![Flaming Lips: Wayne Coyne was a fry cook at a restaurant called Long John Silvers after leaving high school. This isn�t unusual of course, but most people don�t stick out it for 11 years. Coyne didn�t quit his job there until 1990, when he was 29 years old. Three years later, they finally made it big with the success of �She Don�t Use Jelly�.]()
Flaming Lips: Wayne Coyne was a fry cook at a restaurant called Long John Silvers after leaving high school. This isn�t unusual of course, but most people don�t stick out it for 11 years. Coyne didn�t quit his job there until 1990, when he was 29 years old. Three years later, they finally made it big with the success of �She Don�t Use Jelly�.
![Blondie: Debbie Harry was months away from her 30th birthday when she formed Blondie with Chris Stein in 194. She was 31 when the band released their self-titled debut album. She�s now 70, and still going strong.]()
Blondie: Debbie Harry was months away from her 30th birthday when she formed Blondie with Chris Stein in 194. She was 31 when the band released their self-titled debut album. She�s now 70, and still going strong.
![Leonard Cohen: Cohen, of course, has released scores of albums over his illustrious career, but it took him a while to get started. His debut album, Songs Of Leonard Cohen, was released when he was 33 years old, following a career that had mainly been confined to poetry and novels.]()
Leonard Cohen: Cohen, of course, has released scores of albums over his illustrious career, but it took him a while to get started. His debut album, Songs Of Leonard Cohen, was released when he was 33 years old, following a career that had mainly been confined to poetry and novels.
![The National: Matt Berninger was already in his thirties when he decided to quit a career in advertising to pursue a career in music. �I was well into my thirties and I was creative director at a new-media company,� he said in an interview. �But once I entertained the though that maybe I wouldn�t ever have to go and sit in conference rooms again, I couldn�t shake it.� A wise decision.]()
The National: Matt Berninger was already in his thirties when he decided to quit a career in advertising to pursue a career in music. �I was well into my thirties and I was creative director at a new-media company,� he said in an interview. �But once I entertained the though that maybe I wouldn�t ever have to go and sit in conference rooms again, I couldn�t shake it.� A wise decision.
![LCD Soundsystem: James Murphy was 35 years old when his project, LCD Soundsystem, released their eponymous debut album. Speaking of his place in the music industry, he said, �It�s like being an adult at an amusement park designed for kids. I�m like, �I can�t fit on any of these rides�.�]()
LCD Soundsystem: James Murphy was 35 years old when his project, LCD Soundsystem, released their eponymous debut album. Speaking of his place in the music industry, he said, �It�s like being an adult at an amusement park designed for kids. I�m like, �I can�t fit on any of these rides�.�
![Pulp: Though the band formed when Jarvis Cocker was just 15, it wasn�t until he was in his 30s that they achieved success - with 1994 album His �n� Hers. From then on, they became one of the defining bands of the Britpop era.]()
Pulp: Though the band formed when Jarvis Cocker was just 15, it wasn�t until he was in his 30s that they achieved success - with 1994 album His �n� Hers. From then on, they became one of the defining bands of the Britpop era.
![Peaches: Peaches was 32 when she released her first album under that moniker - The Teaches of Peaches. Before that, as well as making music with less successful bands, she taught at a Jewish preschool for a decade.]()
Peaches: Peaches was 32 when she released her first album under that moniker - The Teaches of Peaches. Before that, as well as making music with less successful bands, she taught at a Jewish preschool for a decade.
![Seasick Steve: Steven Wold has been playing music for many decades - in fact, he was friends with Joni Mitchell in the �60s - but he didn�t release his first album until he was well into his sixties. Its success, bolstered by an appearance on Jools Holland�s Hootenanny, threw Seasick Steve into the limelight.]()
Seasick Steve: Steven Wold has been playing music for many decades - in fact, he was friends with Joni Mitchell in the �60s - but he didn�t release his first album until he was well into his sixties. Its success, bolstered by an appearance on Jools Holland�s Hootenanny, threw Seasick Steve into the limelight.