Gonna be really pedantic and say that about half those are names of collaborations but yeah it’s true, he loves an alias

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Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, OCS, Orinoka Crash Suite, Orange County Sound, The Ohsees, The Oh Sees - not sure on the order.

Also, The Easy Cure, The Cure, Cure, The Cure

David Robert Jones → David Bowie → Ziggy Stardust → the Thin White Duke → Mr Fascist → Bowie → Major Tom → who? → Tin Machine → no, really, who? → Bowie Bonds → :eight_pointed_black_star:

… James has recorded as AFX, Blue Calx, Bradley Strider, The Universal Indicator, Brian Tregaskin, Caustic Window, The, Smojphace, GAK, Karen Tregaskin, Martin Tressider, PBoD (Phonic Boy on Dope), Polygon Window, Power-Pill, Q-Chastic, Dice Man, The Tuss, and Soit-P.P.

(Courtesy of wikipedia)

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Wolfcastle Acid Crew

(glad someone did RDJ, he’s surely top 5 in number of pseudonyms)

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The B-52’s -> The B-52s

I’m not kidding. The dropping of the apostrophe was apparently a considered decision.

Josh Homme
Baby Duck
Carlo Von Sexron
J.Ho
Ginger Elvis
DP Pete
Zombie Zebra
Joshua Homme

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You forgot “twat”

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Lol!

how did the original come about? was it poor grammar or a joke?

William Callahan > Smog > Bill Callahan > “Shagger” Bill

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Goodness knows. Certain expressions, mainly those containing numbers, seem to causes people problems when they try form the plural. For example the decade beginning with the year 1980 gets called “the 1980’s”, The apostrophe is clearly wrong - it does not refer to something belonging to 1980, nor does it indicate something omitted - but I guess people just feel uncomfortable with running letters and numbers together as in “1980s”,

Smog > English Grey > Star Wars > Bill Callahan > Osama Bon Iver

Keith Richards - Keith Richard - Keith Richards

Its about their haircuts

Coby Dick -> Jacoby Shaddix

Kozelek/Sun Kil Moon etc

William Patrick Corgan Jr. -> Billy Corgan -> William Patrick Corgan

I like to think his dad has achieved an 80s movie style body swap with him and that explains Corgan’s mistakes of recent years

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I recently read that Canadian artist Jane Siberry now goes by some other assumed name, supposed to signify some kind of spiritual transformation.