Here's Something Some of You May Not Have Known...

Some of your favorite rock stars have Jewish roots!

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-Leslie West
-Mountain
-Best friends with Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh

10
-Marc Bolan
-T. Rex
-Born Mark Feld. Father was a Polish-Russian Jewish truck driver

9
-Geddy Lee
-Rush
-Birth name was Gary, but because of his Hungarian grandmother's heavily accented pronunciation of 'Gary', it sounds like 'Geddy'
-His parents were Jewish refugees who survived the Dachau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps

8
-Billy Joel

7
-Paul Simon

6
-Paul Stanley
-Kiss
-Real name: Stanley Harvey Eisen. Was the only Jewish kid in an all Irish neighborhood
-Sexy!!

5
-Joey Ramone
-The Ramones
-Real name: Jeffrey Ross Hyman
-Died of cancer in 2001

4
-Lou Reed
-Real name: Rabinowitz

3
-Gene Simmons
-Kiss
-Real name: Chaim Witz. Born in Haifa, Israel
-His mother Flora was a Hungarian immigrant who was the only one of her family to survive the Holocaust.

2
-Bob Dylan
-Real name was Zimmerman

1
-David Lee Roth
-Van Halen
-Half Jewish on his father's side

Other ones
Eric Singer
-Kiss
-Real name: Eric Mensinger