Rock Stars Who Used to be School Teachers

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Gene Simmons
Sting
Sheryl Crow
Jim Croce
Art Garfunkel
Roberta Flack

Got any others to add to this list?

("Rock star" is not exactly the right term for some of them, I know.)
  • I think Elvis Costello said he was a Teacher, or substitute, for awhile...

    Sheena Easton studied to teach speech and drama at The Royal Scottish Academy...

    Kris Kristofferson was offered a position as a professor of English Literature at West Point.
    (He is a Rhodes Scholar...his degree is from Oxford.)
    Instead, he decided to leave the Army (he was a Captain/helicopter pilot) and pursue songwriting.
    His family disowned him. (I think he did Okay...)

    (I might have stayed after school for Sheena Easton or Sheryl Crow...:rolleyes
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  • Profile picture of the author bravo75
    Wasn't one of the Scorpions members a teacher? I remember reading it somewhere when I lived in Germany. Googled it but couldn't find anything.
    Sorry for my mediocre input. It's like saying: "I'd lend you $20 bucks but I'm a bit short today.
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by bravo75 View Post

      Wasn't one of the Scorpions members a teacher? I remember reading it somewhere when I lived in Germany. Googled it but couldn't find anything.
      I just Googled it and found this: The Scorpions on Manchesterbeat - the group and music scene of Manchester in the 60s
      Bassist Dave Vernon quit the Scorpions and became a school teacher.
      Sorry for my mediocre input. It's like saying: "I'd lend you $20 bucks but I'm a bit short today.
      That reminds me of the lyrics of the Pink Floyd song, "Bike":
      "I've got a bike
      You can ride it if you like
      It's got a basket
      A bell that rings
      And things to make it look good
      I'd give it to you if I could
      But I borrowed it"

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  • Interesting list of 20 Alexa...

    It reminded me of one they left out...Peter Tork, of The Monkees.
    (but this was after - not before...)

    Tork returned to Southern California in the mid-'70s, where he married and had a son and took a job teaching at Pacific Hills School in Santa Monica for a year and a half. He spent a total of three years as a teacher of music, social studies, math, French and history and coaching baseball at a number of schools, but enjoyed some more than others.

    I think the one who takes the award on that list for diversity is: Rob Leonard
    from Sha Na Na to Swa hi li...from The Grateful Dead to the Not so grateful dead...

    The inspiration for a character on the TV show 'Bones,' Leonard is one of few who can claim to have worked with both the Grateful Dead and the FBI. A founding member of '50s cover band Sha Na Na, he earned his Ph.D from Columbia College, where he became an expert in forensic linguistics and assisted law enforcement in high-profile murder cases. For his doctoral dissertation, he studied Swahili -- a language he still teaches at Hofstra University, where he is a linguistics professor.
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  • Profile picture of the author bravo75
    I think this thread is getting somewhat derailed. The title is "Rock Stars" who used to be school teachers.
    Bun B, Kris Kristofferson, Wyclef Jean, Art Garfunkel, Roberta Flack, J-Live,
    Lamont Dozier, Rob Leonard, JT Taylor etc. were hardly Rock Stars.
    If it was that easy...
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  • Many Rock n Roll people have recorded Kristopherson...Joplin to name just one notable...
    "Rock" is given a more ambiguous role these days...the line is blurred.
    It used to be the Long-haired guys were rock - Short Hair, country...now, it's the other way around...:rolleyes:
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    • Profile picture of the author bravo75
      Originally Posted by MoneyMagnetMagnate View Post

      Many Rock n Roll people have recorded Kristopherson...Joplin to name just one notable...
      "Rock" is given a more ambiguous role these days...the line is blurred.
      It used to be the Long-haired guys were rock - Short Hair, country...now, it's the other way around...:rolleyes:
      Point taken. But JT Taylor and Wyclef Jean??
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Folk rock is still "rock", Bravo.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    You are outnumbered this time Bravo. Like it or not, "Rock" has become a generic term when before,as sal and Moneymagnet have pointed out,`there used to be sub genres.
    Though personally I would agree with some of what you say. like Wyclef Jean?? I haven't heard one beat of what I would consider out of him.
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