![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.