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segunda-feira, março 11, 2024

Russell Lissack, dos Bloc Party, faz hoje quarenta e três anos

 

Russell Lissack (Chingford, Waltham Forest, 11 de março de 1981) é um guitarrista britânico atualmente na banda Bloc Party

 

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domingo, março 10, 2024

quinta-feira, fevereiro 22, 2024

Bradley Nowell, guitarrista e vocalista dos Sublime, nasceu há 56 anos...

 
Bradley James Nowell (Long Beach, 22 de fevereiro de 1968 - São Francisco, 25 de maio de 1996) foi um músico e compositor norte-americano, mais conhecido como o guitarrista e vocalista da banda de ska punk Sublime. Morreu de overdose de heroína em 1996 pouco antes do primeiro lançamento por uma grande gravadora de um trabalho do seu grupo, o álbum Sublime, deixando esposa e filho. 
   
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Bradley Nowell nasceu e cresceu em Long Beach, Califórnia, junto dos seus pais, Jim Nowell e Nancy Nowell, e com sua irmã Kelly. Conforme cresceu, Nowell tornou-se uma criança problemática. O seu comportamento rebelde agravou-se aos dez anos, quando os seus pais se divorciaram. Ao sair numa viagem às Ilhas Virgens, juntamente com o seu pai, Bradley passou a conhecer o reggae e, ao voltar, foi aprender a tocar guitarra. Aos 13 anos Bradley formou a sua primeira banda, 'Hogan's Heroes', juntamente com Eric Wilson, que mais tarde seria o baixista da banda Sublime. Nowell estudou na Wilson Classical High School, em Long Beach, e mais tarde frequentou a California State University, de Long Beach.

Bradley foi um músico que viria a influenciar muita gente em relação ao estilo musical e ao estilo de vida, sendo um ícone para toda a geração que partilha um gosto comum pelo skate. 

   

  
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terça-feira, fevereiro 20, 2024

Ian Brown faz hoje sessenta e um anos

   
Ian George Brown (Warrington, 20 February 1963) is an English singer and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses from their formation in 1983. Following the split in 1996, he began a solo career, releasing seven studio albums, a greatest hits compilation, a remix album, an 11-disc box set titled Collection, and 19 singles. He has performed solo shows in 45 countries. He returned to singing for the Stone Roses in 2011, although this did not spell the end of his solo endeavours, releasing First World Problems through Virgin/EMI Records on 25 October 2018.   

      

 


domingo, janeiro 21, 2024

Wendy James, vocalista dos Transvision Vamp, faz hoje 58 anos

 
Wendy James (London, 21 January 1966) is an English singer-songwriter most notable for her work with the pop band Transvision Vamp.
 

 


quarta-feira, janeiro 17, 2024

Saudades de Andy Rourke...

Andy Rourke, baixo dos The Smiths, nasceu há sessenta anos...

       
Andrew Michael Rourke (Manchester, 17 de janeiro de 1964Nova Iorque, 19 de maio de 2023) foi um músico britânico, mais conhecido por ter sido baixista da banda The Smiths
   
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Em 19 de maio de 2023, foi anunciado que Rourke havia morrido de cancro no pâncreas, aos 59 anos, no Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, na cidade de Nova York 
    

 


segunda-feira, dezembro 18, 2023

Kirsty MacColl morreu há vinte e três anos...

     
Kirsty Anna MacColl (Croydon, 10 October 1959 – Cozumel, Quintana Roo, 18 December 2000) was an English singer and songwriter. She wrote and recorded several pop hits between the early 1980s and the 1990s. In addition, she sang on hit recordings produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite, notably on tracks by The Smiths and The Pogues.
At the age of 41, MacColl died after being hit by a boat in Mexico.

Early career
Kirsty MacColl was the daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl and dancer Jean Newlove. She and her brother, Hamish MacColl, grew up with their mother in Croydon, where Kirsty attended Park Hill Primary School, Monks Hill High School and John Newnham High School, making appearances in school plays. At the time of her birth, her father had been in a relationship with folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Peggy Seeger since 1956 (a relationship that would continue until his death in 1989), and already had a son with her.
She came to notice when Chiswick Records released an EP by local punk rock band the Drug Addix with MacColl on backing vocals under the pseudonym Mandy Doubt (1978). Stiff Records executives were not impressed with the band, but liked her and subsequently signed her to a solo deal.
  
Debut single
Her debut solo single "They Don't Know", released in 1979, peaked at number two on the Music Week airplay chart. However, a distributors' strike prevented copies of the single getting into record stores, and the single consequently failed to appear on the UK Singles Chart.
MacColl recorded a follow-up single, "You Caught Me Out", but felt she lacked Stiff's full backing, and left the label shortly before the song was to be released. The single was pulled, and only a few "white label" promo copies of the single are known to exist.
MacColl moved to Polydor Records in 1981. She had a UK number 14 hit with "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis", taken from her critically acclaimed debut album Desperate Character. In 1983, Polydor dropped her just as she had completed recording the songs for a planned second album (to be called Real) which used more synthesizers and had new wave-styled tracks. She returned to Stiff, where pop singles such as "Terry" and "He's On the Beach" were unsuccessful but a cover of Billy Bragg's "A New England" in 1985 got to number 7 in the UK charts. This included two extra verses specially written for her by Bragg. Also around this time, MacColl wrote and performed the theme song "London Girls" for Channel 4's short-lived sitcom Dream Stuffing (1984).
In the United States, MacColl was probably most recognisable as the writer of "They Don't Know". Tracey Ullman's version, reached #2 in the UK in 1983 and #8 in the United States in early 1984; Ullman's video for the song featured a cameo by Paul McCartney near the end. MacColl also sang back-up on the track, providing the "Baay-byy" as the range was too high for Ullman to reach. It was also played over the closing credits of Ullman's HBO show Tracey Takes On... in 1996. Ullman also recorded three more of MacColl's songs, "You Broke My Heart In 17 Places" and "You Caught Me Out", as the title tracks of her first and second albums respectively, and "Terry" which was released as a single in 1985.

Chart re-emergence
When Stiff went bankrupt in 1986, MacColl was left unable to record in her own right, as no record company bought her contract from the Official Receiver. However, she had regular session work as a backing vocalist, and she frequently sang on records produced or engineered by her husband, Steve Lillywhite, including tracks for Robert Plant, The Smiths, Alison Moyet, Shriekback, Simple Minds, Talking Heads, Big Country, Anni-Frid Lyngstad (of ABBA), and The Wonder Stuff among others. She appeared in the videos "Welcome to the Cheap Seats" for The Wonder Stuff and "(Nothing But) Flowers" for Talking Heads (along with ex-The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr).
MacColl re-emerged in the British charts in December 1987, reaching Number 2 with The Pogues on "Fairytale of New York", a duet with Shane MacGowan. This led to her accompanying The Pogues on their British and European tour in 1988, an experience which she said helped her temporarily overcome her stage fright. In March 1989, MacColl sang backing vocals on the Happy Mondays' Hallelujah EP.
After the contract issue was resolved, MacColl returned to recording as a solo artist and received critical acclaim upon the release of Kite (LP) in 1989. The album was widely praised by critics, and featured collaborations with David Gilmour and Johnny Marr. MacColl's lyrics addressed life in Margaret Thatcher's Britain on "Free World", ridiculed the vapidity of fame in "Fifteen Minutes", and addressed the vagaries of love in "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!" Although Kite contained many original compositions, MacColl's biggest chart success from the album was the cover of The Kinks' song "Days", which gave her a UK Top 20 hit in July 1989. A bonus track on the CD version of Kite was a cover of the Smiths song "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby".
During this time, MacColl was also featured on the British sketch comedy French and Saunders, appearing as herself, singing songs including "15 Minutes" and "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sunny Jim!" (from Kite), "Still Life" (the B-side of the "Days" single), "Girls On Bikes" (a reworking of B-side "Am I Right?") and, with comedy duo Raw Sex, the Frank and Nancy Sinatra hit "Somethin' Stupid". She continued to write and record, releasing the album Electric Landlady (coined by Johnny Marr, a play on the Jimi Hendrix album title Electric Ladyland), including her most successful chart hit in North America, "Walking Down Madison" (co-written with Marr and a Top 30 hit in the UK), in 1991. Despite the song's U.S. chart success, Landlady was not a hit for Virgin Records, and in 1992, when Virgin was sold to EMI, MacColl was dropped from the label.

Later work
She released Titanic Days, informed by her failing marriage with Lillywhite, in 1993, but ZTT Records had agreed only to release the album as a "one-off" and declined to sign her to a contract. In 1995, she released two new singles on Virgin, "Caroline" and a cover of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" (a duet with Evan Dando), together with the "best of" compilation Galore.
Galore became MacColl's only album to reach the top 10 in the UK Albums Chart, but neither of the new singles, nor a re-released "Days", made the Top 40. MacColl did not record again for several years; her frustration with the music business was exacerbated by a lengthy case of writer's block. MacColl herself admitted that she was ready to give up her music career and become an English teacher in South America.
In 1998, the album What Do Pretty Girls Do? was released, containing BBC Radio 1 live sessions (featuring Billy Bragg on two songs) that were broadcast between 1989 and 1995.
After several trips to Cuba and Brazil, MacColl recorded the world music-inspired (particularly Cuban and other Latin American forms) Tropical Brainstorm, which was released in 2000 to critical acclaim. It included the song "In These Shoes?", which garnered airplay in the U.S., was covered by Bette Midler and featured in the HBO show Sex and the City. After MacColl's death it was adopted by Catherine Tate as the theme tune for her BBC TV show and featured on the soundtrack to British film Kinky Boots.

TV work
MacColl featured regularly in the third series of the French and Saunders Show, a comedy show on the BBC. Unlike other guests on the show, she was not part of any of the sketches but sang her songs whilst performing as in a music video. She also made regular appearances on Jools Holland's TV shows, also on the BBC, singing during the 1995 Hootenanny a rendition of "Miss Otis Regrets" with the Pipes and Drums of the Irish Guards.
MacColl appeared in the 1991 Channel 4 historic musical fantasy The Ghosts of Oxford Street as Kitty Fisher, performing "Fairytale of New York" opposite Shane MacGowan as the Duke of York.

Death
In 2000, following her participation in the presentation of a radio programme for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Cuba, MacColl took a holiday in Cozumel, Mexico, with her sons and her partner, musician James Knight. On 18 December 2000 she and her sons went diving at the Chankanaab reef, part of the National Marine Park of Cozumel, in a designated diving area that watercraft were restricted from entering. With the group was a local veteran divemaster, Iván Díaz. As the group were surfacing from a dive a powerboat moving at high speed entered the restricted area. MacColl saw the boat coming before her sons did; Louis (then 13) was not in its path, but Jamie (then 15) was, she was able to push him out of the way (he sustained minor head and rib injuries) but in doing so she was struck by the boat and died instantly. MacColl's body was repatriated back across the Atlantic Ocean to the United Kingdom, and was cremated after a humanist funeral at Mortlake Crematorium in South-West London.

The powerboat involved in the collision was controlled by Guillermo González Nova, multimillionaire president of the Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain, who was on board with members of his family. The boat was owned by Carlos González Nova, brother and founder of the chain. One employee of Guillermo González Nova, boathand José Cen Yam, stated that he was in control of the boat at the time of the incident. Eyewitnesses said that Cen Yam was not at the controls and that the boat was travelling much faster than the speed of one knot that González Nova said.

Cen Yam was found guilty of culpable homicide and was sentenced to 2 years 10 months in prison. He was allowed under Mexican law to pay a punitive fine of 1,034 pesos (about €63, £61 or US$90) in lieu of the prison sentence. He was also ordered to pay approximately US$2,150 in restitution to MacColl's family, an amount based on his wages. People who said they spoke to Cen Yam after the killing said he received money for taking the blame.

 


sexta-feira, dezembro 08, 2023

Sinéad O'Connor nasceu há cinquenta e sete anos...

  

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (Dublin, 8 de dezembro de 1966Londres, 26 de julho de 2023), foi uma cantora, compositora e ativista política irlandesa.
Em 2017, O'Connor mudou de nome para Magda Davitt. No ano seguinte, converteu-se ao islamismo, mudando uma vez mais de nome, desta vez para Shuhada' Sadaqat. Todavia, continua a gravar músicas e apresentar-se com o seu nome de nascimento.

   

 


domingo, outubro 08, 2023

Mikey Welsh morreu há doze anos...

  

Mikey Welsh (Syracuse, 20 de abril de 1971 - Chicago, 8 de outubro de 2011) foi um baixista norte-americano

Entrou para os Weezer em 1999, no lugar de Matt Sharp e saiu da banda em 2002, dando o seu lugar de baixista a Scott Shriner.  

Em 26 de setembro de 2011, Welsh escreveu no Twitter: "Sonhei que morria em Chicago na próxima semana (ataque cardíaco enquanto dormia). Preciso escrever meu testamento hoje" (sic). Em 8 de outubro de 2011, Welsh foi encontrado morto num quarto de hotel em Chicago, com suspeita de overdose de heroína, levando a um ataque cardíaco.

 

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segunda-feira, setembro 25, 2023

Steven Severin - 68 anos

      
Steven Severin é o nome artístico do baixista e compositor Steven John Bailey, nascido a 25 de setembro de 1955, em Londres. Ele integrou o famoso grupo de fãs dos Sex Pistols, o "Bromley Contingent", e é um dos membros fundadores dos Siouxsie And The Banshees. Antes de adotar como pseudónimo o nome "Steven Severin", que em muitos locais aparece também como "Steve Severin", (onde "Severin" é uma referência a canção "Venus In Furs", dos Velvet Underground), ele adotou outros como Steve Havoc e Steve Spunker.
   

  

quarta-feira, setembro 20, 2023

Nuno Bettencourt celebra hoje 57 anos

   
Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt (Praia da Vitória, Terceira, Açores, 20 de setembro de 1966) é um virtuoso guitarrista português, membro da banda Extreme, que ficou famoso pelos seus solos extremamente técnicos, sendo a sua maneira de tocar muito influenciada por Eddie Van Halen.
   

 


quinta-feira, setembro 14, 2023

Morten Harket, o vocalista dos A-Ha, faz hoje 64 anos

       
Morten Harket (Kongsberg, 14 de setembro de 1959) é o ex-vocalista da banda norueguesa A-Ha. É uma das maiores vozes dos últimos tempos e fez grande sucesso com os A-Ha. Foi eleito a melhor voz do ano de 1986.
      

 


terça-feira, setembro 05, 2023

Brad Wilk nasceu há cinquenta e cinco anos


Brad Wilk (Portland, Oregon, September 5, 1968) is an American drummer. He is best known as a member of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine (1991–2000, 2007–2011, 2019–present), Audioslave (2001–2007, 2017), and Prophets of Rage (2016–2019).

Wilk started his career as a drummer for Greta in 1990, and helped co-found Rage Against the Machine with Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha in August 1991. Following that band's breakup in October 2000, Wilk, Morello, Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford and Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell formed the supergroup Audioslave, which broke up in 2007. From 2016 to 2019, he played in the band Prophets of Rage, with Commerford, Morello, Chuck D, B-Real and DJ Lord. He currently plays in the band Rage Against the Machine following their reunion.

Wilk has also performed drums on English metal band Black Sabbath's final album 13, released in June 2013. He briefly played with Pearl Jam shortly after the release of their debut album Ten.
   
   

segunda-feira, setembro 04, 2023

James Bay comemora hoje trinta e três anos

    
James Bay (born 4 September 1990, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2014, he released his single "Hold Back the River", which has been certified platinum, before releasing his debut studio album Chaos and the Calm (2015). The album went to number one in the UK and number 15 in the US. In February 2015, Bay received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award. At the 2016 Brit Awards he received the award for Best British Male Solo Artist. Bay also received three nominations at the 2016 Grammy Awards, for Best New Artist, Best Rock Album, and Best Rock Song. In May 2018, he released his second studio album, Electric Light
    

 


domingo, setembro 03, 2023

Perry Bamonte faz hoje 63 anos


Perry Archangelo Bamonte (born 3 September 1960) is an English musician and illustrator, best known as a member of the rock band The Cure from 1990 to 2005, and again since 2022. 

 

Biography

Born in London, England, Bamonte became a guitar tech for The Cure in 1984. He joined the band as keyboardist in 1990, replacing Roger O'Donnell who abruptly quit after a tour, and Bamonte played both guitar and keyboards on the band's 1992 album Wish. Following the departure of Porl Thompson in 1993, Bamonte took on additional lead guitar duties, O'Donnell rejoined in 1995 to fill the keyboardist position. Bamonte appeared on the subsequent albums Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, and The Cure. He has been credited for writing the music for the songs "Trust" from Wish, "This Is a Lie" from Wild Mood Swings, and "Anniversary" from The Cure. He also appeared on the live albums Paris and Show as well as Trilogy.

In 2005, it was reported that Bamonte and Roger O'Donnell were let go by the Cure's leader Robert Smith, who wanted to make some changes to the group. Smith reportedly wanted to make the band a three-piece. The news was officially announced on May 27, 2005 on The Cure's website. On June 18, 2005, The Cure announced the return of former guitarist Porl Thompson. The seemingly abrupt changes in the band brought about rumors and speculation, while no official statement was given by Smith as to why Bamonte and O'Donnell were let go. While it was a surprise to both, both Bamonte and O'Donnell remained on amicable terms with Smith.

In September 2012, Bamonte was revealed as the bassist for London band Love Amongst Ruin to help them tour their second album Lose Your Way.

In March, 2019, Bamonte joined fellow members of The Cure, past and present, for their induction into the 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Bamonte rejoined The Cure in 2022 onstage as a guitarist/keyboardist, performing on the first night of the band’s “Lost World Tour” in Riga, Latvia.

 

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sábado, setembro 02, 2023

Spencer Smith, ex-baterista dos Panic! at the Disco, faz hoje 36 anos

  

Spencer James Smith (Denver, Colorado, September 2, 1987) is an American talent agent and former musician and songwriter. He is best known as a co-founding member and the former drummer of the rock band Panic! at the Disco. He recorded four studio albums with the band: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005), Pretty. Odd. (2008), Vices & Virtues (2011), and Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! (2013). The band's debut album went triple platinum and charted at No. 13 on the US Billboard 200, spearheaded by the hit single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", which peaked at No. 7 in the Billboard Hot 100.

After recording four albums with the band, he announced his departure from Panic! on April 2, 2015 via the band's official website, citing a need to settle his drug issues. As of February 7, 2018, Smith works as an official manager and talent finder at DCD2 Records.
   

 


quarta-feira, agosto 23, 2023

Dean DeLeo, guitarrista dos Stone Temple Pilots, nasceu há 62 anos


Dean DeLeo (New Jersey, August 23, 1961) is an American guitarist known for his work with rock band Stone Temple Pilots. DeLeo is also known for his role in the short-lived bands Talk Show and Army of Anyone. He is the older brother of Robert DeLeo, who plays bass for Stone Temple Pilots.

DeLeo's playing has received strong critical acclaim over the years. Stone Temple Pilots' second album, Purple, released in 1994, was ranked at #73 on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All-time list.
 
 

terça-feira, agosto 15, 2023

Matt Johnson, vocalista dos The The, celebra hoje sessenta e dois anos

   
Matt Johnson (London, 15 August 1961) is an English singer-songwriter best known as the vocalist and only constant member of his band The The. He is also a film soundtrack composer (Cineola), publisher (Fifty First State Press), broadcaster (Radio Cineola), and conservationist/local activist. 

  

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