Klark Kent

I don't recall where I ran across this but it's a fun one. The story goes: back in 1978, Stewart Copeland of The Police had written a song that Sting was having trouble connecting with. So, instead of scrapping it, Copeland recorded it with himself singing lead and released it under the pseudonym Klark Kent so as not to detract from any attention The Police was receiving. The track got traction and the "band" was invited to perform on Top of the Pops. Since the band was really just The Police, they all wore masks to hide their identities. Copeland's singing was too muffled, so he ditched the disguise and wore face paint instead. This pretty much gave away the secret of the band, tho Copeland denied his involvement for a number of years.

Most surprisingly, there's a Deluxe Edition of the Klark Kent material with 30 tracks of odds and ends. Quite a side project!