 According to a 2000 article in "The Riverfront Times", Beatle Bob's real name is Robert Matonis.Born in St. Louis in 1953, his parents divorced when he was very young, and he grew up between his mother's house on the South Side of St. Louis, his grandparents' house in Baden, and a nearby Catholic boarding school, Mount Providence (now part of the University of Missouri–St.Louis campus).