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May 3, 2021 · 1. Garth Brooks // Chris Gaines. Capitol. In the 1990s, nobody sold more records than Garth Brooks. So it was a little surprising when, in 1999, the country mega-star ditched the hat, grew...
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Feb 3, 2019 · 18 Superhero Secret Identities, Ranked From Really Bad To Clark Kent - GameSpot. By Chris E. Hayner on February 2, 2019 at 4:42PM PST. Practically every superhero separates their personal life from...
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Aug 15, 2019 · 27 Celebrities Who Have Alter Egos. Many famous people have chosen to adopt a "second self," or alter ego - like musicians who develop personas as a way to push themselves creatively or break into a new genre, or comedians who use them as a way to go unrecognized. Most celebrities have one, maybe two alter egos.
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- George Clinton: Starchild/Dr Funkenstein/Mr Wiggles. George Clinton created more than just alter egos; he created an entire universe with his P-Funk mythology that would pave the way for Afrofuturism.
- David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane/Thin White Duke. Another artist who turned to the stars for inspiration was David Bowie for his bisexual alien glam rock star persona, Ziggy Stardust, immortalized on his 1972 concept album, The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.
- XTC: The Dukes Of Stratosphear. The long-underrated UK band’s psychedelic alter ego was borne out of a joke rather than artistic vision. After being sacked from a producing gig on Mary Margaret O’Hara’s Miss America record, XTC frontman Andy Partridge and producer John Leckie decided to use their compensation money from Virgin and record some psychedelic tracks that Partridge and Colin Moulding had written, but which were too experimental for XTC.
- Hank Williams: Luke The Drifter. While many artists use alter egos as a vehicle for outlandish behavior, country legend Hank Williams created the moralistic alter ego Luke The Drifter to espouse good deeds and dole out sage wisdom.
Ziggy Stardust. His first and arguably greatest alter ego was born when Bowie broke through into the mainstream with Ziggy Stardust. Face daubed with a lightening bolt and mullet hairstyle dyed...
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Feb 4, 2024 · The most famous musical alter egos. 4 February 2024, 18:00. David Bowie was the greatest practitioner of the musical alter ego... but he wasn't the only one. Three rock alter egos: "Camille",...
May 27, 2012 · Find out in our list of famous writers’ alter egos after the jump. Nick Adams – Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway wrote about his life through the eyes of his alter ego, Nick...
