The Most Commonly Misspelled Names in Rock and Roll

Rock and roll and education have never quite gone together. Take the name, Billy Squire. You know you remember him. The guitar rock guy from the 80s, whose song, "Lonely is the Night", is one of the songs on Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s. People might remember the person, but they sure don't remember how to spell his name. It's Billy Squier, not Billy Squire. If you think that's a simple name to spell, it is. But try telling that to the thousands of internet searchers who typed Billy Squire rather than Billy Squier into Google. In fact more people search for Billy Squire than the correctly spelled version of his name. Now, if you think ol' Billy Squier is alone in this regard, he isn't. In terms of searches, many popular rock and roll stars have seemingly difficult names to spell. With that in mind, let's look at the common ways people misspell their favorite rock stars.

These names were gathered by using Google Suggestions to help fill in your search term by using other popular search terms. The most frequently searched for term comes up on top. So for example, in the case of Billy Squier, the misspelled version is searched for more often than the correctly spelled version of his name.

Commonly Misspelled Rock and Roll Names

Billy Squier

Might as well start off with the name that prompted this article. This name is typically misspelled as Billy Squire. During the 1980s, Billy Squier had a number of monster hits. His career fizzled after the release of the music video for "Rock Me Tonite", which featured Squier prancing around a silk and satin apartment set. I'm not sure what Billy Squire ever did.

Jimi Paige

Probably no other rock and roll star has more misspelled versions of his name. The groundbreaking guitarist of Led Zepplin has a number of butchered versions of his name that appear as popular search terms including Jimi Paige, Jimmy Paige, Jimi Page and the correct spelling of his name, Jimmy Page. I suppose we have the next guy to thank for some of the confusion.

Jimi Hendricks