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‘Famous’ Musicians you were at school with…
Were you at school with anybody well known ?
Here is my starter for 3…
Mick Hucknall, lead singer with Simply Red was 3 or 4 years below me.
Jez Smith, an excellent keyboard player with bands such as Wayne Fontana and Barclay James Harvest was a couple of years below me.
Clive Gregson, great singer, songwriter and guitarist. Gregson & Collister, Richard Thompson etc etc was a year above me. I saw Clive play in a local pub 3 or 4 years ago, fantastic and incredibly down to earth for somebody who’s lived in the states for quite a while and has mixed with some of the greats.
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Didn’t realise until I was told about 5 years ago but Jay Kay from Jamirioqui lived just out of the village and went to primary school with me for a little while. My lasting memory is of playing with Lego at his place. We’d have been about 8 or around there
Ms. Grimley, Mr Hopkins, all the kids knew them.
I watched Bowie’s concert in lisbon when I was still in highschool. Does it count?
Weird Al.
I had several classes with him in college. He was just as much a nut then as now. My favorite visual memory was of walking into a lab classroom early one morning to find him curled up like a baby fast asleep on one of the tables. The instructor and rest of the class just let him sleep. He was so cute all curled up there.
Not me, but my sister used to be high school friends with (had a crush on actually) Jack Joseph Puig, who later became a well known music engineer, record producer, and music industry exec. They and some other friends used to duck out to Pasadena together to watch an unknown band called Van Halen practicing in their garage.
I took several classes with Frank Gambale, Chick Corea's guitarist. Sade's guitarist was there too, but I forget his name. I had another class with George Clinton, who scored the Austin Powers movies. My educational brushes with fame!
Do comedians count? One of my students was Amy Schumer when she was about 18. I played basketball on our high school team with Tom Shadyac, who directed Ace Ventura and some other Jim Carrey movies.
You must have had good eyesight @pedro 😊
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You mean I was watching from school? 😂 I would need hawk eyes as I live near porto and the concert was in alvalade stadium, 300km away. But it was a really memorable experience. I actually made local news cause I shouted “bowie I love you” and there was a reporter next to me that included it in their piece. I’m straight btw, and it wasn’t the only time I made the news
Hootie & The Blowfish.
Nice guys.
Worked hard. Really hard.
I wonder whatever happened to that obscure little band?
Brian Nash & Mark O’Toole from Frankie and later Frank Maudsley from a Flock Of Seagulls.
I was friends with Brian & Mark in school, but Frank was one of the cool kids a couple of years above me.
Now look who's cool.
I’m waiting for somebody to say… ‘I was at school with that Doug bloke who went on to world wide fame with @thesoundtestroom ‘ 🤣
@GeoTony 🤣😂
What an interesting thread! I can’t say I really went to school with anyone “famous”. A couple of good athletes that went pro maybe. And one that works with Disney now animating movies but that’s about it.
I know a couple of people that are in the underground though. And played music with a guy that toured with Queens of the Stone Age.
Great thread! Above I have highlighted 2 famous musicians I went to school with (on the left are Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook, of Warsaw, Joy Division, New Order and on the right a very embarrassing photo of me in my Joe 90 period!).
This was Salford Grammar School 1969-70.
We were in the same year and attended some of the same classes. In the 6th form we had a 24 hour table tennis marathon for charity, which meant staying overnight in the 6th form common room. I had my acoustic guitar with me and Bernard and Peter were interested in me showing them some chords because they were starting a band! My claim to fame - but I didn't even get a mention in Hooky's book (although several other people in our year did).
I wear it Long Beach State when Larry Carlton was a student but I was in the Music Department and he was studying Business and starting his studio career and playing on a “Good Morning” style TV show already. My dad saw the show and called me to know if I was aware of this Larry Carlton guitarist. I didn’t have a clue. Then a few years later he was playing with the Crusaders and Steely Dan. And he got that Business Degree… go figure. Just do it.
In the music department, Richard and Karen Carpenter were in the group that graduated just before I arrived. They came back to do some fund raising concerts with the College Choir. The choir director, Frank Pooler, was instrumental in helping them perfect their vocal blend in the studio.
Instrumentally the star of my Music Department class was a sax player named Tom Kubis who has composed or arranged thousands of Jazz Big Band charts (https://tomkubis.com/pages/big-band-charts).
Not school, but my wife and her family are all singers. In addition, Brian McKnight’s mom is my wife’s godmother and my brother-in law is married to the daughter of a couple soul legends: lead singer of the Honey Cones: Edna Wright and producer, Greg Perry. Honorable mention: one of my best friends from high school and to this day, his sister is married to King of Chill, producer for MC Lyte and engineer for DJ Premier.
Ben the drummer for George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. His dad was a horn player in the old days he became a nasty drummer and eventually joined the group. Was recently on tour. A few other friends have done some things but not school mates.
That’s awesome.
Richard D James. He was a couple of years above me and friend of a friend.
Nate Mendel, the bass player of the Foo Fighters was in a band with one of my friends during our high school years. I went out to hear them at the storage shed they practiced in: when he came in he told me ‘I hear you’re a really good bass player…’ How flipping ironic.
Johann Sebastian Bach.
I was in the same class as a kid whose uncle was Jet Black from The Stranglers. Does that count?
Not school, but i worked in HMV with Dan le sac from Dan le sac and Scroobius Pip
That’s so cool Colin! Joy Division is my favorite band.
😮😮😮 would’ve loved to have met him.
Matt and Luke from Bros were in the year below me at Collingwood Secondary school.