You may know them by their celebrity names, but do you know their real names?
Here are some artists whose names u may not recognize... until now:

Lady Gaga:  Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Flavor Flav: William Jonathan Drayton, Jr.
Billy Idol:  William Michael Albert Broad
Sid Vicious:  Simon John Beverley
Rob Zombie:  Robert Bartleh Cummings
Ringo Starr:  Richard Starkey
Steven Tyler:  Stephen Victor Tallarico
Ozzy Osbourne:  John Michael Osbourne
Iggy Pop:  James Newell Osterberg, Jr.
Gene Simmons:  Chaim Witz
Jon Bon Jovi: John Francis Bongiovi, Jr
Marilyn Manson:  Brian Hugh Warner
Joan Jette:  Joan Marie Larkin
David Bowie:  David Robert Hayward-Jones
Courtney Love:  Courtney Michelle Harrison
Snoop Dogg:  Cordozar Calvin Broadus
Alice Cooper: Vincent Damon Furnier

My mainstream...as of 2/25/10

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Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Ever wonder who's on the cover of the Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album? Well here it is,

besides the Beatles, there's:

In the top row:

• 
  
  Sri Yukteswar Giri (Hindu guru)
• 
  
  Aleister Crowley (occultist)
• 
  
  Mae West (actress)
• Lenny Bruce (comedian)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
• W. C. Fields (comedian/actor)
• Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
• Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
• Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)
• Richard Merkin (artist)
• The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
• Huntz Hall (actor)
• Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)
• Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter) 

In The Second Row:

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  Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
• Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister)
• Aldous Huxley (writer) 
• Dylan Thomas (poet) 
• Terry Southern (writer)
• Dion (singer)
• Tony Curtis (actor)
• Wallace Berman (artist)
• Tommy Handley (comedian)
• Marilyn Monroe (actress)
• William S. Burroughs (writer)
• Sri Mahavatar Babaji (Hindu guru)
• Stan Laurel (actor/comedian)
• Richard Lindner (artist)
• Oliver Hardy (actor/comedian)
• Karl Marx (political philosopher)
• H. G. Wells (writer)
• Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Hindu guru)
• Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist) - barely visible below Bob Dylan
• Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy)

In the Third Row:

• Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
• Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy)
• Max Miller (comedian)
• A "Petty Girl" (by artist George Petty)
• Marlon Brando (actor)
• Tom Mix (actor)
• Oscar Wilde (writer)
• Tyrone Power (actor)
• Larry Bell (artist)
• Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)
• Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor)
• Stephen Crane (writer) - barely visible between Issy Bonn's head and raised arm
• Issy Bonn (comedian)
• George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
• H. C. Westermann (sculptor)
• Albert Stubbins (soccer player)
• Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
• Lewis Carroll (writer)
• T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")

In the Front Row:

• Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer)
• A "Petty Girl" (by George Petty)
• Wax model of George Harrison
• Wax model of John Lennon
• Shirley Temple (child actress) - barely visible, first of three appearances on the cover
• Wax model of Ringo Starr
• Wax model of Paul McCartney
• Albert Einstein (physicist) - largely obscured
• John Lennon holding a French Horn
• Ringo Starr holding a trumpet
• Paul McCartney holding a Cor Anglais
• George Harrison holding a flute
• Bobby Breen (singer)
• Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)
• An American legionnaire[1]
• Diana Dors (actress)
• Shirley Temple (child actress) - second appearance on the cover

 http://www.ask.com/wiki/List_of_images_on_the_cover_of_Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band&qsrc=3044