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Connecting Rod Stewart and Patton Oswalt
Rod Stewart
In 1960, he joined a skiffle group with school friends called the Kool Kats, playing Lonnie Donegan and Chas McDevitt hits.
Lonnie Donegan
During the ''Tonight Show'' conflict between Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, pretending to try to remember Jimmy Fallon's name, called him "Lonnie Donegan."
Jay Leno
American television host and comedian
Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt was among the celebrities who openly voiced disappointment with Leno, saying, "Comedians who don't like Jay Leno now, and I'm one of them, we're not like, 'Jay Leno sucks'; it's that we're so hurt and disappointed that one of the best comedians of our generation ... willfully has shut the switch off."
Dolly Parton
Parton starred along with James Woods in '' Straight Talk'' (1992), which received mixed reviews, and grossed a mild $21{{nbs}}million at the box office.
Rod Stewart
"The First Cut Is the Deepest", a cover of a Cat Stevens song, went number one in the UK in 1977, and top 30 in the US.
Cat Stevens
On 30 October 2010 Yusuf appeared at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's spoof Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, DC, singing alongside Ozzy Osbourne.
Stephen Colbert
American comedian, writer, actor, and television host
Conceived by co-creators Stewart, Colbert, and Ben Karlin in part as an opportunity to explore "the character-driven news", the series focused less on the day-to-day news style of the ''Daily Show'', instead frequently concentrating on the foibles of the host-character himself.
Ben Karlin
American television producer and writer|bot=PearBOT 5
His book, released February 2008, is a collection of essays entitled ''Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me''. It contains essays by Andy Richter, Will Forte, David Wain, Stephen Colbert, Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, and many others.
Rod Stewart
Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols regarded the Faces highly and named them as a main influence on the British punk rock movement.
Steve Jones (musician)
English rock guitarist, singer and actor
associated_acts = Sex Pistols, the Professionals, Chequered Past, Fantasy 7, '''P''', Neurotic Outsiders, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Iggy Pop, Megadeth, Insane Clown Posse, Joan Jett, Sham Pistols, Duran Duran
Jones also played with Thin Lizzy, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Kraut, Adam Ant, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Andy Taylor, the Dano Jones Band, Megadeth, Neurotic Outsiders, and had a solo career in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Joan Jett
American rock musician and actress
In 1994, the Blackhearts released the well-received ''Pure and Simple'', which featured tracks written with Babes in Toyland'sKat Bjelland, L7's Donita Sparks and Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna.
Kathleen Hanna
American musician and feminist activist
In 2018, Hanna started "Tees 4 Togo", a project which sells t-shirts with drawings of Hanna's friends such as Kim Gordon, Patton Oswalt, Joan Jett, and Chuck D, along with artists such as Sarah Larnach, Adee Roberson, and Hannah Lucy.
