Frank Black

As the frontman of the now-defunct Pixies, he was Black Francis. But for his first solo
foray, he's calling himself Frank Black. He was born Charles Michael Kitridge Thompson IV.
Changing a given name is a classic rock & roll maneuver: Iggy Pop was once James Newell
Osterberg, and Bowie was born David Robert Jones. An assumed name can be liberating
from personal history and from social convention. For Black, the new alias frees... More >