How many bands have members whose parents are also musicians
can you name any others?
Do those Lennon lemons count? 
How about Jason “My father was a drumming god” Bonham?
Wasn’t Neil Young’s dad a professor of music in some university in Ontario?
Ziggy Marley
Julian Lennon
Roseanne Cash
And let’s not forget those bands that are made up (almost) entirely of family members:
The Beach Boys
The Isley Bros.
The Jacksons
The Osmonds
And let’s not forget bands where everybody slept with every other member:
Fleetwood Mac (all the boys slept with all the girls - I dunno, did ABBA do the same thing?)
Jefferson Airplane (the leader of the band at whatever time was the one that Grace was currently sleeping with)
Ashley and Naomi Judd - Wynonna’s kids
Colin Hanks - Tom Hanks’ son
Sofia Coppola - Francis Ford’s little girl
Kate Hudson - Goldie Hawn’s daughter
…and the biggest coattail rider of all time:
President George W. Bush.
How about Mark Howe? Gordie’s boy.
If we’re going to bring Hollywood into this, we’re going to be up all night. Practically every major star in Hollyweird these days got there through nepotism. I guess that proves that it doesn’t take that much talent to be an actor, if just being one of the Baldwins or Douglas’s or Fonda’s is enough to propel you to a career in showbiz.
I have no problem - none - with certain of the Fondas.
I have no problem - none - with certain of the Fondas.
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I admit I have a thing for Raquel Welch’s daughter. She played the hot alien in Cocoon.
“Ashley and Naomi Judd - Wynonna’s kids”
You mean Wynonna and Ashley Judd - Naomi’s kids.
[quote=“sligger5”]“Ashley and Naomi Judd - Wynonna’s kids”
You mean Wynonna and Ashley Judd - Naomi’s kids.[/quote]
Whatever. They’re from Tennessee or Kentucky. You’re probably both right. 
Tori Spelling… Aaron Spelling the TV producer’s daughter.
Holy cow! How could we forget little Tori!
Barry Bonds, Moise Alou…many ball players as well. Hmm but the offspring play better then their parents do…
Back when I was going rounds with Cold Front during that stupid Bell Curve debate, I made this post. I’ll just pompously quote myself:
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Also, if genetics were the prime determiner of intelligence, then why, when we look at great men and geniuses throughout history, most of them sprout from rather undistinguished families? Many, if not most, of the truly great men in art, business, and politics have been self-made men. Einstein’s mother and father weren’t mathematical geniuses. From a hardly left-wing source, a recent article that makes my point:
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newstatesman.co.uk/nscoverstory.htm
Someone brought up in a particular milieu - artistic, intellectual, political - is bound to have more desire to enter that world. The surprise is not that David and Edward Miliband, sons of the Marxist intellectual Ralph, are into politics - the surprise would have been if they were not. Likewise, small wonder that Sam West, son of the actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales, is also treading the boards. And given that West is a hell of a Hamlet and Miliband a progressive politician, there seems little to grumble about. Famous parents influence career choices as much as career chances.
This kind of socialisation remains invisible when the surname offers no clue (a trend likely to increase as more women become public figures). Bertrand Russell, for instance, had a certain John Stuart Mill as a godfather. Larry Summers, the high-impact American economist, former Treasury secretary and now president of Harvard, has two uncles with Nobel prizes for economics - Kenneth Arrow and Paul Samuelson. They didn’t get him the job; but they may have made him want it.
Academia is in any case less promising ground for “name nepotism”. Success relies upon doing research good enough to be published in peer-reviewed journals (where typically, the authors’ names are removed). Being Darwin’s granddaughter cuts no ice with the editor of Nature. This may explain why a search for famous families in science and academia is largely fruitless. Reputations are built on the base of your own research work, rather than that of your forebears. Sport is still less forgiving. Being Paula Radcliffe’s brother would not help much if your idea of a fast half-marathon was measured in hours rather than minutes. Stopwatches don’t know your name. As a general principle, the more objective the measures of success in use, the less important your name, DNA or networks. [/quote]
I’m surprised they didn’t mention the Kennedys, the most famous & blatant example in the American public of nepotism in action. The question remains: why do great men so rarely produce great sons? In fact, there often is seen a marked degeneration with each successive generation of aristocratic families. There are exceptions, such as Martin Amis making his father Kingsley proud as an equally fine novelist in his own right, but in general the rule holds.[/quote]
Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland son of Donald Sutherland
Jake Busey, son of Gary Busey
Liza Minella, daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli
Susan “Sigourney” Weaver, daughter of TV Producer Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.
Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3703203.stm
Me, if my old man was rich and famous. Yer darn’ tootin’!
Martin Sheen’s yucky kids Charlie and Emilio Estevez.
Blythe Danner’s elegant daughter Gwenyth Paltrow
Vanessa Redgrave’s two lovely daughters Natasha and Joely Richardson
John Carradine’s groovy sons David, Robert and Keith, and Keith’s accomplished daughter Martha Plimpton
Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern’s talented daughter Laura Dern
Freddie Prinze’s beautiful boy Freddie Jr.
Jon Voight’s sex pot daughter Angelina Jolie
Paul Sorvino’s gorgeous daughter Mira Sorvino
Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis’s down-to-earth daughter Jamie Lee Curtis
“The Captain” (Darrell Dragon, from “The Captain and Tennille”) is the son of composer Carmen Dragon.
Okay, I admit that’s reaching a bit.
