Kevin Michael "GG" Allin nasceu há 69 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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GG Allin morreu há 32 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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Alice Cooper - 65 anos!

Vincent Damon Furnier, mais conhecido pelo seu nome artístico, Alice Cooper, é um cantor, compositor e ator americano nascido na cidade de Detroit em 4 de fevereiro de 1948, que ficou mundialmente conhecido nos anos 70 por seus shows de rock inovadores e designados para chocar e provocar o público, junto com letras obscenas, obscuras e sangrentas que, junto com seu visual gótico, transformaram Alice em um ícone do rock que continua como fonte de inspirações para artistas de todos os estilos até hoje.

Alice Cooper era originalmente o nome da banda de que Vincent Furnier fazia parte como vocalista, juntamente com Glen Buxton e Michael Bruce nas guitarras, Dennis Dunaway no baixo e Neal Smith na bateria, e com quem lançou sete álbuns, porém a banda acabou por se separar e Vincent adotou o pseudónimo Alice Cooper para si mesmo e o adotou como nome legal pouco depois, iniciando sua carreira solo sob esse nome em 1975 com o álbum Welcome to My Nightmare, e já lançou mais dezoito álbuns desde então. As apresentações de Alice tornaram-se célebres pelo uso de vários elementos baseados em filmes de terror realizadas ao vivo, como guilhotinas, cadeiras elétricas, cobras vivas, bonecas voodoo, sangue falso e muitos outros, com Alice vestindo roupas obscuras e ornamentadas com coisas como patas reais de aranha, cobras vivas, correntes e outras, o que levou os concertos de Alice a serem apelidados de "teatro de terror" pela crítica, um termo que o próprio cantor passou a usar para designar seu trabalho.

Alice também é conhecido por seus trabalhos independentes da música, pois ele já atuou em diversos filmes de terror e também já compôs bandas sonoras para Televisão e cinema, além de ter se envolvido em diversas campanhas publicitárias sobre assuntos diversos, o que levou a revista Rolling Stone a elegê-lo o "mais amado artista do heavy metal" em 2006, tendo sido incorporado à Calçada da Fama de Hollywood em 2003 e ao Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em 2011, juntamente com a formação original da banda. Alice continua fazendo turnês até hoje, com um carreira de mais de quarenta anos e cinquenta milhões de discos vendidos ao redor do mundo.

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