Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s is a (mail order) ordained minister and officiates weddings as Reverend Sister Go-Go.
Stephen King of the Rock Bottom Remainders has a little-known writing career…
The busy bastard is also a pilot.
Richard Coles who was in the band The Communards is now an Anglian priest. He’s also a minor celebrity doing radio shows and panel shows such as QI and appearing on Strictly Come Dancing.
His bandmate Roger had a Trout Farm in Sussex.
Jimmy Buffett is one of the few authors to reach #1 on both the NYTimes Fiction and Non-fiction lists. His list of side hustles made him a billionaire.
My wife and I actually looked into having her officiate a renewal of our wedding vows. It would have been awesome, but once we factored in flying Jane from California (or maybe it was Hawaii) to Illinois, it got too pricey.
Neil Giraldo (musical partner and spouse of Pat Benator) is into bourbon.
Also partnered with the Allman Brothers Band.
Doesn’t sound like a surprising side hustle–that’s right out of the lyrics for Pink Floyd’s “Money”
Now that does sound like a surprising side hustle. Very cool!
If you haven’t already (and I suspect you have), be sure to listed to all of the old Dixie Dregs stuff. He was amazing back then as well. A truly underrated guitarist.
Also a Dominatrix.
Don’t ask me how I know.
Bay City Rollers drummer Derek Longmuir also became a nurse after leaving that band.
So does Dave Mustaine of Megadeth.
Billy Corgan runs a tea shop with his wife in Highland Park, Illinois. And he also owns a professional wrestling circuit.
I took one of his classes, decades ago.
And that sort of thing, like the former musicians with tequila labels or wineries, is the kind of thing available to rich people everywhere.
The first one that does it can be surprising. The 20th one not so much. Francis Ford Coppola may have been the first in the booze business. He bought a winery in 1975.
The late Zal Yanovsky, former guitarist of The Lovin’ Spoonful, opened the restaurant Chez Piggy in Kingston Ontario in 1979. As an RMC student at the time I went there a number of times and had a brief chat with Zal.
I assume he’s still ordained (a lifetime thing?) but he no longer has a parish, so a retired priest, I guess.
Cite: Borderline National Trinket (the show).
And these days the author of several of those whimsical, cosy murder novels that every aging celebrity seems to be writing.
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Sterling Morrison became a tugboat Captain after getting his PhD at University of Texas.