We know that a lot of rock musicians only became stars after a name change.

Ringo of course was Richard Starkey.
Sting was Gordon Matthew Sumner
.
Prince started life as Prince Rogers Nelson .
John Cougar Mellencamp, was John Mellencamp..then "Johnny Cougar" ...then
Johnny Cougar Mellencamp.
Davie Bowie was David Jones.

Even Managers changed their names. The famous Colonel Tom Parker, Svengali to
Elvis, had the real name of Andreas Cornelius van Kujik.

I found a cool page with the real names of lots of famous people in music.
It's located at http://www.classicbands.com/realnames.html .

Sometimes, just a minor change seems to do the trick. Dionne Warrick hit the big time when she became Dionne Warwick...one letter change. In a similar vein, the average name of Sam Cook, became the handle of a big star when he became Sam Cooke.

Adam Ant's real name is Stuart Leslie Goddard .

One of my favorites is English pop star Cliff Richard , whose real name
is "Harry Webb"...and I think he could have stuck with his real name and
had an album cover of a hairy spider perched atop a hair covered web...but
that's just me, I'm not an A & R guy or manager.

Anyway, the page is interesting and fun to me.
Check it out...
http://www.classicbands.com/realnames.html

What kinda name do you think might project you into the stratosphere of stardom?

Remember, Engelbert Humperdinck started life as the lowly Arnold George Dorsey
and Paul Revere (of Paul Revere and the Raiders) was born as Paul Revere Dick :)

Hmmm...I'll be ToadWorrier, Tom Barger can be Tom Larger , George...what's your name change?

Ill change my name to "Pyrocy" and I will dress up as a pirate with burned CDS on my hand hook.

Famous funny man Tim Conway was born Tom Conway.

Maybe I'll just change my moniker to Zippy T. Chipmunk.

Jefrysboob (better than Janet's!)

So, what was the Original names of the following:

Mitch Glazier

Cary Sherman

Hilary Rosen

Jack Valenti

Orrin Hatch

Best names win a cookie...

Mitch Glazier = Bitch Glacier
Cary Sherman = Barry Lippman
Hilary Rosen = Bill Hosen (bad Clinton joke)
Jack Valenti = Vlad Dracula
Orrin Hatch = Horrin Snatch

;P

MG = Billie Jean King
CS = Rumplestiltskin
HR = Don Rickles
JV = Amenhotep
OH = Frank Nitty

Since my name is unpronounceable to most, I could change it to something that is simple and loved universally-- Soup.

I think I'm going to go with Aquadda

Mine used to be Ed..but I changed it to something easier..like Zxilton

and Mitch Bainwol as "Itchy Bunghole"

I'd loved to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting where
Gerry Dorsey and his management, decided that Engelbert Humperdinck would be more catchy
than Arnold Dorsey

I could do a one letter change on my name too. but then the FCC would fine me

lol... good one comp!

As we say here in the South...
"y'all come back now, ya hear?"

took me a few minutes code to figure out how you got that. you know my name

That explains things. I thought 'campmore' might be a trademark dispute and didn't see how that would involve the FCC. Your REAL name changed by one letter, that makes more sense. (I've been redoing 'compmore' for an hour, LOL)

When I become a rock star, I will change my generic Hispanic last name (Galarza) to my mother's sexier maiden name, Portalatin!

haha. jefrystube if you knew my real name you'd know. http://p2pnet.net/story/1028

Enrique Hatch?

Lithium Ion........naahh

Well, everyone calls me Johnny BoomBoom now, so I guess it counts as a name change. I'm going to embrace it, rather than when Darius Rucker repeated requested that people not call him "Hootie".

I am already Shmoo.

compmore, after following the link, I get it now. I was assuming you were talking about replacing the "p" with an "e" in your handle. I figure that would get you in hot water with the FCC as well.