pop stars

When I was little I just knew there were five Beatles. My father had some Beatles records, some of John Lennon's and George Harrison's respective solo albums and, near them, some Bob Dylan records, so I figured he must be the fifth one.

Walter

I have always been a big fan of Fleetwood Mac, and I used to think (still do actually) that I was the long lost daughter of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, and they had to put me up for adoption since they were on tour at the time, and that they are out looking for me now.

Janie

Because of that Simpsons episode, I thought Weird Al Yankovic was the original performer of the song "Jack and Diane."

Anon

When I was younger my Granma & Grandad lived round the corner from Elton Road. My Grandad once told me it was called this because Elton John lived there. I believed him for years and years. I would tell my friends that Elton John lived round the corner from my Grandad! It was only a few months ago (i'm now 22) that I found out he was winding me up. I was so sad that my claim to fame wasn't true.

Emma

I recently very disturbed to learn that Al Jolson was in fact Caucasian.

Anon

when I was 7, I had a book about Hanson and I thought Taylor was a girl and could never figure out why the book kept saying "he". When I finally realized they were guys I actually thought he was kinda cute. lol
boy am i dumb!

Lysette

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

When I was a kid, I thought the musical Mamma Mia did songs from the A*Teens (the teenage version of Abba)

Anon

When I learned that Rick Allen, the drummer from Def Leppard, had only one arm I can remember thinking, "Well, at least he plays drums and not something like the guitar where you need two hands!" As a small kid growing up, I only really heard the snare drum and cymbals in music and I was convinced that you only needed one arm to play drums properly!

Anon

When I was young, I ALWAYS mixed up George Micheal and Freddy Mercury for some reason. Imagine the confusion when Freddy died and George did a tribute...

Max the Metalhead

I knew that crazy glue was pretty strong. So as my obsession with Stevie Wonder grew as I child, I vowed that when I was old enough, I would shave my head and glue a beaded braid wig on.

Connie G.

i used to think that ozzy osbourne was a hockey player, and i thought michael jackson was a basketball player.

anastacia beeverhousen

I used to believe that John Lennon had been poisoned. I knew that he'd been murdered, but I thought someone had injected him with something. I was only 2 or 3 when he died, and I finally realized that I must have heard news reports that he'd been "shot." I guess as a small child, the word "shot" suggested a needle rather than a gun.

Jaime

My friend used to think one guy in the Hansons was a girl and he had a huge crush on him and then his mom told him that sometimes guys just have really long hair. XD

I cant remember my name

In the early 1970s, a teenaged babysitter brought an album by "The Guess Who" over to the house. I was old enough to read, and upon studying the name on the album cover, demanded to know what group this was. She answered, "Guess Who", to which I replied, "I can't guess! Tell me!"

It took her quite awhile to get me to understand that this was a name of a group...and for years afterward, I always mixed them up with The Who.

Angie

I used to think that Michael Buble's last name rhymed with the word "Bugle"....until one day my mom confirmed that it is indeed pronounced "boo-blay", not "bewble" lol!!!

Whataweirdo

Ever since the first time I heard the song “Fast car” By Tracy Chapman, I thought that it was sung by a teenage boy. years later I was shocked to find out Tracy Chapman was actually a woman

Hoopityhoop

A few years ago I used to think No Doubt (Gwen Stefani) was a hip-hop band because the song "No Diggity, No Doubt" by blackstreet boys was hip-hop and I got confused with the words No Doubt thinking only "gangstas" and "thugs" used that phrase.

Lime

When I was little, I thought the Beatles really were bugs.

Spongekid

I always thought that Slash was the same guy as Ozzy Osbourne.

Anon