Until recently, my friend believed that Richard Starkey was the fifth Beatle.
A childhood belief about pop stars

others believed things like this
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl
- I used to think "from which it stands" was "for Richard Stans".
— cobra - I always thought that Little Richard was Cliff Richards younger brother— adam
- I thought the Virgin Islands were owned by Richard Branson until I was 24. — LJ
- I used to think that raisins were dead flies. I only recently started to eat them again.— Toinette'
- Until recently I thought that Scotland was seperate from England. I am 27 Anon