Adam Ant - 69 anos

     

Adam Ant é o nome artístico de Stuart Leslie Goddard (Londres, 3 de novembro de 1954), líder e vocalista da banda Adam and the Ants. Embora tenha começado a tocar música punk, foi aos poucos mudando seu estilo em direção à imagem de um astro pop. Assim como David Bowie, Madonna e outros célebres camaleões da música, Adam era notório por reinventar a sua imagem a cada disco novo.

Indubitavelmente o ponto alto da carreira de Ant foi no começo dos anos 80 com a sua banda. Ajudou muito o surgimento da MTV, que lhe deu o veículo ideal para transmitir a sua mensagem às massas - o videoclip.

Até 1985 Adam ainda tinha apelo suficiente nos media, inclusive participando do concerto beneficente Live Aid, onde, ao invés de tocar os seus maiores sucessos, ele escolheu as músicas do seu recém-lançado álbum a solo. Não adiantou muito, e foi o começo do declínio de sua carreira. Foi então que Adam passou a atuar em filmes e séries de TV.

   

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Tim McIlrath, vocalista dos Rise Against, nasceu há 44 anos

   

Tim McIlrath (Arlington Heights, Illinois, 3 de novembro de 1979) é o guitarrista e vocalista da banda norte-americana Rise Against. Ele é vegetariano desde os 17 anos, apoia os direitos dos animais, promove o PETA com a sua banda e é Straight Edge. 

 

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O álbum de estreia da banda The Police foi lançado há 45 anos!

  

Outlandos d'Amour (Outlands of Love) is the debut studio album by British rock band the Police, released on 2 November 1978 by A&M Records. Elevated by the success of its lead single, "Roxanne", Outlandos d'Amour peaked at No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and at No. 23 on the Billboard 200. The album spawned two additional hit singles: "Can't Stand Losing You" and "So Lonely".

Although Outlandos d'Amour received mixed reviews upon its release, it has since been regarded as one of the strongest debut albums. Rolling Stone ranked it as the 38th best debut album of all time and the 428th greatest album of all time. 

 

Background and recording

With a budget of £1,500 borrowed from their manager, Miles Copeland (brother of drummer Stewart), the Police recorded Outlandos d'Amour at Surrey Sound Studios in an intermittent fashion over six months, with the band recording whenever the studio had free time or another band's sessions were cancelled. Miles Copeland had promised to pay Surrey Sound £2,000 upon completion of the recording, but did not give them the full amount until much later.

Miles occasionally visited the studio during recording, and he reacted to what he heard from the band with vehement derision. However, upon hearing "Roxanne" he had the opposite reaction and took the recording to A&M Records the following day, where he persuaded the record label to release it as a one-off single. Although the single failed to chart, A&M agreed to give the band a second chance with "Can't Stand Losing You". At first, A&M proposed the band create an improved mix of the song, but after five attempts admitted that it could not improve upon the band's mix, and released the original mix for the single. When it became the band's first hit, the label quickly approved the release of the by-then finished album.

Miles had originally wanted to name the album Police Brutality. However, after hearing "Roxanne" and then envisioning a more romantic image for the band, he proposed Outlandos d'Amour instead. This title is a loose French translation of "Outlaws of Love", with the first word being a combination of the words "outlaws" and "commandos", and "d'Amour" meaning "of love".

 

Music and lyrics

Outlandos d'Amour, while at times incorporating reggae, pop and other elements of what would eventually become the band's definitive sound, is dominated by punk influences. This is evident on the opening track "Next to You", despite it essentially being a love song. Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers initially felt the lyrics were neither aggressive nor political enough for their style at the time, but bassist and vocalist Sting was adamant about keeping the song as it was. "Next to You" includes a slide guitar solo by Summers, which Copeland initially dismissed as "old wave".

The second track is the reggae-influenced "So Lonely". Sting has said he used Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" as the musical basis for the song, while the lyrics in its verses were recycled from "Fool in Love", a song he originally wrote for his earlier band Last Exit. The song itself, about someone who is lonely after suffering a broken heart, was seen as ironic by a large segment of the band's listeners. Sting disagreed with this sentiment, saying, "No, there's no irony whatsoever. From the outside it might look a bit strange, being surrounded by all this attention and yet experiencing the worst lonely feeling ... but I do. And then suddenly the attention is withdrawn a half an hour later. You're so isolated ..."

"Roxanne" was written by Sting after visiting a red-light district near the band's hotel in Paris. The Police had been staying there in October 1977 to perform at the nearby Nashville Club. The song's title comes from the name of the character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, an old poster of which was hanging in the hotel foyer. Sting had originally conceived the song as a bossa nova, although Stewart Copeland has been credited for suggesting its final rhythmic form as a tango. During recording, Sting accidentally sat down on a piano keyboard in the studio, resulting in the atonal chord and laughter preserved at the beginning of the track. The Police were initially reluctant about the song, but Miles Copeland was immediately enthusiastic after hearing it.

The remaining two tracks on the first side of the album are "Hole in My Life", another reggae-influenced song by Sting, and "Peanuts", a composition written by Stewart Copeland and Sting about Rod Stewart. The lyrics were meant as an expression of disappointment on Sting's part towards his former idol, of whom he said: "I used to be a great fan of his but something happened to him. I hope I don't end up like that." Having since experienced the celebrity lifestyle himself, he has said he no longer identifies with the song's lyrical content and has come to view Stewart in a different light.

"Can't Stand Losing You" begins side two of the original LP. Written and composed by Sting, the song is about a young lover being driven to suicide following a breakup. In a 1993 interview with The Independent, he described the lyrics as "juvenile", saying that "teenage suicide ... is always a bit of a joke"; he also claimed to have written the lyrics in only five minutes.

The following track, "Truth Hits Everybody", is a punk-influenced song. After that is "Born in the 50's", which details life as a teenager during the 1960s. "Be My Girl—Sally" is a medley of a half-finished song by Sting and an Andy Summers poem about a blow-up doll. This leads into the semi-instrumental closer, "Masoko Tanga", the only song on the album to not become a staple of the band's live performances.

Two other songs from these sessions were excluded from Outlandos d'Amour but released as B-sides for two of its singles: "Dead-End Job", a song credited to Sting and Copeland, on the B-side of "Can't Stand Losing You"; and "No Time This Time" by Sting, on the B-side of "So Lonely". The latter was subsequently included on the band's second album Reggatta de Blanc. 

 

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Anthony Kiedis, o vocalista dos Red Hot Chili Peppers, faz hoje sessenta e um anos

  

Anthony Kiedis (Grand Rapids, 1 de novembro de 1962) é um cantor e ocasionalmente ator norte-americano, mais conhecido como vocalista, principal letrista e co-fundador da banda californiana Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis passou sua juventude em Grand Rapids, Michigan com sua mãe antes de se mudar, pouco antes de seu aniversário de 12 anos, para Hollywood, Califórnia, para viver com seu pai. Após o ensino secundário, Kiedis começou a ter aulas na UCLA, mas desistiu após perder o interesse devido ao consumo de drogas. Após o abandono, Kiedis recebeu uma oferta para abrir um show de uma banda local, que era dos seus amigos Flea, Hillel Slovak e Jack Irons, e que se tornaria os Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Em 2004, Kiedis lançou a sua autobiografia intitulada Scar Tissue, e em 2009, foi homenageado pelo 5th Annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert em Los Angeles, Califórnia.

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Sandy West, a baterista dos The Runaways, morreu há dezassete anos...

  

Sandy West (Long Beach, California, July 10, 1959 – San Dimas, California, October 21, 2006) was an American singer, drummer and songwriter. She was one of the founding members of the Runaways, the first teenage all-girl hard rock band to record and achieve widespread commercial success in the 1970s.

 

Early life

Sandy (born Sandy Pesavento) was born in Long Beach, California. When she was 9 years old, her grandfather bought her a drum kit, and being an avid fan of rock and roll acts of the 1960s and 1970s, she began practicing rock music immediately and regularly. In 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, she was the drummer in the Prisk Elementary School orchestra. She proved to have a natural talent and quickly became a proficient drummer.

By the age of 13, she was the only girl in local bands who played at teenage parties. West attended Edison High school in Huntington Beach California with actor Willie Aames, playing drums in school bands as Sandy Pesavento, one of those bands was Witchcraft that featured Jimmy "Trash" Decker that later went on to form the punk band The Crowd in 1977.

At 15, she met Joan Jett and producer Kim Fowley co-created and formed The Runaways.

 

The Runaways

Driven by her ambition to play professionally, she sought out fellow musicians and other industry contacts in southern California with the idea of forming an all-woman rock band. In 1975, she met producer Kim Fowley, who gave her the phone number of another young musician in the area, guitarist Joan Jett. Joan and Sandy met shortly thereafter. The women subsequently played for Fowley, who agreed to help them find other female musicians to round out the band, most notably Lita Ford and Cherie Currie. 

 

Post-Runaways years

After four years of recording and touring the world, the Runaways disbanded in April 1979. West made varied attempts to continue her career as a professional musician, playing with other acts in southern California, releasing a solo ep, The Beat is Back, and forming the Sandy West Band. None of these ventures produced significant income, so West was forced to spend most of her post-Runaways years working outside music. West later claimed that ex-Runaways' manager/producer Kim Fowley had not paid the members of the band what they were entitled to. "I owe him my introduction to the music business but he's also the reason I'm broke now," West said.

West appeared in Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways, a documentary about the Runaways produced and directed by the band's former bassist Victory Tischler-Blue, providing some of the more poignant interview segments, describing the things she had to do post-Runaways for money. She worked mostly in construction, and spent a small amount of time as a bartender and a veterinary assistant. In other parts of the Edgeplay interviews, she alludes to having engaged in criminal activity in order to make ends meet (e.g., she describes how she had to break someone's arm for money they owed). West spent time in jail on multiple occasions following her career in the Runaways, which she alluded to in Edgeplay. 

 

Personal life and death

According to her bandmate Lita Ford, West was lesbian. West died on October 21, 2006, at the age of 47, from lung cancer diagnosed a year before. West was never married and had no children.

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Flea, baixista dos Red Hot Chili Peppers, faz hoje sessenta e um anos

   
Michael Peter Balzary (Melbourne, 16 de outubro de 1962), mais conhecido pelo seu nome artístico de Flea, é um baixista australiano nascido em Melbourne. Flea, que também toca trompete e ocasionalmente trabalha como ator, é mais conhecido como baixista, co-fundador e um dos compositores da banda de rock alternativo Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea também é o co-fundador da Silverlake Conservatory of Music, uma organização sem fins lucrativos de educação musical, fundada em 2001.

   

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Hoje é dia de recordar dois Ramones...!

 

  

John William Cummings (Long Island, Nova Iorque, 8 de outubro de 1948 - Los Angeles, Califórnia, 15 de setembro de 2004), mais conhecido como Johnny Ramone, foi um dos mais influentes guitarristas de punk rock da história, tendo integrando a banda Ramones. Assim como o vocalista Joey Ramone, ele permaneceu membro do quarteto punk até ao fim.

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C. J. Ramone é o pseudónimo de Christopher Joseph Ward (Nova Iorque, 8 de outubro de 1965), é um músico norte-americano, conhecido como baixista da banda de punk rock Ramones, na qual entrou em substituição de Dee Dee Ramone após a gravação de Brain Drain (1989) e onde ficou até o fim da banda, em 1996. Assim como o seu antecessor Dee Dee, CJ também atuou como vocalista em algumas músicas, vindo a gravar Strengh to Endure, Cretin Family e Main Man, entre outras, além de dizer One, two, three, four! em shows da banda, para introduzir as músicas. Além disso, ficou responsável por cantar todas as músicas que o seu antecessor cantava.

   

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Lita Ford, guitarrista da banda The Runaways, nasceu há 65 anos

    
Lita Rossanna Ford (Londres, 19 de setembro de 1958) é uma música, compositora e atriz norte-americana nascida na Inglaterra, que alcançou popularidade na década de 80.

Lita nasceu em Londres mas tem ascendência italiana. Ela mudou-se, com a família, para os Estados Unidos, ainda em criança. Lita juntou-se à banda feminina The Runaways aos 16 anos de idade e, após o término do grupo em 1979, iniciou a sua carreira a solo. Os seus dois primeiros álbuns tiveram um sucesso bastante discreto.

Em 1985 Lita foi indicada para o Grammy de "melhor performance feminina de rock" em Gotta Let Go, junto com Wendy O. Williams e Pia Zadora. Em 1988, com Sharon Osbourne como empresária, Lita alcançou seus maiores sucessos, Close My Eyes Forever (dueto com Ozzy Osbourne, marido de Sharon) e Kiss Me Deadly.

Lita foi casada com Chris Holmes (da banda W.A.S.P.) de 1986 a 1992 e esteve envolvida com Nikki Sixx (dos Mötley Crüe) e Tony Iommi. Atualmente, ela está separada de Jim Gillette (da banda Nitro). 

 

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Dee Dee Ramone nasceu há setenta e dois anos...

   

Douglas Glen Colvin, mais conhecido por Dee Dee Ramone (Fort Lee, 18 de setembro de 1951 - Los Angeles, 5 de junho de 2002), foi baixista e compositor duma das bandas mais influentes da história do punk rock, a banda norte-americana Ramones. Dee Dee passou a sua infância na Alemanha devastada pela Segunda Guerra Mundial, tendo mudado para Nova Iorque com 14 anos de idade, acompanhado da sua irmã, da sua cadela Kessie e da mãe, quando esta se separou do seu pai, um militar americano que trabalhava na fronteira com a RDA. Douglas Colvin era filho de uma cidadã alemã e de um oficial americano que trabalhava na fronteira com a República Democrática Alemã .

Já em Nova Iorque conheceu Joey Ramone, Tommy Ramone e Johnny Ramone e juntos eles formaram os Ramones. Dee Dee tinha dificuldade para tocar e cantar ao mesmo tempo, por isso quase não cantava, mas contribuía para a banda com muitas letras. No meio da turnê do álbum Brain Drain, Dee Dee saiu da banda, alegando estar cansado das turnês exaustivas (anos depois admitiu estar a abusar de heroína e outras drogas), e embarcou numa curta carreira a solo como rapper, quando adotou o nome artístico de Dee Dee King. O álbum de rap lançado por Dee Dee foi rejeitado pela crítica e pelo público, fazendo-o logo regressar ao punk rock. Dee Dee continuou a gravitar ao redor dos Ramones, contribuindo com letras e músicas para os discos seguintes.

Foi encontrado morto na sua casa, em Hollywood, a 5 de junho de 2002, devido a uma overdose de heroína.

     

  

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Johnny Ramone morreu há dezanove anos...

    

John William Cummings (Long Island, Nova Iorque, 8 de outubro de 1948 - Los Angeles, Califórnia, 15 de setembro de 2004), mais conhecido como Johnny Ramone, foi um dos mais influentes guitarristas de punk rock da história, tendo integrando a banda Ramones. Assim como o vocalista Joey Ramone, permaneceu membro do quarteto punk até ao seu fim.

   
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Em 15 de setembro de 2004 morreu em Los Angeles, depois de 5 anos lutando contra um cancro da próstata. Encontra-se sepultado no Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Condado de Los Angeles, Califórnia nos Estados Unidos.
Em 2003, a revista Time colocou-o na lista dos "10 Melhores Tocadores de Guitarra Elétrica". No mesmo ano, a 27 de agosto de 2003, a revista Rolling Stone colocou-o em 16º na lista dos "100 melhores guitarristas de todos os tempos", mas, em 2011, a Rolling Stone modificou a lista dos 100 melhores guitarristas de todos os tempos, tendo passado para o lugar 28º de melhor guitarrista da história do rock.
Desde a morte de Johnny, Eddie Vedder dedica-lhe, em todas performances ao vivo, a canção Man of the Hour.   

  

  

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Roger Moreira, dos Ultraje a Rigor, nasceu há 67 anos

   

Roger Rocha Moreira (São Paulo, 12 de setembro de 1956) é um músico paulistano idealizador, compositor, guitarrista e vocalista da banda de rock Ultraje a Rigor, além de fazer parte do late-night talk show The Noite com Danilo Gentili.

     

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Mikey Way, baixo dos My Chemical Romance, nasceu há 43 anos

  
Michael James Way (Newark, New Jersey, September 10, 1980) is an American musician and actor. He is best known as the bassist of the rock band My Chemical Romance. He is also the multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist of rock duo Electric Century. Mikey co-wrote Collapser with Shaun Simon, which was released July 2019 on DC Comics.

   

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George Hurley, baterista dos Minutemen e fIREHOSE, celebra hoje 65 anos...!

 

George Hurley (Brockton, Massachusetts. 4 de setembro de 1958) é um baterista dos Estados Unidos da América, mais conhecido pelo seus trabalhos nas bandas Minutemen e fIREHOSE.

Mesmo tendo frequentado a mesma escola que D. Boon e Mike Watt, George Hurley só os conheceu por volta de 1978. Naquele mesmo ano, George Hurley formou a banda The Reactionaries, ao lado de D. Boon, Mike Watt, e Martin Tamburovich.

Após os The Reactionaries finalmente chegarem ao fim, George foi para uma banda hollywodiana de new wave, chamada "Hey Taxi!". Como as bandas independentes naquela época não duravam tanto tempo, em 1980, o "Hey Taxi!" também chegou ao fim, e George Hurley substituindo o então baterista do Minutemen, Frank Tonche, entrando na banda.

George Hurley também é conhecido pelo seu distintivo corte de cabelo, que usou durante quase toda a trajetória dos Minutemen e fIREHOSE, um cabelo volumoso e grande que ele apelidou de "The Unit". No documentário "We Jam Econo", de 2005, George Hurley explicou que como todos os seus membros estavam ocupados enquanto ele tocava bateria, ele acabou deixando o seu cabelo crescer para que os movimentos de sua cabeça se tornassem mais chamativos.

George Hurley é casado desde 1997. Em julho de 2002, a sua esposa deu à luz o seu filho, Garrett.

 

  

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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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Steve Jones, guitarrista dos Sex Pistols, nasceu há 68 anos

Stephen Philip Jones (Shepherd's Bush, London, 3 September 1955) is an English guitarist, best known as a member of the punk band Sex Pistols. Following the split of the Sex Pistols, he formed the Professionals with former bandmate Paul Cook. He has released two solo albums, and worked with Johnny Thunders, Iggy Pop, Cheap Trick, Bob Dylan and Thin Lizzy. In 1995, he formed the short-lived supergroup Neurotic Outsiders with members of Guns N' Roses and Duran Duran. Jones was ranked #97 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

 

Jones (right) with the Sex Pistols in 1977

 

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Kevin Michael "GG" Allin nasceu há 67 anos...

Kevin Michael "GG" Allin (born Jesus Christ Allin; Lancaster, New Hampshire, August 29, 1956 – Manhattan, New York City, June 28, 1993) was an American punk rock musician and songwriter who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. Allin was best known for his controversial live performances, which often featured transgressive acts, including self-mutilation, defecating on stage, and assaulting audience members, for which he was arrested and imprisoned on multiple occasions. AllMusic called him "the most spectacular degenerate in rock n' roll history", while G4TV's That's Tough labelled him the "toughest rock star in the world".

Known more for his notorious stage antics than for his music, Allin recorded prolifically, not only in the punk rock genre, but also in spoken word, country, and more traditional-style rock. His lyrics, which often expressed themes of violence and misanthropy, polarized listeners and created varied opinions of him within the highly politicized punk community.

Allin's music was often poorly recorded and produced, given limited distribution, and met with mostly negative reviews from critics, although he maintained a cult following throughout and after his career. Allin promised for several years that he would commit suicide on stage during one of his concerts, but he instead died from an accidental drug overdose on June 28, 1993, at age 36.

 

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Nik Turner nasceu há 83 anos...

Nicholas Robert "Nik" Turner (Oxford, 26 August 1940 – Pembrokeshire, 10 November 2022) was an English musician, best known as a former member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner plays saxophones, flute, sings, and is a composer. While with Hawkwind, Turner was known for his experimental free jazz stylisations and outrageous stage presence, often donning full makeup and Ancient Egypt-inspired costumes. 

  

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