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Thought this was celebrities in general.
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin is an executive of an English Football team, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Geddy Lee of Rush is a collector of baseball memorabilia and donated a substantial amount of his collection to the National Negro Leagues Museum.
Billy Joel has founded boat- and motorcycle-building operations on Long Island.
Peter Garrett, former lead singer of Midnight Oil, had several different Minister jobs with the Australian Government and was a member of Australian Parliament at various times.
His first two books, A Village Lost And Found and Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell are excellent. Highly recommended for 3D photo fans.
He’s also a writer, fencer, and brews beer. His wiki page says he helped write a screen play as well.
Kelley Deal of The Breeders does accounting work for a funeral home in Dayton, Ohio.
Elton John owns English football club Watford FC.
Joey “Shithead” Keithley of DOA is a city councilor in Burnaby, BC.
Norman Rogers (aka Terminator X), who was the DJ with Public Enemy, left performing rap to raise emus. Which is not a career transition I would have seen coming.
The emu business apparently didn’t work out and he’s gone back to performing.
Jason Everman played guitar for Nirvana and bass for Soundgarden. In September 1994 he joined the US Army and became a Ranger in the 2nd Ranger BN. Completed his time in the service and traveled to Tibet to study in a Buddhist monastery. He then rejoined the Army and served in Special Forces, discharged in 2006 and earned a BA in philosophy and a Masters in Military History. Now he is back in a band called Silence and Light with some buddies.
Rob Leonard, one of the founders of Sha Na Na, became a professor of linguistics and consults in criminal cases as a forensic linguist. (They performed at Woodstock, so I’ll count them as rockers.)
Alex James of Blur is a cheese maker these days, and won the Best Goat’s Cheese award at the 2009 British Cheese Awards.
(Brian Cox of D:Ream is rather famously now professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. But I find cheese more interesting.)
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So one of many politicians we call shithead.
He got a job?
Well, someone had to do it.
R.E.M. drummer emeritus Bill Berry ran a hay farm, which he purchased in the early 1990s when the band was at its commercial peak. Last I heard, he still owned the property, but at age 66 can’t do the physical labor any more, so he hires that out.
The comedian Har Mar Superstar worked as a USPS mail carrier during the COVID lockdown, as temporary Christmas help.
Sir Elton John is another British rocker with an active interest in a football club, in his case Watford.
Effigies singer John Kedzy got his law degree from Northwestern and became a prosecutor.
The British foobal lleague system has a lot of teams, so there’s a lot of opportunity for celebrity ownership. Watford FC is essentially the equivalent of a AAA baseball team. (They weren’t close to either promotion or relegation this year.) And there’s levels below that you could buy into cheaply.
Ownership in North American sports, well, that’s harder, and if you buy an AAA ballclub or an AHL hockey team there isn’t even a dream you could get them promoted to the big leagues. A few yeas ago Ryan Reynolds was apparently interested in buying the Ottawa Senators of the NHL, and he simply could not find or leverage enough cash to do it.
Dan Spitz from Anthrax became a certified watchmaker.
Adam Met, the “A” of AJR, has a PhD in international human rights law, and is an activist for human rights and climate causes. I’m not sure if “activist” counts as a side hustle, but he has taught college courses, too.
A professor I work with was in a band that successfully played the festival circuit for a time. They still earn “two to three figures” per month from Spotify. I’d never heard of them, but I had heard of bands they were billed with. Academics is not so much a side hustle, as a much as a way to not have to live in a van with drunk band mates.