Jul 112014
DON’T BOGART THAT LAST MAN STANDING!
I just learned that one of my all-time favorite rock ‘n rollers has gone by a stage name throughout his professional life. I had no idea his surname at birth was not actually the surname I know him by. I assume he took his surname in honor of a poet. For purposes of this possibly 3-entry Last Man Standing, he will qualify. He uses a stage name and it at least happens to be the same as a famous poet. I’m not going to tell you who I have in mind. I won’t even list the most obvious rocker who fits this LMS’ criteria (an artist who’s stage surname is taken from a poet’s first name) for fear of exhausting the handful of possible entries.
As always, limit yourself to one entry per post. Let’s get it on!
Is it Bruce (Emily) Dickenson? Or Graham (Ogden) Nash?
No, those are their real names, but your suggestions are funny.
I know, just being silly.
Anyway, most obvious entry is Bob Dylan.
Cocteau Twins
Shakespeare’s Sister
Ha, I sussed you out! Pete Shelley! I didn’t know he was born Peter Campbell McNeish.
*If* we were talking band names, then also the Blake Babies.
There’s a singer, never heard a note of her music, who calls herself “Poe.”
Yes, I had no idea that was his real name.
Ooh, good one. There’s still the third artist I had in mind who is unclaimed. This is another guy I love and talk about a lot, if that helps.
Tom Verlaine, natch!
Of course! That may be the last one…we’ll see.
The dude from Crass — Penny Rimbaud
LMS
Slim Whitman