Can you guess your favorite musician's real name?

Find out who you've been cheering for after all these years.

I'm here to put your music knowledge to the ultimate test! You might feel like you know everything there is to know about your favorite musician, but do you know...their real name? The quiz is simple: I give you the name of a musician, and you tell me what their real name is.

  1. What is David Bowie's real name?
  2. What is Meat Loaf's real name?
  3. What is Elton John's real name?
  4. What is Slash's first name?
  5. What is Fats Domino's first name?
  6. What is Ringo Starr's name?
  7. What is Smokey Robinson's first name?
  8. What is Joan Jett's real name?
  9. What is Bono's real name
  10. What is Muddy Waters' first name?
  11. What is Steven Tyler's actual last name?
  12. What is Sly short for?

Can you guess your favorite musician's real name?

Your Result...

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52 Comments

daDoctah 2 days ago
Here's one from the British Invasion: one of the Beatles' fellow Liverpudlians was Cilla Black. Her real first name was Priscilla, which does explain "Cilla" as the stage name, but what was her real last name?
geatornez82 14 days ago
9/12, I did better than I thought.
graceful1970 14 days ago
You got 8 out of 12
Only real fans know musicians' real names, and you're a real fan!
Wendy57 14 days ago
6/12
Not very good, but, I learned somethings on this quiz.
raddad 15 days ago
Got all 12 right and I am shocked! Some were lucky guesses
gockionni 15 days ago
9/12 - the only ones I knew for certain were #3 and #6. The rest were best guesses
Runeshaper 15 days ago
8/10

Only real fans know musicians' real names, and you're a real fan!
justjeff 15 days ago
9/12. It would have been 10, but I had a foggy moment when I'd forgotten that Muddy Waters was McKinley Morganfield...
Coldnorth justjeff 12 days ago
You had a muddy moment perchance
justjeff Coldnorth 11 days ago
Yep... I mucked things up...
McGillahooala 15 days ago
12/12. Great after bombing the last two quizzes I took.
CaptainDunsel 15 days ago
8/12
Mostly guesses. Ringo was the only one I knew.
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