pop stars

I used to believe Michael Jackson when I first saw him was a white woman.

Kentuski

When I was younger I had a habit of getting my pop stars mixed up. Elton John was head of the Beatles, Pink Floyd sang "Get this Party Started" and even though everyone else was confused, I knew Marilyn Monroe was a boy.

Liz

I used to mix up Stevie Wonder and Stevie Nicks.

I had trouble remembering the difference between Billy Joel and Elton John, too . . . .

Anon

I once believed that when it said "no loitering" it meant Kenny Loggins can't play or sing a song there, (i loved Keny Loggins back then).
then in 3rd grade i realized what it really meant...

frogguy

I'm sure that I'm not the only one, but I thought that the Partridge Family was an actual family band, and I couldn't understand how they could live in a regular neighborhood and go to public school. Wouldn't they get mobbed for autographs? And didn't they make enough money for a better house?

I was very young.

me again

I used to believe that the band Hawk Nelson was just one guy! It really sounds like one person, and I would always think how horrible it was that anyone would name their son Hawk. It wasn't until a few weeks ago, when someone asked me if I like that band. I tried to convince them it was just a singer...but I was wrong!

Dumb kid

Remember the commercial back in the day that had Michael Jackson dancing in the street. Well when I first saw it, I was convinced that he was a girl. My Grandmother and my mom tried to tell me it was a guy, but no matter how much they argued with me, they could not convince me otherwise. I believed he was a female for most of my childhood years.

Tasha

In fifth grade my aunt took my two cousins and I to a Hanson concert. We had a great time watching our favorite band perform. When our older highschool age cousins would tease us about liking Hason, we would always replay with "well at least they write and play their own music".

Eight years later, at my cousin's graduation party, we were reminiscing about the concert, and my aunt went on to tell us about how there was a band playing behind the stage, and the Hanson brothers were only playing a few cords, must of the music was from the guys behind them. At 18 it crushed my heart. My cousins and I felt like such fools for never noticing.

icarusxfemme

I thought for a long time the singer Phil Collins was Asian (his voice just sounded Asian some how and I had never seen a picture of him)

Tesseract

I used to believe that at Grateful Dead shows the band would throw acid on the crowd. I had a student teacher in first grade that had told the class she just went to a Dead show and I asked her if she got splashed with acid. Of course, I was thinking about acid of the sulfuric kind, not the LSD kind.

Justin

I never thought to question this one; it just made sense... I thought Pink Floyd was a person until I was 16. Don't tell anybody. :)

Jenny

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

Tim_NOrway

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

I saw Stevie Nicks on TV and thought the microphone was a weird ice cream cone because she had her mouth so close to it.

kat

I thought Stevie Nicks was a guy until I read this page. Wow, I wonder how much other stuff I'm not aware of.

Josh, 17

I used to think that John Mellencamp and P. Diddy (or Puff Daddy or watever) were the same person. I have no clue why.

Anon

when i was little i used to think that my cousin was michael jackson(their names sound the same) well....turns out that all of my friends went home to their parents and told them that i was michael jackson's cousin...

Anon

When I first read Mandy Moore's biography on the internet, I thought that Mandy Moore's grandfather was Roger Moore.

Anon

I used to think that the Buffalo Springfield were Tom Springfield (Dusty's brother)'s band, and that Rick Springfield was his son. I was proved wrong later!

pickle

I used to think Buddy Rich was called Buddy Rich because he was my dad's friend, same with Buddy Holly.

Anon