In the mood for some gossip...name as many rock stars as you can who came from money

Courtney Love is an (the?) heiress to the Bausch & Lomb fortune.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2331/2064703071_3242e3533f.jpg

Gram Parsons

thingy from elastica

Ozzy Osbourne is the younger son of the Marquess of Bute.

Dieter Meier, the singer from Yello, is from a millionaire family. I read some interview of him were he said that one of the reasons he became a conceptual artist, and later on a singer, is that he never had to work in his life.

i remember reading something about how lil jon grew up in a 6-story mansion

Jon Spencer was purportedly reasonably well off.

Is that true about Ozzy? (guess I could look on Wikipedia)

He was born on December 3, 1948 in abject poverty into a family of six children.
Hardy har har

Is that true about Ozzy?

-- Noodle Vague,

lil romeo's dad is a ceo of no limit records

Sean Lennon, Jakob Dylan, Hank III

Anna Waronker

Before starting his career in Prog Rock, Demis Roussos was the Queen of Tonga.

That dude out of the Strokes is heir to the Post-It billions.

Are you sure you're not confusing him with Michael Nesmith, who's mom invented the liquid paper?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nesmith

WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BARREL GUYZ

That dude out of the Strokes is heir to the Post-It billions.

Julian Casablancas, son of John Casablancas, founder of Elite Model Management.

Shaquille O'Neal was worth over $100,000 dollars from his professional baseball earnings before he became a Gangster Rapper.

malkmus and the kleenex fortune

Cansei Der Ser Sexy are all posh kids who like to mock the grinding poverty found in their native Rio de Janeiro in their songs.

this thread and my laugh reflex have combinated.

At least one of the Animal Collective.

alan jackson has a magick colon and he poops rolex watches

http://www.tnvalleyfair.org/Concert/EddieMoney.jpg

Vanessa Paradis. Her loaded uncle paid the recording and release of her first album.

Norwegian electro pop act Hongroe made a lot of money trading in Nazi gold.

eddie money was a cop! but he was a loose cannon! he was getting too old for this shit and it was his last day before retirement and the sarge made him hand in his badge and gun and put him on administrative leave and then he played on the midnight special that night and punched wolfman jack

lily allen's dad dave put a fair bit away.

Peter Gabriel

..and, despite his claim to have come "straight out tha trailer," Kid Rock is the son a of a wealthy Detroit industrialist.

Mark Ronson

Didn't one of the guys in Moby Grape grow up in a rather large house?

http://theisleoffailedpopstars.blogspot.com/2007/11/traci-lords-1000-fires-1995.html

We should probably exclude children of famous musicians if we're going to get anywhere here...

And dammit, beaten to Dieter Meier. At least I can still quote from AMG's Yello entry:

The ambitious Swiss electronic duo Yello comprised vocalist/conceptualist Dieter Meier -- a millionaire industrialist, professional gambler, and member of Switzerland's national golf team -- and composer/arranger Boris Blank.

MY HERO. He's like one step away from being Goldfinger.

Didn't one of the guys in Moby Grape grow up in a rather large house?

Peter Lewis is the son of actress Loretta Young

i don't think too many of what would be considered "rock stars" actually do in america.

ronsons interesting because he is step, not to mention he has skewed things pretty far away from foreigner (thank christ)

Grace Slick's dad was an investment banker

Didn't Ani Defranco's parents have enough to build their daughter's career?

townes van zandt
nick drake

Gary Lewis (of "and the Playboys").

Lars Ulrich!

The whole of !Gallon Drunk! but then...