Archive for the 'sporting musicians' Category

Les Claypool : bass player and fisherman

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Les Claypool – bass player, fisherman.

Funky bass savant Les Claypool, probably best known as the funny front man / bass player / singer of 90’s funkmetal madman rock trio Primus, is a passionate fisherman.

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Robbie Williams - soccer fan, player and investor

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Robbie Williams soccer freak, football player.

Brit Award winning pop singer-songwriter Robert Peter Williams ( Take That, Robbie Williams ) is a soccer freak. He is a supporter of League One Port Vale Football Club in Stoke-on-Trent, his hometown in the United Kingdom.

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Julio Iglesias - Real Madrid goalkeeper

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Long before his succesful career in the music industry, the legendary mellow, smooth, romantic Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias was, while attending law school in Madrid in the early sixties, for a short period goalkeeper for the Real Madrid soccer team.

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Bob Marley, Soccer Player : Football is Freedom

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Bob Marley kicking a ball with some fellow musicians

“Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.” (Bob Marley- 1979)”

Many people are surprised to hear Bob Marley was a fanatic soccer player and fan.That doesn’t seem to fit their image of world’s most legendary reggae star : the marihuana smoking, the lazy reggae beats, the dreadlock rastafari easy going attitude, the political activism, …
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