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Add to this list of musicians who have the same names as poets. Please don't add anybody who is commonly believed or you think is a poet, unless they have the name to back it up.

1. Bob Dylan
2. Tom Verlaine
3. Robbie Shakespeare
4. Don Byron

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

5. Homer and Jethro

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

6. Rodney Anonymous

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Monday, 15 November 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

7. Françoise Hardy

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

8. Burton Cummings
9. Poe
10. Blake Babies
11. Shakespeare's Sister
12. Ol' Dirty Bastard

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

13. Ted Milton (Blurt)
14. Robin Rimbaud
15. The Marvelettes
16. Byron Lee
17. Shelleyan Orphan
18. Missy Elliott (subtract one "t")
19. Better than Ezra/ Tha Dogg Pound

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

20. Elvin Bishop

Honourable Mention:
The Monkees - Valerie

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

21. Gene Ammons

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Shakespeare's Sister

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

23. pete shelley

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(repeating a number to account for the dual shakespear's sister entries)

23. jakob dylan
24. david poe

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

25. Penny Rimbaud

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

26. Eliot Smith

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

How about entire bands named after poets:

27. Novalis
28. Hoelderlin

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

OK,

29. The Poets.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

30. Alan (as in "Lope de") Vega

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

31. Robert Wyatt (the elder)

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

31. Jake Burns

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

33. Frederic Chopin! (slightly more famous than Henri it must be admitted)

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

34. Rainer Maria (Rilke)

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

35. Kevin Ayres

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

36. Boy (Stefan) George

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

37. Norman Blake

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

38. Sarah Vaughan

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

39. (Ingeborg) Bachmann Turner Overdrive

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

40. Super Grass

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

41. Crosby, Stills and Ogden Nash

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

42. Ralph Waldo Emerson Lake & Palmer

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I'm envious of that last one!

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

43. Kim Wilde

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

44. (Robert) Lowell (Stefan) George

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

45. Ron Dante (The Archies)
46. Bermuda Schwartz (Weird Al Yankovic)
47. Cocteau Twins
48. Celia ("Sor Juana Ines De La") Cruz
49. Robert Forster

Honorable Mention
Spencer Davis Group
XTC - Skylarkin-g

Thanks for making this a good thread!

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

50. Hood

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

51. Slim Whitman

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Another winner!

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

H(eavy) D.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

53. Odean Pope (or Smoking Popes)

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

54. Mike Joyce

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

55. Macie Gray
56. Peter Buck
57. Jim Dickinson
alternate for #13. Little Milton
58. Syd Barrett (or Aston "Family Man" Barrett)

Honorable Mention:
Robert Johnson
The Hues Corporation
"Marlowe's Venus" in A Brown Eyed Handsome Man

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe not as good as Slim Whitman or the Marvelettes but:

Sparks

― Henry A Blacktune, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Robbie Basho
Cat Stevens
Edith Frost
Moby (family name: Melville)
Poe
Lowell George
David Thomas

― don, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

There are some repeats in there (Poe, Lowell George) but otherwise an excellent contribution. Also allowed me to keep Celtic Frost off the list.

Near alternate for 17 and 23:

Robert 'Percy' Plant

― Henry A Blacktune, Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

List of overrated bards.

― Listicle Traces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 February 2013 22:42 (thirteen years ago)

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