AI Overview There have been a number of rock stars and musicians involved with track and field or running, including several who were competitive athletes in their youth:
Alice Cooper and his original band were cross-country runners in high school, winning the Arizona State Championship. Bob Seger was a cross-country runner in high school, which he says influenced his song "Like a Rock".
That Alice Cooper story is the most impressive of all I've seen so far. Also a really cool story.
Bob Seger literally was doing a lot of "Running Against the Wind" in HS.
Re: Alice Cooper - he was good friends with Steve Scott. (I always wondered why/how buit I guess this all explains it...)
Have to mention Peter Giles, lifelong musician and later super masters runner (World Masters golds last summer). King Crimson might be a bit esoteric for some here :) He was always so much more stylish than us other old gits - tall, slim, ponytail, sometimes smoking a cigarillo.
Peter Giles is a British singer and bassist. He is the brother of drummer Michael Giles. Biography Early career Giles began his career in 1960 with the band Johnny King and The Raiders, composed of Johnny King (vocals), Graha...
"In the Court of the Crimson King was King Crimson's most commercially successful album, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest progressive rock albums ever released." (Wikipedia -although Peter didn't play on this album: his brother drums.)
I recall reading an interview long ago with Wayne Coyne, lead of the Flaming Lips, where the writer noted that Coyne had just gone for a 10k run in the city where he was about to play a show.
This always stuck with me as a fair bit of running for a busy rock star to just drop while on tour; running is my main hobby and I am pressed to get in a 10k on a work trip. (Obviously not impossible, but does take some planning!)
Also, Coyne is 64, and has a family with a 35 year-old girlfriend and two kids. (They got together when he was 52 and she was 23.) So maybe running is his fountain of youth!
Iron Maiden are football (soccer) guys, especially Steve Harris who trained with the West Ham youth club before he got into music. There is still a big Iron Maiden/West Ham United connection.
That Alice Cooper story is the most impressive of all I've seen so far. Also a really cool story.
Bob Seger literally was doing a lot of "Running Against the Wind" in HS.
Re: Alice Cooper - he was good friends with Steve Scott. (I always wondered why/how buit I guess this all explains it...)
Before the internet when I lived in Arizona...
A lot of people claimed Alice Cooper was the individual state cross country champ... but it turned out that it was his team that won... not him as an individual.
Another funny pre internet thing I heard out there was that "Arizona had more boats per capita than any other state." Heard that a bunch of times.
Turns out Arizona is almost last in boats per capita... which actually makes more sense because there are so few places to use a boat in Arizona.
The lead singer of the indie band Bad Suns, Christo Bowman, is an avid runner and posts instagram stories of him on the trails in whichever city the band is in. Dude is shredded, so he must be putting in some decent mileage.