Lee Mavers nasceu há sessenta e um anos

Lee Anthony Mavers (Liverpool, 2 August 1962) is an English musician. Mavers was the songwriter, singer and rhythm guitarist in The La's and is best known for the hit "There She Goes" from October 1990.

Mavers was originally the bassist for the Liverpool group Neuklon circa 1980 to 1984.

Mavers is a passionate supporter of Everton Football Club and regularly attends Goodison Park.

He is the older brother of actor Gary Mavers and Neil Mavers, who was the drummer for The La's. 

 

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Morreu a Sinéad O'Connor...

  

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (Dublin, 8 de dezembro de 1966 - Dublin, 26 de julho de 2023) foi uma cantora e compositora 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, continuava a gravar músicas e apresentar-se com o seu nome de nascimento.

   

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Martin Gore, dos Depeche Mode, faz hoje sessenta e dois anos

   

Martin Lee Gore (Dagenham, London, England, 23 July 1961) is an English songwriter, singer, guitarist and keyboardist, and also producer, remixer and DJ. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the majority of their songs. His work now spans over three decades. Gore's best-known compositions include hits such as "Personal Jesus", "Enjoy the Silence", "I Feel You", "People Are People", "Everything Counts", "Shake the Disease" and "Never Let Me Down Again".

In addition to composing music and writing lyrics for Depeche Mode songs, he has also been lead vocalist on several, and usually solo (some examples are, "Somebody", "A Question of Lust" and "Home"), as evidenced by most of the Depeche Mode concerts, and has been a backing vocalist on many others.

In 1999 he received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for "International Achievement", the Moog Innovation Award "for his many contributions to the exploration of sound in popular music" in 2019, and became a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member in late 2020 with fellow Depeche Mode members, Andrew Fletcher and Dave Gahan.
    

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Jack White - 48 anos

John Anthony Gillis (Detroit, 9 de julho de 1975), também conhecido como Jack White, Jack III White ou Jack White III é um músico, cantor e produtor musical de rock vencedor de três Grammy Awards. Foi considerado o 70º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone. Em 2001 fundou a sua própria gravadora de discos, a Third Man Records.

 

Com ascendentes polacos, escoceses e canadianos, John Anthony Gillis, filho de Teresa e Gorman Gillis, era o mais novo de dez filhos (seis irmãos e três irmãs) vivendo num bairro de classe média-baixa em Detroit, Michigan, numa família católica. O pai e a mãe dele trabalhavam na Arquidiocese de Detroit, como superintendente de manutenção do prédio e secretária no escritório do Cardeal, respetivamente. White eventualmente tornou -se menino de coro, o que acabou dando-lhe um papel no filme de 1987, O Mistério do Rosário Negro (The Rosary Murders), principalmente filmado na paróquia Holy Redeemer, no sudoeste de Detroit. White, em criança, era fã de música clássica. Ele frequentou a Cass Technical High School em Detroit.

Ele começou a tocar um instrumento, bateria, aos seis anos. Quando adolescente, White já escutava blues e rock dos anos 60 que iriam influencia-lo bastante nos The White Stripes, sendo Son House e Blind Willie McTell os seus músicos favoritos de blues. Ele e seu amigo de infância, Dominic Suchyta, escutavam álbuns no sótão de White nos fins de semana e começaram a gravar covers num gravador de rolo. White era descrito, nesse tempo, sendo "um rapaz com cabelo curto e suspensórios". Ele já mencionou em várias entrevistas que a música "Grinnin' In Your Face", de Son House, é sua música favorita de todos os tempos.

Em 2005, no programa 60 Minutes, White disse para Mike Wallace que a sua vida poderia ter sido diferente. "Eu seria aceite num seminário em Wisconsin, e eu iria tornar-me padre, mas no último segundo eu pensei, 'eu vou para uma escola pública.' Eu tinha acabado de comprar um novo amplificador e eu não sabia se eu podia leva-lo para o seminário." Aos 15 anos, White começou um programa de aprendizagem de estufagem com um amigo da família, Brian Muldoon. White credita Muldoon, expondo-o ao punk rock, tocando com Muldoon como uma banda: "Muldoon tocava bateria, então eu tinha que tocar guitarra." Eles gravaram um álbum, Makers of High Grade Suites, como The Upholsterers. White começou um negócio sozinho, Third Man Upholstery. O slogan do seu negócio era "A sua mobília não está morta" e a mistura de cores era amarelo e preto - incluindo uma carrinha amarela, um uniforme amarelo e preto e uma prancheta amarela. Embora à Third Man Upholstery nunca faltasse trabalho, White disse que era não lucrativo, por causa da sua complacência sobre dinheiro e as suas práticas, que eram consideradas pouco  profissionais, inclusive fazer as contas com lápis e escrever poesia no interior do mobiliário. Não muito depois, White teve o seu primeiro show profissional, como baterista da banda de Detroit Goober & The Peas. Ele também tocou em outras bandas locais e fez shows sozinho.

  

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Mark Sandman, o vocalista dos Morphine, morreu há vinte e quatro anos...

                                                   

Mark Sandman (Newton, 24 de setembro de 1952 - Palestrina, 3 de julho de 1999) foi um músico dos Estados Unidos. Fundou a banda de blues Treat Her Right, que lançou três discos: Treat Her Right (1986), Tied To The Tracks (1989) e What's Good For You (1991).

Inovou ao criar a banda Morphine, que fazia uma fusão vitoriosa de rock e jazz. Formada apenas por baixo, sax e bateria, além da intervenção eventual de alguns outros instrumentos, a música do grupo servia de base para que Sandman, com sua voz aveludada, cantasse as suas belas poesias.

Mark veio a falecer, em 1999, durante um show na Itália, vítima de um ataque cardíaco fulminante.
      

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O guitarrita dos The Clash Mick Jones nasceu há 68 anos

Michael Geoffrey Jones (Wandsworth, London, 26 June 1955) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the co-founder of the Clash, and as that group's guitarist until 1983. In 1984, he formed Big Audio Dynamite with Don Letts. Jones has played with the band Carbon/Silicon along with Tony James (formerly of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik) since 2002 and was part of the Gorillaz live band for a world tour in 2010–2011. In late 2011, Jones collaborated with Pete Wylie and members of the Farm to form the Justice Tonight Band. 

   

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Gordon Moakes, dos Bloc Party, nasceu há 47 anos

Gordon Peter Moakes (Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, England, 22 June 1976) is an English multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist for English indie rock band Bloc Party

     
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Alex Band, vocalista da banda The Calling, faz hoje 42 anos

  

Alexander Maxwell Band, mais conhecido como Alex Band (Los Angeles, 8 de junho de 1981), é um cantor, compositor, músico, instrumentista, produtor musical e ator norte-americano. Ele ficou famoso como vocalista da banda The Calling no início dos anos 2000, com o hit "Wherever You Will Go", que liderou o Adult Top 40 por 23 semanas e conquistou o primeiro lugar entre os "10 melhores hits da última década" da revista Billboard. 

 

   

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Os Foo Fighters lançaram o álbum The Colour and the Shape há 26 anos

  

The Colour and the Shape is the second studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, released on May 20, 1997, through Roswell and Capitol Records. It marked the official debut of the Foo Fighters as a band, as their eponymous 1995 debut album was primarily recorded by frontman Dave Grohl and producer Barrett Jones as a demo. After the debut became an international success, Grohl recruited guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Nate Mendel, and drummer William Goldsmith to form the band's full lineup. The group convened in the fall of 1996 for pre-production on a second album, and brought in Gil Norton as producer to establish a pop sensibility for the tracks. The band strived to create a full-fledged rock record, contrary to music press predictions that it would be another grunge offshoot.

Primarily inspired by Grohl's divorce from photographer Jennifer Youngblood in 1996, The Colour and the Shape is more lyrically introspective and musically developed than the Foo Fighters' debut. The album's track listing was designed to resemble a therapy session, splitting the album between uptempo tracks and ballads to reflect conflicting emotions. Early sessions at the Bear Creek Studio in Washington went poorly and the band discarded most of those recordings. The band regrouped without Goldsmith in early 1997 to record at Hollywood's Grandmaster Recordings studio, with Grohl sitting in on drums instead. Goldsmith was offended and disgruntled that most of his material had been re-recorded, and he left the band shortly thereafter.

The singles "Monkey Wrench", "Everlong", and "My Hero" peaked within the top ten of US rock radio charts, and the album charted at number ten on the Billboard 200. The album was also a commercial success on an international level, peaking at number three in the United Kingdom. Critics deemed the album a significant American rock release of its era, and in retrospective assessments it continues to be viewed as a seminal modern rock album. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Rock Album. The Colour and the Shape remains the Foo Fighters' biggest seller in the U.S., having sold more than two million copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album was remastered and reissued in 2007 with several bonus tracks for its tenth anniversary.

The Colour and the Shape was Foo Fighters' last album to be released and marketed by Capitol Records. After the band, along with their label Roswell Records, signed to RCA Records, its distribution, along with their eponymous debut album, has switched to RCA.

 

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Andy Rourke, o baixista dos The Smiths, faleceu hoje...

       

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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Ian McCulloch, o vocalista dos Echo & the Bunnymen, faz hoje 64 anos

  

Ian Stephen McCulloch (Liverpool, 5 de maio de 1959) é um cantor inglês, vocalista do grupo de rock Echo & the Bunnymen.

   

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Mike Dirnt, baixo dos Green Day, faz hoje cinquenta e um anos

      

Michael Ryan Pritchard, conhecido como Mike Dirnt, (Rodeo, Califórnia, 4 de maio de 1972) é o baixista da banda de punk rock, Green Day. O seu apelido fictício (Dirnt) deve-se ao facto de que estava aprendendo a tocar baixo e, no colégio, ficava repetindo notas no baixo que soavam como uma onomatopeia em inglês (dirnt, dirnt, dirnt), e ele adotou a brincadeira para a sua 'alcunha'.

   

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Roger Andrew Taylor, baterista dos Duran Duran, nasceu há 63 anos

Roger Andrew Taylor (Bromwich, Inglaterra, 26 de abril de 1960) é o baterista da banda neo-romântica Duran Duran. É filho de Hugh e Jean Taylor e possui um irmão chamado Steven.

Roger esteve na banda Duran Duran entre 1979 e 1985, regressando após a reunião da formação original da banda, em 2001. Até hoje é considerado como o 'Duranie' mais silencioso, apesar de hoje em dia deixar a sua timidez de lado e dar declarações mais abertamente. É uma personalidade modesta, simples, e, no fundo, profundamente energético. De acordo com Simon Le Bon, é o elo central da banda.

    

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Mikey Welsh nasceu há 52 anos...

  

Michael Edward Welsh (Syracuse, New York, April 20, 1971 – Chicago, Illinois, October 8, 2011) was an American artist and musician who played bass for several bands, including the rock band Weezer. During Weezer's hiatus, he played with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo in the band Homie, during Cuomo's time in Boston. Following original bassist Matt Sharp's departure from Weezer, Welsh joined as bassist and played with them from the time that they unofficially regrouped in 1998 until August 2001, when he experienced mental health problems. Shortly afterwards, he retired from music to focus on his art career. Welsh died from a drug overdose on October 8, 2011.

 

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O álbum de estreia dos R.E.M. foi lançado há quarenta anos!

   

Murmur is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on April 12, 1983, by I.R.S. Records. Murmur drew critical acclaim upon its release for its unusual sound, defined by lead singer Michael Stipe's cryptic lyrics, guitarist Peter Buck's jangly guitar style, and bass guitarist Mike Mills's melodic basslines. 

Recording

R.E.M. started preparing for their debut album in December 1982. I.R.S. paired R.E.M. with producer Stephen Hague, who had a higher profile than the band's previous producer Mitch Easter. Hague's emphasis on technical perfection did not suit the band; the producer made the group perform multiple takes of the song "Catapult", which demoralized drummer Bill Berry. Also, Hague took the completed track to Synchro Sound studios in Boston and added keyboard parts to the track without the band's permission and to their dismay. Unsatisfied, the band members asked the label to let them record with Easter. I.R.S. agreed to a "tryout" session, allowing the band to travel to North Carolina and record the song "Pilgrimage" with Easter and producing partner Don Dixon. After hearing the track, I.R.S. permitted the group to record the album with Dixon and Easter.

On January 6, 1983, R.E.M. entered Reflection Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina, to begin recording sessions with Easter and Dixon. Much of the band's material for the album had been tested on preceding tours. Because of its bad experience with Hague, the band recorded the album via a process of negation, refusing to incorporate rock music clichés such as guitar solos or then-popular synthesizers, to give its music a timeless feel. Berry specifically was resistant to "odd" musical suggestions, insisting that his drums be recorded in a drummer's booth, a practice that was antiquated at the time. Dixon and Easter took a hands-off approach to much of the recording process. The pair would only fix up a vocal track or ask lead singer Michael Stipe to re-record a vocal if it was very substandard.

Due to Peter Buck's Fender Twin Reverb electric guitar being "dead", every song except 'Pilgrimage' featured Easter's Ampeg Gemini II. Mike Mills's Dan Armstrong bass guitar was set aside in favor of a Rickenbacker 4001, owned by Easter's girlfriend.

Recording was completed on February 23, 1983.

  

Packaging

The front cover features an image of a large quantity of the noxious weed kudzu, which grows so rapidly that it overtakes the landscape and kills other plants by completely shading them. The trestle featured on the back cover of the original vinyl LP release, originally part of the Georgia Railroad line into downtown Athens, has become something of a local landmark. Plans to demolish the trestle, now commonly referred to as the "Murmur Trestle", met with public outcry. On October 2, 2000, the Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission voted to save the trestle. In 2012, the local government said it can not afford to keep it and declared in 2016 that it would likely come down. Later that year, the Athens-Clarke County Commission suggested that a trail tax could fund its existence. The Murmur Trestle was approved for demolition in 2019, and work began in 2020 to destroy it. A replica of the original trestle is intended to be constructed, as well as preservation of some of the original trestle.

Copies of the initial tape edition - catalogue number CS 70604 - list The Velvet Underground cover "There She Goes Again" as the final track, but it is not present. This mistake was fixed with subsequent printings. The track was intended for Murmur, but removed so that all the tracks would be original and the group would not have to take a royalty cut. It was, however, included as a b-side to the IRS issue of "Radio Free Europe" instead. 

 

Critical reception

Murmur was released in April 1983. The record reached number 36 on the Billboard album chart. A re-recorded version of "Radio Free Europe" was the album's lead single and reached number 78 on the Billboard singles chart that year. Despite the acclaim awarded the album, by the end of 1983 Murmur had only sold about 200,000 copies, which I.R.S.'s Jay Boberg felt was below expectations. Murmur was eventually certified gold (500,000 units shipped) by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1991.

The album drew substantial critical acclaim. Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars. Reviewer Steve Pond felt the album fulfilled the promise the band showed on Chronic Town. He wrote, "Murmur is the record on which [R.E.M.] trade that potential for results: an intelligent, enigmatic, deeply involving album, it reveals a depth and cohesiveness to R.E.M. that the EP could only suggest." He concluded, "R.E.M. is clearly the important Athens band." Jonathan Gregg of Record described Murmur as "a splendid little film noir of an album, austere but rich in implication." He particularly praised the band's distinctive "twitchy, restless dance beat" and the incomprehensibility of the album's meaning, noting that Stipe's already enigmatic lyrics are often hard to make out due to being sung with a deliberate slur, lost in a muddy mix, and/or drowned out by the instrumental work, resulting in an impressive sense of meaning even as the meaning itself is not understood. It was Rolling Stone's Best Album of 1983, beating Michael Jackson's Thriller, The Police's Synchronicity and U2's War. Buck noted in 2002 that I.R.S. was "mind-boggled" by the album's positive reviews, especially in the British press, since R.E.M. had not yet toured that country.

 

Accolades

Since its release, Murmur has featured heavily in various "must have" lists compiled by the music media. In 1989, it was rated number eight on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the TV network VH1 named Murmur the 92nd greatest album of all time. Some of the more prominent of these lists to feature Murmur are shown below; this information is adapted from acclaimedmusic.net. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

 

 

Track listing

All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Radio Free Europe" – 4:06
2. "Pilgrimage" – 4:30
3. "Laughing" – 3:57
4. "Talk About the Passion" – 3:23
5. "Moral Kiosk" – 3:31
6. "Perfect Circle" – 3:29

Side two

1. "Catapult" – 3:55
2. "Sitting Still" – 3:17
3. "9–9" – 3:03
4. "Shaking Through" – 4:30
5. "We Walk" – 3:02
6. "West of the Fields" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe, Neil Bogan) – 3:17

 

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Black Francis, o líder e vocalista dos Pixies, faz hoje 58 anos

   

Charles Thompson IV (Boston, Massachusetts, April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black. After releasing two albums with record label 4AD and one with American Recordings, he left the label and formed a new band, Frank Black and the Catholics. He re-adopted the name Black Francis in 2007.

His vocal style has varied from a screaming, yowling delivery as lead vocalist of the Pixies to a more measured and melodic style in his solo career. His cryptic lyrics mostly explore unconventional subjects, such as surrealism, incest, and biblical violence, along with science fiction and surf culture. His use of atypical meter signatures, loud–quiet dynamics, and distinct preference for live-to-two-track recording during his time with the Catholics, give him a distinct style within alternative rock.

Thompson regrouped the Pixies in early 2004, but continued to release solo records and tour as a solo artist until 2013, when he declared his solo career to be over.

   

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Jesse Carmichael, teclista dos Maroon 5, nasceu há 44 anos

    

Jesse Royal Carmichael (Boulder, Colorado, April 2, 1979) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for the pop rock band Maroon 5.

Carmichael also has a solo project called 1863 and a side project titled Circuit Jerks.

   

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

 

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

 

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Jerry Horton, guitarrista dos Papa Roach, nasceu há 48 anos

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

  

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O baixista Tim Commerford nasceu há 55 anos

  

Tim Commerford (Irvine, California, 26 de fevereiro de 1968) é um baixista que tocou na banda Rage Against the Machine com Zack de la Rocha e nos Audioslave, no qual era também o vocal de apoio de ambas. Atualmente é o baixista do supergrupo Prophets of Rage.

Na sua família, ele é o mais jovem das 5 crianças. O seu pai foi um engenheiro aeroespacial e sua mãe foi uma matemática. O Pai de Commerford já foi divorciado e casou novamente, enquanto que sua mãe se mudou para Sacramento, Califórnia para viver com sua irmã, antes de ela morrer de cancro no cérebro, quando Commerford tinha 20 anos.

Zack de la Rocha e ele tornaram-se amigos na escola primária, quando Tim mostrou a Zack como se roubava comida do café do colégio.

Commerford tem inúmeras tatuagens, incluindo uma que cobre as suas costas, braços, peito e perna esquerda. A sua primeira tatuagem foi uma faixa preta em torno de seu braço, em homenagem à sua mãe.

Commerford é fã de jazz e é um fanático por mountain bike, chegando ao ponto de incluir agradecimentos às suas bicicletas no encarte do disco The Battle of Los Angeles.

Ele ficou em oitavo lugar na lista dos 20 maiores baixistas da revista Paste em 2014.

 

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