Misspelled artist names: Marilyn-Merlin (post-USSR)

Curiously, in post-USSR countries (namely, Russian Federation and Ukraine) Marilyn Monroe is often mistakenly called "Merlyn Monroe", and even Marilyn Manson is no different: you can sometimes hear someone saying "Merlin Manson".
Fairly, Merlin and Marilyn Monroe are somewhat more popular than Charles Manson :-)

Don't confuse these bands, singers, musicians & other artists with each other

Please don't confuse these band / singer / musician / other artist names with each other :-)

• Acid Bath, Acid King, Acid Witch
• Bryan Adams, Eric Adams [Manowar], Ryan Adams
• Dr. Alban, Damon Albarn [Blur, Gorillaz], Johnny Almond [Mark-Almond], Marc Almond [Soft Cell]
• Alestorm, Halestorm
• At the Drive-In, At the Gates
• Attack Attack!, Attack! Attack!, Massive Attack
• Backstreet Boys, Pet Shop Boys
• Bardo Pond, Drowning Pool
• Billy Idol, Billy Joel, Billy Talent
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Bullet for My Valentine, My Bloody Valentine, My Dying Bride, Funeral for a Friend
• Chapterhouse, Last Chapter
• Coil, Lacuna Coil, This Mortal Coil
• Soil, Soilwork
• Weezer, Seether, Seefeel
• Phil Collins [Genesis], Phil Collen [Def Leppard]
• Creedence Clearwater Revival, Creed
• The Cult, Cults
• Darkest Hour, My Darkest Days
• Today Is the Day, Green Day, A Day to Remember
• Jimmy Eat World, Devour the Day
• Dead Kennedys, Dead Meadow, The Dead Weather
• Grateful Dead, Theory of a Deadman
• Death, Death in June, Death SS, Christian Death, Napalm Death
• At the Drive-In, Drive Like Jehu, Parkway Drive
• Anti-Flag, Black Flag
• Flyleaf, Soulfly
• From Autumn to Ashes, From First to Last, From Oceans to Autumn
• Fudge Tunnel, Vanilla Fudge
• The Gaslamp Killer, The Gaslight Anthem
• Boy George, George Michael
• Ian Gillan [Deep Purple, Black Sabbath], Ray Gillen [Badlands [US], Black Sabbath], David Gilmour [Pink Floyd], Roger Glover [Deep Purple, Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow)]
• Joe Cocker, Tom Jones
• Janis Joplin, Scott Joplin
• Alicia Keys, The Black Keys
• Koldborn, Koldbrann
• Lake of Tears, Tears for Fears
• Les Paul, Les Claypool
• Fleetwood Mac, Thin Lizzy, Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park
• Ludacris, Ludicra
• Lorde, Lordi
• Ken Hensley [Uriah Heep], Lee Kerslake [Ozzy Osbourne, Uriah Heep]
• Royal Blood, Royal Hunt
• Shinedown, Shining [NO], Shining [SE], The Shining [GB]
• Stone Temple Pilots, Twenty One Pilots
• Lords of Bukkake, Master Musicians of Bukkake
• The Mars Volta, Mekong Delta
• Misery Index, Misery Signals
• Alanis Morissette, Morrissey
• Morphine, Codeine
• One Direction, OneRepublic
• Opeth, Otep
• Manilla Road, Vanilla Fudge
• Mike Patton, Monty Python
• Of Mice & Men, Of Monsters and Men
• Mudhoney, Mudvayne
• múm, Mumford & Sons
• Nine Inch Nails (NIN), Ice Nine Kills
• Nothing More, Nevermore
• Rage, Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against
• All That Remains, Still Remains
• Grand Funk Railroad, Manilla Road
• Black Sabbath, Sabbat [JP], Sabbat [GB], Sabaton
• Thirty Seconds to Mars (30 Seconds to Mars), 5 Seconds of Summer
• Sevendust, Avenged Sevenfold, Sevyn Streeter
• Shikari, Enter Shikari
• Simple Plan, Simply Red
• Slade, Slayer
• The Smashing Pumpkins, Smash Mouth
• Starcrawler, Starwalker
• Timbaland, Justin Timberlake
• The Used, The Wanted
• The Velvet Underground, Velvet Revolver
• Warning [GB], Fates Warning
• Witch, Witchcraft, Acid Witch, Burning Witch, Witch Mountain etc.
• INXS, NOFX, XTC
• Blink-182, Sum 41, +44
• to be continued...

Notes:

1. for the two-letter country codes used above, see ISO 3166-1;
2. all name similarities are subject to the blog post authors' fancy ;-)

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Last updated: 2018-11-22