Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Arthur Russell
Arthur Baker

Not always--not till today. I just finished a documentary on Arthur Russell, and it wasn't until three-quarters of the way through that I clued into the fact that I wasn't watching a documentary on Arthur Baker.

you could say, there was some...confusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_L_-CKg6pw

J.G. Bennett
J.G. Ballard

Speaking of J.G. Ballard always puts me in mind of Crash (1996) vs. Crash (2004).

Then you get Robert Ballard, who is associated with the Titanic. Which kinda famously... crashed.

smells like teen spirit (SLTS)
scream thy last scream (STLS)

Alison Krauss
Alexis Krauss

Gang Gang Dance
Dead Can Dance

Bardo Pond
Bark Psychosis

Passaic (New Jersey)
Pessac (Bordeaux)

Passaic Avenue, Fairfield, NJ
The 500 other Passaic Avenues in NJ

(At a previous job, my half hour drive included 3 different Passaic Avenues)

Dave Courtney
David Courtney

(I've only just discovered these are different people, Dave Courtney would have been 14 when he started writing songs with Leo Sayer otherwise.)

Mark Bell
Mark Fell
Mark Pritchard

Annabel Croft
Annabel Giles (RIP)

Like, I know who they both are and what they're famous for, but get their names confused. And I did therefore think for ages that Midge Ure was married to the former-tennis-player one.

Yeah, I get them mixed up too.

Thirded.

Jonathan Pryce
David Warner

^nice!

But what about David Thewlis?

David Thewlis
Fred Schneider

Zach Bryan
Luke Bryan
Luke Combs

Never heard of Thewlis, but yeah, I'd probably have mixed him up with Pryce and Warner (RIP BTW). xps

I always think of him as Knox Harrington, the video artist.

lol

David Thewlis
David Threlfall

David Thewlis wasn't on our radar screen, then he was ubiquitous for approximately seventeen minutes, and then just as promptly vanished from popular culture. (Speaking as a USian here. One assumes his career arc is perceived differently in the UK.)

Anyway Martin Donovan looks like Jeff Bridges

Don Preston
Billy Preston

that would make cool keyboard duel

I knew they were different people who did different things, but I realized that I conflated Kirsty MacColl and Natasha Richardson as 2nd generation celebrities married to entertainment personalities who died young while on vacation.

Halfway, I respect your posts but that there is an extremely ambiguous sentence

I knew who sang and who acted, but I had to make a mental effort to sort out who was married to whom and who died under what circumstances.

Their widowed husbands are still alive as far as I know if that's what you mean.

Which entertainment personality was Kirsty MacColl married to?

Steve Lilywhite

... the entertainment personality.

Well, he works in entertainment.

Although, apparently divorced at the time of her death.

Father of her two children.

I'd have said Steve Lillywhite was married to Kirsty MacColl not the other way round.

searching gmail for my train tickets:

avavi. nope. arriva. nope. avanti!

Dan Aykroyd
Chevy Chase

They smoosh together as one hideous composite person in my mind, it disturbs me greatly

Lol

Allan Clarke
Alan Price

my strange distant cousin at the family xmas party over the weekend was trying to tell me that graham nash sings lead on "long cool woman." i tried to politely correct him but it was no use.

Not sure if this belongs here or the Never thread, but:

Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase, MD

Pancho Villa
Sancho Panza

OTM

Painting edition:
Thomas Cole
Thomas Moran

Titian
Tintoretto

Paul Cezanne
Paul Gaugin

Neal Hefti
Nelson Riddle

Bonus confusion: The Riddler

Alex Garland
Jonathan Glazer

Kate Middleton
Amy Poehler