo from radio play…not sure how I missed the Neverending Story video, where he’s got a pretty obvious 5 o’clock shadow, though…)
Are Poco and Procol Harum separate bands? Help me out here…
Yeah, same here.
I had a couple of friends in high school who were shocked - shocked! - to learn when they saw a video for Electric Avenue that Eddy Grant is a black man. They were kinda racist…
… by Nick Lowe And His Sound does sound very much like Elvis Costello. Because it is.
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I used to have some vague notion that Dave Stewart was a member of the Traveling Wilburys. I must have had him confused with Jeff Lynne—at the time, both of them sported wild curly hair, full beards, and sunglasses, and both of them were known for their collaborations with Tom Petty.
Is this maybe a transatlantic thing? Sorry, I’m not sure where you’re based so that may be entirely erroneous. Anyway: not so much the Fall Out Boy thing, but knowing of the Manics, knowing of Nicky Wire, but not knowing of James Dean Bradfield feels like an unusual knowledge gap to be able to have in the UK.
I don’t care what you might say about Kim so-called Carnes: I shall continue with my belief that Bette Davies Eyes is by Rod Stewart, and damn anyone who tries to convince me otherwise.
Ironically, the Traveling Wilburys recorded their first album at Dave Stewart’s house.
So is, “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
(bolding mine)
I recalled another misconception, though it only lasted a few…five or so…years 
I thought Gnarls Barkely was a person, one of the members of Tenacious D, who was also doing his own solo albums. Then I thought Gnarls renamed himself Ceelo Green, in a Prince-like contract dispute I could only assume to avoid legal trademark problems with Charles Barkely. Then Jack Black started making appearances singing songs in what I thought were tributes to Gnarls, probably to give public support for his legal battles against the Barkely family. I looked up some Tenacious D videos to familiarize myself with the back catalog, but Gnarls (aka Ceelo) wasn’t in the videos.
Hmm…Wikipedia research then ensued 
Fact check early and often kids!
Completely unrelated. Procol Harum was a British prog-rock band; Poco was a California-based country-rock band, formed by several former members of Buffalo Springfield when that band broke up. Wikipedia states that Poco was originally going to be named Pogo (after the comic strip character), but changed their name when Pogo’s creator, Walt Kelly, threatened to sue them.
Parenthetically, I used to confuse Poco with Toto. 
Sort of the reverse of the Mazzy Star & Blondie thing:
I think my first encounter with Prince was the videos for “1999” and “Little Red Corvette,” which were in pretty heavy rotation on Friday Night Videos back in the day. It never occurred to me that “Prince” might be a person’s name. Add to that the fact that “1999” had three different lead vocalists, and that I knew that there was a band called “Queen,” and I just assumed that “Prince” was the name of the band.
I think it was around the time that Purple Rain came out, and I started to see the songs credited to “Prince and the Revolution,” that I finally caught on that “Prince” was the man’s name.
For a long time I was confused about who was who in the Beastie Boys. I thought MCA was Mike D, that Mike D was Ad Rock, and that Ad Rock was MCA. I had Licensed to Ill practically memorized and didn’t know the correct name of one member.
Ahh, but I have a theory that his record company wanted it that way, at least originally. His first big hit was “The In Crowd”, and every piece of promo for it showed white people. Like a bunch of women dancing and jumping (on a dead end country lane…Huh?) But NO photo of Dobie.
Understandable, in that he was a friend and often sat in on keyboards when they played live. And at least once, the Eagles were Jackson Browne’s band…