# Trivia question: what rock star used to groom horses? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 23, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-what-rock-star-used-to-groom-horses/944902 "2021-06-23T16:47:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-what-rock-star-used-to-groom-horses/944902/1 "2021-06-23T16:47:33Z")
This was a question on a radio trivia contest. I tried Google, but all I got were articles on how to groom horses, and being a horse owner, I KNOW how to do that. Before he got famous, what classic rocker was so poor he used to groom horses for $5 a day? ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-what-rock-star-used-to-groom-horses/944902/2 "2021-06-23T18:50:14Z")
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull must’ve groomed horses, given that he wrote entire odes and named an album for the workhorses of olden England. He also turned into a farmsman after fame and fortune, but did he groom horses as a young unknown, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-what-rock-star-used-to-groom-horses/944902/3 "2021-06-23T21:56:58Z")
How far are we stretching “classic rocker”? [Davy Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones_(musician)#Early_life), noted Monkee, was a horsey type. I presume he must have groomed horses. j ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-what-rock-star-used-to-groom-horses/944902/4 "2021-06-23T22:09:41Z")
Davy Jones trained to be a jockey. I’m pretty sure some of that “training” had to include grooming horses. It also probably included shoveling out stalls, but that doesn’t make as good a trivia question. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-what-rock-star-used-to-groom-horses/944902/5 "2021-06-23T22:10:06Z")
Ian Kilmister, aka Lemmy, founder of Motörhead. > When Lemmy left at 16 he groomed horses and worked in a washing machine factory. [RIP Lemmy: Loud and proud to the end | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV | Express.co.uk](https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/630155/Lemmy-loud-proud-rockstar-dead) Do I get a share of the winnings? ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-what-rock-star-used-to-groom-horses/944902/6 "2021-06-30T13:56:07Z")
The question finally got answered this morning (this is a progressive type quiz, with unanswered questions carrying over daily). Stephen Stills.