Acts who don't go by their full/real name but who people LOVE calling by their full/real name to let you know that they know

Music
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There’s nothing confusing about the thread title so fucking shut up about it

PJ Harvey
Lorde
Morrissey

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50 cent

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Eminem, too.

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Pitchfork LOVE doing this. First paragraph, BOOM * artist’s full given name*

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EDIT: Oh bugger, this is on the music forum. Replied with something political that’s not great. Ignore.

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Boris Johnson

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Black Francis/Frank Black

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I mean in some very real way he IS an ‘act’.

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Bon Iver

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Ignatius Pop

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Chan Marshall Mathers.

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Lemmy

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It’s usually just inelegant variation, isn’t it?

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Tune tbf
Tom Robinson Band 2-4-6-8 Motorway - YouTube

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image

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The Welsh Rockers, Stereophonics

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Seeyur Rose

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I’ve done this a few times with Little Simz tbf

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Once got done over in AQOS by calling Bono by his real name, probably served me right tbh

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Bono’s solo stuff is pretty decent tbf. Like U2 but less edgy

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