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| Birth Name(s) : Richard Melville Hall |
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Full Moby Biography
Moby (born Richard Melville Hall, September 11, 1965) is an American songwriter, musician and singer.
Chorus of "Everytime You Touch Me" from Everything is Wrong
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His first album for Mute Records was Everything Is Wrong in 1995, which earned early critical praise and minor commercial success. (It was distributed in the USA by Elektra Records.) He followed this up in early 1996 with the double album Everything Is Wrong - Mixed and Remixed.
Soon after, his original record company, Instinct, released a B-sides album named Rare: The Collected B-Sides 1989-1993. One song on this album, "Thousand", earned him a world record for the fastest song ever. It reached 1015 BPM.
In 1997, he released I Like to Score, a collection of his music that had been used in movies. Among those tracks was an updated version of the "James Bond Theme" used for the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
In 2001, Moby founded the Area:One Festival. It was a popular touring rock festival that featured an eclectic range of musical genres. A second tour was organized for the following year.
Moby briefly had a television show on MTV in 2002, Señor Moby's House of Music, which focused mostly on more obscure electronic music. Moby also appeared on Ride with Funkmaster Flex.Moby performs a rare DJ set at NASA Rewind 04-03-2004 in NYC
Moby scored the soundtrack for Richard Kelly's 2007 movie Southland Tales; he was a huge fan of Kelly's previous film, Donnie Darko, and could not resist the offer the director gave him.
Was referred to in the 2006 Movie "School for Scoundrels" in which the character Eli pretends to be Moby to trick women.
Many Moby albums include essays that he has written himself in the inlay card. Everything Is Wrong had essays on over-consumption ("We use toxic chlorine bleach to keep our underpants white") and US religious leaders ("Why doesn't the Christian right go out and spread mercy, compassion and selflessness?"), and The End of Everything discussed being a vegetarian ("Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?")
In an interview with Psychology Today, Moby stated that when he was 19, he tried LSD and began suffering from panic attacks. He claims that he no longer experiences them as frequently as he used to, but occasionally he will "have too much caffeine, be stressed out about work and be in a relationship that's not going well, and it will happen again." He is very open about this in an attempt to help fans who suffer from similar panic disorders.
He is an advocate of network neutrality and he testified before the US House committee debating the issue in 2006.
"We Are All Made Of Stars" was featured in:
- A 2002 Intel Pentium television commercial in the United States
"First Cool Hive" was featured in:
- The movie Scream.
- Opening credits of Finnish IT news program verkoss@ (produced by Media-Active Oy, aired on MTV3 circa 1996—1998).
"In My Heart" was featured in:
- One of the trailers for the 2006 movie The Pursuit of Happyness
- Commercials for the Nokia Nseries phones
"I'm Not Worried At All" was featured in:
- TV-series CSI: NY episode "Oedipus Hex", Season Three Episode Five.
"Natural Blues" was featured in:
- The movie Freddy Got Fingered.
- Television promos for the BBC News, 2000.
- The movie Basic.
- The TV Show Cold Case
"Rafters" was featured in:
- The 2003 Australian Swimming Championship, Broadcast on the Seven Network.
"Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" was featured in:
- The climax of the documentary film Peaceable Kingdom
- The trailer for the 2001 movie Black Hawk Down.
- Episode 3 of the 6th season of the BBC TV-show Monarch of the Glen
- The last song to be preformed on TFI Friday featuring Elton John (who was hosting)
"Extreme Ways" was featured in:
- The end of the 2002 movie The Bourne Identity and its 2004 and 2007 sequels, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.
- Trailers and promos for various PBS Shows
- Over the closing credits for the 2005 BBC drama-documentary If... Drugs Were Legal .
"When It's Cold I'd Like to Die" was featured in:
- The final scene and end credits of episode 67 of the HBO original series The Sopranos ("Join the Club")
"Porcelain" was featured in:
- The 1998 film Playing by Heart
- The 1999 film The Beach and its trailer.
- Commercial bumpers for Spanish TV channel TVE
- The 2001 film Dancing at the Blue Iguana
- The 2001 film Is Harry on the Boat
- The May 30, 2000 series finale of TV drama "Party of Five"
- A 2000 Canadian Baileys Irish Cream Television Advertisement
- A 2004 MTV Documentary on Aushwitz and the Nazi Regime
- Virgin Atlantic's Boarding Music during November 2005
"Everloving" was featured in:
- The movie Seabiscuit
- The movie version of He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
- A trailer for the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream
- A trailer for the 2003 film We Don't Live Here Anymore
- A series of TV adverts for BP South Africa during 2005
- Oliver Stone's football film Any Given Sunday
- An episode of the WB cartoon series Mission Hill
"Bodyrock" was featured in:
- The video game NBA Courtside with Kobe Bryant featuring the main guitar melody during the opening cutscene and menus.
- The video game FIFA 2001
- The opening credits sequence for later episodes of Veronica's Closet
- Joss Whedon's series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- The trailer for the 2001 film Ali
- The opening credits sequence for Hype |
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