# Famous rock musicians who do not use alcohol or drugs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225 "2013-09-19T13:28:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/21 "2013-09-19T16:30:45Z")
Henry Rollins is very anti-drug. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/22 "2013-09-19T16:33:53Z")
I thought the poster boy for no drink, no drugs and not even groupies was Charlie Watts. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/23 "2013-09-19T16:44:03Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > And now that I think about it, \*\*Zappa \*\*was certainly addicted to nicotine. Definitely caffeine, fairly sure I heard those words from his own mouth in an interview. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/24 "2013-09-19T16:59:56Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Alice Cooper WAS a very heavy drinker and drug user… Are you sure about the drugs? I know he was a big-time alcoholic, but I’ve never seen anything about him using drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/25 "2013-09-19T17:36:52Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > If I recall correctly, she was the only one who was married at the time, and she would be home with her husband while the others were out partying. And they’re still married thirty-eight years later. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/26 "2013-09-19T17:44:24Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > AFAIK, Gene Simmons of Kiss is, and always has been a completely sober dude He was addicted to the same thing Ted Nugent was. PUSSY! ;)🆒 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/27 "2013-09-19T18:27:42Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > I thought the poster boy for no drink, no drugs and not even groupies was Charlie Watts. Maybe now, but he had some serious drinking and drug problems in the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/28 "2013-09-19T18:32:09Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Adam Ant, according to his autobiography, never touched a drop of alcohol from his youth all through his pop star heyday (though subsequently he had a couple of drinking phases). So, he didn’t drink, he didn’t smoke … what did he do? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/29 "2013-09-19T18:41:02Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Adam Ant, according to his autobiography, never touched a drop of alcohol from his youth all through his pop star heyday (though subsequently he had a couple of drinking phases). > [@Eutychus](#): > > So, he didn’t drink, he didn’t smoke … what did he do? I don’t know, but subtle innuendos follow. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/30 "2013-09-19T18:43:34Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Adam Ant, according to his autobiography, never touched a drop of alcohol from his youth all through his pop star heyday (though subsequently he had a couple of drinking phases). Subtle innuendos follow. There must be something inside. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/31 "2013-09-19T21:13:52Z")
Donnie or Marie Osmond, whichever one was a little rock & roll? Brandon Flowers of the Killers? Also, Ian MacKaye didn’t do drugs!? I wish he told us! 🙂 > [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > I thought the poster boy for no drink, no drugs and not even groupies was Charlie Watts. Sex was pretty much the only thing he wasn’t addicted to. He didn’t cheat on his wife but I can’t imagine he was easy to live with at times. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/32 "2013-09-19T21:37:15Z")
Eric Clapton’s been clean and sober for around 32 years now. Okay, it took him some time on NeuroElectric Therapy (NET) and rehab to get off heroin and due to some not well thought out rehab he got addicted to alcohol. And 2 rounds at Hazelden to get sober, but the second time took. ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/33 "2013-09-19T21:41:20Z")
Cliff Richard ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/34 "2013-09-19T21:48:34Z")
…missed it by that much. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/35 "2013-09-19T22:06:31Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Subtle innuendos follow. There must be something inside. If his book is to be believed, he was no goody two shoes - at least not in every sense of the term. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/36 "2013-09-20T00:51:55Z")
> [@tullsterx](#): > > Is that supposed to be a link? What to? Wow not sure what happened there. Thankfully, **OurLordPeace** came along with a working link. > [@OurLordPeace](#): > > Davey Havok, Ian MacKaye, and [many others](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_that_follow_a_straight_edge_lifestyle). ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/37 "2013-09-20T00:54:15Z")
> [@Yorikke](#): > > Definitely caffeine, fairly sure I heard those words from his own mouth in an interview. Frank Zappa lived on cigarettes and black water (coffee). And baloney sammiches. He talks about it in _The Real Frank Zappa Book_. I’ll let you know what page when I unpack the box that book is in. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/38 "2013-09-20T01:00:22Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > (Yes, I \*know \*ethanol alcohol is a drug. But most people say “alcohol and drugs.” Get over it.) > > Seems rock-n-roll goes hand-in-hand with alcohol and drugs. The only two rock artists I can think of who (supposedly) have never partaken in these vices are **Frank Zappa** and **Ted Nugent**. > > Any others? OK, so what the hell was wrong with Zappa when he named his kids Dweezil and Moon Unit then if he can’t claim to have been drunk or stoned at the time? ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/39 "2013-09-20T01:58:07Z")
I thought I remember Angus Young from AC/DC saying he was a teetotaller. I don’t know about alcohol but the members of Pink Floyd always claim they never do any kind of drugs. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225/40 "2013-09-20T03:53:38Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > OK, so what the hell was wrong with Zappa when he named his kids Dweezil and Moon Unit then if he can’t claim to have been drunk or stoned at the time? I saw someone interview Zappa- Dick Cavett, possibly? – asked Frank why he named his first two children Dweezil and Moon Unit. Ever so cool, hip, and oh-so-above it all, Frank’s dismissive shrug of an answer was: “I felt like it.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-rock-musicians-who-do-not-use-alcohol-or-drugs/669225.md?page=3)