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I didn't know Weird Al was doing parodies until I was in sixth grade. I still think his versions are better.

blnkfrnk

When I was little I was extremely afraid of Gene Simmons of KISS -- I thought of him as being a monster such as Freddy Krueger. Whenever I would see him on TV with KISS, I would wonder why the rest of the band members weren't afraid to stand by him. Also, my brother would come into my room and force me too look at his scary KISS album covers. However, once I became I teenager I began to love KISS and no longer feared the mighty Gene.

Missy Rae

I was about four when Jim Croce died. I had been given a single of "Bad, Bad, LeRoy Brown" shortly before he died, and played it all the time. After his death, I didn't understand how come I could still hear his voice on the record player if he was dead.

Kristie

One of the first 45s my sister and I bought was a song by The Guess Who. We thought we were really supposed to "guess who" the singers were. This is still embarrassing to admit! We were about 10 and 11 at the time.

Young&Dumb

Quando era pequeno soube que Lennon tinha sido assassinado, na hora me vei a imagem do Paul, achei que Paul tinha morrido...

Willy

When I was 8 or 9, me and my dad was watching a rock concert, and the performer (cannot remember who it was), took the mic with him and walked around stage while he was singing. My dad told me that the singer was a thief, he was about to steal the mic! I believed this until I was 11 or so, then one day i suddenly realised that he was joking..

Anne

I was watching a concert on tv. They announced the next performers would be
"Olivia New and John".

I thought it was weird for the guy to have no last name, and then it got even weirder because only one woman performed. It was years before I realised it was Olivia Newton John.

Rachael

When I was 14 and a big Michael Jackson-fan, I read in a magazine that he was seeing Brooke Shields. In my diary there is a "letter" to Michael about him deceiving me with Brooke....When I read it, I can almost see the tear-prints on the diary-page...!

Liz 31

I used to think that Alice Cooper was a woman. How could I not with that name?

Erin Jones

A few months ago my 13 year old sister was reading an article on the now defunct boy band named Five. One of the member's name was Sean. When I asked her who she thought was the cutest she said "Seen" not realising how to pronounce the word.

Erin Jones

I always thought that singers had to sing the same song over and over again when they were recording their records, i.e. every copy of a record had to be recorded seperately. I would imagine singers being very happy finally finishing a single, and then getting angry at a record company boss who told them to do the same procedure all over again for an LP or one of those cheap K-Tel compilations. Daft.

Jannes

I used to believe that Marilyn Manson was a extremely scary woman!

Tim_NOrway

I was born the same year Elvis died. When I was about seven or eight I read on the front of a magazine "The Day Elvis Died" and only then did I realize he was dead!

Anon

I was watching Ed Sullivan one night, waiting for an appearance from Elvis Presley. For whatever reason, he was unable to make it and they substituted Roy Orbison. At my young unassuming age I believed that it was Elvis and that he was blind.

Not an Elvis fan.

I used to believe that, when a name appeared on a record, that person was responsible for every sound on it (of course, that would be true for Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and Prince, not to mention sometimes Danielle Dax, but I digress...). Unlike Hasil Adkins, however, I did not try and play guitar and drums simultaneously as a result. I think I figured out there had to be some kind of trickery involved (though I still used to wonder how Joni Mitchell managed to sing two lines that overlapped in 'Big Yellow Taxi' - VOCAL overdubs never dawned on me...).

Timmybear