JEWS IN POPULAR MUSIC

Elvis Presley
Lou Reed
David Lee Roth
Alice Cooper
Neil Sedaka
Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel
Barbara Streisand
Jeff Beck
Tiny Tim
Michael Bolton
Eric Carmen
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Neil Diamond
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Arlo Guthrie
Billy Joel
Carol King
Barry Manilow
Bette Midler
Phil Ochs
Joe McDonald (Country Joe & the Fish)
Robbie Krieger (The Doors)
Max Weinberg (Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band)
Roy Bittan (Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band)
Slash (Guns & Roses)
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley (KISS)
Cass Elliot ( The Mamas and the Papas)
Leslie West (Mountain)
Mike Bloomfield (Paul Butterfield Band and guitarist for Bob Dylan)
Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary)
Joey Ramone (The Ramones)
Jakob Dylan (The Wallflowers)
Phil Spector
Allen Ginsberg
Marc Knopfler (Dire Straits)
Marc Bolan (T-Rex)
Manfred Mann
Donovan P. Leitch (known as Donovan, who had a mega-hit with Buffy StMarie's "Universal Soldier" in the 60's)
Burt Bacharach
Leon Russell   Eddie Vedder  Johnny Rotten (Lydon) Mick Jones (Clash)  Beastie Boys ("widely castigated for glorifying sex and violence") [ANDERSON, 1991, p. 173], Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, Randy Newman, Carly Simon (one of the heirs to the Simon-Schuster publishing house fortune), Helen Reddy, Lesley Gore, David Lee Roth of Van Halen, Lou ("Take a Walk on the Wild Side") Reed, [BELL, I., 6-1-93, p. 12] and Mountain's Leslie [Weinstein] West. Donald Fagen co-founded Steely Dan. Marty Friedman of Megadeth is Jewish, as is Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane, Marc Knopfler of Dire Straits, Paul Stanley (Stanley Eisen) and Gene Simmons (born Chaim Whitz in Haifa, Israel) of Kiss, Perry Farrell (Perry Bernstein; son of a diamond dealer) of Jane's Addiction, Kevin Dubrow (lead singer of Quiet Riot), Slash of Guns 'n Roses, Geddy Lee (of Rush -- born Gar Lee Weinrib), Eric Bloom (lead singer of Blue Oyster Cult), Robbie Robertson, Warren Zevon, Jeff Beck, Mick Jones (of the Clash), Gavin Rossdale (head of Bush), Jay (Blatt) and the Americans, Marc Bolan of T-Rex, Manfred Mann (Lubowitz), Norman Greenbaum, Phranc (a Jewish lesbian folksinger), Adrian Belew and Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman of the Turtles.