doesn`t seem particularly "rock" to me.

Will there ever be a rock star called Ambrose?

Did Roy Wood and Reg Presley die in vain? *

*They may not have actually died.

- Graham Coxon, Graham Bonnett, Graham Bond, Graham Nash er.....does Davey Graham count?

The (mighty) Chameleons

beat that, go on...

did okay, I suppose...

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Normans are under represented - Norman Cook, any others

Watt-Roy

It smacks of The Andrews Sisters. Andrew Gold anyone? "Andy," of course, is a different kettle of fish. But credible Andrew's?

Buckingham

Giltrap

... you'd have thought the name Julian would have instantly brought a halt to any dreams of stardom, but the Boy Cope has done well, regardless.

A good surname can bail out a lame forename, and sometimes the two go very pleasingly well together. Julian Cope has a poetry to it, same as Keith Richards and Brian Jones. And with a surname like Moon, even the name Keith became magical.

although admiitedly hardly a rock bloke in the Blackie Lawless sense

Warren, in the shape of Mr Zevon.
Is there a Jerome other than the 10,000 Maniacs drummer Mr Augustyniak?
I doubt if he qualifies as a star, but The Members' guitarist was Nigel Bennett.

Any takers? It's my first name, though I've gone by Ken for so long that it's on every document bar my passport. There is the odd Ken or Kenny, but a rock star Kenneth?

Darnell

Mr L.

Trevor Lucas of Fotheringay fame and (erm... stretching it a bit now) Trevor & Simon.

signed

Trevor (Mr un-Rock 'n' Roll) Raggatt

was in large part down to the names alone

David St.Hubbins. Nigel Tufnel. Derek Smalls

...Ranking Trevor!

though not exactly a bloke obviously

Crispian Mills

What is the least rock and roll name which lots of artists have? For starters - former teen girl magazine moniker Jackie - Jackie Leven, Jackie Wilson...

...as SOON as I saw the title of this thread, I just KNEW there was going to be a five letter word beginning with 'C' in the first sentence. And I was right!

Rowland & Ayres are the only two I could muster. Any provincial ACMA get-together would net more than that.

Not many of them.

but he was pretty cool nonetheless.

always the lead singer of anarchist crusty travellers fave band, why, hello, it's Jeremy, with his friend Simon on guitar.

can't think of any.

Godfrey?

Alec?

Harry isn't very Rock 'n roll.

Gibb.

B. Schmit.

Fatty Le Bon
Pete Townsend's brother
Paul Weller's drummer
Simon the Leveller

...it's pretty poor, isn't it?

what is less rock n roll than that ?

Sledge.

Percival Plant

Richard, Wings' sax player on their 1976 enormodome tour.

was a Derek. Dik Mik probably a Richard. Lemmy of course an Ian. A Simon, on and off. A Huw appears and re-appears, with sightings of an Adrian and that ultra-rare commodity, a Clive.
Ladies and Gentleman, I give you Hawkwind!

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Wait for the bands of 2020 choc-full of Jack, Fin, Connor, Harry, Joe, Molly, India, Phoebe, Georgia...

seems a bit effete for ver Quo

and there is always Declan.....

None less rock.

As the Captain stated Mick IS a rock name; Jagger, Jones, Jones, Ronson, countless others I'm sure.
But it does seem to be uniquely British. When looking across the pond it appears that they need to add a "y" or "ey"; Hart, Dolenz, Rooney, Rourke, Mouse etc. Is it in the Constitution?

Anybody able to provide examples of American Mick's?

Nesquik, sorry -smith etc

...funnily enough, I think Mr Rossi from the Quo CHANGED his name to Francis from Mike. Er, why would anyone do that?

...otherwise known to their mums as (in order): Phil, Richard, Ron, Dave, Jeremy and, er, Alan

Would anyone care to put a collective name the above band of legends? No cheating!

it's got to be the Quintessence men themselves hasn't it?

You rather gave the game away in your last post - how's it going?

Surely.....

ex bassist in the Housemartins, Pizzaman and Fatboy....Mr Cook.

So bad he changed it to Norman.

Not quite sure why he did that when the who gamut of forenames was available. Personally, I would have gone for "Killer".

Well done that man. Funny you should ask, I'm meeting the mastering engineer for coffee in 5 mins to discuss where he's at (sounding great apparently). The sleevenote epic I was mentioning last time (to be split over two releases, containing about 4 hours of almost entirely previously unreleased music - bar a few mins from the 1970 St Pancras concert) is now more or less finished at the 18,000 word mark and both Phil/Shiva and Dave/Maha Dev have been very kind and encouraging about it.

Curiously, the more one researches the possibility of Quintessence film footage, the more stuff comes to light - or at least tantalisingly close to it... Anyway, if anyone's interested the 2 live CD packages - St Pancras 1970 and QE Hall 1971 - will be out circa September... Start lobbying your local Word editor for blanket coverage any time you like ... :-)

I always thought that Colin Vearncombe had the most un- rock 'n'roll name ever. And it wasn't helped by him looking like an accounts clerk from Pinner rather than a globe-bestriding rock-god who could initiate the deflowering of your younger sister with a twitch of his hip. Great voice, though.

And Eric is not a great rock name. Perhaps allowed if your surname is Clapton, not if it is Bloom.

Clive Gregson? Used to be in a proper rock band, you know.

Other folk-rockers with non-rock names:

Richard Thompson (not too many Richards)

Ashley Hutchings (Fairport, Albion Band)

Tim Hart, Martin Carthy and Nigel Pegrum (Steeleye Span)

And my alias is taken from a song by Leon Rosselson (although he'd hate to be linked to rock in any way).

...was saddled with a name that actively dissuaded one from ever listening to his music. Which is probably flagrant name-ism on my part...

And poor old Neville Staple - how many times must he have told people, 'Look, I know it just just looks wrong, but trust me - there's NO 'S' ON THE END OF MY NAME!!!!'

Isn't that a *gurls* name?? :-)

Hyman became Joey Ramone, you can understand why, Jeffrey Ramone is not cool.

Douglas Colvin became Dee Dee Ramone.

Jeffrey, Douglas, John and Thomas...hey ho let's go!

Buckley and Tweedy?

Not to mention the cool guy with Bungle, Zippy and George

...Hammond-Hammond, from Jeffrey Tull (ahem...)

than a Jeff?

Jefff "Skunk" Baxter - btw

...wasn't there, implausibly, a (somebody) Laird-Clowes in some fey 80s pop act? No doubt someone will recall the missing forename (and indeed band name) within seconds...

...but no-one has yet suggested the unfeesibaly monikered drummer from Lynyrd Skynyrd - come on down, Artimus Pyle!!

...but no-one has yet suggested the unfeesibaly monikered drummer from Lynyrd Skynyrd - come on down, Artimus Pyle!!

....is Benny, any Benny....Gallagher, Andersson, Goodman, Benassi, ... 'and the Jets'.

I think it must be something to do with disturbing memories of Crossroads (that's the Noele Gordon Crossroads, not the Robert Johnson one).

Yet somehow, tack it onto a greek name, and Felix Pappaladi seems fine.

The splendidly named Gurf Morlix. Pretty unusual surname too.

Don't get much more Rock than this, now does it Alice?

..goes under the name Nigel Pulsford. Lead guitarist in Bush. Dare any man pick up his gauntlet?

Whatever happened to Stephen? Plenty of Steve's, (which I hate) Stevie, Stevo, Steven even. But not the name so beloved of royalty, popes and a saint.

"How do you spell that? is it with a V or a PH?"

It is spelt the correct way...with a PH of course!

Stephen Stills, Stephen Merritt and Stephen Bruton, the latter who I have discovered has very sadly recently died.....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6382141.ece
I have a couple of his CDs from the 90s or thereabouts, very tuneful and likeable guitar jangle of a texas hue. He also crops up on many another artists records, with workmanlike soloing, often as they cover his songs. Very bad news.

..we should probably have a coefficient* at work here. Something like R=N1 over N2 where:

R = Rockness
N1 = Number of Normans in general population
N2 = Number of Normans in rock

We might find that Colins, for example, under-index severely, but Bernards run above the mean.

We might also find that one-third of all Crispians wrote "Tattva".

*I have no idea if this is a coefficient or not. I just thought it sounded cool. I'm not among the Number Massive.

Changed his name. Changed the wrong bit.

How did he survive in the Specials with a name like Horace? Come to think of it, how did he ever get through school?

My friends at the sadly defunct dfg corporation adopted the stage names of Brian, Keith and Clive.

http://www.thedfgcorporation.co.uk/home.htm

Ray Burns (aka Captain Sensible)

Barry Gibb

Probably more, just can't think of them at the moment
Bet there obvious too!

Not so good: Nigel John Taylor of Durran Durran.

I'm mystified as to how we've got this far without mention of Nigel Blackwell, but he's here now.

Adam (Duritz, Counting Crows) not a very rock and roll christian name?

BTW I dont think that James Taylor is particularly rock and roll, just very common in real life and in music;

Singer Songwriter (as discovered by Jane Ashers hubby I believe)
As in the James Taylor Quartet
but my favourite - James "JT" Taylor - lead singer with Kool & The Gang

The Lee-ving of Liverpool...

Wasn't the singer from Dr & The Medics called Clive?

And no, although you can buy records of him, the Pope isn't rock.

Lars Ulrich should be mentioned by someone.

Gallagher and perhaps Storm, but the latter was originally dubbed Alan, so only one then, really.

Nigel Blackwell from Half Man Half Biscuit is the most un-rock man in rock. Isn't there one in Dodgy too? Kennedy was pretty Rock. For Classical...Worked for XTC too. Nigel Pivaro was pretty rock when he was hanging out with the Mondays. Wasn't he? Obviously the Tufnel and the Planer. When in character.

plus look out for Petes. Theyre cunts

I challenge you to tell me about a rock'n'roll Cuthbert I would be familiar with.

To Captain Underpants

Erm, Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips). Oh, and Wayne County and the Electric Chairs.

Is that it?

Currie, Hayward & Hawkins (I'm sure that's an estate agents somewhere). No others.

apart from West of Mountain

I'm not having that and present FGTH, Propaganda, Tatu, Art Of Noise, 'Slave To The Rhythm' and 'Left To My Own Devices' as incontrovertible evidence in his defence. If that's ruining the 80s I wish he'd come back and ruin the 21st century.