Strokes Guitarist's Dad is a famous songwriter

Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Like father, like son
Nice story of father and son musicians. The father wrote many pop hits from the 60s on, but had stopped performing when the son was born. Now, after prodding from the son, the father has a new album. The best part of the article is at the end where they talk about the son quitting school to be in his band and how it was really the father's fault:

Many stories. One of my first gigs was in a strip club in Morocco: 22 beautiful women stripping all around me and me singing Johnny Cash songs. I was 16. I'd tell him stories like that. I guess I wasn't too surprised when he said he wanted to play guitar.