last wednesday's xkcd is just us https://xkcd.com/2621/
like all the famous people we do know, we know for weird reasons
like, apparently steward copeland was part of a really popular musical group but we know him as the guy who composed spyro's soundtrack
and one of the examples in the comic itself--we know david bowie as the guy from labyrinth, but i know he was a really popular musician too
-F