Hoje é dia de ouvir Bloc Party...!

Russell Lissack, guitarrista dos Bloc Party, faz hoje quarenta e cinco anos...!

 

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

 

Russell Lissack é um guitar hero improvável. Ele cresceu em Chingford, uma pequena cidade nos arredores de Londres, e foi sempre considerado um indivíduo tímido e introvertido. Russell desenvolveu uma adoração desde jovem por Prince, que o levou ao seu primeiro concerto. A experiência, embora ligeiramente debochado para sua pouca idade, Russell mostrou que a música era ao mesmo tempo uma chamada e uma libertação para si. Aos 15, ele adquiriu a sua primeira guitarra e começou a praticar por horas para desbloquear as técnicas que mostra nas suas canções favoritas. Ele teve algumas lições, mas rapidamente as abandonou, a sua mentalidade era (e ainda é) que a experimentação livre conduziria à partes de guitarra mais originais e interessantes.

Apesar de Russell e Kele Okereke se conhecerem logo após a escola secundária, os dois jovens ainda prosseguido os seus estudos distintos. Russell estudou sociologia na South Bank University, mas a sua dedicação à música que ele estava criando com Kele era inabalável. Quando chegou a hora de comprometer-se totalmente a banda, Russell saiu  da universidade apenas um semestre antes de ele ter uma pós-graduação. No entanto, ele não se importava muito porque este tinha sido temendo sua dissertação final e a quantidade de tempo a interagir com estranhos que teria implicado. Ironicamente, Russell tem agora um trabalho em que ele conhece pessoas novas numa base diária.

Como músico, Russell não emprega as típicas, obsoleto 'move rock' praticada por muitos de seus pares. Em vez disso, os olhos são atraídos para as mãos e seu voo nas cordas de sua guitarra. Seu desempenho é a personificação da música: carisma não chamativo, mas sim um showcase de habilidade e artesanato. O penteado distintivo de Russell, uma vez que o tema da crítica de língua afiada de seus colegas.  Tendo um estilo facilmente reconhecível, isto poderia inflar o ego de um músico, mas Russell continua a ser um vegetariano calmo.

 

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Last Resort...!

Jerry Horton, guitarrista dos Papa Roach, nasceu há cinquenta e um anos

    
Jerry Allan Horton (Charleston, South Carolina, March 10, 1975) is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of Californian alternative rock band Papa Roach.

Some journalists consider him to be among the best nu metal guitarists of all time. 

 

Biography

Jerry Horton was born in Charleston, South Carolina on March 10, 1975. He has one brother named Chad. He began playing the guitar at the age of 14. Before joining Papa Roach, Horton worked as a roofer. He was introduced to the band by an ex-girlfriend and soon joined Ben Luther as the lead guitarist of the band. Horton has been nominated twice as best guitarist for the Californian Music Awards. Horton follows a straight edge lifestyle but does not identify himself with its subculture.

   

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Bradley Nowell, guitarrista e vocalista dos Sublime, nasceu há 58 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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Ian Brown faz hoje sessenta e três 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.   

      

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Música adequada à data...!

Wendy James, a vocalista dos Transvision Vamp, celebra hoje sessenta anos...!

 

Wendy James (London, 21 January 1966) is an English singer-songwriter most notable for her work with the pop band Transvision Vamp and for her collaborations with Elvis Costello, James Williamson from Iggy and the Stooges, Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith Group and James Sclavunos from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. She has released 10 albums from 1988 until 2024.

 

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Andy Rourke, baixista dos The Smiths, nasceu há sessenta e dois anos...

       

Andrew Michael Rourke (Manchester, 17 de janeiro de 1964 – Nova 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 

    

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Saudades de Andy Rourke...

Saudades de Kirsty MacColl...

Kirsty MacColl morreu há vinte e cinco 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.

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

  

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (Dublin, 8 de dezembro de 1966 – Londres, 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.

   

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Tim Butler, baixo dos The Psychedelic Furs, faz hoje 67 anos

  

Timothy George Butler (Teddington, 7 December 1958) is an English musician and songwriter. He is the bassist, and co-founder of the English rock band the Psychedelic Furs. His brother Richard Butler and himself founded the band. He is also the youngest of three brothers.

Richard, the eldest, is the lead vocalist of the Psychedelic Furs. Both brothers were also founding members of the alternative rock band, Love Spit Love.

Butler was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England and lives in Liberty, Kentucky with his wife Robyn Wesley Butler and their children. She was a fan since the Psychedelic Furs' third studio album Forever Now (1982).

 

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Mikey Welsh morreu há 14 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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Hoje é dia de ouvir música de Steven Severin...!

Steven Severin comemora hoje setenta 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.

   

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Nuno Bettencourt celebra hoje 59 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.

   

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Morten Harket, o vocalista dos a-ha, faz hoje 66 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.

      

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O baterista Brad Wilk, dos RATM, nasceu há 57 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 has played with Rage Against the Machine since 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 and had previously been in the band Indian Style with Eddie Vedder.

   

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