Ever wondered what the real names of some of your favorite musicians are/were. Here’s a little list to get you started.

John Denver - Henry John Deutschendorf
Cher - Cherilyn Sarkisian
Rikki Rockett - Richard Allan Ream
W. Axl Rose - William Bruce Rose, Jr.
Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz
Tina Turner - Anna Mae Bullock
Iggy Pop - James Newell Osterberg, Jr.
Lou Reed - Butch Firbank
Jay-Z - Shawn Corey Carter
Elton John - Reginald Kenneth Dwight
David Bowie - David Robert Jones
Adam Ant - Stuart Leslie Goddard
Ginger Baker - Peter Edward Baker
Pat Benatar - Patricia Andrejewski
Jon Bon Jovi - John Francis Bongiovi
Sonny Bono - Salvatore Philip Bono
Patsy Cline - Virginia Patterson Hensley
Alice Cooper - Vincent Damon Furnier
Elvis Costello - Declan McManus
Rick Dees - Rigdon Osmond Dees III
Bo Diddley - Otha Ellas Bates McDaniel
Bob Dylan - Robert Zimmerman
Boy George - George Alan O’Dowd
Buddy Holly - Charles Hardin Holley
Engelbert Humperdinck - Arnold George Dorsey
Tito Jackson - Toriano Adaryll Jackson
Chaka Khan - Yvette Marie Stevens
Huey Lewis - Hugh Anthony Cregg
Courtney Love - Love Michelle Harrison
Christine McVie - Christine Perfect
Madonna - Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
Barry Manilow - Barry Alan Pincus
Manfred Mann - Manfred Lubowitz
Marilyn Manson - Brian Warner
Freddie Mercury - Farouk Bulsara
George Micheal - Yorgos Panayiotou
Billy Ocean - Leslie Sebastian Charles
Gram Parsons - Ingram Cecil Connor II
Prince - Prince Rogers Nelson
Sting - Gordon Matthew Sumner
Sly Stone - Sylvester Stewart
Donna Summer - LaDonna Andrea Gaines
Johnny Thunders - John Anthony Genzale, Jr
Vangelis - Evangelos Papathanassiou
Sid Vicious - John Simon Ritchie
50 Cent - Curtis James Jackson III
Afroman - Joseph Foreman
Dee Dee Ramone - Douglas Colvin
Stiv Bators - Steven John Bator
Darby Crash - Jan Paul Beahm

If you have any more, please post them in the comments to this article !!!

By DESIREE ADIB and STEPHANIE DAHLE

Tommy DeCarlo of Charlotte, N.C., dreamed of becoming a rock star, listening to his favorite band’s albums and memorizing their songs.

“A Boston song would come on and I’d get fired up and I’d start singing it,” said DeCarlo, 43, a father of two kids — Talia, 19, and Tommy Jr., 17.

But dreams didn’t pay the bills, so DeCarlo worked as a credit manager at a Home Depot store in Charlotte to support his [family?].

Still, he never gave up singing along to his Boston CDs, and his daughter Talia took notice. She posted a MySpace page of DeCarlo singing karaoke to Boston songs after the band’s lead singer, Brad Delp, committed suicide in March 2007. And, in an instant, DeCarlo’s whole world turned upside down.

“I wanted to share [the karaoke] with … other Boston fans,” he said.

DeCarlo had to sing with the karaoke track because he had sold his keyboard in 2006, using the extra cash to buy Christmas presents for his children.

Meanwhile, up in Boston, members of the real band were struggling to continue playing as they coped with Delp’s suicide.

“My wife was at her computer playing our tunes, and I asked whether it was us playing live,” Boston founder Tom Scholz told USA Today. “She said, ‘It’s some guy in North Carolina singing your songs.’ I said, ‘I know Brad’s voice, and that’s Brad.’”

Still, a skeptical Scholz was intrigued.

“In order to believe it, I had to plug the computer into the big speakers so I could listen to the background music and see if it was the band,” Scholz told ABC News. “And I realized it wasn’t the band, it was a karaoke track. Somebody was singing to it, and it wasn’t Brad.”

So the band decided to give DeCarlo a shot — as their new lead singer.

“I was like, ‘Wow!’” DeCarlo told “Good Morning America.” “I remember calling my wife and kids in the bedroom and I said, ‘Look at this e-mail!’ I couldn’t believe it.”

“I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, I can’t believe this is happening,” said Talia DeCarlo. “It was crazy.”

DeCarlo made his debut onstage at a tribute concert to Brad Delp last August. It was the first time he sang with a band in his entire life.

Source : Source - ABC News, GMA