I used to believe that each time a music video came on, the band was performing everything individually each time (all over again) and it made me wonder how they got it to be the same every time. I thought the same about songs on the radio.

Marissa

I thought the band Steely Dan was called that because the leader was named Dan. Until one day my parents were talking about the band and said they didn't know what the singer's name was and I said "isn't it Dan" Me very embarrassed parents then explained what a Steely Dan was ..

Chronosceptor

When I was about eight, my uncle told me that he used to be Elvis. I was so excited, I told my class for show-and-tell.

Mick

I thought when Elvis had died they never found his body and that was why people thought he was still alive (makes more sense to me!)

Xenomorph

I used to believe that the Beatles were friends of my father, and I always expected to meet them.

Rafa Garnica

After Puff Daddy's "I'll be Missing You" came out, my father explained that The Police had sung the original song. I thought the actual police force had realised a musical number for quite some time

Joe B

I thought that Olivia Newton John was a group, Olivia Newt and John.

Sam O.

I used to think that prima donna was actually pre-madonna, and that it was used to describe how madonna was before she became famous.

Anon

I used to believe that Elvis died when he was trampled by fans.

Aretia

When I was little I thought Michael Jackson was really a tough guy. The video "Bad" had come out and I saw him dressed in leather and heard the lyrics and I actually thought people were afraid of him because he was so tough.

scaredy cat

when i was around 4 i told my dad i want an electric guitar and he told me if you don't know how to play it you will electrocute. so everytime i saw bands or people who played electric guitars at tv i always said that they were doing playback even if they said its live. i kept thinking that until i was 11-12. i don't know why nobody told me the truth cos they knew what i was thinking cos i was telling them. but i always thought how they were learning to play guitar if they were electrocuted... i didn't figured it out yet...

iriiiis

When I was about 7 or 8 (in the early 1990s), I was riding with my uncle in his car. He had some music playing, and when I asked him who it was he said, "Alice in Chains." Apparently I must not have noticed that a man was singing, because I answered, "Oh, I've never heard of her before!"

Sara

I thought playing "air guitar" was a real instrument. I couldn't quite picture what it looked like but I imagined it was like an accordion or maybe an organ, with tubes that pushed the air through. I didn't find out what it really was until I was about sixteen!

Ali

I used to think that the group Gladys Knight And The Pips was Gladys Knight And The Pimps.

Carolyn

When I was little I asked my dad why Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder wore sunglasses when they were blind. His reply was "because they don't have eyes".

I pictured empty holes in their heads where their eyeballs should be.

My mom found out what I believed when I was in my early 20's and laughed. I felt pretty stupid.

Anon

When i was younger there was a billboard for a radio station and it had the red hot chili peppers on the billlboard and i always thought that the band was a bunch of actual chili peppers

michael