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| Birth Name(s) : Robin Goodridge, Dave Parsons, Gavin Rossdale, Nigel Pulsford |
Date of Birth: 1996 |
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Lyrically, Rossdale has been driven by both the personal - his family, his friends - and the political ("The People That We Love" was partially inspired by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus' classic Clinton/Gore campaign documentary, The War Room). Throughout "GOLDEN STATE" lurks a haunting dissatisfaction, a sense of bottled-up emotions bubbling under the surface, feelings that detonate on songs like the 16-horsepower "My Engine Is With You" and the gripping "Headful Of Ghosts."
In a great many ways, "GOLDEN STATE" marks the turning of a page in Bush's brilliant career. Part of this feeling comes from the band's new relationship with Atlantic Records. Inveterate music fans - noting such Atlantic heroes as Buffalo Springfield, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane - Bush are thrilled about being part of the label's extraordinary legacy. |
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Born in Kilburn, London, to parents Lucy Stephan (b. Scotland) and Douglas Rossdale (a doctor of Russian descent); they divorced when he was eleven years old and he was raised primarily by his father and aunt (his mother remarried and moved to South Tampa, Florida off of fashionable Lakeview Drive). He has a younger sister, Soraya, and an older one, Lorraine (daughter called Jade).
Gavin was the lead singer/songwriter for the UK post-grunge rock band Bush. Their first album, Sixteen Stone (1994), was a huge commercial success. Almost overnight, Bush went from playing small pubs in London to headlining arenas in the US, the result of extensive, non-stop touring. However, some critics labelled them as an inferior derivative of bands such as Nirvana and Pixies, and this criticism followed them throughout their career as a band. In particular, Rossdale's forced, raspy singing voice and random, stream of consciousness-style lyrics were dismissed by some as an imitation of Nirvana's lead singer, Kurt Cobain. Although the band reached superstar status in the U.S., they failed to have much impact in the UK, which at the time was rather preoccupied with Britpop. The sole exception to this was their single "Swallowed", which reached #7 in the UK charts. A change in record labels, management and an extended hiatus did not bode well for the band, who unofficially split in 2002.
Bush's albums include Razorblade Suitcase (recorded by Steve Albini), Deconstructed, The Science of Things, and Golden State, none of which matched the sales success of the debut album, Sixteen Stone.
In 2004, after Bush had been on hiatus for two years, Rossdale formed Institute. Their first album, Distort Yourself, released September 13, 2005 achieved moderate success and the single "Bullet-proof skin" was used in the motion picture Stealth.
He also guest appeared for Blue Man Group's "The Current" and is featured in its video. The song was used in the ending credits of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
In 2005, Rossdale appeared in the motion picture Constantine (2005) playing the villain Balthazar. Rossdale has also appeared in the films Zoolander (2001), The Mayor of Sunset Strip (2003), Little Black Book (2004), and The Game of Their Lives (2005). He will next be seen in the heist film How to Rob a Bank alongside Nick Stahl and Erika Christensen.
In 2007, on Rossdale's website, he has announced that he is now working on new music. It will be a solo album, and he is very happy with the sound of the album, citing he went back to his roots from Bush. Rossdale's single, "Can't Stop the World," is the introduction theme to Fox's programme, Drive.
In 2007, he covered John Lennon's "Mind Games" for the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. Later that year, Gavin finished recording his first solo record entitled Wanderlust. It is expected out in early 2008. He also made a guest appearance on the DT8 Project album Perfect World, taking lead vocals and co-writing the track Falling.
Rossdale has homes in Primrose Hill, London and California, and is a regular on the celebrity tennis circuit in the latter.
In 2004, it was revealed that he was the father of Pearl Lowe's daughter, Daisy Lowe (b. 1989). Rossdale and Lowe had a former relationship and Rossdale had been the godfather of Daisy.
Albums: Sixteen Stone - Razorblade Suitcase - Deconstructed - The Science of Things - Golden State - The Best of: 1994-1999 - Zen X Four |
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