Musicians who have worked as prostitutes?

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I know that Jayne County worked in a German brothel for a while after her transition, and Richard D. James has claimed that he has sucked dicks for cash (I don't know wether to believe him or not, though). Anyone else? I'd prefer to hear about known activities rather than gossip, though.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee Dee Ramone
Jobriath Boone

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

li'l kim

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Wh'about Courtney Love? I know she was at least a stripper, and then there's that "When I Was a Teenage Whore" song (tho', admittedly, she may have been singing 'in character').

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i really don't believe the richard d james thing for a minute - he's is a total bullshit artist and you should take anything he says with a bucketload of salt. it's also not very funny if one of his jokes, either.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

jim carroll

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Leika K, who had a hit with "Got To Get" in 1990, does now.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

How much does she charge, Geir?

― Brian, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

No idea. Just read an article about how she had ended up on the street, as a heroin addict selling her body. Sad story indeed. :-/

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah thats a shame.

― Brian, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Madonna tongues teenage girls for cash.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

not at all the same thing as prostitution, but in related news ... andrea ("more more more") true started out as a porn star.

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

the pop group to thread

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Matthews

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

just kiddin, in truth id make a better hooker.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ivar "Zephyrous" Enger of Darkthrone fame apparently is a homeless heroin addict in Oslo now, he might also qualify.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Male heroin addicts in Oslo usually get their money from begging or theft, not from selling their bodies...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

So speaks the voice of experience.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's in Ibsen.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracy Lords released an album, didn't she? Kind of an Andrea True connection, no? (har har)

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe Diamanda Galas has.

Did Cosey engage in actual prostitution, or did she just pop out of cakes nude and talk dirty?

― Al Andalous (Al Andalous), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald (or so I recently read).

― Al Andalous (Al Andalous), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Charles Mingus claimed in Beneath the Underdog to have lived with lesbian pimps...

― hstencil, Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It'd probably be easier to name musicians who haven't.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(I just got the Pop Group joke, about 10 or 15 minutes later. I had been sitting here earlier thinking, hmmmm, I wonder what the Pop Group was involved with.)

― Al Andalous (Al Andalous), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i've seen a video of cosey (well, it looked like her, and a cage was involved...). i've certainly seen photos. i don't think she was a prossy though.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Daniel Treacy is now a homeless heroin addict. Must be difficult to be a 45 year old (or thereabouts) male hustler, I'd think.

― qlw, Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

qlw that is such horrible news.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

If porn counts: c'mon guys, Traci Lords.

― Xii (Xii), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I can totally read. Sorry nickn.

― Xii (Xii), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Carla Bozulich of Geraldine Fibbers. She's talked about it in interviews.

― David Smay (David Smay), Thursday, 4 September 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe Diamanda Galas has.

She's mentioned something about participating in "bizarre criminal activities" before she went into music.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 5 September 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

When Kid Creole and the Coconuts were first breaking as a band over two decades ago, there was a certain amount of Island record co glamor spin about how a few of the guys in the band had supposedly made a good living as "escorts" to uppercrust NY society women. New designer suits to look nice and limos sent to pick them up sorts of fables. Actually, kind of like what the record company was doing.

― bflaska, Friday, 5 September 2003 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Steven Adler

― dave q, Friday, 5 September 2003 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Did I read somewhere that Shaun Ryder was a rent boy for a while? Probably more self-mythologising 'though.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 September 2003 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim Carroll?

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 5 September 2003 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

In 'Crazy From the Heat' David Lee Roth says him and a cop did this prank where the cop brought him into the station and said "I caught this guy on the corner, he says he's just a gigolo"

― dave q, Friday, 5 September 2003 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always wondered if 'The Old Main Drag' by the Pogues was autobiographical to any extent...

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 5 September 2003 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The Libertines to thread. On second thoughts, fuck off. No, you can't have the taxi fare.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Jarboe. She talks about it in Re/Search's Angry Women In Rock book, as I recall.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Lisa Suckdog.

― dlp9001, Friday, 5 September 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The News of the World ran the 'Shaun Ryder was rent boy' story back at the height of the Monday's fame. It was bollocks of course.

― rw, Friday, 5 September 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

A bunch of people connected to The Germs during their brief life... Black Randy was one I think. There can't be that many scenes like that LA punk one, which are fairly intrinsically connected to prostitution. I mean, bands obviously do smack and fuck prossies all the time, but that's not really the same thing.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 September 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"i really don't believe the richard d james thing for a minute - he's is a total bullshit artist and you should take anything he says with a bucketload of salt. it's also not very funny if one of his jokes, either."

Its true - he sucked mine for a packet of benson and a few demo tapes.

― Nat, Saturday, 6 September 2003 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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