- Born
- Birth nameTheodore Anthony Nugent
- Nicknames
- The Motor City Mad Man
- The Nuge
- Uncle Ted
- Height5′ 11¾″ (1.82 m)
- Ted Nugent was born on December 13, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Superbad (2007), The Heat (2013) and Pain & Gain (2013). He has been married to Shemane Nugent since January 21, 1989. They have one child. He was previously married to Sandra Ann Jezowski.
- SpousesShemane Nugent(January 21, 1989 - present) (1 child)Sandra Ann Jezowski(January 30, 1971 - August 29, 1979) (divorced, 2 children)
- Gibson Guitars
- Performing shirtless
- Outspoken and unabashed about his beliefs
- Soul Patch
- Cowboy Hat
- Actor Kurt Russell was best man at Nugent's wedding to his second wife, Shemane Deziel. Nugent's first wife died in a 1982 car crash, while reportedly drunk driving. Nugent has five children, Starr, Toby, Ted, Sasha Nugent and Rocco Nugent. Rocco is his son with second wife Shemane.
- Formed Damn Yankees with Tommy Shaw (STYX), Jack Blades (Night Ranger) and Michael Cartellone in 1989; the band sold some 5,000,000 albums.
- Outspoken against substance abuse, he acknowledged in a 1977 interview with High Times that "I took two tokes off a joint with the MC5 one night and almost gagged and thought it was stupid. And that's it. I took two tokes off a joint once. I snorted one line of cocaine. And one line of crystal methedrine before my draft physical - but God, that was worth it because I wanted to see the look on the Sergeant's face. That's it for drugs.".
- Attempted to buy the background-music company Muzak so he could shut it down; his offer was rejected.
- Creator of the Nugent Blade Broadhead by Magnus Archery, Ted Nugent BloodBrother Bow, and signature line of hunting gear.
- You've got to kill it, before you grill it
- Basically, I'm just an erector set looking for some volts.
- [on Muzak] It's an evil force in today's society, causing people to lapse into uncontrollable fits of blandness. It's been responsible for ruining some of the best minds of our generation.
- [on Iraq] Our failure has been not to Nagasaki them.
- I visited Saddam Hussein's master war room. It was a glorious moment. It looked like something out of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). I saw his gold toilet. I shit in his bidet.
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