Fascinating trivia about musicians

Paul_C

Gassage said:

Rush recorded the 14 min epic Xanadu live in one take.

No overdubs. It features 14 different instruments.

(source-  Rick Beato)

Did Olivia Newton John do her vocals at the same time too, or were they dubbed in later?

boogieman

Regarding slightly less well
known musicians. 

Barrie Masters, lead singer of Eddie and the Hotrods, ran a double glazing business between gigs. 

Barry Martin, aka Snails Pace Slim, was in a couple of Sa’arfend bands before The Hamsters. The Old Pals Act, with Neville Martin, the old editor of Guitarist magazine and Molten Gold, with Robin Trower’s brother Brad. Nev Martin gave/sold Slim the purple striped SG that he used for slide.

Litterick

Olivia Newton-John's maternal grandfather was Nobel Prize–winning physicist Max Born. Her cousin is Georgina Born,  an eminent musicologist and anthropologist, who played bass in Henry Cow. 

Gassage

Former Desperate Housewives star James Denton, who played plumber Mike Delfino, murdered in S8 E16, is a keen guitarist who owns a 58 Burst.

Denton plays guitar in the charity cover band Band from TV along with Hugh Laurie and Teri Hatcher  among others.They donate the proceeds of their performances and recordings to the charities of their choice. Band from TV has raised almost two million dollars for various causes.

hollywoodrox

guitars4you said:

Rod Temperton - A man few have ever heard of - A man from Cleethorpes/Grimsby who previously worked in the fish industry for Ross - Yet just about everyone on planet earth has heard some of his songs

He wrote Boogie Nights (Heatwave) Thriller, Off the Wall, Rock with you for Michael Jackson and for G Benson Give me the night - Amongst other songs

Total hero RIP I keep meaning to get his book, maybe Xmas present this year

blobb

Caravan guitarista Pye Hastings ran a company providing underground tunneling equipment called 'Molequip'. Drummer Richard Coughlan became landlord of the Sun Inn in Faversham and was a regular participant in that competition where they dress in funny costumes and fling themselves off the end of the pier to see how far they can 'fly. 

Both immortalised in Richard Sinclair's little ditty 'Only the Brave'.

hollywoodrox

Rob Davis of Mud with the Dangly earrings has wrote quite a few hits like can’t get you out of my head & a Sophie Ellis Porsche Boxter record (why does it feel,so good) amongst others 

thecolourbox

Jack White was accepted to a seminary to become a priest, but because he couldn't take a guitar amp with him he turned it down and did a business major instead. He then met and married Meg White, who obviously wasn't his sister contrary to what they claimed as part of the White Stripes.

He also did an apprenticeship as an upholsterer and had his own business, Third Man Upholstery, thusly named as he was the third upholsterer on the street. He used to leave poetry and records inside the furniture he worked on and did his receipts in crayon.

Jack and Meg divorced before their second album in 2000, and well before they became popular outside of Detroit

Philly_Q

thecolourbox said:

He also did an apprenticeship as an upholsterer and had his own business, Third Man Upholstery, thusly named as he was the third upholsterer on the street. He used to leave poetry and records inside the furniture he worked on and did his receipts in crayon.

And that's why he's no longer in the upholstery business.... but their loss is indie rock's gain.

Gassage

Kiwi tunesmith Neil Finn joined the All Blacks dressing room after the 2011 RWC final and sang Don't Dream It's Over.

LionAquaLooper

thecolourbox said:

Jack White was accepted to a seminary to become a priest, but because he couldn't take a guitar amp with him he turned it down and did a business major instead. He then met and married Meg White, who obviously wasn't his sister contrary to what they claimed as part of the White Stripes.

He also did an apprenticeship as an upholsterer and had his own business, Third Man Upholstery, thusly named as he was the third upholsterer on the street. He used to leave poetry and records inside the furniture he worked on and did his receipts in crayon.

Jack and Meg divorced before their second album in 2000, and well before they became popular outside of Detroit

Holy ****, I always thought they were brother sister   Then again I'm just on the outside looking in because I was never a White Stripes fan.  

I like Jack White though.  The documentary he did (American Epic Sessions) is one of the best music documentaries I've ever seen (and I'm not even into old timey Americana music).  To anyone who hasn't seen it, I recommend you seek it out and add it to your lists.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Epic_Sessions

thecolourbox

Philly_Q said:

thecolourbox said:

He also did an apprenticeship as an upholsterer and had his own business, Third Man Upholstery, thusly named as he was the third upholsterer on the street. He used to leave poetry and records inside the furniture he worked on and did his receipts in crayon.

And that's why he's no longer in the upholstery business.... but their loss is indie rock's gain.

He does still do upholstery and posts about it quite a lot on Instagram, as well as taxidermy which I guess is basically reupholstering dead animals. But yes - not really in business for that any more

Philly_Q

Gassage said:

Kiwi tunesmith Neil Finn joined the All Blacks dressing room after the 2011 RWC final and sang Don't Dream It's Over.

And just prior to the quarter-final, James Blunt joined the England team in their dressing room and sang You're Beautiful.

Hootsmon

BillDL said:

Apparently while Mick Jagger was sharing a flat with Keith Richards and Mick Jones, he was studying finance at the London School of Economics and supplemented this with part-time work as a porter in a psychiatric hospital.  Stories suggest that's where he lost his virginity with a nurse in a broom cupboard (no connection with Schofield) or somewehere like that.

Supposedly Rod Stewart once worked in a funeral home and also at marking out graves in a cemetary before his career as a musician started.

My money on who he lost his virginity to is the broom

Hootsmon

Clint Eastwood is Stan laurel's mother in law

guitars4you

Marvin Gaye played drums - drummer on

please me postman
dancin’ in the street 
fingertips
among other tracks 

also tried/wanted to be a jazz singer before the Motown realised a pop career was going to be a strong option 

guitars4you

David Bowie played saxophone 
but he did not play on ‘walk on the wild side’ 

That was Ronnie Ross who actually taught Bowie to play the sax

boogieman

thecolourbox said:

Philly_Q said:

thecolourbox said:

He also did an apprenticeship as an upholsterer and had his own business, Third Man Upholstery, thusly named as he was the third upholsterer on the street. He used to leave poetry and records inside the furniture he worked on and did his receipts in crayon.

And that's why he's no longer in the upholstery business.... but their loss is indie rock's gain.

He does still do upholstery and posts about it quite a lot on Instagram, as well as taxidermy which I guess is basically reupholstering dead animals. But yes - not really in business for that any more

That reminds me, Jennifer Batten makes glass sculptures using a technique called glass fusing and slumping. 

Sporky

boogieman said:

That reminds me, Jennifer Batten makes glass sculptures using a technique called glass fusing and slumping. 

I believe she learnt her craft at the school run by Jenny Powell and Carol Smiley somewhere near Milton Keynes. 

Philly_Q

Sporky said:

boogieman said:

That reminds me, Jennifer Batten makes glass sculptures using a technique called glass fusing and slumping. 

I believe she learnt her craft at the school run by Jenny Powell and Carol Smiley somewhere near Milton Keynes. 

Oh yes, they have a pottery class too, called Wheel of Fortune.