Their real names

[peejay]

Here's a thread for stage names and who they really were.
Boz Scaggs, a.k.a William Royce Scaggs. With connections to Steve Miller and Donald Fagan, Boz is the name we'll always remember for smooth delivery of age-less writing. I'm looking forward to the new 'Silk Degrees' remastered copy arriving.......

[bdelp]

Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight.
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[peejay]

And it was suggested to Chris Rea that he change his commercial name to Benny Santini for the UK record market - he never did - thankfully, but that did spawn the title of his album 'Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?'