I’m writing today and can’t brain beyond what I’m writing about (for publication).
Here are 20 rock or country stars as kids. They are NOT obscure! Can you guess who they are? I think you’ll be able to get about seven, and I’ve numbered them for your convenience.
If you’re good and put your guesses in the comments below (or the ones you can’t guess), I may provide a key this evening or tomorrow. I took this from a public Facebook post but of course am not going to tell you the source until you guess. If you do a reverse image search, you’ll be cheating.
Oh, and do not look at the comments until you guess.
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Janis Joplin (6) is unmistakable. The rest eluded me.
Yeah, Pearl was the easiest. Also, 14 has gotta be Elvis. And just above him at #13, Keith Richards. I’ll go with Sam Cooke at 16.
I’ma go with Carlos Santana at # 8.
I don’t want to give it away, but I couldn’t take it anymore and cheated on #8. It’s not Carlos. This one doesn’t look like the adult we all know at all. especially the nose.
Santana is #1.
Elvis & Paul Mcartney 12 & 14
I’ve got the same for 12 & 14. 17 is Ringo Starr
I think I got 10, but I probably got 8. 5 and 18 are the same kid.
I am pretty sure 14 is Elvis Presley.
Some guesses . . .
6) Janis Joplin
10) Mick Jagger
12) Paul McCartney
13) Keith Richards
14) Elvis Presley
Several others look familiar . . .
Add . . .
8) Might be Bobby Goldsboro (probably not)
Holy cow, I was way off on 8.
I am vaguely familiar with some. But am not sure.
#14 might be Elvis.
#5 and #18 are the same.
Yeah, I messed up with #5 and #18, but I’ll leave them for the time being.
5. Johnny Cash
20. Mark Knoffler
I think you are right on both and, damn, I knew 20 but couldn’t quite dredge it up out of what’s left of my mind.
Good one on Knofler: I recognized him, knew I knew him, but couldn’t pull up his name.
1) Mick Jagger
3) Eric Clapton
6) Janis Joplin
14) Elvis Presley
15) David Bowie
16) BB King
18) Mark Knopfler
Actually, apart from Janis, I am not sure at all 🙂
Bowie is 7.
Yes.
4 John Lennon
5 & 18. Johnny Cash
6 Janis Joplin
10. Mick Jagger
12. Paul McCartney
13. Keith Richards
14. Elvis Presley
17. Ringo Starr
19. George Harrison
I posted these answers without looking at preceding comments.
Spotted Jimi and Janice – will have to try a bit harder on the others!
Finished cooking and eating now and taken a better look:
1) Jimi
3) Neil Young?
6) Janice
9) Jim Morrison???! A v-e-r-y long shot!
13) Keef?
14) Elvis
15) Jagger?!
16) Sam Cooke
17) Ringo? Or George?
20) That chin is driving me nuts, but I can’t place it!
Oops, misspelled “Janis” twice – I’m blaming autocorrect , but that’s really no excuse for a (so-called) proofreader!
And reading the other comments I can see I made some egregious errors in my guesses! (Though “egregious” used to be a positive thing, and still is in Spanish and Italian… https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/egregious )
Actually, I think you are right on 9, and I should have noticed that right off.
Really?! I’ll eat my (stinky) leather trousers if that turns out to be correct!
Just found the half-remembered quote on which my ridiculous, and probably incomprehensible, comment was based:
No One Here Gets Out Alive page 127.
Lol!
No wonder he took them off on stage to let some air in!
!. Carlos Santana?
2. Brian Wilson?
£. Stevie Ray Vaughan.
#3 Neil Young
6 Janis Joplin
12 Paul McCartney
14 Elvis
17 Ringo
The rest, no clue.
12. Paul McCartney
14. Elvis
17. Ringo Starr
All the rest look like characters from “Little Rascals”, although mostly a UK edition.
GCM
Yup, those teeth suggest a lot of us Brits are represented…!
I was thinking more of the little boys in ties and pullover sweaters. 🙂
GCM
Jay Leno once had in his monologue: “British dental experts…. Wait a minute, I didn’t know that there were any British dental experts.
Those are the three I got + Janis and I’d bet money they’re right. I wasn’t sure about the others, but after reading some responses, I think a lot were guessed correctly.
My inductive hypothesis based on the photographs above is that one of the keys to adult musical stardom is less than optimal childhood dentition.
A lot of proud bearers of “British teeth” , I suspect…
1) ?? Carlos Santana ???
2) ?
3) Neil Young
4) ?
5) & 18) Johnny Cash
6) Janis Joplin
7) David Bowie
8) ?
9) ?
10) Mick Jagger
11) Jim Morrison
12) Paul McCartney
13) Keith Richards
14) Elvis
15) ?
16) Same Cooke
17) Ringo Star
18) ?
19) George Harrison
20)?
Carlos is definitely a possibility for #1.
Very good
Is 2 Van Morrison?
20) Bob Dylan?
Pretty sure that is Mark Knopfler.
If so, he was so much older then; he’s younger than that now.
I an pretty sure I do not know anyone. Baby photos not my thing. However the jury is done and have made their judgement. I would guess guilty all the way around – end if story.
8 I think is Paul Simon
1. Santana
2. Lennon
10. Jagger
12. McCartney
14. Richards
John Lennon is number 4
2. Bono?
9 is Van Morrison
Lennon’s pic (or a variation of it,) was used on the Plastic Ono Band album (back cover), and I think in the “Free As A Bird” video, and I thought it was used on the back of the “Strawberry Fields Forever” / “Penny Lane” single, but I was wrong. I’ve seen Paul’s portrait often as well, but had never seen the Ringo shot.
Fun fact: the “Strawberry Fields Forever” / “Penny Lane” single was one of only two UK 45s released in a picture sleeve–“Let It Be” was, but in a variation of the LP sleeve.
1. Smokey Robinson
2. Eric Clapton
3. Bob Dylan
6. Janis Joplin
7. Neil Young
9. Joni Mitchell
12. Paul McCartney
14. The King Elvis Presley
16. Sam Cooke
19. George Harrison
I am sure of some but others don’t know…
Unrelated, but I’ve just seen that Jim Steinman has died: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/20/jim-steinman-dies-hitmaker-meat-loaf-celine-dion
Todd Rundren, who played guitar on and produced Bat Out of Hell , described him as the genius hiding inside Meatloaf’s “Trojan horse”.
A lot of readers seem to be struggling with # 15: John-boy Walton.
Couldn’t guess a single one. Ugh.
D.A.
NYC
I can only recognise Janis Joplin and Freddie Mercury, 8, I think.
I’ve seen 4 & 12 before, so I know who they are. My guesses for the others:
5 & 18: Roy Orbison
10: Mick Jagger
11: Johnny Cash
13: Keith Richards
14: Elvis Presley
15: David Bowie
17: Ringo Starr
19: George Harrison
Without reading the other comments, I’m pretty sure 12 is Paul McCartney and 14 is Elvis. I feel as if I should know #1, but can’t think of his name. Obviously, I’m rubbish at this.
4) John lennon
6 Janis Joplon
12 paul McCartney
14 Elvis Presley
17) Ringo Starr
My guesses. Full disclosure: I read a lot of music biographies so knew some from that,
1.Jimi Hendrix
3. Neil Young
4. John Lennon
5 & 18. Johnny Cash
6. Janice Joplin
7. David Bowie
8. Freddie Mercury
12. Paul McCartney
13. Keith Richards
14. Elvis Presley
15. Sting
17.Ringo Starr
19. George Harrison
20. Mark Knopfler
No. 2 is Phil Collins?
I believe 16 is Chuck Berry not Sam Cooke