Wow, I can't believe ___________ was the same person who did ____________!

I was going to say something about finding out that Jackie magazine was named after children's author Jacqueline Wilson, who was working as a junior employee at DC Thomson when it launched, but wikipedia says this is actually an urban legend :(

remember being surprised to find out that Ian Levine the Northern Soul/Hi-NRG DJ and producer was the same person as Ian Levine the infamous Dr Who superfan and official 'continuity advisor' to the show in the 80s

The director of the new BBC adaptation of Poldark, Ed Bazalgette, used to be the guitarist in The Vapors.

I was going to say something about finding out that Jackie magazine was named after children's author Jacqueline Wilson, who was working as a junior employee at DC Thomson when it launched, but wikipedia says this is actually an urban legend :(

I'm sure I've seen Wilson herself claim this on a documentary

The Wombles Christmas Party and Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds were two of the first albums I ever owned as a kid, and I only recently found out that Chris Spedding played guitar on both.

find it cool that Steve Miller Band did both 'The Joker' and 'Abracadabra', which sound nothing like each other.

i mean, their career arc is probably a lot better known to Americans, but for me those are their only two songs.

find it cool that Steve Miller Band did both 'The Joker' and 'Abracadabra', which sound nothing like each other.

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I always wanted to play "Concierto de Aranjuez" and "Rated X" for someone who'd never heard either just to see how long it would take to convince them they're both by Miles Davis.

Miles was the first person I thought of when I saw this thread. You could leapfrog all through his catalog making connections like that. Ditto Dylan, from the likes of "Desolation Row" and recent bad-boy songs like "Wasted Years" and "Early Roman Kings" to his Sinatra album and Self-Portrait(not to equate those two, or the ones in the first group). Also, smooth-jazz master Bob James made a good avant album, Explosions, on ESP-DISK, even.

Also Neil Young, from his buckskin granola folkie ballads to whole albums of feedback.

I was a huge of Takako Minekawa's music (particularly "Roomic Cube" and "Cloudy Cloud Calculator") for a few years before realizing she was the voice behind the title tag in the original "Playstation" commercials.

Tony Burrows is my perpetual go-to for this topic. Lead singer on "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by Edison Lighthouse and "My Baby Loves Lovin'" by White Plains and "Gimme Dat Ding" by the Pipkins and "Beach Baby" by the First Class and "United We Stand" by Brotherhood of Man.

A lesser example along the same lines was when I realized that John Waite of "Missing You" fame was also the lead singer for the Babys ("Every Time I Think Of You") and Bad English ("When I See You Smile").

Stretching the definition of person, but discovering that the Nyan Cat song was the voice of Hatsune Miku

I discovered Thomas M. Disch's poetry and his sci-fi writing years apart and just amused there were two different writers with similar names (I believe the poetry books had "Tom Disch" on the covers)

always wanted to play "Concierto de Aranjuez" and "Rated X" for someone who'd never heard either just to see how long it would take to convince them they're both by Miles Davis.

try being a fan of Ween, they're really far out in that category

Still hoping to hear that someone's separately an enormous fan of Iain Banks and Iain M Banks.

was initially shocked to learn that the author of Riddley Walker and Bread and Jam For Francis were the same guy

lol of course already mentioned by James Morrison my bad

Richard Donner's career always trips me up. Just realized the other day that he directed The Omen. Alongside Superman, Scrooged, the Lethal Weapon franchise, and The Toy.

Had a slight "!" at discovering that the slobby Onslow of Keeping Up Appearances
http://aboutknowsley.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/onslow_keeping_up_appearances.jpg
was the voice of Paul McCartney in Yellow Submarine

Also that playwright Steven Berkoff has played Bond villains and the like.

Both of these are probably well known to Brits especially?

Stephen Berkoff = "Foley's on the grounds!"

Also brass eye, his finest role

I stilll forget that occult writer Gary Lachman is Blondie bassist Gary Valentine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/us/gary-lachman-from-blondie-to-swedenborg.html

Miguel Ferrer from Twin Peaks and Robocop played drums on Keith Moon's solo album.

David Duchovny being in Twin Peaks AND X-Files is kind of amazing even though it makes sense.

John Foxx designs book covers, like this one for example:

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1310497457l/937204.jpg

this is probably common knowledge, but Gene Wolfe (the sf writer) designed the machine that cooks Pringles.

http://nicefucking.graphics/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/dWJMmqm.jpg

just learned that Paul Kirchner, who I knew for his comic strip, The Bus and for being an assistant to Wally Wood, was the co-creator of the Zest ad campaign featuring Craig "Ironhead" Heyward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQm1_ff5Pb0

also, was reminded the other day that 'Anouchka' from Terry, Blair & Anouchka was Anouchka Grose, the Lacanian psychoanalyst and author of articles for the Guardian, Daily Mail, Evening Standard etc

Terry, Blair & Anouchka was a musical outfit, active in the early 1990s. The group was formed by Coventry born singer Terry Hall, American actress Blair Booth and jeweller Anouchka Grose. Anouchka was formerly the lead singer and guitarist of Urmin Spindle, an acid folk group who played songs about the dark heart of the rural dream and their chemical estrangement from nature.[clarification needed]

and jeweller as well according to wikipedia? I'm intrigued by Urmin Spindle, but google is not providing much

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsL/10756-8898.jpg

I never realised until today that 1. the guy above, who I recognised as an actor from The Liver Birds, Bar Mitzvah Boy + The Knowledge, is Jonathan Lynn, the co-writer of Yes Minister and 2. that Jonathan Lynn had also directed Nuns on the Run, the Steve Martin Sgt. Bilko film and The Whole Nine Yards

Wow, I can't believe your mom was the same person who did me!

Wow

this is pretty niche but i was tickled to learn that Marlon James was the graphic designer for a bunch of Sean Paul albums: http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/12/sean-paul-album-covers-marlon-james

I remember reading that David Yow had helped on some character design on The Incredibles, it was Frozone's surfboard iirc

Yow also did the artwork for Garfield The Movie.

Watched What Lies Beneath last night and was boggled to see that it was written by Clark Gregg, aka Marvel's Agent Coulson.

Albert Lamorisse, director of The Red Balloon and White Mane, also created the board game Risk

This is well-known now, but back in the '90s I remember being surprised to find out that Conan O'Brien, the talk show host on the telly, also wrote that Simpsons episode with Leonard Nimoy in it.

A poster for Lord of the Rings, one of the best-selling for UK retailer Athena, was drawn by Jimmy Cauty of the KLF / The Orb

http://klf.de/home/jimmy-cauty-solo-projects/athena-posters/

I remember reading that Face interview at the time. It's such a ghastly drawing in the tradition of horribly lifeless and overworked A level art projects with no colour sense or flair - god knows who'd want that on their wall!

I bet £500 could go a long way back in them days...I'm rich!

he was a teenager and it probably sold mostly to teenagers

Johnny Cash entered the air force when he was 18, and was eventually shipped out to Landsberg, West Germany, where he worked as a Morse code operator intercepting Soviet Army transmissions. He was the first American to hear of the death of Joseph Stalin.

Justin Dupieux, the film maker who created Rubber (2010), Keep an Eye Out! (2018), Deerskin (2019), Mandibles (2020), and Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) is also Mr. Oizo, of Flat Beat fame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsbP13xu6k

Except he's actually Quentin Dupieux, no idea where I got 'Justin' from.

It's such a ghastly drawing in the tradition of horribly lifeless and overworked A level art projects with no colour sense or flair - god knows who'd want that on their wall!

oh wow I recognise that poster, it was in the front room of a local dealer in our area about 30 years ago.