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Before the fame arrived, what did performers do to make ends meet?
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 71 Former Career entries on the site.
Name & Band | Former Career | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Split Enz, Tim Finn and Eddie Rayner | At one stage they worked in a lolly factory and were always white when they left due to the icing su | - dizrythmia | ||
| Split Enz, Neil Finn | Worked in a record store and a hospital before the phonecall. | - dizrythmia | ||
| HammerFall, Joacim Cans | Record Store Clerk | Wouldn't that be a kick in the a** to see that guy who sold you your Halloween album two weeks ago singing on MTV? I'd flip. - Chandra | ||
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| Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Lopez | Legal Office | She worked in a legal office while attending college and taking dance classes prior to her windfall of success. - Below Average Dave | ||
| Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Chamberlin | Construction worker | Had a job building custom homes with his brother-in-law, after he left the band JP and the Cats. After his stint in construction, he joined the Smashing Pumpkins - Ra'akone | ||
| Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan | worked at a records store | While there, he met future bandmate James Iha. - Ra'akone | ||
| Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson | Vendor at a news stand | During his lunch breaks there, he read copies of "Melody Maker" and "New Musical Express", that inspired him to join a band. - Ra'akone | ||
| The Yardbirds, Chris Dreja | Photographer | This could have gone in the "New Career" as well...was a photographer from when he left in 1968 to when the Yardbirds were resurrected in 1992. He was offered a chance to be the bassist of the "New Yardbirds", a band Jimmy Page formed, in part to fulfill all the Yardbirds' concert commitments in 1968, but he declined, wanting to pursue photography. He did, however, take a picture of this band, that was used on the cover of their first album. He is also one of the people credited with having given the "New Yardbirds" their final name, supposedly saying that the band would go over "like a lead zeppelin" - Ra'akone | ||
| Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley | Shabbos Goy | besides truck driver, he did a number of odd jobs, including a Shabbos goy...a goy (non-Jew) hired by religious Jewish people to do things on the Sabbath that they aren't allowed to do. - Ra'akone | ||
| Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder | Gas station attendant | E-Ved was working as a gas station attendant when Jack Irons passed the demo tape onto him, which he then put vocals onto and became lead singer of Pearl Jam - GUILLOTINEinc | ||
| Leona Lewis, Leona Lewis | Secretary | Leona Lewis was a secretary before auditioning for Simon Cowell's show "The X-Factor" in England. - Trish | ||
| Madison Drive, Daniel Bracken (Real Name Daniel Phillips) | Starbuck's Assistant Manager | Daniel Bracken, one of the two lead singers for the band Madison Drive, used to be a Starbuck's Assistant Manager - Jason | ||
| Ozzy Ozborne, Ozzy Ozborne | He was a plumber. | Before Black Sabbath, John "Ozzy" Ozborne was a plumber. - Wade Brock | ||
| Andrea True Connection, Andrea True | Porno actress | - crazydon | ||
| My Chemical Romance, Bob Bryar | Disney World Drummer | he played drums for The Little Mermaid and Aladdan, and quit because the other staff members yelled at him for having side burns. - Someone | ||
| Panic! at the Disco, Jon Walker | Starbucks | Yeah :) - Someone | ||
| My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way | Cartoonist | he was working for Cartoon Network and quit his job after witnessing 9/11, later to start My Chemical Romance shortly after. - Someone | ||
| Mike Reid, Mike Reid | NFL Player | This Grammy-winning songwriter and singer played 5 seasons as a defensive lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals. - Todd W. Zimmerman | ||
| Carla Bruni, Carla Bruni | Fashion Model | - Raphael |
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