Fascinating trivia about musicians

EricTheWeary

Neil said:

Matt Bellamy of Muse's father George was guitarist in The Tornados.
They were first British band to have a number one in both the UK and USA with Telstar.

Clem Cattini, drummer for The Tornados, is believed to have appeared on more UK number one singles than any other musician. Such as Grandad by Clive Dunn. Also apparently nearly a member of Led Zep as he knew John Paul Jones from session work. And in more recent times…

JezzaSnr said:

Axe_meister said:

Paul Wellers Brother was CTO at Centrica (British Gas) in th 2000s

He doesn’t have a brother. 

…recorded a track with Paul Weller (who has a sister called Nicky who works in the music business but not a brother). 

Kebabkid

LightB4sound said:

David Lee Roth is a trained (as was active) paramedic, after Van Halen.

I think many will know Bruce Dickinson as the pilot, world class fencer, author that he is. 

Steve Morse is also a trained commercial pilot

Kebabkid

Richard Marx has a sister called Onya

The mother of Mike Nesbit from The Monkees invented liquid ink (Tip Ex)

Stewart Copeland's dad was some top bod in the CIA

Didn't Alex Lifeson invent the stand for a 2nd guitar ie when he has an electric strapped on and he needs to move to an acoustic on the stand and in the correct playing position - needs confirming

LionAquaLooper

Harry Styles has four nipples

https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a46706/harry-styles-four-nipples/

racefaceec90

ed wynne from ozric tentacles has an interesting history on his wiki page  Ed Wynne - Wikipedia 

(quote) Ed Wynne was born in Wandsworth, London, England, and is the son of English sculptor David Wynne,[2] and the grandson of English author Joan Grant. Family friend and late Beatles guitarist, George Harrison, encouraged a seven year old Wynne to pick up the guitar.[3] Wynne's father regularly had big names in music, such as Jimi Hendrix and Donovan, stay over at the house. (quote).

he is a fantastic guitarist and i love me some ozric tentacles :-)

Kurtis

I always thought it was interesting that marillion were asked to do the music for the film Highlander before queen but they were touring at the time. 
It was that film that first got me into queen so for me things could have been quite different. 

Not an individual musician right enough. 

DrCornelius

PJ Harvey’s guitarist / collaborator John Parish is the brother of actress Sarah Parish

Blueingreen

Willy C Vlautin, guitarist and songwriter with country soul band The Delines (and previously frontman of Richmond Fontaine), is also the author of several critically acclaimed novels. One of the best lyricists in the business IMO.

Sporky

Cyndi Lauper invented llamas.

Brio

Surely that was well known genetic engineer Boy George with the Llama Chameleon?

drofluf

Sporky said:

Cyndi Lauper invented llamas.

Not that was Salvador Dali

Bod

Brio said:

Surely that was well known genetic engineer Boy George with the Llama Chameleon?

It was never proven because nobody could see it.

blobb

racefaceec90 said:

ed wynne from ozric tentacles has an interesting history on his wiki page  Ed Wynne - Wikipedia 

(quote) Ed Wynne was born in Wandsworth, London, England, and is the son of English sculptor David Wynne,[2] and the grandson of English author Joan Grant. Family friend and late Beatles guitarist, George Harrison, encouraged a seven year old Wynne to pick up the guitar.[3] Wynne's father regularly had big names in music, such as Jimi Hendrix and Donovan, stay over at the house. (quote).

he is a fantastic guitarist and i love me some ozric tentacles :-)

Another good association is that Ed and his mates became part of a 'Wimbledon' set of musicians and creatives, one other member of the group was Martin Clunes!

Emp_Fab

Freddie Mercury used to be a baggage handler at Heathrow.

GoFish

Martin Clunes was Sherlock Holmes actor Jeremy Brett's nephew I believe.

Kelley Deal was a US airforce defence contractor before joining the Breeders.

America has it's own Bruce Dickinson / Brian May hybrid in the Offspring's Dexter Holland. He has a PHD in Molelcular Biology and has in the past lectured in between Oppspring albums. He also has made and sold his own brand of Mexican hot sauce and is a pilot too. Bet him and Fred Durst are proud of themselves.

GoFish

JezzaSnr said:

Axe_meister said:

Paul Wellers Brother was CTO at Centrica (British Gas) in th 2000s

He doesn’t have a brother. 

So the guy I slept with in the 2000s was just some rando who worked for British Gas? That's why the signed photo never arrived.

crosstownvamp

Another airline pilot was Allen Ravenstine, modular synth player in experimental band Pere Ubu.

Funkfingers

Kebabkid said:

Mike Nesbit from The Monkees 

Who?

I think that you meant Nesmith.

It is true that his mother created Liquid Paper for typing corrections.

Nominative determinacy should have had the Nesmith family making its fortune from a combination of instant coffee and potato crisps.

PolarityMan

Dani Filth's wife runs a cleaning service 

darthed1981

Sporky said:

Cyndi Lauper invented llamas.

She was only trying to have fun...