HOT GALLERY: Check Out the Celebs Who Were Band Geeks Before They Were Stars
It’s nice to know that some of the biggest stars—musicians, politicians, comedians—were just as geeky and awkward in high school as we were. What—you don’t believe us? Before they went on to fame and fortune, these celebrities wore dorky uniforms and made music with their classmates. Who played the clarinet, the drums, the saxophone? Read on to find out... By Nina Hämmerling SmithWhat would Bill Clinton have done had he not attended Georgetown, earned a Rhodes Scholarship, gone to Yale Law School, and, you know, become our 42nd president? “Sometime in my sixteenth year,” he wrote in his autobiography, My Life, “I decided I wanted to be in public life as an elected official. I loved music and thought I could be very good, but I knew I would never be John Coltrane or Stan Getz…. But I knew I could be great in public service.” Clinton, of course, did not give up his saxophone playing—in fact, it gave his presidential campaign a big shot of hipness when the candidate played the sax on The Arsenio Hall Show back in 1992. Clinton has been an active ex-president, and his Clinton Foundation is dedicated to “building a better world.”