O quinto álbum de Lenny Kravitz foi lançado há vinte e seis anos

 

5 is the fifth full-length studio album by American rock musician Lenny Kravitz, released on May 12, 1998, by Virgin Records. The album produced six singles released over the course of 1998 and 1999. 

The album featured such hits as "Fly Away" and "I Belong to You", which helped Kravitz to expand his success in Europe. The album won two Grammy Awards.

5 was re-issued in 1999, including Lenny Kravitz's latest single from the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, "American Woman", plus a bonus track called "Without You" - initially a B-side to the lead single, "If You Can't Say No".

Initially, the album received mediocre reviews by some critics, and its rise to commercial success was quite slow, until it gained traction towards the end of 1998 and throughout 1999 producing a string of worldwide hits and becoming one of the most successful albums of 1999. Despite paling in comparison in US chart position with Kravitz's other albums, it managed to have a remarkably long chart-life, charting for nearly three years straight on the Billboard 200, two of which were spent in the top 100.

The album gained Kravitz multiple awards nominations and gave him his first two Grammy Awards in the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance category for the hits "Fly Away" and "American Woman".

 

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O quinto álbum de Lenny Kravitz foi lançado há 25 anos

 

5 is the fifth full-length studio album by American rock musician Lenny Kravitz, released on May 12, 1998, by Virgin Records. The album produced six singles released over the course of 1998 and 1999. 

The album featured such hits as "Fly Away" and "I Belong to You", which helped Kravitz to expand his success in Europe. The album won two Grammy Awards.

5 was re-issued in 1999, including Lenny Kravitz's latest single from the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, "American Woman", plus a bonus track called "Without You" - initially a B-side to the lead single, "If You Can't Say No".

Initially, the album received mediocre reviews by some critics, and its rise to commercial success was quite slow, until it gained traction towards the end of 1998 and throughout 1999 producing a string of worldwide hits and becoming one of the most successful albums of 1999. Despite paling in comparison in US chart position with Kravitz's other albums, it managed to have a remarkably long chart-life, charting for nearly three years straight on the Billboard 200, two of which were spent in the top 100.

The album gained Kravitz multiple awards nominations and gave him his first two Grammy Awards in the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance category for the hits "Fly Away" and "American Woman".

 

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Steve Marriott nasceu há 70 anos

Stephen Peter Marriott (Bow, Londres, 30 de janeiro de 1945 - Essex, 20 de abril de 1991), mais conhecido como Steve Marriott,, foi um versátil cantor, compositor e guitarrista britânico.

Ele é mais lembrado por sua poderosa voz e sua técnica de guitarra agressiva em grupos como os Small Faces(1965-1969) e os Humble Pie (1969-1975).

Carreira

Small Faces foi uma das bandas mais populares da Grã-Bretanha nos anos 60, e Marriot compôs, em parceria comRonnie Lane, a maioria dos sucessos do grupo, incluindo "All Or Nothing", "Itchycoo Park", "Lazy Sunday" e "Tin Soldier". Ele largou a banda abruptamente em 1969, frustrado pela incapacidade do grupo de se livrar de sua imagem de pop adolescente, além do fracasso de conseguir espaço no lucrativo mercado estadunidense.

Logo depois de deixar os Small Faces ele formou uma nova banda, Humble Pie, com o guitarrista Peter Frampton(ex-The Herd), o baterista Jerry Shirley e o baixista Greg Ridley (ex-Spooky Tooth). Depois de vários ensaios na casa de Marriot, em Essex, eles lançaram seu primeiro disco, As Safe As Yesterday Is pelo selo Immediate, alcançando o Top 5 nos EUA com "Natural Born Bugie". O Humble Pie quase desbandou depois de sua primeira turnê americana - depois de voltar à Inglaterra, eles descobriram que a Immediate entrara em processo de falência.

Marriot também teve uma carreira solo depois do fim do Humble Pie, aparecendo nas gravações do cantor francêsJohnny Halliday e nas do guitarrista Johnny Thunders, da banda New York Dolls, e também compondo e gravando com o baterista australiano John Lee (ex-The Dingoes).

Marriott morreu tragicamente em um incêndio em sua casa no dia 20 de abril de 1991; ele caiu no sono enquanto fumava, depois de ter chegado de uma viagem transatlântica. Pouco antes de sua morte, Marriot e Peter Framptonhaviam começado a compor novamente, mas o projeto nunca foi finalizado.

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