Question Which Rockstars still live in the town they grew up in?
I don't blame Iggy Pop moving to Florida (though Detroit has somewhat since improved since he was a young man, so much so that Eminem (a musician of a generation after him) still prefers to stay there.)
McCartney has houses everywhere, but has no stable abode in Liverpool. He still respects the City, but his career truly requires him to be outside it.
The Gallagher brothers moved to London and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols moved to Los Angeles -
Though Cookie of the Sex Pistols still resides in London.
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u/Malcolmsyoungerbro 2d ago
Alice Cooper has his home base in Phoenix, Arizona, where he grew up during his high school years. Though he seems almost constantly on the road.
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u/BasicWhiteHoodrat 2d ago
Figured he would have relocated to Milwaukee
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u/urine-monkey 2d ago
Alice is a regular visitor here. But Milwaukee sure has had its share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers were coming here as early as the 1600s to trade with the Native Americans.
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u/Ironborn_62 2d ago
Isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?
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u/m_leo89 2d ago
Yes Pete, it is. Actually it’s pronounced Milly-walk-ayy, which is Algonquin for “the good land”.
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u/urine-monkey 1d ago
Y'know one of the more interesting aspects about Milwaukee is that it's the only major American city to have ever elected three socialist mayors.
Also.... if you've read the thread this far. Here's an easter egg from a local. Look up "Milwaukee neighborhood posters." You'll see that they're prominently featured prominently on the walls in that scene. Those posters are in every school, library, and public building in Milwaukee.
Someone knew.
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u/Smooth-Bandicoot6021 2d ago
He and his wife have a charity center for kids to get involved in performance arts, 2 of my teenaged cousins go there 3 days per week. They see him there pretty regularly and work with his wife a ton, she teaches dance. I regularly get selfies from my little cousin with him and his wife in them, at least monthly. They do showcases of performances from different disciplines, and he checks in with the students and knows many of them by name, my little cousin included. She just calls him Alice like it's normal, which I find absolutely hilarious. He seems like one of the most stand-up dudes in music who genuinely cares and puts his money where his mouth is. I had no idea until she started sending me pics and performance videos.
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u/-Economist- 2d ago
I’ve golfed with him on more the one occasion (mutual acquaintances) and I can’t stress enough how cool this MFer is.
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u/neanderthal85 2d ago
John Mellencamp generally lives in the same area in Indiana (from Seymour, lives in Bloomington)
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u/bluntmonkey 2d ago
I heard he was from a small town. He’ll probably die in a small town too …
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u/Autumnwind37 2d ago
Does he live in a pink house? He’ll probably die from choking on one of them chili dogs he’s suckin on.
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u/NotDeadYet57 2d ago
Josh Homme has one home in the Palm Desert and one in L.A.
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u/Swimming-Success797 1d ago
He's from Joshua Tree though... doesn't count...
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u/Afterlite 1d ago
Was he not born in JT but grew up in PS?
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u/NotDeadYet57 1d ago
He was actually born in Palm Springs because they probably had a better hospital. He resided in the city of "Palm Desert". The studio he often records in "Rancho de la Luna" is in Joshua Tree.
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u/Swimming-Success797 1d ago
I read that he lived in J.T. until around 7 years old, apparently lots of towns want to say he grew up there. I really don't care anyway.
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u/ThinkZone4366 2d ago
Often see Bono doing normal things in Dublin
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u/dancin-weasel 2d ago
He saves his abnormal things for Galway.
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u/Markitron1684 2d ago
Killiney and Finglas may aswell be in different countries.
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u/WeDoingThisAgainRWe 2d ago
This is the thing with this question. They can live in the “same town” while living in nothing like the area they grew up in.
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u/WillieForge 20h ago
Not paying his taxes there though.
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u/ThinkZone4366 19h ago
He definitely does pay his taxes in Ireland.
Assume you’re referring to “U2 inc.”?
Yes they moved theirs overseas. Can you name any businesses who will willingly cop a larger tax bill when there are legal avenues to avoid doing so? I’m not saying it’s right, but they certainly aren’t alone in doing so for their commercial IP.
Big yawn at this tired old objection that continually gets wheeled out to cut down Ireland largest cultural export by far.
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u/Breezlife 5h ago
Well I can't name any such businesses. Then again, they don't try to compete with Bono in the halo-polishing space. Preachers should be (morally) tax-compliant.
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u/guardianoverseas 2d ago
Rush
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u/The_Observatory_ 2d ago
Yes, Alex and Geddy do. I know Neil Peart was living in LA the last part of his life.
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u/One_Bus_9677 2d ago
Stevie Nicks still lives in Paradise Valley, AZ.
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u/ChapterNo3428 2d ago
Stevie nicks is from the Bay Area.
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u/vikingwanderer 2d ago
She was born in Phoenix and lived in a bunch of places because her dad worked for Grayhound. She spent some high school years in Arcadia, CA, but her senior year was in Atherton, which is where she met Lindsey.
Stevie Nicks - Wikipedia https://share.google/4oroNxtxhAtxIwY0r
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u/DiaperDonaldT 2d ago
Most of Slipknot still lives in the Des Moines area.
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u/crowkiller06 2d ago
Root, had/has a place in Florida. I used to work with an IT guy, covered in tattoos. He would tell you about knowing & being buddies with Root every chance he got.
He would send me photos from 4th of July parties where they would go to Root’s place and light off thousands & thousands of dollars of fireworks.
Apparently, when Root was fixing up his house, one of the contractors brought his son along, and Root gave the son a few guitar lessons for the dad who was working on his house.
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u/OneLawWorld 2d ago
I believe the members of Dinosaur Jr. still live around western Massachusetts. Unless I'm horribly mistaken.
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u/OnceUponASlime 2d ago
Wayne Coyne still lives in OKC in the house he grew up in if I’m not mistaken.
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u/thebananahotdog 2d ago
The Tragically Hip all still live in/around Kingston. Only Gord lived in Toronto.
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u/marplatense 2d ago
Prince lived and died more or less in the same place, right?
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u/problyurdad_ 2d ago
He grew up in the hood and moved to the high end burbs once he got some high end burbs money but yes, still only a handful of miles away. Same metro area.
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u/wendyoschainsaw 2d ago
Slash lives in LA.
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u/Keisvorve 2d ago
He’s from Stoke on Trent….
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u/Prole1979 2d ago
I heard he has charming little canal barge with potted flowers on the roof which he sometimes stops at if he’s in the area
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u/wendyoschainsaw 2d ago
Birthplace and where someone grows up are very different.
Slash and Steve Adler went to Fairfax High in West Hollywood together, not 8,000 miles apart.
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u/Keisvorve 2d ago
Well, yeah he was born in London so that’s true either way. Raised in Stoke for his early years and interestingly didn’t become an American citizen until 1996.
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u/TILostmypassword 2d ago
Neil Young grew up in Omeemee Ontario and recently moved back to the nearby Kawartha Lakes area.m, after living in California for most of his career.
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u/sergeantpinback 2d ago
Mike Joyce of The Smiths still lives in south Manchester, often see him at a Nepalese restaurant in Northenden. I’m pretty sure neither Morrissey or Marr live in the city.
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u/chadwickipedia 2d ago
Brad Delp lived around Boston before he died, as well as some of the other members of Boston
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u/honeybabysweetiedoll 2d ago
David Lee Roth lives in the house in which he grew up in Pasadena CA.
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u/LAFunTimesOK 2d ago
Dave’s dad was an uber rich eye surgeon/medical device inventor. He was featured on lifestyles of the rich and famous. It’s not like Dave lives in a normal childhood home.
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u/AgreeableAlbatross80 2d ago
George Porter Jr. of The Meters still lives in New Orleans and keeps a residence at The Maple Leaf.
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u/whynothis1 2d ago
Mick jagger still lives in London.
Just for reference for people, London is 4 hours down the road from Manchester and Liverpool which are very close to each other. So, it's very different to American stars moving around and choosing where to set up.
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u/Lazy_Leadership_3260 2d ago
I think Jagger grew up in Dartford, Kent but now lives in Richmond/Ham in South West London
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u/tibsbulls2021 2d ago
Brian Setzer, still lives in Minneapolis
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u/Iloilocity1 1d ago
He sat next to me on a flight to MSP last year. I thought “dude looks like Brian Setzer”
About 3 days later I was listening to the local radio and they mentioned he lived here, I think his wife is from MN? Anyway, I had no idea he lived in MN until I heard that.
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u/tibsbulls2021 17h ago
That's pretty cool. I also wonder if it's better to come off saying you know who they are, or if it's better to pretend you don't know them, but still make conversation with them like a regular person. I feel like that would give a more personal experience.
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u/wendyoschainsaw 2d ago
Which is nowhere near Long Island, NY, where he was born and formed the Stray Cats. Plus he spent decades living in LA.
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u/tibsbulls2021 1d ago
Props for him choosing to live in a real American town instead of fake, overpriced NY and Cali.
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u/wendyoschainsaw 1d ago
I think some of it has to do with his medical treatment for autoimmune diseases.
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u/chapatibrown 2d ago
Robert plant still has a house around the West Midlands in the UK. He also goes to a lot of Wolverhampton wanderers football games.
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u/bunrakoo 2d ago
Bruce still lives 9 miles from Asbury Park where he grew up and folks in the neighborhood see him and Patti often
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u/MixGroundbreaking622 2d ago
All Black Sabbath lived in Birmingham. Ozzy moved back to Birmingham before he died. Geezer lives there. Tony and Bill both live about an hour away.
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u/wasgoinonnn 2d ago
Iggy was actually from outside of Detroit, and many of the richest people in the world have homes in Michigan.
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u/Charming_Sale2064 1d ago
Trailer park in Ypsi. https://99wfmk.com/iggy-pop/
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u/wasgoinonnn 1d ago
Yep. That was my point. Ypsi/ann Arbor after being born in Muskegon. One of my favorite rock stories is Iggy talking about seeing the doors actually playing a U of M homecoming dance… And it changed his whole perspective of what a front man performance could be. He saw Jim Morrison antagonizing the crowd rather than just trying to entertain them.
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u/EatShootBall 2d ago
Jimmy Eat World are in Phoenix which is kinda Mesa where they grew up. If same metro area counts.
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u/unga_bunga_kid1927 2d ago
Jon Bonjovi still lives in NJ. He did say his license will always say NJ.
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u/whydoihave2dothis 1d ago
He lives in Rumson NJ, my brother lived a few blocks from him. He lived a few blocks away from us when we were kids in Sayreville, went to the same high school and my other brother used to jam with him and Dave Sabo, who also lived a few blocks from us and still lives in NJ. Dave Sabo is a great guy, much loved in Sayreville.
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u/unga_bunga_kid1927 1d ago
I know I'm a NJ girl.
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u/whydoihave2dothis 1d ago
I thought you might be. There are a lot of musicians and actors from NJ as I'm sure you know. My husband went to school with one of the Smithereens guys (not sure of his name). Always glad to run into another Jersey Girl 😎
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u/darranj85 1d ago
As far as I know. Not only does Cookie still live in London. He lives in the street he grew up
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u/Grrerrb 1d ago
Izzy Stradlin of Guns N’ Roses lives in his hometown of Lafayette Indiana.
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u/wendyoschainsaw 1d ago
He has ranch properties in Colorado and Ventura County, CA. He's in California more than anyplace.
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u/Rockky67 1d ago
PJ Harvey flits between Dorset and London. I think the Massive Attack people still live in Bristol.
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u/Dry_Big3880 1d ago
U2. Bruce Springsteen says that for all his Born to Run schtick he lives 10 miles from where he grew up.
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u/LayneLowe 2d ago
We see Billy Gibbons around Houston some