Famous Folks who are Unlikely Fans of Your Favorite Artist

the Carson Kressley lookalike in V is a Savoy Brown fan.

One of the reasons that Plant chose Albini to record that record with Page a couple of years back was because he was a fan of Big Black and The Jesus Lizard.

do you really believe that?

I'm betting Pynchon is in Lotion. Seems like it'd be a good place to hide.

I love prog rock!

Meanwhile, that Fred Durst talk about MBV the other day did amuse me.

are you serious? any documentation?
-- duke clickety (dan...), May 6th, 2004.

Mr. Nolte was at the (Smog) show at the Bowery Ballroom last summer, and made a point to go backstage and introduce himself.

Bobcat Goldthwait really likes the replacements.

Kenneth Clarke, former Tory minister, saw Sun Ra!

that's not surprising at all. manson may not be a hipster exactly, but his trashy pseudo-performance art schtick is not too far off from that of peaches, just aimed at a more suburban audience. (not that i personally care much for either).

"Jennifer Aniston is apparently (my wife told me this) wearing an MC5 t-shirt in the opening credits of at least the last few Friends episodes this season. (I don't know if they had the same opening credits sequence all season or not.) "

probably one of those levi's tie-in shirts they were doing.

he was also a friend of kurt cobain, and is even thanked in the liner notes from in utero.

Yeah, I noticed that this evening and spat up all over my desk. `Cos y'know, Rachel's all down with the White Panter Party and into dope, guns and fucking in the streets. a

Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of "South Park", friends of Nick's)
Brandy (famously raved on backstage in 1995)
Kyan Douglas ("Queer Eye"'s hygiene guy -- maybe duh... ?)
Oasis (straight from supercool fan Jemiah's site, apparently "written by Linda aka Spitting Kitty" so blame her, Ned: "Ha ha ha. Here's my favorite. Okay, so Oasis loves to rag on Duran except, OOPS! They said really terrific things about the band when 'What's the Story' was first released. They, of course, totally recanted when they got big. You know, 'cos Duran is so uncool. Not. By the way, what park bench is Liam living under these days?")
Jonathan Davis (Korn) (Was going to work on remixes with the band ca. 2000's Pop Trash, namely on one of my personal favorites, "Playing With Uranium", but plans fell through.)
Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal (No Doubt -- maybe duh... ?)
Beck (seen at a recent Duran gig; Nick is a huge fan of his, FYI)
Andy Warhol (Quote from him: "I masturbate to Duran Duran videos.")
Ben Stiller (Also credited to "Linda aka Spitting Kitty": "Caught him backstage at N(B)O [Neurotic (Boy) Outsiders, i.e. mid '90s side project featuring members of DD, Guns & Roses, and the Sex Pistols] concert in New York City. He could be a Guns and Roses fan for all I know but.... A) He's VERY cute and incredibly nice and therefore, a Duran fan in my book and B) Ben Stiller/ guns and roses? Please.")
Jennifer Aniston (True blue; claims her first crush was on SLB and Brad Pitt delighted her at his last birthday by dressing as SLB and doing a karaoke version of "Wild Boys". Possibly duh... ?)
Lostprophets (Totally duh, since they did take their band name from a Duran live bootleg and all. Have even admitted it in interviews.)

Franz Ferdinand's Alex Karpanos has also admitted love for those Boys From Birmingham in an interview, but I don't think this is so much "unlikely" as "See, see? Another sign that FF are so the rightful heirs to the Duran crown!" Which is true, since their current sound is very "1981 debut album".

One of Gas Huffer did a painting for Chelsea Clinton at her request. I think it was of her father but I could be wrong

You're right, he's even directed a couple of their videos.

oh.

Bobcat Goldthwait introduced Nirvana at the show I saw in Chicago.

"The Sherman Hemsley-Daevid Allen saga has got to be *the* all-time top stranger than fiction lunatic story in r&r history."

Well second to Charlie Manson and Dennis Wilson.

Ian Rankin is a big Stones fan, as evidenced by some of his book titles, but his latest paperback also reveals a love of Mogwai.

Imagine my surprise at the launch of the posthumous Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros album to find myself stood next to Damon Hill...

!!!
I think we can all go home now.

The Shatner is also apparently a fan of the 'Bone.

gotta pay the bills, man.

Whomever said Drew Barrymore upthread... you realize she was engaged to the guitarist from Hole and dated the singer for The Strokes and basically shows up at any popular alternative band's show in LA?

plus, john mayer clains to be a huge fan of stevie ray, buddy guy, an dother blues greats. too bad not an ounce of their coolness comes out in his music.

Everyone probably knows about Cobain liking The Carpenters, but it still makes me chuckle that one.

It's the Swans version that he loves;-)

She was married to Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys, y'know.

Yeah, I've seen that pic. I think it has more to do with Jon often likening his band to a ::;cringes::;; "rock'n'roll mafia" than with the band (and, frankly, it ain't like the Godfathers were some underground sensation. "Birth School Work Death" was kind've a minor hit that actually got played on the radio). If we're talking about the same picture, the Godfathers t-shirt in question features the band's logo and picture of a gun-toting mobster, not a pic of the band. He may just like the word "godfatherrs," y'know?

That said, I do remember a snipped of Bon Jovi's episode of "Behind the Music" wherein Jon says that a friend of his once played him The Dead Boys, and him saying "it was cool, but I didn't really get it." Clearly.

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guess you haven't heard her band then!

Harmony Korine on Burzum

John Kerry on Outkast

Well her band are GvsB (hence the comment).

John Waters of Pink Flamingo etc. fame considers himself a Michael Ivey(Basehead) groupie.
-- thomas de'aguirre (knuckl...) (webmail), May 7th, 2004 1:34 PM. (biteylove) (later) (link)

He also likes the Locust!!!! THE LOCUST!!!!! (He put them in a movie too)

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Brian from Queen likes EVERY 31G BAND EVER!!!!

In the commentary track to Drugstore Cowboy he mentions his love of Roki Erickson and Skip Spence.

(Ione Skye) was married to Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys, y'know.

And Donovan's her father, so it would make sense she'd follow music.

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.....and she dated Anthony Kiedlis - wow these Ione Skye facts are flowing tonight!!

That's her on the cover of Mother's Milk.

"Like the Mekons, he hates big business. Like his father, he loves small business, and part of his job, as he described it, is to teach smaller defense contractors, the ones who are taking on the Big Four contractors, to navigate the shoals of Washington."

Makes perfect sense to me.

; )

Does anybody remember when Justin Timberlake wore an MC5 shirt when he was on the cover of Vibe? ugh, that was so irritating.

Stepher, I knight thee defender of the faith!

Band T-shirt Etiquette

s&d: justin timberlake sporting an mc5 tshirt on the cover of vibe this month

Hi-Fashion Ironic Vintage Metal/Punk Kitsch

Jennifer Aniston is apparently (my wife told me this) wearing an MC5 t-shirt

Why is it so easy to think that Brad Pitt can genuinely like decent music but no-one can imagine his wife doing the same?

About a month ago, my mom had me stay home sick. I was actually listening to the Howard Stern show, it was the best thing on. I didn't feel like watching the new. Anyway, he had taken a commercial break. He sometimes plays little parts of songs when he gets back. This time, he played part of "Seeing Red" by Killing Joke.

Does that mean he honours the fire?

Oh, and he has had Dave Grohl on his show.

not that that neccessarily means she's a fan.

and I forget which one, but I remember one of the panelists on the McLaughlin Group (American political discussion show) mention Guided by Voices on the show.

That's Jay Carney from TIME Magazine (where I work). He's the Washington Bureau chief and a hecka-swell fella. He's also a MASSIVE fan of GBV (in the same frothing-mouthed manner I'm a fan of Killing Joke).

Hmmm, not that unlikely or surprising, really. ;-)

Peter Cetera from Chicago in Bauhaus t-shirt (when both were current) is the classic video nasty.

As confirmed in Pet Shop Boys versus America, wherein Axl chats with the author of the book about his love.

Can someone direct me to a site or story about Sherman Helmsley's prog love, please?

1969: P-Orridge wins the Needler Poetry Competition, judged by Richard Murphy and Phillip Larkin at Hull University.

My heart has just exploded with joy.

Here's one:

http://www.yessng.net/Jan99.html#jon

Apparently, he also once *tap-danced* to a Gentle Giant song while appearing on Merv Griffin or Mike Douglas (one of those shows) in the 70s.

http://www.bondegezou.demon.co.uk/wnyesm.htm#anderson

"Anderson has written lyrics for Festival of Dreams, a 'funk-rock' opera by actor Sherman Hemsley. In an interview (23 Mar 2003), Hemsley said, "I write music, which people don't know. The show would be a monster, but I can't get anyone to take it seriously, because they only see me as George Jefferson. We're trying to get it going. All we need is one producer." In another (30 Mar 2003), he said, "Jon's taking the music I've written and [is] putting it into 15-minute segments. We've been trying to get this thing happening for three years now" and was reported to be trying to get Anderson to Atlantic City for rehearsals on 6 Apr. In a Jul interview, Anderson claimed to have "written a rap opera, which will see the light of day one day," which may or may not be a reference to the project with Hemsley. In the iO Pages interview, he again refers to this "rap opera" as something written a decade ago but to be released "soon"."

Pickin' on Killing Joke again. Soooooooo original of you.

Also, I wasn't talking about whether or not she was cool.

wiley old pat, though, would get two copies, hide one and place the other in plainview, for the bastards to have, to tear.

Apparently when he wrote "November Rain" he was inspired by "My October Symphony"

You know, Friends maybe a terrible show, but she did a good job in Office Space and has been on South Park before, and married Brad Pitt, who although good looking is also a good actor who chooses interesting roles and seems intelligent, all of which indicate to me that Jennifer Annistan may be cool.

Isn't Dennis Rodman a huge Pearl Jam fan? I mean.....why?

'Cuz he's CRAZY, don't you see? He's a WILD MAN!

Didn't George Michael once say that "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (presumably the Joy Division original and not the Paul Young rendition) was his favorite ever song?

He certainly said on 1984 TV programme Eight Days a Week (with fellow panellists Morrissey and Tony Blackburn) that Closer was one of his favourite records. Side 2 in particular, I think. They were reviewing Paul Morley's book.

Jim Rome is a huge 'Mats fan. He plays the riff from "My Little Problem" as a liner on his show all the time.

Why did [Norm from "Cheers"] appear in MJ's video for "Black or White"?
He was also in the "Ghostbusters" video. Maybe it's because none of the bands he really cared about never made any videos prone to celebrity cameos?

Stephen King ... makes reference to "Gimme Back My Dog," a great song from a great band from Texas called Slobberbone.
What book is this?

I have seen him at two Belle and Sebastian gigs also.

He was on the radio a couple of weeks ago telling a story which happened to mention being at a party and ending up in a taxi with Morrissey and Vini Reilly (all protagonists being exceptionally drunk). He was stopped from telling the whole story on the grounds that it was a football show, but I would have loved to have heard it.

He also was in the video for Soul Asylum's "Black Gold." I actually cut out a picture of George Wendt hanging out with Sugar from Rolling Stone back in '94. I would show people the picture and make them guess which of the four wasn't in Sugar. Sometimes people got it wrong!

pat nevin wow.

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they can't admit they've got the hots for her

RAISE YOUR STANDARS!

-- henry s (henr...) (webmail), May 18th, 2004 11:48 AM. (later) (link)

is he really a fan or did he just read the new yorker piece and think it was a good subject for a film? or perhaps someone at his production company did the same?

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from putnam's website

michael mcdonald - august 9th, uncasville, CT

i got there a lot later than i wanted to. the show was at the mohegan sun indian casino, and it was free. "first come, first served" as they say. when i got there, i was like 400th in line, and wondered if i'd even get inside or not. they sit 6 people at every table. since i was by myself, there was a table in the front row that had only 5 people in it, so, they sat me there. it was awesome, i was about 5 feet from michael mcdonald! i sat next to 2 groups of people. one guy (with some broad), claiming he was danny devito (but he wasn't short enough or funny enough to be him), and a group of 3 nice "housewife" types. they asked me before the show what my 3 "desert island" cd's would be, and being an asshole, i said, "how would you be able to play cd's on a desert island with no electricity?". they later, between themselves, asked each other who the 3 guys they could be stranded on a desert island would be (with no surprise, no husbands of theirs were mentioned), one of them said "mel gibson (generically understandable), billy joel (!!!!!), and michael mcdonald(!!!!!!!!!!). it made no sense to me at all. so, back to michael mcdonald, he was on tour promoting his new cd of motown covers. i didn't care what he was going to sing. his voice is so awesome, he could even sing hatebreed or limp bizkit songs, and i'd think he was awesome. he sounded unbelievable! he did some doobie brothers songs, some of his solo songs, and some motown ones (stuff from marvin GAYe, stevie wonder, etc). he sounded better than i expected. he has easily one of the most unique gay voices ever. his band was really good as well, they were all from other bands that i never heard of, but, supposedly, they're well known musicains. by the end of the set, he did "taking it to the streets", and a whole bunch of civilized middle aged people rushed the stage. he totally fucking kicked ass all night. i highly recommend seeing him.

I read in EW that the was the basis for Hey Ya, which does sound like something the Buzzcocks could've done. Maybe not lyrically, but the retro-60's vibe to it is there.

Then again, maybe Andre was intending the same but forgot his delay pedal on the day he had to lay the vocals down, so he just improvised delay.

You're obviously forgetting the trail-out of "I Believe",....

THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMOOOOOORE...

Bill Oddie is a massive Prince and p-funk fan, The Funky Gibbon was his homage to George Clinton.

And as mentioned above Axl Rose was a huge PSB fan, November rain was his (miserable) attempt to write a PSB style song.

(BTW, not exactly "fan"-related, but a band-related article that's surprising in its content and focus.)

Okay, so David Bedingfield (and The Bravery, but they don't fit this thread's requirements) have both been tapped (and have accepted the invite) to be Duran's openers when My Favorite West Midlanders play on their home turf at St. Andrew's football grounds on May 28. Hello? (I'm wondering if this counts, BTW. I won't know officially if this means he's a fan for awhile.)

New famous Duran fan addition (might not be surprising): Christina Applegate Was seen praising the band after an L.A. concert date in July 2003.

I have also come to find out that Deftones ARE real Duran fans and not the opportunists I marked them out to be when they participated in that weird ska/punk Duran tribute album in '97. So HUGE pats on the backs of those guys.

Oh! And did you know that Neil Gaiman wrote a bio on DD back in the early '80s? It's something he kinda likes to keep secret, though he's stopped short of completely ripping on the band.

I don't know if she was necessarily a fan or not, but apparently Allison Anders has this thing for John Taylor; it's why he scored Mi Vida Loca and co-starred in Sugar Town. Also, some of Cheap Trick attended one of JT's birthday parties; this could just be because they're pals, though. (OT: I like Cheap Trick. They certainly have nothing to be embarrassed about.)

Scissor Sisters were apparently quite happy to open for Duran during their 25th anniversary (of existence, not of recording) gigs in the UK back in 2003. You can even see Ana Matronic raving on about the experience in the special DVD attached to the "limited edition" Astronaut release.

I think Elisabeth from the second (?) "Survivor" (the one who's now on "The View") was interviewed about her musical tastes ca. the time period when she was appearing on "Survivor" and she mentioned being into DD. (This could be surprising considering how young she is... but then again, look at me. *laughs* I'm younger than she is by a few years!)

(Next up: Figuring out surprising fans of Japan/David Sylvian. And Franz Ferdinand.)

-- Brad Laner (b...), May 11th, 2004.

This has to be the strangest ILM post I've ever read. Brad Laner of Medicine? Working at the Sherman Oaks Moby Disc? Where I actually bought an Electric Company LP one time (possibly from Brad Laner himself)? Selling Gong records to Sherman Helmsley in Sherman Oaks? I have to go to bed now.

Bill Drummond for one. Peter Green fan too, his chapter on meeting his idol in 45 is one of the funniest and most heartbreaking pieces of music writing ever.

Doesn't this usually involve bloodletting,degrading sexual acts and strangulation, though?

It always amazed me that Anthony Reynolds from Jack worships Sylvian to the extent of bringing people home and making them watch Japan and Sylvian bootleg videos!

Yep. He's also a Magnetic Fields fan.

Chalk up Vincent Gallo in the prog-rock obsessives column, in this case Yes.

Will they disembowel you?

(Addition: Def Leppard have said some very nice things about DD. The two bands are friendly with each other.)

It always amazed me that Anthony Reynolds from Jack worships Sylvian to the extent of bringing people home and making them watch Japan and Sylvian bootleg videos!

Okay, first of all, who is Anthony Reynolds (yes, I know, "from Jack", but I've yet to hear of this group!), and what can I do to become friends with him? *laughs* Actually, I can use the power of Google for the former, but the latter... ?