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Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:59 am
by ERC
I love stories like that!
Pre war, there were plenty of musicians racing at all levels. Older poms might remember the "Billy Cotton Band Show" (he introduced pianist Russ Conway to TV) on radio and TV.
Bill drove an ERA and once upon a time, I think we had his driver's armband from a Donington meeting.
I think that Brian Lister (of Lister Jaguar fame) was also a jazz drummer.
Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:14 am
by shellsport
And how could we forget our Bruno !
Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:22 am
by paul lancaster
Yeah, I met him at levels when he was team owner of an nzv8 team, definitely a petrolhead
Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:29 am
by bry3500
Johnny Claes made himself a name as a Jazz trumpeter in London . He competed in 23 World Championship Grand Prix starts from 1950 to 1955
Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:44 am
by bry3500
INXS have sponsored several cars .The last, I think, was with Dick Johnson in the 2004 V8 Supercar Championship.
I can also vouch that Steve Gilpin and the rest of the guys from Misex were also motorsport crazy. They hired 5 Nascars during a tour of the U.S.. I think I may have a photo somewhere.
Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:49 am
by bry3500
driftwood wrote:[color="#FF0000"]actually they held the radio one road show at some race meetings with some of the pop bands of the day present often doing a concert later Chaos ensued when they had the Bay city Rollers at 1 meeting!
The Radio one DJ then had a race with some musicians Cozzy Powell the drummer was top dog Mike Smith DJ was already racing and later went onto to do BTCC with sierra rs500 Noel edmonds once owned 2 GT40 cars in his early days later he was involved with a LM team[color="#FF0000"][/color][/color]
Cozy Powell had a large car collection. He had a fatal accident in his SAAB 900 while he was talking to his girlfriend on the mobile phone at over 100mph ..
Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:52 am
by Michael Clark
George Harrison
Did James 'Pete Aron' Garner get mentioned?
Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:13 am
by Kwaussie
Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:02 pm
by bry3500
James Dean at the Santa Barbara airport course, His last race.
Re: Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:54 pm
by Kwaussie