Rock stars at home
with Mom and Dad
"I'd like to thank my parents for making it all possible..."
Amanda Uren
1970-1971
Eric Clapton with his grandmother Rose Clap, who raised Eric from infancy, in the house he bought her in Surrey, England.
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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worthwhile thing to do and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me. - Eric Clapton
Elton John (right) with his mother Shelia and stepfather Fred Fairebrother in their London apartment.
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When he was four years old, we used to put him to bed in the day and get him up to play at night for parties. - Elton John's mother
David Crosby (right) standing with his father, cinematographer Floyd Crosby (1899-1985) in his father's house in Ojai, California.
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In the last few years we’ve become good friends. He knows I get high. He doesn’t do it and he doesn’t approve of it, but he doesn’t inflict his values on me. - David Crosby on his father
American avant garde and rock musician Frank Zappa (1940-1993) poses with his parents Francis Zappa (1905-1973) and Rose Marie Zappa (nee Colimore, 1912-2004) in his home in Los Angeles, California.
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The thing that makes me mad about Frank is that his hair is curlier than mine — and blacker. - Frank Zappa's mother
The Jackson Five (left to right): Michael, Marlon, Tito, Jermaine, Jackie and their parents Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Jackson at home in Encino, California.
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Richie Havens leaning on a xylophone with parents Richard and Mildred in the background in their home in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York.
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Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them. - Richie Havens' mother
British musician Joe Cocker (born John Robert Cocker) with his mother Marjorie, in Sheffield, England.
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Offstage he is cool and withdrawn — a temperamental mixture of Harold Cocker, his civil servant father who preferred gardening to posing with his famous son, and his outgoing, chatty mother. - LIFE Magazine
Rock drummer Peter "Ginger" Baker, ex-Cream, and his mother, Ruby Streatfield.
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He would bring people over and they would say, "You realize your son is brilliant," and I’d say, "Is he? I wish he was a bit more brilliant at keeping his room tidy." - Ginger Baker's mother
Donovan with his parents Donald and Winifred in their home.
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Singer Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane holding her daughter, China, upside down by the ankles. Her mother, Mrs. Virginia Wing, sits on the sofa.
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Grace and I have different sets of moral values but she’s her own person, and we understand each other. - Grace Slick's mother