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Recording Artists don't always enjoy success with their first release. A hit record relies on any number of factors: the right song, a memorable performance, a healthy promotional budget, great management, a spot of luck, and even some intangibles. Take choice of a name. For a single artist, duo, vocal group or band, the name can carry a lot of weight. Some recording artists changed their name to appeal to an entirely different demographic, like when country superstar Garth Brooks recorded as Chris Gaines to score on the pop charts. The Beefeaters became the Byrds—and they spelled the band name with a'y'in the wake of the meteoric success of the Beatles, whose letter'A'turned the image of a nasty bug into something intriguing. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel amassed a litany of aliases—Simon went by True Taylor, Jerry Landis, and Paul Kane; Art Garfunkel as Artie Garr; together they were Tom & Jerry before finally using their very ethnic-sounding given names. Bob Leszczak has amassed several hundred examples of musical pseudonyms in The Encyclopedia of Pop Music Aliases, 1950-2000, describing the history of these artists from their obscure origins under another name to their rise to p
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- Author
- Bob Leszczak
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781442240070
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, Reference, Arts
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14