I thought Ted Heath the former prime minister and Ted Heath the bandleader were one in the same.

Was always impressed how he managed to combine the two.

I had no idea who Jackie Leven was.

I constantly confuse the "You're moving out today" hitmaker, Carole King, with the most successful female songwriter ever, Carole Bayer Sager.

searching in a dictionary of the Christian Church for a biography of Papa Roach.

I used to confuse David Wright with paulwright and AlmostSimon with SimonL. Sorry, guys, I'm getting the hang of it now but all I need is Simon Wright to sign up and I'm snookered.

is he the bespectacled Aussie classical guitar virtuoso who went electric in soft rockers Sky (he was once married to TV's Sue Cook, you know)?

Or is he the American composer of film soundtracks for blockbusters such as Superman, Jaws and Star Wars?

For years I thought they were one and the same person.

Back in the 70s, I remember my Dad waking with a cup of tea and the message that "Bob Hope's dead." It was only later as he mentioned that they'd have to start electing a new one soon that I realised he'd said "The Pope's dead."

I was much less upset about that one...

Mick Jackson the English writer and performer of Blame It On The Boogie was related to the Jacksons who also recorded it. Although even the Melody Maker were guilty as they originally credited the song to the Jacksons.

More from Mr Jackson here http://www.mickjacksonmusic.com/

an occasional confusion which has caused be to be briefly impressed by Cowell's unexpected expertise on Shakespeare, Wilde etc...

Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Paul McCartney muddled up, they're just so similar.......

I've seen that film twice now and I still can't understand it at all because, unless they're actually on screen at the same time, I can't tell the difference between Matt Damon and Leo DeCaprio.

One's a good guy pretending to be bad and the others a bad guy pretending to be good. Or something. It was 20 minutes before I even realised there were two of them.

I head a "showbiz expert" on a London radio station say "I always remember him with his dark sunglasses" and it soon became clear she was talking about Roy Orbison who had been below ground for a decade or so.

I like to think I am pretty good on 60's/70's music but must confess that when I saw Jackie Leven mentioned I first thought of the 'Sour Milk Sea' (almost) hit-maker........Jackie Lomax!

makes movies, cigarettes and used to play rugby league in Australia

...a colleague of mine was bemused to discover that a media personality he had heard about called "Anton Deck" was in fact two cheeky, chirpy Geordie media personalities called Ant and Dec.

Yes, we did occasionally blow dust off him...

Listening to the news, I would hear the words 'A man is helping police with their enquiries' and think 'Ah, that's nice of him. Probably making them cups of tea down at the station.'

... John Peel announcing - very excitedly, by the way - that legendary soul warbler Ann Peebles was joining Radio One as a new "jock."

Turns out it was some bloke called Andy Peebles.

In the early 70s confusion reigned among prog record buyers when they troubled to read the credits on their Juicy Lucy LPs. There it was: steel guitar - Glenn Campbell.

Many assumed it was the Galveston hit maker Glen Campbell doing a spot of moonlighting, but they were wrong (only one 'n', you see).

Glenn Ross Campbell - to give him his full name - came to Britain in the mid-60s with influential US garage/psych band upstarts The Misunderstood. Despite being championed by John Peel (who actually managed them at one point) they never found commercial success and split in 1969.

Glenn Campbell then turned up in Juicy Lucy and it is he who is responsible for that wonderfully frenzied steel guitar work on their debut single (and the first 7” on the Vertigo label) Who Do You Love.

John Peel continued his love affair with The Misunderstood to his dying day, including their song I Can Take You To The Sun as the 1966 entry in his Peelenium (Greatest Songs of the 20th Century) list. He also declared in a magazine interview "If I had to list the ten greatest performances I've seen in my life, one would be The Misunderstood at Pandora's Box, Hollywood, 1966.

Louis Spence and Louis Walsh (they were both in the 'crap tv show i don't watch' category, grump grump)

Fern Britton and Fearne Cotton (as i mentioned on another thread - the forename confused me)

and i have to pause to think whenever someone mentions Cher Lloyd as opposed to Cheryl Cole, etc

some years ago when The USA House Of Senate was discussing some problem or other in Europe when one of the Senators asked his aide what A.G.N.C. stood for, only to be told they were in fact discussing the Agean Sea?