Famous prog fans?

OK folks here we go:

 

Sherman Hemsley(actor most famous for being George Jefferson from the Jeffersons tv show) is a well known fan of Gentle Giant as well as Yes and a prog fan from back in the day. I don't know if he's still into this kind of music but if he's on the internet there's a good chance he is. ;)

Also, I believe Dennis Miller is a prog fan or at least is well aware of it. I remember him mentioning PH and VDGG back on his short lived tv show around 1992.

Howard Stern (I've heard this from other people as well and I remember him saying to a guy on the air that he knew who the band Samurai was and he also did his own version once of "In the Court of the Crimson King")

Tony Blair(PM of England)evidently is a big King Crimson fan

 

Spotted wearing Yes tees(by either me or others):

 

Enrique Iglesias

Nick Lachey

Sarah Jessica Parker(on sex and the city(apparently))

Jennifer Lopez(I think but don't hold me to that as I don't have my source handy)

Also, one of the guys from Tears for Fears and no it wasn't Nick D'Virgilio but he might have turned the guy onto them ;)

That's all I can think of for now

 

Ah yes  Danny devito is a huge fan of Fantomas!

boo boo wrote: Blacksword wrote: Phil Jupitas Stuart Maconie Danny Baker Jim Davidson Douglas Adams Vic Reeves boo boo, I'm not sure Kurt Cobain did actually say that about Red. I think he was mis-quoted by one of his roadies who DID really like Red. There was something about it in a Q magazine prog special a few months back. Shame really, my respect for Kurt Cobain almost increased for a moment, or until I next heard one of his dreadful songs... Yeah, way to go at being a close minded jerk. Im sick of everyone sl*gging off simpler forms of music, and Nirvana are a great band, i dont care what anyone says.

I'm not that close minded. I dont hate Nirvana, and I do own Nevermind. I cant listen to them now, as the novelty of their agression and effective simplicity wore off years ago. I'm guessing that I'm a lot older than you?? When Nevermind was released it was refreshing; it's brutallity and power blew the cobwebs off the charts it was needed, but I'm sorry, the music had a shelf life for me. There is only so much power punk/metal you can tolerate in middle age.

Oh, and dont call me a jerk. Thats a typical accusation made by someone who really is close minded.

Well. You have to be a norwegian to know this guy, but I haven't heard about half of your english or American celebs. Philosopher and author Thomas Hylland Eriksen was aked about what was on his Ipod. He answered Prog, Classical and hard rock. He's a really smart guy.

Another norwegian author (and performer), kitsch and camp (bad taste) expert Kjetil Rollness. Atleast a closet prog fan. I've a column about his prog rock listening pleasures growing up in the seventies.

Jonathan Coe. Author of 'The Rotter's Club', of course a big prog fan. The booktitle is taken from the Hatfield and the North album. The main caracter is a typical teenage prog fan. More into Henry Cow than Genesis. 

I've heard somewhere David Bowie was a fan of Comus.

Julian Cope: Kraut Rock (Even made a book on the topic) and VdGG fan. He made a interesting (And also a bit stupid, sl*gging off more of less everything they did before that record) review on 'Pawn Hearts'. Its somewhere on the internet.

Radiohead are big fans of Neu!

Chris Martin of Coldplay is a Kraftwerk fanatic.

TV personnel Gail Porter says her favourite albums are Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon and Radiohead's OK Computer

Ozzy Osbourne likes Pink Floyd too so does Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkings.

Geck0 wrote: Talking of Bill Bailey... He gets a mention in The Tangent's new album (A Place In The Queue), in the "disco" song: The Sun In My Eyes. But I cannot find the lyrics and I'm not typing them all out from the CD booklet!

I think it goes something like "Bill Bailey takes the piss on prog top 10".

Lindsay Lohan wrote: I seem to recall Jennifer Anniston liking Yes, Drew Barrymoore and Johnny depp liking The Mars Volta....anybody else know of any famous people outside the prog community that likes prog artists?

Well I know Johnny Depp was a big guitar player. He played in bands his
whole childhood and that's all he did he said. He said he didn't even have
many friends because ALL he did was play guitar. He said he got into acting
just because his friend "Nicolas Cage" told him he should try it out.

Prog_Traveller wrote: Howard Stern (I've heard this from other people as well and I remember him saying to a guy on the air that he knew who the band Samurai was and he also did his own version once of "In the Court of the Crimson King")

I found this, Howard had ELP on his show back in '93 (H=Howard, C=Carl, G=Greg).  Link is here: http://valseven.tripod.com/audiofiles/howard.html

H: Some of you guys were in King Crimson, right?

C: Greg

H: Greg...that's a cool...I love that freakin' song....dammit, where is that song....(starts singing In the Court...) Gary, where is my King Crimson album? Where is my record?

G: I think he sung it better than I could have, personally.

C: Did you rehearse that, or was that just acappela?

H: I dig that song....is that it? Well give it to me...is that King Crimson? Put it in there on The Court of the Crimson King (plays song with added vocals) oh, this is Greg....sit through this...I love this song...I used to listen to this all the time and like I thought I was learning something....Greg, does this mean anything? I always thought it meant something. You don't know either.

G: I dunno. (song continues)

H: I love that man, now that's brilliant!

FragileDT wrote: [ Well I know Johnny Depp was a big guitar player. He played in bands his whole childhood and that's all he did he said. He said he didn't even have many friends because ALL he did was play guitar. He said he got into acting just because his friend "Nicolas Cage" told him he should try it out.

Not prog, but Johnny Depp is credited with playing slide guitar on Oasis's Fade In-Out from Be Here Now.