![Neil Young - The rock legend announced he had been sober for a year in September 2012, and chose to give up drink and drugs due to curiosity more than anything else.]()
Neil Young - The rock legend announced he had been sober for a year in September 2012, and chose to give up drink and drugs due to curiosity more than anything else. "I did it for 40 years. Now I want to see what it's like to not do it," Neil Young told the New York Times. "It's just a different perspective. The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognise myself. I need a little grounding in something, and I am looking for it everywhere.
![Steven Tyler - The Aerosmith frontman has spoken out about his battle with drugs:]()
Steven Tyler - The Aerosmith frontman has spoken out about his battle with drugs: "[Drugs] took my children away, it took my band away, it took my marriages away, and I was on my knees." Tyler, who has been to rehab "five or six times," recently told Ellen DeGeneres, "I don't want to go back to that place ... I take [my sobriety] seriously."
![Keith Urban - The country singer who is married to Nicole Kidman has quit all booze and drugs. He said:]()
Keith Urban - The country singer who is married to Nicole Kidman has quit all booze and drugs. He said: "I had to make a decision which road I was going to take, once and for all. I'd been at that crossroads before and always taken the wrong road." The country superstar credits wife Nicole Kidman with helping him get clean through an intervention. He told Oprah Winfrey, "It was really a profound moment in so many ways. The way in which Nic handled that moment was just perfect. Everything was just designed, I believe, for that moment to fuse us together."
![Eminem -]()
Eminem - "I knew I had to change my life. But addiction is a f---ing tricky thing. I think I relapsed within...three weeks? And within a month, it had ramped right back to where it was before. That's what really freaked me out. That's when I knew: Either get help, or I am going to die," said the Grammy-winning rapper, who detailed his struggles with addiction on his latest album, "Recovery," and in an interview with Rolling Stone that mentions methadone, Vicodine, ecstasy and marijuana. "As a father, I want to be here for things. I don't want to miss anything else."
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Tim McGraw - "When I first started, I was really nervous. You could hear my voice quiver. So I started drinking a bit and that helped. A lot of entertainers have a few drinks before going onstage and don't overdo it. Me, it turned into a bigger habit. But I stopped that. I was getting older, and I was thinking about my kids," said McGraw, who also credits his wife, Faith Hill, for helping him on the road to recovery. "I think I'm more comfortable now. I can feel a real connection with the audience that maybe I was masking before."
![Florence Welch -]()
Florence Welch - "I used to think it was all part of the performance to go out there, go on tour, and get as drunk as possible," the British frontwoman of Florence + The Machine. "Like, oblivion. Oblivion. Living almost out of control. And I think, now, I feel a bigger sense of responsibility to the fans. To the people who come to see me play."
![Chris Martin - The Coldplay frontman doesn't drink alcohol or coffee, but when Coldplay were making their first album, Parachutes, he forced himself to booze to the point of vomiting as penance for briefly kicking drummer Will Champion out of the band. He wrote one of Coldplay's hits, Trouble, while huddled in a recording studio cupboard. He is a sensitive soul.]()
Chris Martin - The Coldplay frontman doesn't drink alcohol or coffee, but when Coldplay were making their first album, Parachutes, he forced himself to booze to the point of vomiting as penance for briefly kicking drummer Will Champion out of the band. He wrote one of Coldplay's hits, Trouble, while huddled in a recording studio cupboard. He is a sensitive soul.
![Liam Gallagher - Liam Gallagher has decided to leave alcohol well alone after 20 years of]()
Liam Gallagher - Liam Gallagher has decided to leave alcohol well alone after 20 years of "messing about". "I haven't had a drink since New Year's Eve. I'm having a bit of a break. I went 20 years drinking and messing about. It's rubbish.""At Knebworth (in 1996) I thought we were doing one night and we were doing two. I got that mashed on the first I woke up to a knock on the door and thought I was at home. I forgot all about it. But I had to go and do it again. That was heavy."
![Keith Richards - The notorious 'Rolling Stones' Guitarist has recently given up all alcohol after fellow bandmate Ronnie Wood admitted that he was addicted.]()
Keith Richards - The notorious 'Rolling Stones' Guitarist has recently given up all alcohol after fellow bandmate Ronnie Wood admitted that he was addicted. "He has watched Ronnie fall well and truly off the wagon last year and he doesn't like what he sees. Plus he has started to feel for the first time like it might do his some good to give up the booze for awhile."
![Ozzy Osbourne - The infamous Black Sabbath rocker has abused drugs and alcohol for most of his life. Although clean and sober now, Osbourne has frequently commented on his former wild lifestyle, puzzled at how he has survived 40 years of abuse. The bat-eater was actually fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 due to his drunken antics, and Osbourne spent the next three months locked in his hotel room taking vast amounts of drugs and alcohol all day, every day. He claims that he would have not survived if his wife, Sharon Osbourne, had not offered to manage him as a solo artist.]()
Ozzy Osbourne - The infamous Black Sabbath rocker has abused drugs and alcohol for most of his life. Although clean and sober now, Osbourne has frequently commented on his former wild lifestyle, puzzled at how he has survived 40 years of abuse. The bat-eater was actually fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 due to his drunken antics, and Osbourne spent the next three months locked in his hotel room taking vast amounts of drugs and alcohol all day, every day. He claims that he would have not survived if his wife, Sharon Osbourne, had not offered to manage him as a solo artist.
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Gary Manny "Mani" Mounfield - The Stone Roses and Primal Scream supremo has lain off the sauce. On Primal Scream's latest tour, Mani said that the band has finally managed to quit drugs and alcohol - and he hopes their live performances will improve as a result. He says, "We've all been straight for the last nine months."What I'm enjoying more than anything is the clarity, and getting up at eight o'clock in the morning and doing stuff."I think this could herald a really prolific period for the band and we're enjoying it."
![Iggy Pop - The wild recklessness of this punk-rocker's youth is well documented, but these days Pop is drug-free, with a regular workout regime that centres on 40 minutes a day of qigong, a series of movement and breathing exercises akin to tai chi.]()
Iggy Pop - The wild recklessness of this punk-rocker's youth is well documented, but these days Pop is drug-free, with a regular workout regime that centres on 40 minutes a day of qigong, a series of movement and breathing exercises akin to tai chi. "I do everything my mom used to tell me to do, I'm just 50 years too late," he says.
![Brandon Flowers - Flowers, best known as the frontman of the Las Vegas-based rock band 'The Killers' is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is featured on the church's website and vowed to give up all alcohol and drugs when he was 21.]()
Brandon Flowers - Flowers, best known as the frontman of the Las Vegas-based rock band 'The Killers' is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is featured on the church's website and vowed to give up all alcohol and drugs when he was 21.
![David Bowie - While Bowie was on his Diamond Dog tour, he lived on a diet of milk, hot peppers, and yes, cocaine. During the height of his drug addiction, videos and interviews show him sniffling almost constantly, and responding to the questions with answers that only David Bowie could understand. It has even been reported that during the height of his drug addiction that he weighed a meager 95 pounds, earning him the title 'Thin White Duke'.
David Bowie has been quoted in the past as saying that He has unbelievable holes in his memory, along with his mind being like Swiss cheese, and suffering emotional damage.]()
David Bowie - While Bowie was on his Diamond Dog tour, he lived on a diet of milk, hot peppers, and yes, cocaine. During the height of his drug addiction, videos and interviews show him sniffling almost constantly, and responding to the questions with answers that only David Bowie could understand. It has even been reported that during the height of his drug addiction that he weighed a meager 95 pounds, earning him the title 'Thin White Duke'.
David Bowie has been quoted in the past as saying that He has unbelievable holes in his memory, along with his mind being like Swiss cheese, and suffering emotional damage.
![Paul Weller - The English singer-songwriter, often referred to as the Modfather, confessed:]()
Paul Weller - The English singer-songwriter, often referred to as the Modfather, confessed: "I feel I've sort of turned things round. [The drinking] was getting a bit too much and the writing was on the wall for me, really." On his forthcoming album 'Sonic Kicks' he says, "I was a lot more involved in this one, I was much more on it. Its from being sober, as well. This is probably the first album Ive made where I've been sober for fuck knows how long."
![Prince - The 'artist' has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. He has not touched drugs or alcohol since he became a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2001. Prince said he didn't consider it a conversion, but a]()
Prince - The 'artist' has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. He has not touched drugs or alcohol since he became a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2001. Prince said he didn't consider it a conversion, but a "realization"; "It's like Morpheus and Neo in The Matrix", he explained... hmm.