This thread will run and run!*
People who have appeared in almost unreconcilable contexts…
My first nomination is Mark Feltham, who is the only person I know of to have appeared on both The Young Ones and Spirit of Eden.
The only person who is on both THIS and THIS…
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Jeeesus Chriiiist! How about some warning before you let people click that willy-nilly.
Turn your speakers down folks before clicking this, or risk losing your high register hearing.
Neerrrrrghhh, go back to your Bob Harris music, grandad! This is what THE KIDZ are listening to!
And serves you right for clicking a willy-nilly!
Well, Carol Shive (violin) was in Elvis Presley’s ‘Aloha From Hawaii’ band and then the (Mk2) Mahavishnu Orchestra. I suspect that’s a unique combo.
Simon Jeffes
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Composer of the ballet Still Life at the Penguin Cafe
Appeared on Sid Vicious version of My Way, and the orchestrated version of EMI on The Great Rock n Roll Swindle
Victor Feldman. Drummer, percussionist, vibraphonist and pianist.
Appeared on Frank Zappa’s “Lumpy Gravy” and Bing Crosby’s “A Southern Memoir”, via Dusty Springfield’s “Cameo”. And several Steely Dan albums.
He was the only one other that Donald Fagen and Walter Becker to appear on the first seven albums. He also drummed with Glenn Miller as a child.
Jolly, lovable Ginger Baker appears on:
– Fela Kuti and the Africa 70 “Live”
and
– Public Image Limited “Album”
The latter also had Tony Williams and the , if I may say so, somewhat more tartish Herbie Hancock.
Paul Simonon is the only person to play on a classic punk album and a nowhere-near classic Bob Dylan album. Apart from Steve Jones, who also did. And Sly and Robbie who probably did, for all I know.
What classic punk album did S’n’R play on? An uncredited rhythm track on Johnny Moped’s Cycledelic?
I have no idea. I was just guessing and leaving you to do the research.
Well, thanks… I suppose at least I don’t have to listen to that f888in’ Dylan album.
Victor Spinetti – only person to appear in an Elvis film (Double Trouble) and a Beatles film (the first 3).
Jakko M Jakszyk spans from Morris Minor and the Majors, to King and the Crimsons.
Another ‘prog rockers on holiday’ one is the bizarre fact that The Enid are the backing band on Kim Wilde’s first album. Strange not least in that it sounds absolutely nothing like them.
⬆️ Noooooo!
It’s true, they are listed on the sleeve & Steve Stewart engineered the album (I met him and checked if this was some kind of elaborate hoax, but it’s real). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Wilde_(album)
⬆️ Nooooo!
Ritchie Blackmore:
And Ritchie Blackmore:
or this….
Frank Sidebottom.
Supported Bros at Wembley and “headlined” at Jillys.
Keith Emerson in 1968: “America is pregnant with promise and anticipation but is murdered by the hand of the inevitable”…. denounced by Le-yo-narrd Bernstein.
25 years later he’s on Frank’s Fantastic Shed Show.
It’s a might long way down rock’n’roll.
⬆️ Nooooooo!
Seriously , he was on Frank’s Fantastic Shed Show??
He was.
He really was.
Wasn’t he also on the Generation Game when Jim ‘Nick Nick’ Davidson presented it (and it had I presume a re-recorded ELP tune as the theme tune)
Suzi Quatro on Minder and Happy Days.
As well as Dempsey and Makepeace.
2016 – Chris Coleman leads tiny Wales to the semi-finals of the European Championship
2018 – Chris Coleman leads Sunderland into League One
To be fair, the previous five managers did most of the work for him at Sunlun! He’s taken on a hell of a job trying to turn them around.
A couple of days ago, he was asked by the local press what his policy will be going forward. His reply? ‘I’ll look at what the club has done for the last 5 years and do the opposite.’
Arf.
He’s doomed.
Paul Jones… Beat the Teacher and Escalator Over the Hill.
and Songs Of Praise
Do I trump you with John McLaughlin: ‘Winchester Cathedral’ and Escalator Over The Hill?
When it comes to The Man With Two Necks, all bets are off.
Certainly can’t beat that, but trombonist Annie Whitehead comes reasonably close with Justin Fashanu’s 1982 single “Do It ‘Cos You Like It” and Carla Bley’s 1993 album “Big Band Theory”.
These jazz ensembles… John L. Walters did time with Mike Gibbs and (again!) Neil Ardley, but his moment of fame came as the one in the glasses in Landscape. He’s just a normal guy…
An aside – I’m currently working with Mike G on a 3CD set of unreleased vintage goodies, likely to be followed by more of the same.
My dad’s got several of his albums. “Michael Gibbs” (relax, it’s on Deram) sticks in my mind because when I was a kid I thought it was Ronnie Corbett on the front.
(Probably don’t tell him that.)
From the Swedish Corner:
Janne “Loffe” Carlsson:
Drummer in highly influential jazz prog duo “Hannson & Carlsson”, jamming with Jimi Hendrix, Hendrix recording one of their tunes. Also playing drums on classic albums by other artists.
And actor in both lots of serious dramas on TV and film, and many film comedies of the more unsophisticated kind.
And TV host on several Friday/Saturday prime time family TV shows combining game show elements with artists performances and interviews.
(And as a bonus: also claimed to have been posessed by the ghost of a famous murderer that he played in a true crime TV movie…)
I thought that was a chap called Rune Carlsson (or was that a nickname?) – think he’s also on Bo Hansson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ LP.
No, that’s another drummer. More of a jazz musician. I guess Bo Hansson just had a thing for drummers named Carlsson!
Wasn’t Slim Borgudd both drummer for Abba and Formula One driver?
Terry Venables. Co-creator of 70s ITV private dick Hazell. And he’s done some footbally stuff too apparently.
I’m in Muppets Most Wanted and Morrissey’s Live At Earl’s Court album. If that’s the sort of thing you’re after.
Hey! Me too!
Once again the Afterword demographic proves to be reliably narrow.
Sir Lenworth Henry. Has played Othello onstage, and has sung backing vocals on a Kate Bush song.
Rolf – has played with both the HJH and the lovely Kate (and been covered by Alice Cooper)
And let’s not forget he toured with John McLaughlin in 1963.
And appeared on The Style Councils Our Favourite Shop Lp……(Lenny not Rolf)
I present Martin ‘Youth’ Glover – The Bass player in Killing Joke.
He’s also done lots of other things such as he was one half of Blue Pearl (remember ‘Naked in the Rain’?), he’s also a key part of that nebulous thing called The Orb. He’s also produced and remixed endless artists – if you’ve seen that jaw-dropping Culture Club documentary “Karma to Calamity” – that’s Youth trying to hold it all together as it all goes a bit Troggs Tapes yet again.
Oh, he did two experimental LPs with some bloke called Paul McCartney who was in a Merseybeat group called The Silver Beetles
You mean The Fireman was not a real fireman..?
Disappoint!
Chris Speeding – a Womble and member of rather fine Brit jazzers Nucleus with Ian Carr.
Your post breaks the sped limit.
*applauds*
BJ Cole – appears on Bisch Bosch by Scott Walker and Shakey by Shakin Stevens
That’s what I’m talkin’ bout!
..and another from the session world
Big Jim Sullivan
Plays on Welcome Home by Peters and Lee, and also on 200 Motels by Frank Zappa
and if you’ll excuse me for one more, this time pretty much in the same year
Mo Foster
Plays on Armed and Ready by the Michael Schenker Group and the slap bass on the Theme From Minder.
No way! I used to mime that bass part every week… probably a bit too high on the chest for someone from the Monosodium Glutamate.
I was a bit disappointed that Alan Partridge didn’t mime to that when he did his air bass – using Japan seemed slightly out of character
It was Music for Chameleons by Gary Numan. But I think the bass playing was by Japan’s Mick Karn.
Certainly sounds like Mick Karn
Actually that seems even more out of character for Alan Partridge than Japan
Michael Schenker? It was Chris Glen on bass when I saw them at Nyoocazzell Zeety Hawl.
I think he just played on the first album sessions and didn’t tour, the second album has Chris on bass
In her youth, Jeanette Krankie was one third of the Andrews Sisters.
Not quite – she was one third of one of the Andrews Sisters.
You mean one of the Andrews Sisters was actually three girls standing on each others shoulders in a long overcoat?
Fandabidozi!
Their story is fascinating. There were originally 9 normal-sized sisters, real name Redwood. The 3 x 3 combo worked well for a while as “the Rockin’ Redwoods” dressed up as these giant 16 foot trees, singing boogie woogie choons in close harmony. Musical differences and contract disputes forced the youngest one, Agnes Redwood out. They thought no-one would notice because she was the midriff section of the tree on the right. But the the height difference was there for all to see.
Enter a young Irish impresario by the name of Eammon Andrews. Using his Crackerjack connections he briefly solved the problem by replacing Agnes with Jeannette Krankie. It wasn’t enough, Jeanette’s size didn’t make up the deficit and the Rockin’ Redwoods were beginning to look ridiculous. Particularly when songs were enhanced by the odd shout of “fandabidozy!!!” from who-knows-where.
Eammon took the bull by the horns, rebranded the act under his own name and kept the three sisters who did the singing. As the Falklands had only just started, they had a ready audience as forces’ sweethearts for lonely Tommies attending ENSA shows at Goose Green and Port Stanley.
When Eammon Andrews died, the act died with him due to a typically mean-spirited clause in his will. The Rockin’ Redwoods reformed, tearfully welcoming Agnes and the others back into the act. Bernard Delfont was quick to book them for the Royal Variety Performance in front of the Queen and over three billion viewers worldwide. There was big money at stake. The 6 spurned sisters drove a hard bargain – the three bottom ones demanded to be on the top portion of the trees and – in a move that influenced the “I Wanna Be a Chandelier” hitmaker Sia – they refused to show their faces onstage.
In an attempt to bring the sexy back, each “tree” was topped with not a face but a pair of (nude!) buttocks held aloft by the middle sister in a fireman’s lift.
Did you know that when people blush, only the exposed areas of skin turns beetroot-red? Well, the girls were so nervous on show night that the buttocks were as red as all-get-out. With all the weight being carried by the singing sisters, their vocal performance was reduced to panting and wheezing. They were unsteady on their feet. As a result, rather than resemble three magnificent redwood trees, the act looked like three giant wobbling schlongs making wheezing noises. Needless to say, the Queen thought it was marvellous and wondered if they had travelled far.
What a wholesome story! Did you get that off Roy Hudd?
Lifted directly from his memoirs “Out of me Hudd”
Sequel to the runaway bestseller “Yeahhhh Royeeeeeee!!”
Post of the week, BC!
The need for nine ladies onstage to allow three to sing is emblematic of the bad old days of all-powerful unions, when overstaffing was everywhere – notably when every dummy was obliged to be accompanied onstage by a largely useless straight man with the pretentious title of “ventriloquist”.
But there was always, in the entertainment industry, a bias against the altitudinously deficient such as Lord Charles and Janette.
For example, how cruel was it to ask that poor ostrich – which seemed entirely tame – to bear the weight of full-sized Bernie Clifton rather than a pint-sized performer?
And, even in the case of the much more disagreeable emu, a small but fiercely Scottish person could hardly have done a worse job of keeping that feathered menace under control…
Overstaffing? Top of the Pops thought they’d booked Pan’s Person until Jack Dromey muscled in…
You’re right @sewer-robot Union-led madness was everywhere. Most, if not all, entertainers were hard left Trotskyites that would view today’s Momentum group as namby pamby Tories. At the annual Royal Variety Show, the Queen was often lunged at by knife wielding activists like Dickie Henderson, Danny La Rue and, worst of all, Shirley Bassey.
Dick Taylor, sometime guitarist for the Mekons was the original bassist for the trio Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, fronted by a young shaver called Mike Jagger.
The same Dick Taylor of the Rolling Stones and now the Pretty Things.
Claudio Simonetti – one of Goblin who did this:
but also involved in this – covered by the mighty Black Lace as “Superman”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2s-JwVep8
Cosey Fanni Tutti worked in diverse branches of jazz hitherto not combined as far as I know. Jazz Funk (not really of course, more industrial noise) and jazz mags. She was also an opera. Quite an impressive range of feats one could say, as it were.
Well I’ve played the drums very badly in a manner that could be considered avant garde and am also an incorrigible pervert, so La Cose and I are cut from the same cloth.
There must be something in the Hull water
Jobbies mostly.
Herbie Flowers created the famous bass line on “Walk on the Wild Side” by Lou Reed and also co- composed “Grandad” which was a number one for Dad’s Army star Clive Dunn (Corporal Jones).
Mel Collins – flute and saxes in several King Crimsons. In the 1990s and early 2000s he was in the house band of the daily “Harald Schmidt” talk show in Germany – which consisted of Helmut Zerlett: keyboards, Axel Heilhecker: guitar, Rosko Gee: bass, Antoine Fillon: drums, Jürgen Dahmen: keyboards, Thomas Hebrew: trumpet, Mel Collins: sax, flute (Zerlett and Rosko Gee were regulars from Can/Can solo albums).
This is a fertile seam – jazz noodlers buried in TV house bands. Just as beneath the calm surface the average 70s street was always threatening to erupt into violence, the average 70s chat show was always threatening to erupt into twelve-tone skronk.
Some years back I spent a pleasant Sunday afternoon listening to Lol Coxhill and a small group playing pretty freeish jazz in a pub near Marylebone. That evening back home, we turned the TV on and it was some sort of gala show including a number where dancers dressed as flappers did the Charleston; and in the twenties style band, wearing a white tuxedo, was the same, instantly recognisable, Mr Coxhill. I have to say, his playing seemed equally committed on both gigs.
Lol Coxhill was a member of Kevin Ayers & The Whole World in the early ’70s and gigged with The Damned later too.
Prince William – future monarch, and regular character in American Flagg! comics in the mid 1980s.
I loved that comic at the time…seemed to be as cutting-edge as the Moore/Miller axis that was providing the great comics renaissance. Not sure what happened to Chaykin after AF (although a quick, cursory look at Wiki suggests that he has been rather busy!)
Lindsey Buckingham – sacked from Fleetwood Mac 1987, sacked from Fleetwood Mac 2018. Careless, coincidence, or 30th anniversary celebration dismissal?
A haaaa—annndbaaaag?
Charlie Haden plays bass on both Ringo Starr’s “Ringo-Rama” and Ornette Coleman’s “Free Jazz”.
Watching a jazz documentary, Haden appeared with his parents at the Grand Ole Opry before playing jazz bass. He appeared at the GOO later with his son in-law Jack Black.
Another connection concerning “Free Jazz”:
Two of the musicians on that album, Eric Dolphy & Freddie Hubbard, appeared together on many other sessions until Dolphy’s death, including each other albums and with John Coltrane. One such album was Oliver Nelson’s “Blues And The Abstract Truth”.
Some years later Oliver Nelson records an album in London. Another duo who recorded many times together appear on that album – Chas & Dave!
Donna Jean Godchaux is on …
– ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ by Percy Sledge
and
– ‘Europe ’72 – The Complete Recordings’ by the Grateful Dead
Salman Rushdie coined the famous cream cakes slogan “Naughty but nice!”, before going on to become the scourge of the Ayatollahs. From fat to fatwa, you might say…
Martha Ladly.
Echo Beach, obviously, although the other Martha in the band sang lead. Played with the Associates – Party Fears Two on ToTP:
BV’s on Roxy’s Avalon, played in Robert Palmer’s band, did a painting for a New Order sleeve (which her then boyfriend Peter Saville got all the credit for), ran Real World for Peter Gabriel, and is now associate professor of design in Ontario College of Art & Design.
I’m worn out just writing all that
An OP that mentions the Young Ones elicits this clip? He’s on his way to the post office right there…
(no disrespect intended – I love Billy, who couldn’t be accused of not having a sense of humour)
Delia Smith the chairperson of Norwich City FC and TV cook baked the cake which is on the cover of the Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed.
She was also the first person I saw on our new Sony Trinitron colour TV circa 1974.
The tv with the edible snooker balls! I really wanted us to get one of those..
https://youtu.be/SNkVzA5_S70
What a great ad. Our one predated that my several years. No remote control and, I think, it was a plucky 14 inches. The biggest, most decadent TVs were the 26 inch ones like the one that JC is standing next to.
Ian Anderson, David Bowie, Peter Sellars and Terry Pratchett all have links to Steeleye Span.
Brian “Goldbelt” Maxine has been onstage with Fairport Convention (they were the backing band for his hit albums) and with Mick McManus.
Family skinsman Rob Townsend’s time behind flailing wildman vocalist Roger Chapman was perfect preparation for when he later played with, er, Peter Skellern.
Not to mention his many years sterling service behind Paul Jones and Dave Kelly in The Blues Band.
Mark Bedford – Bass
Mark Bedford – somewhat bigger Bass
I honestly didn’t know that was the same Mark Bedford. Reeeee- spect!
Sandy Denny with Led Zeppelin and that Charlie Drake single.
Nearly 100 posts Moosey. Wooo.
Yeah – some of them by other people… wow!
*goes all swimmy*
Michael Carr – songwriter.
Wrote South of the Border (down Mexico way) & We’re going to Hang out our washing on the Siegfried line
And
man of mystery (Edgar Wallace theme) and White Horses (Jacky)
That’s quite a spread.
As a girl, Emily Young was the “Emily” referred to in Pink Floyd’s “See Emily Play”
About fifteen years later, she popped up as the sleeve designer of the Penguin Café Orchestra’s first few albums – you know, the sleeves with the people with ‘penguin heads’ on them.
She was also the partner of Simon Jeffes and is the mother of Arthur Jeffes, the current patron of the Penguin Café.
Phil May singer with the Pretty Things.
Married to Theresa.
Moose, you are King of the Forest, with all the fab stuff on this thread.
Can I nominate Phil Collins? From a child actor who played the Artful Dodger in Oliver to Supper’s Ready as the drummer in Genesis. Let’s not forget John Martyn’s magnificent Grace and Danger. A man with range,
And as a hardcore adherent of the Peelite Tendency, I must post this and point out the versatility of the Venerable Peel.
From Marc Bolan and Tyrannasaurus Rex
To The Slits (presented by the John Peel Russian Fan Club!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nos99LYCP_c
How many Radio 1 DJs have serious fans in Siberia?
I was trying to find the famous Rod Stewart appearance on TOTP where Peel played in the band.
This was the best I could do….
He was also in Dallas when JFK was shot. Not on the grassy knoll but on the lavatory.
Right time, right place, wrong speed – eleven miles an hour.
Phil Collins was also the kid in the ad, wearing a grey shirt, whose mum didn’t use Persil.
What’s bizarre about the start of that Peel TIYL clip is that Aspel is superimposed in greenscreen over footage of Smokie and Roy Chubby Brown who were presumably performing on TOTP that night…of all the bits of footage they could have used…
Somewhere in You Tube is a double-denimmed Aspel hosting a discussion with members of The Damned and Sex Pistols about punk. Jonathan King also features arguing that the record companies invented punk and was planned meticulously in order to boost flagging record sales.
Shoehorning this one in because I only noticed it tonight:
Gram Parsons was in the Flying Burrito Brothers and on Have I Got News For You because at the end of the opening animation there is a tortilla based snack with a wrapper with the words Burrito Bros on it being carried by a drone.
It could equally have been Chris Hillman.
…the inventor of the Hillman Minx.
Fortune acquaints us with strange bandfellows……
Not too many who, like Chris Spedding, who have played with both Pete Brown and the Battered Ornaments
and The Wombles.
…and again, Carla Bley.
Also both Annette Peacock and DONOVAN.
@kaisfatdad
Chris Spedding. Played with Sid Vicious and recorded the Sex Pistols. (I like to imagine them playing together in the studio!)
Shame we never saw the Sex Wombles. Now, there was a lost opportunity!
John Barnes.
Played with Ian Rush and Hooky.
Gabriel Byrne: acclaimed Golden Globe winning tv actor, decoy for Keyser Soze and -because it never gets old – this:
(*you may find it a bit rude*)
I am surprise. No one has mentioned the link between ‘Reel around the fountain’ by The Smiths and ‘The living years’ by Mike & the Mechanics- Paul Carrack.
I was listening to that album only the other day and thinking how PC’s contribution really lifts it, especially I Don’t Owe You Anything…. Troy Tate can bollocks AFAIC.
With a nod to the OP, Danny Thompson plays on Sir Cliff’s Congratulations and … The Spirit of Eden. As well as Kate Bush’s 50 Words for Snow (amongst other quality stuff).
I’d forgotten the Thompster was on Spirit. So is Nigel “Monster!” Kennedy of course.
Do session musicians count?
If so, bassist Hugh McCraken played on The Archies hit Sugar Sugar and also, among a million other gigs, on The Dan’s Katy Lied.
To my knowledge, my mate Keith is the only person to appear on Come Dancing twice.
Once as a dancer and the other time playing in the orchestra.
Does that count?
“Two almost unreconcilable contexts”.
Come Dancing and… Come Dancing.
No.
Please yourself.
Don’t encourage me.
Afterword T-shirt:
“Don’t encourage the moose”.
You got my best side there.
Luciano Pavarotti – sang with Kiri Tekanawa, Boyzone and U2.
Jo Nesbø’s crime novels have sold 30 million copies, he played professional football for Molde in Norway, his band Di Derre have released seven top 30 albums in Norway including a number one, and he’s also found time to be a journalist and a stockbroker.
BRIAN BLESSED – is he the only person to have featured on a hit single (Flash!) and climbed Mt Everet?
Romeo Challenger, the Carribean drummer of Showaddywaddy used to bang the skins for devil worshipping prog rock act, Black Widow.
Under the moon of love, come to the Sabbat?
Quality!