rock stars who went back work.

Kira (Black Flag) - computer programmer

Actually she went into the film/TV business - currently a dialogue editor with two Emmy Awards.

Update yr info. Kira won an Oscar for sound editing on Mad Max Fury Road.

When I last checked on him, in the 90s, Arthur Brown was doing this:

In the 1980s, Brown moved to Austin, Texas, where his wife came from, and obtained a master's degree in counselling.[28]...Together with former Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black, he also became a painter and carpenter for some years,[10] and released an album with him, Brown, Black & Blue (1988). In 1992, Brown and fellow counsellor Jim Maxwell founded Healing Songs Therapy, a service that culminated in Brown creating a song for each client about their emotional issues.[30]

Update yr info. Kira won an Oscar for sound editing on Mad Max Fury Road.

Hah, even better! I just pulled everything from the opening paragraph on Wikipedia - I was surprised it's not in there. (It actually is, but buried towards the bottom.)

Bit of a niche interest this, but Michael McGuire, from 80s' conceptualists/ pranksters Sudden Sway, is now Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey.

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/michael-mcguire

And if you doubt it's the same guy then about one seconds worth of hearing him talking about cybercrime on YouTube will convince you it's definitely him!

my brother-in-law is in advertising, used to live in portland, and would run into dave allen at things regularly. It took him a few times before he realized it was the guy from GoF and not just some random advertising guy

Xpost I have a home made box off all the "sing song" bits, so "Yes, yes, I did know that actually..."

Inspired by that latest Dandy Warhols thread, I fell into a clickhole and discovered Zia McCabe is/was a realtor.

Nice interview from 2017: https://www.wweek.com/music/2017/12/26/when-zia-mccabe-got-tired-of-touring-with-the-dandy-warhols-she-became-a-licensed-real-estate-agent/

Mojo piece this month reveals that Scott Walker became a painter and decorator in the post Climate of Hunter period.

'Though Walker began work on an album produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois in March 1985, the project was rapidly aborted. Later, the singer made one of his infrequent visits to his manager. “I said, What have you been up to?” recalls Bicknell. “And he said, ‘I’ve been painting.’ I said, Oh, oils or watercolours? He said, ‘No, man, walls.’ He’d been working as a decorator. He could, at any point, have put The Walker Brothers back together and done the nostalgia circuit, but he would rather, literally, get up a ladder with a pot of Dulux and paint somebody’s flat and get a few quid."'

pretty sure that was widely reported in the 90s during his critical comeback

yeah. it's definitely not the first time i heard that story too

Figured him for an electrician

stretching the term "rock star" here, maybe, but Hailu Mergia deserves a mention.

I saw Tommy Tutone on one of those "Where are they now?" VH1 things and he's just a regular office worker whose coworkers apparently razz all the time

gotta say though he's got one hell of a "fun fact" whenever they make him introduce himself

This is the guitarist from Tommy Tutone:

Jim Keller went on to become the director of Philip Glass's publishing company, Dunvagen Music Publishers.

Nice gig