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Peter Capaldi was the lead singer in a punk rock band called Dreamboys, whose drummer was future comedian Craig Ferguson.
The lead singer of punk band Offspring worked on his PhD in molecular biology while touring and recording music
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Post-Punk band Public Image Ltd (led by former Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten) considered the idea of their second album being released in a sandpaper package that would effectively ruin the sleeve art of any records shelved next to it.
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A Seatlle punk band The Gits had a lead singer who was murdered in the 90s. DNA found her murderer a decade later.
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Jello Biafra, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Dead Kennedy’s, ran for the Green Party’s presidential nomination in 2000. Some of his ideas included lowering the voting age to 5 and abolishing the military.
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Punk singer GG Allin's real named was Jesus Christ Allin, because his father claimed that Jesus had visited him, and told him that his newborn son would be the Messiah. He was nicknamed GG due to his older brother's inability to pronounce Jesus.
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The lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion has degrees in biology and geology from UCLA, and a PhD in Zoology from Cornell. He is a frequent lecturer at UCLA
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Celtic Warriors invented the bleached spiked hairstyle that Punk rockers wear. Singer Billy Idol's hair during 1980's is an example of the style. The Celts bleached their hair blond using lime water and the hairstyle was considered a badge of honour and manhood
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Brandon Cruz, who played Eddie on The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, is a punk singer who was lead vocalist for the Dead Kennedys.
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Post-punk band The Fall has had 67 different members during its 35-year existence, with only lead singer Mark E. Smith remaining a constant member
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Greg Graffin, lead singer of punk rock band Band Religion, obtained his PhD at Cornell University and has lectured courses in life sciences and paleontology at the University of California, Los Angeles and evolution at Cornell University.
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Before Game Of Thrones, Peter Dinklage was the singer in a punk band called Whizzy.
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Dexter Holland, lead singer for the punk-rock band The Offspring, is a Molecular Biology grad student and has published a paper in a scientific journal about MicroRNA in HIV genomes
The dancing girl in the Sonic Youth video Bull in the Heather is Kathleen Hanna; lead singer of feminist punk band Bikini Kill, pioneer of the Riot grrrl movement of the early 90s. - source
The singer of the punk classic "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" contracted polio at age 7. The disease left him crippled and barely 5 feet tall (152cm). - source
American pop punk band Forever the Sickest Kids gained fame when their lead singer "accidentally spent $350 that the band did not have" to promote their song, which they hadn't even written yet.
JJ Burnel, singer and bassist from punk band The Stranglers, is the head of the UK branch of Shidokan karate - source
The guy who sang, "Hot, Hot, Hot" & was the Ghost of Xmas Past in the movie, 'Scrooged' was the lead singer of the punk band, New York Dolls
Icelands Deputy Speaker of Parliament is a singer in a punk rock band
Annie Golden, or Norma, from Orange in the new black was a lead singer for a punk band called "The Shirts".
In Dracula, Prince Vlad's scream after he drives his sword into the cross is not the voice of Gary Oldman. Lux Interior, lead singer of punk band The Cramps, recorded the scream and it was dubbed in.
Peter Dinklage was once a singer in a punk band called Whizzy
