Famously Disfigured Rock stars

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List some rock stars/musicians with disfigurements, disabilities, or handicaps of some kind. Besides lack of talent, of course.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you for heading off all of my potential posts to this thread at the jumpoff. Funkiller.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I aim to displease.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Mariah Carey; hideously ugly bitch

― pete s, Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Def Leppard's drummer.
*insert hilarious cracks about decapitating the whole band so they'd stop playing*

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

slick rick is missing an eye.. right? right?

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Gabrielle has a lazy eye. And Ry Cooder has a glass eye.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

frank beard ain't go no beard

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: "Ironic" contains quite poor examples of irony.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Robert Wyatt is in a wheelchair.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Al Green?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

are we talking actually dysfigured, or just plain fugly¿
because...

http://www.sanctifiedpress.com/gifs/verve.gif

― dyson (dyson), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

One COULD SAY that Morrissey is HANDICAPPED by the LACK of a good SONGWRITING PARTNER or GUITARIST.

Or that he is a maladroit spazz.

― pete s, Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

And of course Michael Jackson is the victim of notorious plastic surgery disasters.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Thom Yorke: lazy eylid
Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles: blind
Jaco Pastorius: nearly severed his left hand in a childhood injury
Django Reinhardt: two paralyzed fingers on left hand
Olivia Newton John: mastectomy
David Bowie: permanently dilated left pupil from childhood injury
Kurt Cobain: narcolepsy
Victoria Williams: multiple sclerosis
Ian Curtis, Chris Knox, Neil Young: epilepsy

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Jerry Garcia only had nine fingers.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Fats Domino had an eating disorder.

― pete s, Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps this should be re-titled famously AFFLICTED, in order to be more precise.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Seal has that scarring all over his face.

― pete s, Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i am chilled that mastectomy + reconstructive surgery is "disfigured" and all the boob-job strippers/singers/porn stars pple worship are not.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

andrew w.k. has to live life as andrew w.k.

― dyson (dyson), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

burl ives was born made out of snow.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"I remember the days when things were real bad for me. It was right after my accident, when I lost my hand." - Victor "Moulty" Moulton

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

andrew w.k. has to live life as andrew w.k.
-- dyson (dyspleasur...), January 31st, 2004.

LOL

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

hank williams JR owns this thread.

― Former Supposed So Called Nihilist Teenage Drug Disco Addiction Counselor (mjt), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Tony Iommi cut off the tips of two fingers working in a factory. Iommi wears thimble like devices on those two fingers. It is why he started tuning down, as it was easier to play and also why so many classic Sabbath tunes have riffs based in power chords.

― earlnash, Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't S. Wonder have other disabilities - wasn't he lacking in taste (the food orientated kind).

― Jedmond, Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Lazy eye is a disfigurement? That's harsh, man.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevie Wonder was in a car crash and had a log or something like that hit him in the face. I don't think he can smell, which would also mean he cannot taste.

― earlnash, Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't Jad Fair retarded? Someone please clear this one up for me.

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian Dury - stricken with polio as a child, wore calipers if I remember correctly.

Hound Dog Taylor had eleven fingers.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and Neil Tennant has fourteen nipples.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Vic Chesnutt - wheelchair bound after drink-driving escapade.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.biscottiland.com/images/jpegs/Me%20&%20Momus.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian Anderson has a flute attached to his head.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

no, jad fair isn't even remotely close to be retarded.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Little Richard - short leg and arm

― dlp9001, Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince, Jools Holland, Neil Hannon, Henry Rollins, Bono - dwarves

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

no, jad fair isn't even remotely close to be retarded

Is he autistic then? Work with me here.

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian Dury wibbles when he piddles, cos his middle is a riddle. He dribbles when he nibbles and he quibbles when he scribbles. He's knobbled on the cobbles cos he hobbles when he wobbles. So place your hard-earned peanuts in his tin, and thank the creator you're not in the state he's in. So long has he been languished on the shelf, he must give all proceedings to himself. He's spasticus, autisticus!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Moulty!

http://music.kulichki.net/txt/b/barbarians/moulty.shtml

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Moulty was so 17 posts ago.

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, in my bleary-eyed state I missed that, though I swear I looked!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It's ok. It really oughta've been brought up twice, anyway.

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Was someone just pulling my leg, or is half of Eddie Money's face really paralyzed?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Lemmy's got something weird on his face.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Jose Feliciano: blind as a bat.

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Lemmy and Aaron Neville, but really, I'd hardly call those "disfigurements."

May, forgive me in advance if this was already mentioned, but didn't Keith Relf of the Yardbirds have a hump? And if so, I'd imagine he still does?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

No, Dan. He still doesn't. Not after being freakishly electocuted like that.

Freddie Mercury, Elton John, George O'Dowd.... why it's quite obvious, right?

poor british men with receding to bald hairlines...

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan Adams face.

― uihhhh, Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

daniel johnston is a manchild

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 31 January 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Tony Iomi get two of his fingers chopped off?

― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 31 January 2004 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Miguel Tomasin from Reynols has Down Syndrome.
Bushwick Bill from the Geto Boys lost an eye when he was shot by his girlfriend (or was that just hype?).
Moondog was blinded at a young age when some dynamite caps exploded in his face.
Does Gary Moore count as disfigured? Or just pfugly?

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Saturday, 31 January 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Indomitable Spirit! (Well, not really. Except for their one-armed drummer. Who they kicked out because he was a shitty drummer. Because he had one arm! No, because he was a shitty drummer...)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 31 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.die-schwarzen.net/gfx/bands/curelullaby.gif

Fat.

― Stupid (Stupid), Saturday, 31 January 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 January 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Liam Gallagher: Stupid.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 31 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post to may pang -- no he isn't autistic either. jad maybe be a little nervous at times but that's it. don't confuse his art with the person. jad is quite sane and not developmentally challenged, etc -- i've known jad for a while and he's in no way debilitated -- he's actually quite savvy with business dealings to support himself through his music and art (drawings, paper cuttings, etc).

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 31 January 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevie Wonder was in a car crash and had a log or something like that hit him in the face. I don't think he can smell, which would also mean he cannot taste.

I recall to have read somewhere that he only lost his smell for a while and that he has now regained it.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 31 January 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Horace Parlan, who played piano for Mingus for awhile, had his right hand partially crippled by polio.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 1 February 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of mingus, he broke his trombonist jimmy knepper's jaw in an argument, causing him to lose some of his range

― brains (cerybut), Sunday, 1 February 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Drummer in the very, very famous british funk-metal chancers Scat Opera has his facial featrures drastically reduced by some sort of scarring. Never found out how, but it looks like burn markings.

― mzui, Sunday, 1 February 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yellowman has some kind of bone disease that affects his face, I believe.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 1 February 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't Yellowman an albino too? Like Johnny Winter and Sakif Keita...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 1 February 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

he is.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 1 February 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

And Brother Ali. I'd never heard of him before I saw him perform at an anti-war thing at First Avenue and I kept thinking "man this dude looks like Matt Pinfield". Which was a pretty stupid thing to think, though it was mostly counterbalanced by "man this dude is a great MC".

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 1 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

How 'bout Ray Sawyer, the guy from Dr. Hook? With the eye patch. As in, he only gots one. One eye.

Also, Ian (Tull) Anderson only has one leg, if we're to believe the simulated newspaper/liner notes from "Thick As A Brick". And why shouldn't we? (Best thing about that record!)

― Myonga Von Bontee, Monday, 2 February 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Uberguitarist Phil Keaggy is missing half a finger on his right hand.

― Jole, Monday, 2 February 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Curtis Mayfield (while alive) was wheelchair-bound due to freak stage accident.

Janet Jackson, so I read, has a hole through at least one nipple.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.movies-posters.co.uk/acatalog/south-pk-timmy.jpg

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Roland Kirk was blinded at 6 years old when a nurse tarded out and gave him a medication he was allergic to, or something like that. He also later in life had a stroke that left the right side of his body paralyzed. He continued playing music even after that.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Rachel Stevens has webbed feet.

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hank Williams, Jr and his amazing vertical smashmouth faceplant manuever against the side of a rocky outcrop. The hat, beard and sunglasses aren't merely a stylistic statement, folks.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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