For a long time I thought that Elton John was a former member of the band, The Rolling Stones. That belief came from his song "Philadelphia Freedom", whose first line is "I used to be a rolling stone."
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- i used to believe the rolling stones wrote rolling stone magazine.Anon
- I was sure that Led Zeppelin was the lead singer of the Rolling Stones.— dave
- I used to wonder why people didn't use his first name when they spoke of McJagger of the Rolling Stones.— silly me
- As a child I used to think that Olivia Newton-John and Elton John were married.
Boy, I was way off.— Lisa - As a child, I thought that Olivia Newton-John was Elton John's wife and Juice Newton's sister.— Connie
- i thought in elton john's "tiny dancer'' the chorus was "hold me closer tony danza"— d.a.