Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo’s Harvard classmates didn’t realise who he was: “Minds were blown”

Rivers Cuomo has shared in a new interview how he somehow stayed under the radar while attending Harvard, despite Weezer having recently blown up thanks to their beloved 1994 self-titled debut (The Blue Album). Amusingly, his fellow students had no idea who the frontman was when he was attending the university alongside them, even going as far as to not realise Rivers’ identity while they were actually wearing Weezer T‑shirts themselves (“There was no sense of me as the frontman or famous or anything,” he explained). Speaking to Conan O’Brien for the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, the musician said the big reveal only came at the end of the school year, when he told his classmates that he was going to be heading off on tour… prompting much confusion. “In my ...

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