Wheelchair Stars

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Just had this kind of weird thought about how many people in wheelchairs there had been in the music biz.

Personally I can think of Vic Chestnutt, Robert Wyatt and Teddy Pendergrass. Ian Dury was never so ill from his Polio that he needed a wheelchair, was he?

Anyway, any others?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 25 January 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

jarvis spent some time in a wheelchair when he fell out of a window trying to impress a girl. he played afew gigs in it as well I believe.

― g s (kissmyfist), Sunday, 25 January 2004 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Curtis Mayfield, I assume.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 January 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Correct about Mayfield, although I believe his accident ended his music career

(Which was almost the case with Teddy Pendergrass too, but he has at last recorded some stuff afterwards).

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 25 January 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

jeff st. john rocked out in a wheel chair

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 25 January 2004 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.evilmusic.com/reviews/images/covers/mutiilation2.jpg
Meyna'ch of Mütiilation

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 25 January 2004 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Mayfield recorded his final album "New World Order" after the accident, lying on his back in the studio.
I remember seeing a video by Dave Howard Singers- a cover of "Rock On" in which he was chair-bound, though that doesn't mean that he needed said wheelchair

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 25 January 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

MC Hawking.

― Quinn Feeney, Sunday, 25 January 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Similar to Jarvis, Robert Plant broke both his legs during the recording of "Presence" and was confined to a wheelchair for months, except he never performed with it live.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 25 January 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

DJ Paul Jackson who had a big hit with 'Get Get Down' a few years back has been wheelchair-bound for some time. He makes a cameo in the video for Daft Punk's 'Burnin' (actually at the decks of the party in the tower) I think.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 25 January 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Robert Wyatt!!!!!!!!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 25 January 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

d'oh, already posted :)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 25 January 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

mark linkous from sparklehorse has been wheelchair bound for some years now. dont know if he´s a star though.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Snoop Dogg, but only when performing "Murder Was the Case."

― Joseph McCombs, Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure if he was really wheelchair bound, or just used it for the glory of the album cover:
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/UZ-Here.jpg

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 25 January 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith - falling off or pushed off stage incidents

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

John Popper got so large he was in a wheelchair. Luckily, he could still play the harmonica.

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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