what's in a name

We named our son Robbie so when he grows up he can be, Rob, Robert and of course Bob. In Italy he will be known as Roberto. So what's in a name? He is named after his Grandpa - a good man - but he carries a great moniker and i did have a little think about who he might emulate. No pressure then son.

Robert Plant - if you don't know you can't be in my gang

Robert Smith - he of the Cure and the godfather of goth

robert johnson - made a deal with the devil but invented the blues

robert cray - handy with a strat

robert palmer - smooth

robert wyatt - for shipbuilding....the song

Robert Rauschenberg - messy art

bob dylan....do I need to explain?

bob marley - likewise

bob geldof - a hero

Rob Trujilo - Bass player with Metallica & Suicidal tendancies

Robert Louis Stevenson - pirates
Robert De Niro - for Deerhunter
Robert Carlyle - for begbie
Robert Plant - again
Robert Redford - for the Sundance kid
Bobby Moore - for '66

Bob Weir - Guitar & Vocals, The Grateful Dead

Bob Willis - for Headingley '81

Robert Altman - for the Player and MASH

Bob Seeger - for Hollywood Nights' drumming

Bobby Gillespie - for Screamadelica

Bobbie Kennedy - for trying to step out of a shadow

Bobbie Darin - for mac the knife

Robert Frost - yankee poet

Robbie Robertson - for The Band

Robbie Coltrane - for Tutti Frutti

Robert Mitchum - for the Big Sleep & Cape Fear

Robert Downey Jnr - for weird science

Robert Duval - for Colonel Killgore...'smells like victory'

Robert Shaw - his boat wasn't big enough

Rob Lowe - for The West Wing & St Elmo's Fire

Robert Fripp - in the court of king crimson...mainly unlistenable but you have to at least 'know it'

Robert Kubica - fastest Pole

Robert Maplethorpe - flowers & fisting

Robert Powell - he was Jesus afterall

Robert the Bruce - jock King

Robert Burns - jock poems

Bob Kane - Creator of "Batman & Robin"

Bob Woodward - all the president's men

Robert Menzies - Former Prime Minister ofAustralia

Rpatz - coz hes soo like omg in heat magazine

Roberto Baggio - scored some goals. missed one penalty

Roberto Benigni - life IS beautiful

Roberta Flack - killing me softly

Sponge bob - he of the cuboid legwear

and yes robbie williams

so a pretty good name

as long as he has tiny bit of marley/dylan/willis/plant/wooodward/truiljio...then I'll be proud.