robin thicke
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
susan boyle, age 48 when her first album was released
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
LCD soundsystem
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Looks like no one came to prominence in their 40s then.
Willie Nelson
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
supertrampdire straitschris de burgh
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
M.I.A.
She released Arular when she was 30 and Kala 2 years later which includes her most famous song.
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Michael Bolton
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Lucinda Williams was in her late 40s when Car Wheels came out.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
andy summers was pushing 40 when the police got super popular in the states. el stingo and stu were about 30.
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
I thought Seasick Steve would be the first name on the thread. He was in his 60s.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Did you really think "Seasick Steve" would be the first name on the thread?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
haha
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
who dat?
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
Tiny Tim was already 36 when his first album came out in 1968.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
I realized I'd never listened to a Tiny Tim record, so now I'm listening to God Bless Tiny Tim and it's fucking weird as shit (in a good way).
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
!!! that record is awesome
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
It is!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Alejandro Escovedo was in his 40s when his first solo records started getting traction.Michael Been of The Call was in his mid-30s when "When The Walls Came Down" was released.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Ed Cassidy was in his mid-40s when Spirit formed.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
wasn't saxa already in his 50s when the english beat put out their 1st album? i love that guy's story.
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
That old guy in the rocking chair in Arrested Development.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
"I thought Seasick Steve would be the first name on the thread. He was in his 60s."
Maybe re-read the title of the thread?
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Immediate Follower (NA) says "Did you really think "Seasick Steve" would be the first name on the thread?"
Yes, the music media made a pretty big deal out of him being around so long before achieving any fame. I think part of his success was from that aspect. I just searched this forum for him and there is very little about him. Don't know how well he did in America. To be fair, I haven't heard him mentioned in a while. I don't think I've ever heard his music.
There is a clip on YouTube about him moving to Norway and meeting former Emperor members. You see Peccatum watching his reaction to their music and he looked to me like he didn't know how to react.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
huey lewis had his first hit at 32.
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.funcheap.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/148256-anvil1.jpg
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Don't know how well he did in America.
Most Americans have zero idea who he is. I only ever heard of him because of something I saw on PBS.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
NickB says "Maybe re-read the title of the thread?"
Others have been mentioning older than 40s people, surely that's of interest?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
he is not recognized, period
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Dio was 33 when Rainbow started, 37 when he joined Sabbath, and 41 when the first Dio album came out.
― wk, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
Drive-By Truckers
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Wussy, sort of.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
Yo La Tengo
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
Lemmy was 31 (born 12/24/45) when Motörhead's debut album was released in 1977.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
Mary Gauthier didn't start writing/singing until her mid-30s. She was awarded "New Artist of the Year" by The Americana Music Association (copied from wikipedia) at the age of 43 -- that is, if you consider that award as her "breaking out".
― bodacious ignoramus, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
I haven't heard any seasick Steve but they sell his cds in my local sainsburys and I hear people talk about him quite often so he's def recognised in the UK. It's def relevant to the thread but I think it's almost less easy for artists to rise to fame in their 40s than their 60s for some reason.
Maybe at 20 you can be young and endearing, in your 60s you can be wizened and eccentric, but at 40 it seems harder to convince the world of your credibility. Maybe it's a sort of 'cool dad' syndrome. You see a lot of musicians who endured success throughout their 20s fall from favour at this stage, listeners and pundits throwing 'losing their edge' accusations for doing pretty much the same thing as they ever did. Off the top of my head I can think of Johnny Cash, Scott walker, Michael gira, even Bowie, who either spent their middle ages absent or simply releasing ignorable material only to come back later in life and be celebrated as cult figures.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
lemmy was in a very prominent band already fgs
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
earl brutus is a classic example of this if we forget world of twist ever happened
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
Xxpost this is speaking in very general terms of course. There will be exceptions (I hope, although not many examples in this thread which disprove it as most mentioned were in their early 30s)
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
wasn't gary young in his 30s when slanted & enchanted was recorded? not sure if this counts but w/e.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
Thread title is "Acts that came to prominence when their members were in their 30s or 40s". Lemmy was a semi-well-known member of Hawkwind in his 20s, but Motörhead did not exist until he was 30/31, and it's arguable they didn't "come to prominence" until Ace of Spades was released - in 1980, when he was 34.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
ah ok
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
tuli kupferberg was in his 40s when the fugs started. born in 1923.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
Jumping in to join the chorus on the "God Bless Tiny Tim" album being incredible! A triumph of production.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:27 (nine years ago) link
As for Lemmy, he didn't start making any money at music until he wrote songs for Ozzy's 80s pop albums.
Kim Carnes was 34 when she had her first hit in 1980 and 35 when "Bette Davis Eyes" went to #1. she'd been around since the mid-'60s (she did some time in the New Christy Minstrels and wrote some album tracks for David Cassidy and Frank Sinatra), but she was only moderately successful as a solo artist in the '70s, and her breakthrough album Mistaken Identity was her sixth album to date.
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
I have heard that "seasons change, waiting on you" tune by the singularly poorly named Future Islands and disliked it intensely upon hearing it and have heard it many many times now… and now that I see how the singer comports himself live and on national TV, I dislike FI even more.
― veronica moser, Thursday, 26 June 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
I thought Seasick Steve would be the first name on the thread. He was in his 60s.― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 12:55 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkDid you really think "Seasick Steve" would be the first name on the thread?― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, June 25, 2014 12:57 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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lol
― intheblanks, Thursday, 26 June 2014 05:22 (nine years ago) link
Future Islands is such a great example of a band who slogged it out for years and years before becoming an unexpected sensation overnight.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Wednesday, June 25, 2014 11:33 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so so otm
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 26 June 2014 06:16 (nine years ago) link
three of Can's four core members were early 30s when they formed. (Michael Karoli was 10 years younger and had been one of Holger's students.)
― sideshow boob (haitch), Thursday, 26 June 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
UK Subs (Charlie Harper)
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 June 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
Debbie Harry was 36 when "Rapture" came out
― frogbs, Friday, 28 February 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link