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For too long of a time, I believed that Bing Crosby was black, and Barry White was white. It turns out I got it mixed up.

Mr. Guy

I used to think Micheal Jackson was a woman, I didn't find out his true gender until I was about 6 or 7!

LongLiveRock

I thought playing "air guitar" was a real instrument. I couldn't quite picture what it looked like but I imagined it was like an accordion or maybe an organ, with tubes that pushed the air through. I didn't find out what it really was until I was about sixteen!

Ali

After Puff Daddy's "I'll be Missing You" came out, my father explained that The Police had sung the original song. I thought the actual police force had realised a musical number for quite some time

Joe B

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

I used to think it was a miracle that a band made good music, seeing how every member of the band seemed to be minding their own business, playing different instruments.

Jos

For the longest time I got Michael Jackson and Elvis confused, I would therefore refer to them interchangeably.

ann

When i was little I thought that only girls could be singers. (If you heard how the boys i know sound, you would know why I beleived this)

Ora

i used to think that the band members of Slipknot were monsters! i always dreamt that they were going to eat me so i used to roll over to my sister's bed for comfort!

i love slipknot!!!

i have had to convince so many people that annie lennox is a woman and that she's saying "This" not "these" in the song "sweet dreams (are made of this)"

Anon

Until recently, I didn't know who Mick Jagger was (he's an actor and film producer and does some other stuff). I always thought that his name was actually McJagger, so it was obvious to me that he must be a rapper, because they always have weird 1-word names. Good thing I never tried to start a conversation about McJagger's new rap songs...

Sadly McStaken

When Justin Bieber's very first song came out I thought his name was Justin Beaver because that's what it sounded like on the fuzzy radio. And I thought he was female because the singer sounded female at first, so I thought it was a girl named Justin. But when I found out he was a boy his voice no longer sounded girly to me.

GazBevMOO

I thought Marc Almond was a girl dressed as a man. From this point onwards I used to hide in the darkest room of the house to listen to the Top 40 every Sunday because I thought my mum would shout at me if she caught me listening to Soft Cell. It made the whole experience incredibly exhilarating and happily I still retain some of that excitement even today when I hear their stuff. He changed my life for ever at the age of 9! Cheers Marc!

Ricardo De Force

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

Erin Jones

My sister used to think that a line from the song "Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, was "Say, say say what you want, but don't play games with my erection(affection)"

Tiffene

I used to think that B2K stood for Burger King, because I go tit confused with their commercial, BK4U.

Anon

when i was about 4 or 5 i used to think Micheal Jackson was a girl and then a while after my mum said HE was a HIM

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Not too long ago when I heard the word , prima donna, i thought the were saying, pre-Madonna. I thought they were saying that Madonna was such a bossy brat diva that the named people that act like that.

~Cucumber~

The first time I saw Michael Jackson was when he had that screwed up nose and long black hair and his skin was really pale....so I thought he was a woman. I was I think, 10 years old at the time.

Goatgirl

I used to think that Ellis Island was Elvis Presley's own island, or something like that. I used to watch PBS all the time, so in between the kid's programs there would be specials on stuff, and I think there was one on Ellis Island, and then there would be a commercial for Elvis's greatest hits or something, and I associated them. Strange though, as there was two kids in my kindergarten class who's last name was Ellis...don't know why I didn't connect those two.

Sally Sue Brown