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As listed by today's Observer, musical offspring of musical parent(s). Who would you add?
1. Jeff Buckley
The product of a brief liaison between folk trailblazer Tim Buckley and Mary Guibert, publicly Jeff had few good words to say about a father he never really knew - they met just before Tim's premature death in 1975 - or respected. Despite claiming he inherited his voice from his mum and his musical tastes from his stepdad, the evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. Jeff's industry breakthrough came singing his father's songs at a 1991 tribute, which he attended because 'it bothered me that I hadn't been to his funeral'. Nicholas Hill, a DJ who was at the show, recalls watching 'someone who looked like [Tim], sounded like him and had the same vocal range. It was very spooky'. The landmark album Grace was later released to a blaze of superlatives but, sadly, the father-son similarities didn't end with octave leaping vocals and exceptional good looks: Jeff also died young, 10 years ago this May, much of his immense promise untapped.
2. Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor: he wasn't going to end up playing death metal, was he? The son of horizontal Seventies types James Taylor and Carly Simon deals in mellow vibes - check out the bare feet on the cover of Another Run Around the Sun.
3. Shooter Jennings
The aptly named son of country outlaw Waylon is a frazzled hash head pitching his tent somewhere between his old man's rebel yell and Led Zep territory. Forthcoming album is based around recordings made with Dad - before he died, naturally.
4. Kirsty MacColl
Relations were often frosty between the late, lamented chanteuse and Ewan, her folk purist pa. 'I fucking hate folk music,' she once said. To prove it, she encouraged the Pogues to trash Ewan's most famous song, 'Dirty Old Town.' Which they duly did.
5. Elvis Costello
Declan MacManus's dulcet tones were first aired on a 1971 TV ad for R White's lemonade, alongside dad Ross, a fixture on BBC radio for years as vocalist with the Joe Loss Orchestra. 'Twas all downhill from there for EC, obviously.
6. Bebel Gilberto
Bossa nova pioneer Joao Gilberto wrote 'The Girl From Ipanema' and is called simply O Mito (The Legend) in Brazil. Bebel 'grew up cautiously' in his shadow, but her sultry blend of electronica and bossa nova won global acclaim with 'Tanto Tempo'.
7. Enrique Iglesias
He'll be your hero, baby. No sooner does one Hispanic heart-throb head over the horizon, totting up all the geerls he's lurved before, than another one comes along to take Julio's place - and with the same surname, too. What are the odds?
8. Arlo Guthrie
Woody's boy - best known for 'Alice's Restaurant' - grew up surrounded by Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Cisco Houston. Oh, and his dad, the man who inspired Bob Dylan. A future clutching an acoustic guitar was a given.
9. Teddy Thompson
The son of folk monarchs Richard and Linda was raised in a Sufi commune but, to his credit, he doesn't seem to hold any grudges: TT (above with Mum) produced Linda's 2002 comeback album, while dad's guitars grace his Separate Ways album.
10. Norah Jones Goodbye sitar, hello joanna. Simple. Ravi Shankar and his US-raised love child were estranged for a decade, but no longer. 'I don't resent him,' says Jones. 'I just don't want him to be the focus of all my press.' Oops.
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