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‘Famous’ Musicians you were at school with…

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  • KrupaKrupa

    Closest I’ve got is I worked with DeeDee from Robots in Disguise in my first proper job when I moved to London in the late nineties, totally underrated fun band.

  • toneman88toneman88

    Gary Numan.

    We were in the same year at the Grammar School he got expelled from but in different classes. We also grew up in the same village where our fathers both worked for BOAC (now British Airways). There were also two primary schools in the village and he went to one while I was at the other. I was really interested in synths at the time but sadly I don’t remember ever talking to him. I’d love to compare reminiscences of those days with him now to see how much our school experiences and school teachers shaped who we became.

    Great idea for a thread!

  • GeoTonyGeoTony

    I’ve had to Google some of these people but I’ve learned a lot 🧐
    Pokey Lafarge… great name @mambonassau !
    Frank Gimbale… great guitarist, lucky devil @Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr 👍
    You name dropper @waka_x …
    Your photo made me laugh Colin ( @AlterEgo_UK ) . My (different) boys only grammar scool photo from the same era looks identical. I’m sure the same kids were bussed from one school to another just for the photos 😊

  • supadomsupadom

    I have 6 or less degrees of separation from all famous people and it really doesn’t make me feel special.

  • michael_mmichael_m

    Brian Howe of Bad Company went to the same school as me, but I didn’t meet him as he’s about a dozen years older than me.

  • MasangaMasanga
    edited June 2023

    My daughter was at school with Dua Lipa (but four years below, I think); she doesn't think this is an interesting fact at all and only casually dropped it a few months ago. Best I can manage was the lead singer from Ugly Rumours; I forget his name now.

  • NeuMNeuM

    @toneman88 said:
    Gary Numan.

    We were in the same year at the Grammar School he got expelled from but in different classes. We also grew up in the same village where our fathers both worked for BOAC (now British Airways). There were also two primary schools in the village and he went to one while I was at the other. I was really interested in synths at the time but sadly I don’t remember ever talking to him. I’d love to compare reminiscences of those days with him now to see how much our school experiences and school teachers shaped who we became.

    Great idea for a thread!

    That's pretty cool.

  • craftycuratecraftycurate

    I know the dad of Andy McLuskey of Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark. OK not the school thing but it's all I've got.

  • FingolfinzzFingolfinzz

    He’s a bit older than me so I didn’t go to school with him but I’m buddies with Steve Ewing from The Urge cos I’ve gotten to know him over the years doing music and stuff around St Louis cos he keeps it very local these days

  • bygjohnbygjohn

    I was at school with the cousin of Lol Creme from 10cc, later Godley and Creme. Which didn’t mightily impress me at the time as I wasn’t really into 10cc (still am not, FWIW, though happy to acknowledge things like “I’m not in love” as groundbreaking).

  • willetsjmwilletsjm

    @Tovokas said:
    Nate Mendel, the bass player of the Foo Fighters Sunny Day Real Estate 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. :smile:

    Fixed it for you. :smile:

  • rhesliprheslip

    My wife was about 2 years ahead of Shania Twain at Timmins High School. Her younger sister was in the same class.

    “That don’t impress me much”

  • myapologiesmyapologies

    More dance than music..My high school prepared us for real life.
    https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/02/zumba-alexis-wright-prostitution

  • wimwim
    edited July 2023

    @myapologies said:
    More dance than music..My high school prepared us for real life.
    https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/02/zumba-alexis-wright-prostitution

    Didja take any ... uh ... Zumba classes from her?

  • gusgranitegusgranite

    @HotStrange said:

    @gusgranite said:
    Richard D James. He was a couple of years above me and friend of a friend.

    😮😮😮 would’ve loved to have met him.

    To be fair, I didn't know him socially or anything. He used to DJ at one of the local clubs so that's where we first heard him play out. I still have a decent acid mixtape he put together for my friend which is fun.

    Luke Vibert's dad taught me at the same college as well. He was a really cool guy. Reload were local too so we got to hear an early demo of A Collection of Short Stories which just blew us away. That album still does. Masterpiece of early nineties electronica.

    Cornwall was pretty cool at that time!

  • myapologiesmyapologies
    edited July 2023

    Nah, Mother wouldn’t allow it, but her work of course remains a major influence, @wim

  • gusgranitegusgranite

    @Stuntman_mike said:
    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.

    Love this!

  • qryssqryss

    The neighbour over the back fence of my best friend from primary school (still know him really well) was Roland Orzabal from Tears for Fears.

    As a student in London I used to make fake business cards on the brand spanking new Apple Mac and LaserWriter that my department had so I could get into the trade days of music conventions at Olympia. I once stood next to Steve Howe at the Synclavier stand while the hapless demo person showed him what it could do with samples - using Owner of a Lonely Heart as the example. He clearly had no idea who Steve was.

  • TovokasTovokas

    @willetsjm said:

    @Tovokas said:
    Nate Mendel, the bass player of the Foo Fighters Sunny Day Real Estate 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. :smile:

    Fixed it for you. :smile:

    Guess I could have said Diddly Squat… the band at the time, but that might have been a bit obscure. :smile:

  • taeotaeo

    Teebs, Onhell, and Ash Riser

  • mrufino1mrufino1

    @rheslip said:
    My wife was about 2 years ahead of Shania Twain at Timmins High School. Her younger sister was in the same class.

    “That don’t impress me much”

    I read her Uncle Mark’s books when I was in school, I really enjoyed his writing.

    Also, the producer/ songwriter I assisted a few years ago was very special. He would tell me all the time that “These hands have played the notes of Chopin.”

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @gusgranite said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @gusgranite said:
    Richard D James. He was a couple of years above me and friend of a friend.

    😮😮😮 would’ve loved to have met him.

    To be fair, I didn't know him socially or anything. He used to DJ at one of the local clubs so that's where we first heard him play out. I still have a decent acid mixtape he put together for my friend which is fun.

    Luke Vibert's dad taught me at the same college as well. He was a really cool guy. Reload were local too so we got to hear an early demo of A Collection of Short Stories which just blew us away. That album still does. Masterpiece of early nineties electronica.

    Cornwall was pretty cool at that time!

    Gotta say I’m still pretty jealous haha. He’s been such a big influence on me over the years. Really a genius guy.

  • michael_mmichael_m

    My niece’s 5 year old son is about 10 years ahead of Kid Rock is school grades. Does that count?

  • shinyisshinyshinyisshiny

    went to school and grew up with the atreyu guys.

  • sevenapesevenape

  • GeoTonyGeoTony

    Anything counts on this thread @michael_m 😊 e.g. I once formatted a floppy disk for the the late Tony Wilson of Haçienda Club fame 💾

  • ZooBaaDooZooBaaDoo

    @GeoTony said:
    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.

    @GeoTony said:
    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.

    You and I have so much in common! I know Clive and one of the founding members of Any Trouble Tom Jackson was a great friend of mine. Unfortunately he passed away I miss him like crazy. Clive as you say has had an amazing career in music. Nancy Griffith's covered a song of his and that alone made Clive some dosh (I’m sure he wouldn’t mind me saying). Mick Hucknell was in my year at Ashton College and originally in Joe Stalins Red Star Radio Band with my mate Loz bass player and postman extraordinaire. I met him a number of times ‘in the day’ often in the pool room of the Angel pub in Denton. 6 degrees of separation!

  • ZooBaaDooZooBaaDoo

    @thesoundtestroom said:
    @GeoTony 🤣😂

    However…..if you are the Doug Wood from Signal Radio Stoke back in the day you and I might well have met…??

  • GeoTonyGeoTony

    Nice one @ZooBaaDoo , I from Denton so we’ve probably trod the same pavements 🥾

  • ZooBaaDooZooBaaDoo

    @GeoTony said:
    Nice one @ZooBaaDoo , I from Denton so we’ve probably trod the same pavements 🥾

    I’m originally from Hattersley. Not many famous musos came from here! My older brother John was best mates with Rickie Hattons dad though! Shameless plug here. I wrote a song about Hattersley called ‘John McDermotts flicking peas at you’. It languishes on streaming sites unheard under my The Belle Vue Zoo band moniker! 😂😂

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