SUPER TALENTED MUSICIANS.

John Beverley

Kevin Parker

It's impossible to be more TALENTED and CREATIVE than David Bowie and Kate Bush.

Vel, I never saw your footnote above till after I'd posted

A likely story...!

Vladimir Ashkenazy, brilliant pianist and conductor.

Not a fan (at all) but kudos to the guy from Muse. Plays guitar to a great level while singing and also plays keys.


Big fan of Annie Clark who manages to make the guitar sound like nothing else on earth at times.

Paul McCartney

Band geek.  Podcasts from a group of super talented musicians who do great covers and have fun doing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1QbSkU1vI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GdzRrzFeLU

Jack White, awesome guitar player, taught Meg the drums and can play two pianos at once, sings and writes song in between, job done.

Tina S France ...
quote
"Most Incredible Guitarist in the WORLD Male or Female Hands down for Tina S "
unquote

Jeez, that's great...makes the thread well worthwhile...

Youtube comment - "Who are you? What foods did your parents feed you?"

Watched 3 vids there - that is unreal.

good call on Jack White

Mark Everett (eels )
Anton Newcombe ( brian Jonestown massacre )
Tim Presley ( white fence )

There are some cracking women guitarists, like St. Vincent, Anna Calvi, Lianne la Havas, etc.

PJ Harvey

I'll never forget buying Dry, rushing home to put it on and being absolutely blown away.

Saw her live at Barrowland and was, once again, blown away with how much power could be produced by just the three musicians on stage.

A two time Mercury prize winner with an incredible body of work.

Yeah - Let England Shake is a brilliant album.

Glastonbury with the black feathers was like skiffle genius to the max...

Let England Shake was another remarkable first listen.

I once received a hand written letter from John Parish along with his last for sale vinyl copy of The D Is For Drum.

has there ever been a  musician at high level  who was also very good at sport  ? 

can you not excell at the two i wonder ?

or a famous artist/painter who was also a mathmetician ?

John McEnroe has played guitar on stage a few times.

yeah ,the  metal racquets or whatever they were called

Bob Holness. Presenter of Blockbusters and played sax on Baker Street

yeah i was thinking Sport and Music  primarily because they usually run in opposition  - folk who are good at sport v art/music .

same with  art/music v maths is normally a polar opposite .

The singer Anne-Marie who is currently no.1 with Clean Bandit has won gold medals at karate.

mad mad moon - Apparently Bob also played alongside Richard Hannon after he left his position as drummer with the Troggs

I won't upset her then anubis

George Best, played a wee bit of footie for Man U and also released his album and gave it to his wife as a Wedding Present

ringo starr was/is an average drummer but nobody comes close to playing a tank engine like he can

The Tame Impala drummer is a beast - a big French lad.

yeah i was thinking Sport and Music  primarily because they usually run in opposition  - folk who are good at sport v art/music .

Probably true but there is another problem which is quite simply time. To reach the top level in any activity probably takes hours of practice each day.

In a moment of weakness many years ago, I agreed to attend a Wham! concert (it was, at least, in their pre Last Christmas days) and was subjected to the sight of George and Andrew having a brief badminton match on stage that included hitting shuttlecocks in to the crowd.

It was very clear that neither had given the sport the intense dedication required to be successful.
Funnily enough, Andrew's guitar playing suffered from a very similar flaw in commitment.

Ringo Starr was a great drummer. Lennon makes one jokey comment and the fella's damned to mediocrity for the rest of his career.


Awful singer though.

Alma Deutscher.

She is new to me this morning though maybe everyone else has seen her on The One Show or similar. An 11-year-old girl from Dorking whose first opera was staged in Vienna this week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38467218

In the video, you can tell she has been home-schooled (well, apart from them directly telling us) because she has a slightly odd, slightly foreign accent that presumably comes from her parents rather than television or mixing with other children.

As part of his in-depth research, Lewisohn also has debunked a humorous knock on Starr’s drumming abilities, long attributed to John Lennon. For decades, people and media outlets have repeated the anecdote about Lennon being asked whether he considered Starr to be the best drummer in the world. The oft-quoted response: “He’s not even the best drummer in the Beatles.”

While it sounds like the kind of acerbic comment that might have come out of Lennon’s mouth, Lewisohn says no.

“The London Times newspaper quoted John Lennon ‘famously saying that Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles.’ John Lennon never said that, famously or otherwise, and that is the London Times quoting him,” Lewisohn said, making a point about his motivation for trying to separate fact from Fab Four mythology.

“For me, it’s [a case of tracking down] when did he say this? I’ve heard every John Lennon interview, I’ve read every John Lennon interview, I never saw that quote. So when did he say it, let alone when did he famously say it?” he said. “I determined to get to the bottom of it. And it’s actually a TV comedian’s joke from three years after John was killed, in 1983. So John Lennon never said it -- and wouldn’t have said it.”

That is typical, though - the world is full of sh1t like that. Eg - "Money is the root of all evil" -- No it ain't - The LOVE of money is the root of MUCH evil...and so on...

Ramruna - very true -

i was wondering if anyone also knew anyone who was a dedicated musician and sportsman since i can't think of anone myself .

Blokes i know who like playing music hate playing sport and v/v

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Bob Holness. Presenter of Blockbusters and played sax on Baker Street Devil


no he didn't, that's an urban legend, it was played Raf Ravenscroft

The French tennis player whose name escapes me is quite talented and very successful.

Would that be Yannick Noah

The very same , thank you.

That reminds me of the Zimbabwe cricketer Henry Olonga who became a singer after he retired.

Didn't Rod Stewart nearly become a footballer?

two words


jeff lynne

andre preview   (as per Morecambe and Wise)

Johnny Marr

Phil Lynott


BTW, I'm outta here.

so long Everyone.

Didn't Rod Stewart nearly become a footballer?
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yeahh ,but we said talented 

During the session that produced Milestones(?) Miles Davis upset the pianist, Red Garland .  Consequently Davis had to play piano on one track. It seems that Red Garland was a boxer for a while.