Artschool vs. music

You know, so many of my favourite musicians went to art school

'Things may come and things may go, but the art school dance goes on forever'. Let's see. The Beatles (John Lennon) The Rolling Stones (Charlie, Keith and Ronnie) The Who (Pete) The Kinks (Ray) Roxy Music (Eno, Bryan Ferry) David Bowie The Clash (Mick, Paul, Joe) REM (at least Michael Stipe) Echo and the Bunnymen (at least Ian McCulloch) Pink Floyd (Art school students and architecture students) New Order / Joy Division The Stone Roses Talking Heads Sonic Youth Underworld Radiohead Kraftwerk Go-Betweens Albert Hammond, Jr. - The Strokes When Albert moved from L.A. to study at the Tisch School of the Arts, he met up with the rest of The Strokes and the revolution was born! Here are some British art schools and the musicians who started there: Camberwell Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd founder) Central School of Art (now merged with St. Martin's) Vivian Stanshall, Larry Smith (both Bonzos) Ealing College Roger Ruskin-Spear, (Bonzos) Pete Townshend, Freddie Mercury (66-69) Goldsmith's Neil Innes (Bonzos, Monty Python) Isleworth Polytechnic Freddie Mercury (64-66) Kingston Eric Clapton Polyechnic College, Regent St. Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright (Pink Floyd) The members of Gwar went to art school. So did Rob Zombie IIRC. Nick Cave went to art school. Travis - Glasgow School of Art Joni Mitchell - attended art school in Calgary. Franz Ferdinand - Glasgow School of Art Devo - Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale Kent State art students Brian Eno - Winchester Art School Kanye West - International Academy of Art and Design and Technology, a local art school in Chicago Talking Heads - met at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Chicks on Speed - met while at Munich Art Academy Yeah Yeah Yeahs - met at Oberlin College Tons of British punk and new wave bands were art schoolers. Goldsmiths was mentioned earlier; the majority of Blur attended. Michael Stipe - art major at University of Georgia before starting R.E.M. IIRC, in a Guitar Player magazine interview ca. 1977, Keith Richards said that there were more good guitar players in art school than there were good artists. Paul Weller of The Jam didn't go to Art School (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxG7-QHyG0U), but he sang about it...