Editing Palm Desert, California (section)

==Notable people==
{{main|List of people from Palm Springs, California}}

Many celebrities keep homes in Palm Desert, including [[Rita Rudner]] and more recently, the current home of professional golfer [[Michelle Wie]] and one of the homes of [[Bill Gates]]. Legendary actress [[Anne Francis]] resided in a condominium until July 2000. Film producer [[Jerry Weintraub]] called it his second home before he died. Artist [[Phillip K Smith III|Phillip K. Smith III]] calls Palm Desert home and his studio is in Palm Desert.

The city is home to the [[Palm Desert Scene]], a musical genre that has been heavily influential internationally since the early 1990s. Many of the Palm Desert bands are credited for starting the [[rock music|rock]]/[[Heavy metal music|metal]] subgenre known as [[stoner rock]]. Bands including [[Queens of the Stone Age]], [[Kyuss]], [[Fu Manchu (band)|Fu Manchu]] and [[Eagles of Death Metal]] have become well known rock bands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/503529/queens-of-the-stone-age-at-home-in-desert/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102105829/http://www.mtv.com/news/503529/queens-of-the-stone-age-at-home-in-desert/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2015|title=Queens of the Stone Age at Home in Desert|author=Teri van Horn|website=[[MTV News]]|date=November 12, 1998|access-date=May 7, 2023}}</ref>