Tommy Ramone, drummer and last surviving original Ramone, has grown a beard and plays bluegrass mandolin in an old timey duo. Did anyone else know this? http://www.myspace.com/unclemonk

I seem to remember seeing Ritchie Blackmore on the telly playing the lute and dressed as a wizard, but I may have eaten too much cheese late at night.

Any other unlikely late career shifts that have passed me by?

Someone here at work claims to have a friend who wrote to Van M asking for permission to play one of his songs in church at their wedding. Van apparently said he would turn up and sing it himself, and duly did so. Personally I think this is a very unlikely tale. Has anybody else heard this tale doing the rounds?