60's/70's singers that never took drugs

What singers are you at least pretty sure never did drugs or excessive alcohol?

The ones I have so far (could be wrong but pretty sure),

Bruce Springsteen
Ted Nugent
Frank Zappa
Barry Manilow
Carole King
Mike Love and Al Jardine from the Beach Boys
The other Robinson from the Black Crowes (brother of the lead singer)
Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam
Henry Rollins


Any others?

 

Frank Sinatra...but he did make sure others took some.
Frank Sinatra was ‘a good drug dealer' says drug lord Pablo Escobar’s son | Daily Mail Online

 

Roy Wood.

Ray Davies hasn’t technically always abstained from drugs or excessive alcohol (particularly not in the early 70s) but has been very straight and unindulgent for the bulk of his career.

The Mael Brothers from Sparks I think, although finding hard biographical info on them is difficult.

(Is it a co-incidence that the above are all among my very favourite songwriters?)

 

Proudly pontificating about their abstinence.
Gene Simmons & to a lesser extent Paul Stanley. Though no withstanding there is the famous story about Paul and the Hotter Than Hell cover shoot.

 

Since you mention Henry Rollins (who wasn't totally clean, at least in the Black Flag days), I'll mention his pal Ian Mackaye, the Minor Threat/Fugazi frontman who coined the term "straight edge" and by all indications has consistently lived by it.

 

Isn’t Roger Daltrey pretty straight edge?

 

Randy Bachman

 

Henry Rollins was a 70s singer?

And Vedder? Are you kidding?

 

Pat Boone

 

This is gonna be a short list

 

Olivia: She just took my heart...............she was the drug.

 

ok this is more recent but couldn't resist

carole king smoked pot for a while and gave it up. I had no idea bruce never partook

 

The Osmonds

 

Don't know for certain who it was, but my father used to hang out with the Black Crowes and says of the experience "I have never seen people smoke so much pot in my entire life". You could still be right, just throwing it out there. Not sure if you're even counting pot as a drug here. I just got out of college where it's considered an important part of a healthy breakfast.

 

You never know!

Olivia’s sugary image was so built up over the years that it was difficult to believe she even used the bathroom.

I’m sure she dabbled... She’ll never admit it, but in her industry... I’m mean she was in Xanadu, for heaven’s sake... There was practically cocaine leaking out of the sets on that movie.

 

Johnny Mathis, Cliff Richard, ?

 

The Captain & Tennille

 

Eddie Vedder is a huge drinker and pothead. How did he wind up on the list?

Frank Zappa is always on these lists but he was apparently an occasional pot smoker, despite claims to the contrary.

 

Bruce Dickinson

 

They might of have shared a sneaky cup of coffee backstage.

 

Nah, they passed around a bottle of cola on the sly!

 

Mathis self-admits an alcohol and prescription drug problem here: Johnny Mathis: A born crooner | Toronto Star
(unless that doesn’t count).

 

The Kinks.

 

Believe it or not, Jimmy Page was NOT a partaker of drugs during most of the 1960s. During his stint in the Yardbirds, he did not indulge. Of course, things drastically changed in the 1970s while the Zep flew high.

 

Ray definitely qualifies, but Dave's drug intake during the 60s and early 70s disqualifies the whole band. The first rhythm section of Quaife and Avory seemed pretty straight in the 60s, but by the early 70s the non-Ray members of the group (Dave, Dalton, Avory and Gosling) had become known informally to fans and peers as 'The Juicers' due to their massive and constant intake of alcohol while on tour.