Celebrity Werewolves

[Grey]

Ok, so which celebrities living or dead could have been Were Wolves?

[MoonKit]

Metallica

[WerewolfKeeper3]

Not sure if Vincent Price would qualify as werewolf, vampire, Lich or immortal that's really, really creepy...

[Fenris]

Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Eric the Red and a load of other barbarian dudes!

[Fallenwolf]

I got 1 i think he is a TV star but Cesar Millan The Dog whisperer thats why he is "pack leader"

[Whisperwind]

I got 1 i think he is a TV star but Cesar Millan The Dog whisperer thats why he is "pack leader"

lol! i had the same thought about that "a man among wolves" guy, Shaun Ellis.

[Celestialwolf]

Metallica

I feel a change
Back to a better day
(shape shift)
Hair stands on the back of my neck
(shape shift)
In wildness is the preservation of the world

So seek the wolf in thyself!

(shape shift) Nose to the wind
(shape shift) Feeling I have been
(move swift) All senses clean
(earth's gift) Back to the meaning, back to the meaning of wolf and man!

Agreed! If I had the money/talent, I'd contact Metallica and ask if I could do a music video where they gradually shift into werewolves during the song...

[WerewolfKeeper3]

Metallica

I feel a change
Back to a better day
(shape shift)
Hair stands on the back of my neck
(shape shift)
In wildness is the preservation of the world

So seek the wolf in thyself!

(shape shift) Nose to the wind
(shape shift) Feeling I have been
(move swift) All senses clean
(earth's gift) Back to the meaning, back to the meaning of wolf and man!

Agreed! If I had the money/talent, I'd contact Metallica and ask if I could do a music video where they gradually shift into werewolves during the song...

Huh... please don't kill me but... what's the name of that song in particular?

[JoshuaMadoc]

Metallica

I feel a change
Back to a better day
(shape shift)
Hair stands on the back of my neck
(shape shift)
In wildness is the preservation of the world

So seek the wolf in thyself!

(shape shift) Nose to the wind
(shape shift) Feeling I have been
(move swift) All senses clean
(earth's gift) Back to the meaning, back to the meaning of wolf and man!

Agreed! If I had the money/talent, I'd contact Metallica and ask if I could do a music video where they gradually shift into werewolves during the song...

Huh... please don't kill me but... what's the name of that song in particular?

"Of Wolf and Man", AKA the most annoying and grossly overrated werewolf-y song next to Duran Duran's "Hungry like the Wolf".

[Scott Gardener]

No, that would be Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London." Vaguely cute at times, but not a lot of punch.

I agree about Shaun Ellis; he's probably the closest thing the real world will allow to a werewolf. Next to him, us therians look like wanna-bes.

As for musicians, I think Robert Smith of The Cure might be a candidate. A lot of The Cure's lyrics are vaguely suggestive. One or two songs, maybe I'd see as coincidence, but the Cure has a lot that scream "werewolf" without saying the word.

Ian Astbury of The Cult also is a top candidate. "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon," "Wolf Child's Blues," and "Wild Flower" are some of the more obvious songs, even if after over 20 years and an enormous reportoire of music mostly as obscure single B-sides and EPs, werewolves and shape-shifting per se are not mentioned once.

Moonspell, on the other hand, sings about werewolves enough to use the "w" word itself in the title of the first song of the first album. They're a heavy metal band that's very werewolf heavy, and unlike the other guys, they sing about WEREWOLVES and not vague feeling urges in the moonlight.

[WerewolfKeeper3]

"Of Wolf and Man", AKA the most annoying and grossly overrated werewolf-y song next to Duran Duran's "Hungry like the Wolf".

Thank you...

[Midnight]

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[Vagrant]

This is a rather interesting thread--and Midnight makes a great point about Werewolves being whom one may least expect, and how to detect them. This could be detecting anything though, even aliens! But it's still probably the closest we'll get with guessing.

I'm putting my money on Tom Selleck. Surely no one can grow a real moustache like that, and I bet he'd have a killer mane as a Werewolf.

[Terastas]

"Of Wolf and Man", AKA the most annoying and grossly overrated werewolf-y song next to Duran Duran's "Hungry like the Wolf".

No offense, but how many "werewolf-y" songs are there? To me that'd be kind of like saying "Ringo is the 4th most talented of the Beatles."

Usually I would never suspect a werewolf to say or do anything to broadcast their identity, so I'm going to go a different approach and offer as suspects Patrick McDermott and Joe Pichler. The one thing the two of them have in common is that they both completely disappeared, which is something I expect a shapeshifter of any variety could easily accomplish. If there are any real celebrity werewolves, I suspect they'll do exactly that: continue on with their careers without even a hint at their true nature, and if someone begins to suspect them, permanently shift to wolf and disappear into the wild.

[Berserker]

The band Ulver, definitely, even though they're only celebrities in Norway. First of all, their band name means "wolves." They have an entire album about werewolf themes called "The Madrigal Of The Night - Eight Hymns To The Wolf In Man." The band itself is fairly reclusive, becoming well-known through their music only, including the work they did on several movie soundtracks. Lycanthropic themes can be found throughout their career.

[JoshuaMadoc]

"Of Wolf and Man", AKA the most annoying and grossly overrated werewolf-y song next to Duran Duran's "Hungry like the Wolf".

No offense, but how many "werewolf-y" songs are there? To me that'd be kind of like saying "Ringo is the 4th most talented of the Beatles."

There's actually quite a bit of them, both good and bad, and many more vague in subject than the other. "LU:NA" by Gackt, for instance, has a clear subject according to the translation of the lyrics and the song is quite appropriate for an opening or ending theme (although it's not clear WHAT creature it's about - knowing Gackt i'd have to say vampire instead of werewolf). Then there's Tekken 5's "Moonlit Wilderness", another decent track with only instrumentals for itself to rely on, Slipknot's "Duality" describes quite a lot of transformation and the sheer pain of it - whether figuratively speaking or literally, and then there's Digital Devil Saga 2's set of voiceless battle themes, most of them validly referring to the daily chores of werewolves, since DDS2 deals heavily with shapeshifting demons as does its prequel.

[wolfward]

Do you think that all these werewolf songs come from the song writers? Or from a universal sense? Do they honest think about them as much as we do? Maybe there's more to this then meets the eye... I'd love to have a talk to the person who wrote the lyrics for some of these werewolf classics. Now that would be interesting.

[Terastas]

Do you think that all these werewolf songs come from the song writers? Or from a universal sense? Do they honest think about them as much as we do? Maybe there's more to this then meets the eye... I'd love to have a talk to the person who wrote the lyrics for some of these werewolf classics. Now that would be interesting.

My best guess would be that they all came from people who were (momentarily) romancing the idea of being a werewolf, much the same way we are. Like I said above, I would not expect a real werewolf to ever say or do anything that may be indicative of their true nature, regardless of what being a werewolf is actually like.

The ones I would be more likely to suspect are the ones that seem to be going well out of their way to try and convince everyone just how normal they are. Tom Cruise and Ryan Seacrest, for example, might not be werewolves, but they're definitely hiding something.

[Fallenwolf]

the people who are most outspoken and try to prove werewolves are not real, are the ones who are werewolves what better way to get people off your back. Just call them crazy.

[Celestialwolf]

I agree about Shaun Ellis; he's probably the closest thing the real world will allow to a werewolf. Next to him, us therians look like wanna-bes.

This is the first time I've heard of Shaun Ellis, and after reading about him and watching a few videos, I think you're right--he would make a good werewolf because he already knows how to behave like a wolf!

Here he is on Wikipedia and the show he did on Animal Planet. Interesting stuff, though I don't think I'd ever want to be that involved without already being a werewolf...

He also reminds me of this photographer, Timberwolf4U, on deviantart:

[Bloodyredbaron]

[Fallenwolf]

o i know who that is....its im my head i just cant get it out.

[Berserker]

o i know who that is....its im my head i just cant get it out.

For shame!

[Fallenwolf]

its late iv been at my new HS trying to remmber my new scedual for the next 3 weeks till i can go back to my HS its stressfull i just need some help lol.

[Fallenwolf]

nvm i got it i remember now its Lon Chaney Jr how could i forget the original wolfman i must have lost my commen sence took me some thinking but i got it back.