Re: No, you're thinking of that OTHER guy

Roger Taylor (drummer, Duran Duran)
Roger Taylor (drummer, Queen)

Jumpin' Gene Simmons (rockabilly singer)
Gene Simmons (Kiss)

Any others?

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The thread about the movie character named John Cale made me think of this.

Patti Smith (singer, poet, artist)
Patty Smyth (singer, ex-Scandal)

Davy Jones (British singer/actor, member of The Monkees)
Davy Jones (Briths singer/actor, a.k.a. David Bowie)

Siouxsie Sioux - mother of all Goths
Susie Suh - NPR approved post-Lilith Fair songbird

Mick Jones - of "Strummer and..." fame
Mick Jones - of "Lou Gramm and..." fame

JJ Cale - Cocaine
John Cale - Heroin

Peter Wolf - Boston singer (J. Geils Band) of cheesy blues
Peter Wolf - German producer of cheesy pop

Twink - old UK hippie psych guy
Twink - The Toy Piano (one-man) Band

Janet Napolitano - Secretary of Homeland Security
Johnette Napolitano - secretary of Concrete Blond



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Paul Dean - X-Ray Spex
Paul Dean - Loverboy

They're hoping no-one confuses them for a rascist tv chef.

Paul Dean - X-Ray Spex
Paul Dean - Loverboy


James Taylor - Prisoners, JTQ
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James


And the two Beats hearting as one: Paul Collins and Dave Wakeling



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Ira Kaplan
Ira Robbins

I forget which is the Trouser Press dude.

That would be Ira Levin.

Rod Stewart (lead singer of Faces)
Rod Stewart (sappy lounge crooner)

there's also:
Peter Wofe (Wolfman)
with
Peter Wolf (J Geils)
Peter Wolf (Jefferson Starship)

and Jean Simmons the famous actress (at any rate Gene's real name is Chaim Witz)

Mick Thomas (Jefferson Starship)
Mick Thomas (Weddings Parties Anything)

And it's still weird that Brett Netson and Brett Nelson were in the same band.

and that Duran Duran had three unrelated Taylors

There's also:

Chris Miller (You Me at Six)
Chris Miller (Rat Scabies/Damned)

Bryan James (Damned)
James Bryan (confused me for a moment on Amazon or iTunes)

when i was a kid:
bing cosby (crooner)
jimmy dean (killed in sausage tragedy in a Porsche)
jerry lee lewis (partnered with dean marlin)


There's a few Dave Matthews (James Brown keyboardist and session man?)

and in the 80s mtv had two Julie Browns

there's Jimmy Page the scot footballer

A woman I once worked with asked if Warren Buffet was the guy who sang about hamburgers
"Why yes, now that you mention it I believe that is correct"



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Christopher Cross (of "Sailin'" and "Ride Like the Wind" soft-rock fame)
Chris Cross (Ultravox bassist)

zoo wrote:

> Christopher Cross (of "Sailin'" and "Ride Like the Wind"
> soft-rock fame)
> Chris Cross (Ultravox bassist)

Might as well add Kriss Kross, the backward-pants-wearing hip-pop ensemble.

paul thompson (roxy music/concrete blonde)
paul "porl/pearl" thompson (cure)

Roger Miller x 2 (he of Mission of Burma, and he of "King of the Road")

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Roger Miller x 2 (he of Mission of Burma, and he of "King of the Road")

I was listening to a Mission of Burma cassette in the '90s at an office job, and one of the girls who worked there asked, "Hey, what are you listening to?," looked at my tape box, and said: "Oh, Roger Miller, I like him!"

I then had to explain.

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I was listening to a Mission of Burma cassette in the '90s at an office job

Listening to MoB at your office job? That took some serious balls, Fab! Kudos.

I had the temerity to bring some Elvis Costello into my workplace once, and one of the older ladies came over and turned the volume down on my little cheapie boombox with a look of disgust on her face. You would have thought I was listening to Napalm Death.

On a Walkman!

See, I'm not that cool.

Here I was having a nice, pleasant morning listening to Felt on Spotify when suddenly the jangly '80s dreampop was replaced by a blast of foulmouthed rapping.

There seems to be a hip-hop duo that's picked up the Felt name and has released a bunch of albums with titles like A Tribute to Lisa Bonet, A Tribute to Rosie Perez and A Tribute to Christina Ricci.

That's so wrong.

"Bum Rush the Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories"

Johnny Marr - Smiths guitarist
Johnny Marr - editor of Murder Can Be Fun zine

Johnny Maher (Smiths guitarist a.k.a. Johnny Marr)
John Maher (Buzzcocks drummer)

Love & Rockets (Band featuring former Bauhaus folks)
Love & Rockets (comic done by Los Bros Hernandez)

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Any others?

Lenny Kravitz

and



Lenny Kravitz.

Also ...

Charles Dickens
Charles Dikkens (the well-known Dutch author).

Two K's. It's a crucial distinction.

Albert Einstein - physics, patents, and FDR sitdowns
Albert "Brooks" Einstein - comedian and brother of Bob "Super Dave" Einstein

(and shut that bloody bouzouki up)

There's also that email that goes around with musician names that are statements:

Gary Bonds
Tommy Smothers
Puffy Combs
Mick Mars
Stevie Nicks
Tim Gaines
Stan Getz
Leann Rimes
Roger Waters
Axl Rose
Andy Summers (yeah but where?)
Jerry Riggs
Britney Spears
Tony Banks
Dan Seals
Brian May (or not, but
Ron Wood
Don Was
Will Lee (well, will he?)
Roy Wood
Tom Waits
Dickie Betts
Steve Gaines
Dan Spitz
Mick Ralphs
Derek Trucks
Dean Parks
Stephen Stills
Alicia Keys
Mavis Staples (but...)
Ben Folds



Remember when you first heard Paul Simon was an ILL senator?

It's also slightly (because there's no resemblance) confusing that there's a hot new director named Steve McQueen.

The first time I heard of the Ben Folds Five, my first thought was "five of what?"

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... my first thought was "five of what?"

Honestly.

Johnny Thunders

Jimi Hendrix
Jim Hendricks (Cass Elliot's ex & bandmate in Big 3, Mugwumps)

Mike Smith - Dave Clark Five
Mike Smith - Trailer Park Boys (Canadian TV series)
Mike Smith - Phoenix Coyotes goalie

Scott Walker - pop star/avant musician
Scott Walker - scumbag Wisconsin governor

Michael Douglas - famous actor
Michael Douglas - famous actor, but had to change his name to Michael Keaton

James Brown - Godfather of Soul
Jim Brown - one of the greatest running backs of all time
James Brown - white boy who got me into a car accident

Jim Green - TP message board frequenter
Jim Green - well, uh, [en.wikipedia.org] . . . plus two guys who didn't run the LA Marathon as fast as me.

Michael Jackson - the gloved one
Michael Jackson - the talk show host

Steven Rhodes - online film critic
"Steven Rhoades" - Marcy's hubby from 'Married...With Children"

> Dave Stewart - of the Eurythmics
> Dave Stewart - baseball player

Dave Stewart - of National Health and Hatfield.

> Michael Jackson - the gloved one
> Michael Jackson - the talk show host

Michael Jackson - late, world renowned expert on beer

EDIT: Ned beat me to it

Steve McQueen - A real man's man back in the '60s
Steve McQueen - Celebrated young director

Michael Jordan - hoopster extraordinaire
Michael B. Jordan - Celebrated young actor

And there are two George Millers, both directors, though BCE mistakenly listed the same one twice. The non-Mad Max/Babe director's best known credit was The Man From Snowy River, then it was all downhill from there. Looks like his last few credits were SyFy original movies.

George Miller - Australian movie director ("Babe" - the pig movie)
George Miller - Australian movie director ("Mad Max")

Jerry Lewis - Martin & Lewis, "The Nutty Professor"
Jerry Lewis - (former) Arizona State legislator

Paul Simon - the late U.S. Representative
Paul Simon - not Garfunkel

Dave Stewart - of the Eurythmics
Dave Stewart - baseball player

Wendy Williams - of TP band Plasmatics
Wendy Williams - talk show host

Eddie Spaghetti - of the Supersuckers
Eddie Spaghetti - Italian restaurant (seriously)

George Miller - Australian movie director ("Babe" - the pig movie)
George Miller - Australian movie director ("Mad Max")

Same dude, believe it or not.

Steve Wynn - singer, songwriter, leader of the Dream Syndicate and the Miracle 3
Steve Wynn - owner of a bunch of resorts and casinos in Las Vegas

And I will add another Michael Jackson to BCE's list.
Michael Jackson - British connosieur (probably spelled incorrectly) of beer and spirits.


EDIT: connoisseur



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