History HeAlsoDid / Music

* Music/RickWakeman is best known as the blisteringly fast and hyper-technical organist, synth player and arranger for an earlier lineup of Music/{{Yes}}, but he also contributed the memorable classical piano part to Cat Stevens' feel-good gospel-pop cover of "Morning Has Broken", a fact which has no doubt caused many a Yes fan an "a-ha!" moment upon learning it's him.

* Musician Yamantaka Eye, best known as the frontman of the avant-garde band Boredoms, has done many art, most famously designing the cover for Music/{{Beck}}'s Midnite Vultures.

* While Music/{{Jellyfish}} never really penetrated the mainstream consciousness, lead singer Andy Sturmer certainly has. He helped Music/PuffyAmiYumi break into the American market by acting as their manager ''and'' composed the theme song for ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''. The band itself also penned and performed an original song for an [[http://www.negativeworld.org/boardreplies.php?id=5915&pagenumber=1#156844 obscure]] ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' compilation album officially released by Nintendo in 1991. Keyboardist Roger Manning has also had a prolific career as a session musician, recording and touring with artists such as Music/{{Beck}}, Music/JohnnyCash, Music/Blink182, Music/CheapTrick, Music/{{Air|Band}}, Music/{{Morrissey}}, and Music/TheGoGos, to name a few. He was also the co-founder of the infamous novelty duo The Moog Cookbook, which did Moog synthesizer-based instrumental renditions of popular songs.

* Steve Goodman's writing talents were so far afield of each other, you might not realize he wrote the iconic "City of New Orleans", the farcical "You Never Even Call Me by My Name", and the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Chicago Cubs]] anthem "Go, Cubs, Go!"

* Tony Bennett is also a painter. Some of his works are displayed in San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel.

** According to a comment [[http://glossysheen.blogspot.com/2011/10/80s-k-mart-ads.html here]], he starred in a few Australian magazine ads for either KMart or Target (it is unknown which one) in 1984(?), prior to having his StarMakingRole in ''Series/{{Neighbours}}''.

* Stephen Mason, the lead guitarist for Music/JarsOfClay, qualified as a master barber in 2014 and now has his own shop in Nashville. He's also notable as [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueSoccer [[FandomVIP superfan]] Soccer Moses, who appears at as many games as his schedule allows dressed as the Biblical figure and bearing a sign reading "LET MY PEOPLE GOAL". Story [[https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/soccer-moses-story-behind-nashville-scs-most-famous-supporter here]].

* Music/HankWilliamsIII is a CountryMusic singer... who also plays HardcorePunk and DeathMetal from time to time. He's made his punk influences blatantly obvious by using a modified Music/BlackFlag logo, but his albums usually fell under the line of CountryMusic, until [[ExecutiveMeddling his label]] put out his Country Metal album ''Hillbilly Joker'' without his permission, not even bothering to advertise the fact that it was a metal album. His independently-released metal albums under his own name escaped the confusion, as did his band Assjack.

* Creator/BrianEno, best known for his work in ambient music, also created the startup sound for Windows 95.

* Singer-songwriter Amelia Fletcher, besides being effectively the mother and TropeCodifier of the twee pop genre, is also an economics professor noted for her work on competition theory, and her OBE is for services to economics.

* While Music/{{Jellyfish}} never really penetrated the mainstream consciousness, lead singer Andy Sturmer certainly has. He helped Music/PuffyAmiYumi break into the American market by acting as their manager ''and'' composed the theme song for ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''. The band itself also penned and performed an original song for an [[http://www.negativeworld.org/boardreplies.php?id=5915&pagenumber=1#156844 obscure]] ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' compilation album officially released by Nintendo in 1991. Keyboardist Roger Manning has also had a prolific career as a session musician, recording and touring with artists such as Music/{{Beck}}, Music/JohnnyCash, Music/Blink182, Music/CheapTrick, Music/{{Air|Band}}, Music/{{Morrissey}}, and Music/TheGoGos, to name a few. He was also the co-founder of the infamous novelty duo The Moog Cookbook, which did Moog synthesizer-based instrumental renditions of popular songs.

* Chip Davis, the mastermind behind Music/MannheimSteamroller, started out writing commercial jingles, then writing and producing the work of C.W. [=McCall=] (see below), using the same musicians who worked on the early Mannheim Steamroller albums.

* C.W. [=McCall=] of "Convoy" fame was technically a character played by Bill Fries, a copywriter for an Omaha, Nebraska ad agency, created for a series of bread commercials that became a BreakawayAdvertisement, leading to [=McCall=]'s moderately successful music career. After retiring the [=McCall=] persona, Fries moved to the small mountain town of Ouray, Colorado and served three terms as its mayor.

* Mary Rodgers, like her father Richard, was once a composer for Broadway musicals, one of which was ''Theatre/OnceUponAMattress''. Then she retired from musical theatre and wrote a book called ''FreakyFriday''. Richard Rodgers, for his part, took a break from Broadway musicals along with top orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett to write the soundtrack for ''Series/VictoryAtSea''.

* While Music/{{Jellyfish}} never really penetrated the mainstream consciousness, lead singer Andy Sturmer certainly has. He helped Music/PuffyAmiYumi break into the American market by acting as their manager ''and'' composed the theme song for ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. The band itself also penned and performed an original song for an [[http://www.negativeworld.org/boardreplies.php?id=5915&pagenumber=1#156844 obscure]] ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' compilation album officially released by Nintendo in 1991. Keyboardist Roger Manning has also had a prolific career as a session musician, recording and touring with artists such as Music/{{Beck}}, Music/JohnnyCash, Music/Blink182, Music/CheapTrick, Music/{{Air|Band}}, Music/{{Morrissey}}, and Music/TheGoGos, to name a few. He was also the co-founder of the infamous novelty duo The Moog Cookbook, which did Moog synthesizer-based instrumental renditions of popular songs.

** He can play the guitar. In the late 60s, his role model was mostly Hank Marvin of The Shadows (little did he know that both the band and Marvin as a soloist would later cover his own big hits, or that he'd even collab with Marvin). There's even a French film, ''Des garçons et des filles'', in which Jarre can be seen playing with his band--and singing. Almost half a century later, during the ''Electronica'' tour, he brought the guitar back, but this time heavily distorted.

* Music/HansZimmer, composer for ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', ''Film/{{Inception}}'', among many more films, also produced the single "The History of the World (Part 1)" by Music/{{The Damned|Band}}. He was credited for "''over''producing" it in the original liner notes. In the early 1980s he worked with Music/TheBuggles and appears in their video for "Music/VideoKilledTheRadioStar". He also wrote the cheerfully cheesy theme tune for the 1980s quiz show ''Going for Gold''.

* Mike Reid, the county singer/songwriter known for Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" and Music/RonnieMilsap's "Stranger in My House" (which won him a Grammy), as well as his own #1 hit "Walk on Faith", has written several award-winning musicals. Oh, and he played defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals for five years.

* Singer-songwriter Hoyt Axton composed songs for everyone from Anne Murray to Ringo Starr to Three Dog Night to Steppenwolf. He also got into acting, with his most visible role to tropers being in the movie ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.

* Singer-songwriter Hoyt Axton composed songs for everyone from Anne Murray to Ringo Starr to Three Dog Night to Steppenwolf. He also got into acting, with his most visible role to tropes being in the movie ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.

* Music/MortGarson, eccentric creator of several CultClassic Moog Synthesizer-based albums in TheSixties and TheSeventies, was previously a straight pop music composer, and co-wrote the dreamy #1 hit "Our Day Will Come" for Ruby & The Romantics in 1963.

* Creator/JohannesBrahms is almost synonymous with 19th century German Romanticism, and his compositions are among the most frequently performed and recorded of any western classical composer, but he also collaborated with music historian and publisher Friedrich Chrysander on what remains one of the most widely-used editions of the complete keyboard works of French Baroque composer François Couperin (whose music Brahms was instrumental in popularising after a century and a half of relative neglect).

* Music/{{Yes}} guitarist/keyboardist/singer Music/TrevorRabin, a member of their [[TheEighties 1980s "[=YesWest=]" lineup]] who co-wrote their first and only number one hit "Owner of a Lonely Heart", went on to a career in film scoring, writing the scores to ''Film/RememberTheTitans'', ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'', ''Film/ConAir'' and ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''.

* Music/BryanAdams is also a photographer who has published six books of his work, been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and won multiple awards for his fashion photography. One of his pictures of [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth II]] was used for Canadian stamps in 2004 and 2005.

* Yes, the same Music/JamesNewtonHoward who played keyboards with Music/EltonJohn on his albums and tours from 1975 through 1981 (he also did the string arrangements for "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word", played with Elton during his 1980 Central Park concert, and scored Elton's ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' film project years later) and scored Elton's 1987 ''Live In Australia'' album went on to score ''Film/BatmanBegins'', ''Film/TheSixthSense'', ''Film/TheHungerGames'' and ''Film/ThePrinceOfTides''. Through ''Hunger Games'' he scored a minor pop hit with "The Hanging Tree", which featured the vocals of the franchise's star, Creator/JenniferLawrence. He also wrote and conducted the orchestral score to Music/{{Toto}}'s 1982 hit "I Won't Hold You Back".