Six footballers who tried music and the way they fared with Gary Neville set to DJ

Proving he can nearly do something he places his thoughts to, Sky Sports’ Gary Neville is ready to affix The Charlatans lead vocalist Tim Burgess up at Kendal Calling pageant in Cumbria.

From stopping probably the most harmful of wingers, to commentating on the most important video games and becoming a member of up with the forged on Dragon’s Den, Neville has his fingers in a number of completely different pies as of late.

Now, he is set to staff up with the singer in August the place he’ll observe within the footsteps of some different notable Premier League legends who’ve dabbled with a little bit of music.

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Ruud Gullit

Channelling his interior Bob Marley, the ex-Chelsea player-manager forayed into Reggae music while at Feyenoord in his house nation of the Netherlands in 1984 with ‘Not The Dancing Kind.’

He additionally used his musical for good. The Ballon D’Or award he gained was devoted to the then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela in 1987. Just a yr later, he gained a #3 Dutch chart hit with reggae band Revelation Time as he launched the anti-apartheid track, ‘South Africa’.

His musical exploits appear to be a bit higher than his managerial ones, though he was the primary abroad supervisor to win the FA Cup. in any case.

Andy Cole

The former Red Devils marksman selected to have fun his treble-winning season with United by releasing his debut single with DJ Pied Piper in 1999.

‘Outstanding,’ which incorporates the merely wonderful line: ‘Got my kicks from hitting the online – not from medication, you wager,’ made #68 within the UK charts.

Cole signed to Warner Music with the intention to file his cowl of the unique Gap Band track, however did not see the success he had within the studio as he had on the sector.

Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle

Under the title Glenn and Chris, the 2 England aces created their synth-pop single Diamond Lights in 1987, which has gone down in pop folklore.

The Tottenham pair made an look on the hit present Top of the Pops, the place different icons on the sport like Paul Gascoigne and Vinnie Jones plied their lyrical commerce for an episode.

The track reached quantity 12 within the UK charts, much more profitable than their solely different single, ‘It’s Goodbye’ which solely managed to achieve #92. Some end result from one thing that was born out of an impromptu duet at an award ceremony in Coventry.

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Clint Dempsey

The US soccer ace made virtually 200 appearances for Fulham earlier than transferring to the north of the capital and becoming a member of Spurs in a file deal for an American participant.

Under the hip-hop alias ‘Deuce,’ the striker joined up with Texas-based rappers with the intention to carry out ‘Don’t Tread,’ a track used for a Nike marketing campaign in 2006.

Ahead of captaining the USA’s World Cup staff in 2014, Dempsey additionally recorded the 13-track ‘The Redux’ in Los Angeles proving that the Premier League star was simply as expressive off the pitch as he was on it.

John Barnes

Perhaps probably the most well-known footballer to take up the microphone, John Barnes’ verse that options in New Order’s ‘World In Motion’ is sung by each man and his canine when the World Cup comes round.

The 1990 tune will go down as one in all England’s unofficial anthems, and Barnes has since grow to be notorious for his bar-spitting expertise.

Adverts for Quality Street and teaming up with grime hero Big Narstie have adopted for the Liverpool legend, who’s the go-to footballer on the subject of lyrical nous.