| Gavin Rossdale |
Gavin
Rossdale in August 2005
|
| Background information |
| Birth name |
Gavin McGregor Rossdale |
| Born |
30 October 1967 (1967-10-30) (age 39) |
| Origin |
 London, England |
| Genre(s) |
Grunge
Post-grunge |
| Instrument(s) |
Vocals, Guitar |
Associated
acts |
Bush
Institute |
Gavin McGregor Rossdale (born October
30, 1967)
is a British musician most famous for being the lead singer and
guitarist of the former British rock group Bush,
and later the lead singer and guitarist of Institute,
which broke up in 2006.
|
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Personal
life
- 3 Notes
- 4 External
links
|
Biography
Born in Kilburn,
London, England, to
parents Lucy Stephan (b. Scotland) and Douglas Rossdale (a doctor of Russian Jewish 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). He has a younger sister, Soraya, and an older one, Lorraine
(daughter called Jade).
Rossdale modelled briefly, producing some fashion shots with
good friend, Marilyn. Gavin learned
to play bass guitar after hanging out with Lorraine's boyfriend who was
in a band called The Nobodyz, but switched to rhythm guitar. At 17, he
had left Westminster School, played
semi-professional football until side-lined by an injury, and formed a
band called Midnight (formerly Little Dukes), which produced a couple
of singles and a bunch of publicity photos. In 1991, Gavin moved to Los
Angeles for 6 months, lived where he could, and took whatever part time
jobs were available, including production assistant on video shoots. He
spent some time in NYC with his good friend Bill MacAdam before
returning to England inspired to start a new band. He hooked up with
future manager Scottie Mac (SSM), whom he had met in LA, around this time.
In 1992, Gavin formed Future Primitive, whose original line-up (under
the name The Diceheads) included screenwriter Sacha
Gervasi, who left to pursue a film-making career. The band changed its
name to Bush in the summer of 1994 and released the promo Sixteen
Stone.
Bush
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 on the
Brit-Pop riddled UK charts, the lone exception being their single
"Swallowed", which reached #7. 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 (produced by Steve
Albini), Deconstructed, The
Science of Things, and Golden
State, none of which matched the sales success
of the debut album, Sixteen Stone.
After Bush
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.
Rossdale was featured on the Sony
Pictures XXX soundtrack
in 2002 with a song called "Adrenaline." The song was also the
official theme song for World Wrestling
Entertainment (WWE)'s Unforgiven pay-per-view
event in September 2002. 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.
Personal life
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 15-year-old daughter, Daisy Lowe (b. 1989). Rossdale and Lowe
had a former relationship and Rossdale had been the godfather of Daisy.
On September 14, 2002 Rossdale married Gwen
Stefani, American pop-princess and lead vocalist of the rock band No Doubt.
During an August
8, 2005
appearance on the radio show Loveline, Rossdale said that he and Gwen
preferred to keep their relationship entirely out of the media. He also
said that he grew up in a chaotic home, and stated that having a stable
environment for his family was important to him. On May 26, 2006, they had a son,
Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles. Kingston
weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces (3.4 kilograms).
Notes
-
Westminster alumni archive - though
the fan
biography claims the year is 1967
-
[1], [2]
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http://et.tv.yahoo.com/celebrities/14864/
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External links
| v • d • e Bush |
| Gavin Rossdale
- Nigel
Pulsford - Dave Parsons - Robin Goodridge -Chris
Traynor - Sacha Puttnam |
| Discography |
| Albums: Sixteen
Stone - Razorblade
Suitcase - Deconstructed
- The Science of Things
- Golden State
- The Best of: 1994-1999
- Zen
X Four |
| Singles: "Everything
Zen" - "Little Things" - "Comedown"
- "Glycerine" - "Machinehead"
- "Swallowed" - "The Chemicals Between Us" |
