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name	Jonny McGovern
background	solo_singer
birth date	July 12, 1977
origin	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
genre	House, dance
occupation	Stand-up comedian, musician, podcaster
years active	1998–present
label	Gay/Nerd Music
website	www.GayPimp.com
associated acts	Team PIMP, La'Mady, Linda James }}

Jonny McGovern (born July 12, 1975), also known by his character name The Gay Pimp, is an American stand-up comedian, musician and podcaster. He has recorded three albums as comedic singer The Gay Pimp, and is also a cast member of Logo's ''The Big Gay Sketch Show''.

Early life

Jonny McGovern was born to Mary McGovern and Rob Gutowski in Brooklyn, New York. His parents traveled often and McGovern grew up primarily in Egypt and Thailand. McGovern later returned to the United States to study acting at Boston University, where he earned a BFA.

Career

Early career

McGovern stated that he was inspired to create his signature comedic character, The Gay Pimp, after listening to rap songs and interviews by Eminem. McGovern has said, }}

After the songs from the show began to get heavy rotation in New York City nightclubs, McGovern was approached about making a music video for one of his songs, ''Soccer Practice''. The video for ''Soccer Practice'', which received heavy rotation in dance clubs as well as notoriety on the Internet, featured McGovern in a shirt that was emblazoned with the sequined words "Gay Pimp." In it, he cavorted and simulated sex with scantily-clad men.

The success of the single garnered attention for McGovern, and he contributed commentary on a variety of VH1 shows (such as ''Best Week Ever'', ''Totally Gay'', and ''40 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes'') as well as earned a slot on Comedy Central's all-gay comedy show ''Out on the Edge'', hosted by Alan Cumming. McGovern also became a year-long correspondent for ''The Ricki Lake Show''. A second single, ''Lookin' Cute/Feelin' Cute'', continued to endear him to his largest fan base of gay teenagers, despite missing the heavy exposure of ''Soccer Practice''.

Other appearances

In 2008, McGovern was also featured as a commentator on truTV's ''The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest...''.

Collaboration

Besides his own music, McGovern is involved with several other groups where he acts in roles as a song writer, producer, and performer.
To date, these groups include:

La'Mady

A now defunct, tranny rap "super group" that consisted of McGovern's podcast co-host Linda James, DJ Nita, Ericka Toure Aviance, and Koko Aviance. Kevin Aviance appeared on the group's signature track, ''This Is New York City, Bitch,'' but is not a member. The group's other song to date is ''Runway in My Street Clothes''. La'Mady's album, ''Feelin' Like an Orchid'' was announced in 2006 on the ''How to F*** a Straight Guy'' episode of McGovern's podcast.

Linda James

Linda James (the solo recording artist, not to be confused with the actress, podcaster, model, or Bea Arthur-impersonator of the same name), has written and recorded two songs with McGovern. The first is called ''The Bad Bump'' and it deals with cocaine overdose. More recently, she recorded ''Timebomb,'' which is featured in ''The East Village Mixtape Volume 2: The Legends Ball''. As part of an ensemble groups La'Mady and Team PIMP, Ms. James has recorded nearly a dozen songs with Jonny McGovern.

Team Pimp

An electronica-pop-rap crossover group consisting of McGovern, Linda James, Maxine Inniss, Ericka Toure Aviance, and Adam Joseph. The group is responsible for the tracks ''Somethin' for the Fellas (That Like The Fellas)'', ''Bossy Bottom'', ''Dick Swang Out!'', and the unreleased ''Run to the Dance Floor''.

Gay Pimpin' with Jonny McGovern

McGovern hosts Gay Pimpin' with Jonny McGovern, a weekly free LGBT themed podcast based out of Los Angeles since August 2010. Originally based in New York City, (January 16, 2006 - January 11, 2010) it presently ranks as one of the highest weekly comedy podcast under the keyword "gay" on the iTunes music store.

Awards

===HX Awards Best Party: Boys Gone Wild/The Rambles at The Park 2005, 2006, 2007

2007 Glammy Awards

Best Party Promoter

Best Male Entertainer

Best Party - Boys Gone Wild @ Mr Black's

2008 Pill Awards

Sexy Pill - ''Somethin' for the Fellas (That like the Fellas)''

Best Dance Video - ''Somethin' for the Fellas (That like the Fellas)''

Discography

Year

Tracks

#Gay Pimp Intro

#Dirty Gay Teen Pop Superstars

#Soccer Practice

#Hey Lil' Raver Boi

#Dirty Gay Stuff

#The Wrong Fag to Fuck With

#Lookin' Cute / Feelin' Cute

#Lookin' Cute Pt 2

#Dream Boi Cream Boi

#Koko Would Like A Bump - featuring KoKo Aviance

US Release Date: August 4, 2003

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#This is New York City (Bitch!) - La'Mady featuring Kevin Aviance

#Somethin' For the Fellas (That Like the Fellas) - TEAM PIMP

#We Like to Freak - Jonny McGovern featuring Flawless Sabrina

#The Bad Bump - Linda James featuring Corey Tut

#Showgirl - Erickatoure Aviance

#This is How You Go-Go - Jay*

#Servin' it Up - Peppermint Gummy Bear

#KoKo Would Like a Bump - KoKo Aviance

#Runway in My Street Clothes - La'Mady

US Release Date: November 28, 2006

#Girl, I Fucked Yo' Boyfriend

#Bossy Bottom - Feat. Adam Joseph, Linda James, and Erickatoure Aviance

#Afterhours

#Somethin' for the Fellas (That Like the Fellas) - Feat. Team PIMP

#Orange Juice - Feat. Xander

#Gayboy Mansion

#I Likes to Have Funz

#Dick Swang Out! - Feat. TEAM PIMP

#We Like to Freak - Feat. Mother Flawless Sabrina

#Electroboy

#Don't Fall in Love With a Homo (A Song for the Ladies)

#Somethin' for the Fellas (5am TEAM Work Remix) - Feat. Team PIMP

US Release Date: May 9, 2007

#Don't Fall In Love With a Homo (Uptempo Re-Creation Mix)

#Bossy Bottom (featuring TEAM PIMP) (Booty House Mix)

#After Hours ('Til the Morning Marathon Mix)

Junior Vasquez>J.Vasquez Unreleased Mix)

#Soccer Practice (Holland's Big Room Mix)

#Lookin' Cute/Feelin' Cute (Destination X Main Mix)

#Dick Swang Out! (featuring TEAM PIMP) (Team Work Runway Mix)

#Girl, I Fucked Yo' Boyfriend (U Know He Did It At the Club Mix)

#Somethin' for the Fellas (featuring TEAM PIMP) (5am TEAM Work Remix)

#Soccer Practice (featuring Maxine Inniss) (Dylan Drazen 12" Mix)

#Lookin' Cute/Feelin' Cute Unplugged

US Release Date: June 11, 2008

#A Dirty Gay Christmas (A Song for the Fans)

US Release Date: Late November 15, 2008

2009

''Best of Gay Pimpin''' volumes 1 & 2

Volume 1:

#Feelin' Really Faggity (Theme to Gay Pimpin')

#Jonny Mcgovern's Theme Restaurant

#Jojo the F to M Penis Made from a Clit Children's Story

#Linda James As Madonna

#Britney At Petco

#Erickatoure's Advice On Gettin' Straight Trade

#Also a Man: Erickatoure's Fragrance Commercial

#Sophia Lamar's Top Ten Signs You're Shitty

#Martha Wash Tells Us About Confronting Her Lipsynchers

#Chocolate Puddin Conjures Up Venus Xtrvaganza

#Britney & Amy Winehouse Freaky Friday

#Gayco Commercial With Julie Goldman

#Blu Kennedy's Tales from a Porn Set

#Kevin Aviance Talks About His Big Break from Madonna

#Pretend Kevin Aviance Bosses Linda Around

#Gayco Commercial With Sophia Lamar

#Dj Larry Tee Tells Us About His Crazy Road Trip to NYC

#Pretend Kevin Aviance Bosses Linda Around Part 2

#Mastercunt Theater: Linda As Venus

#Meet Waffles : The World's Biggest Pop Star

#Eat That! By Waffles

Volume 2:

#Disco the Kid's Time for Gay Pimpin' Theme

#Introduction to Nature's Candy

#Nature's Candy: Erickatoure's Imaginary Porn Calendar

#Podcast Apollo Legends

#Sophia Lamar's Top Ten Reasons You Might Be Crummy

#Kevin Aviance Spills About His Gay Bash Attack

#Jojo the F to M Penis Made from a Clit: Jojo of Love

#Artist Robert W Richards Talks About Meeting Dinah Washington

#Britney's Raccoon Trap Problem

#The Origin of Joanie Mcgovern

#The Devil Wears Balenciaga: Linda Vs Pompom

#Madonna's Mrs Doubtfire Mask

#Chocolate Puddin's New Supergroup Sings "Ooh I Think Yer Shitty, Bitch"

#DJ Nita Calls Jonny & Linda

#Linda James' Excuse Me Miss...

#Jonny's Shoobydoo Mysteries

#Oh Martin (Mega Mix)

#Rupaul Taks About Becoming a Star

#The Britney Pink Wig Theory

#Perez Hilton Blabs Clay Aiken's Manhunt Screenname

#Intern Pom Pom's Travelling Pants Summer Vaykay

#Madonna's History of the World

#Chocolate Puddin Makes a Podcast Benefit Anthem

#Podcast Donation Anthem 3.97 a Month

US release date: January 30, 2009

#Battlecat - Princess Xtravaganza

#Gimme More - Kevin Aviance

#My Pumps - Erickatoure Aviance

#Timebomb - Linda James

#And The Crowd Goes - Britney Houston

#Rich White Woman - Sweetie

#A Song for the Hookers (Get Laid, Get Paid) - Feat. Team PIMP

#Shitty Faggot - Sophia Lamar

#The Look - Xander

#Bring The rain - Maxi J

#I Saw Your Cock on Craig's List - Jonny McGovern

US Release Date: November 2009

#Zbornak

#Blanche Deveraux

#Take Me To Saint Olaf (A Song for Rose)

#BJ Got Me Fallin in Love

#Dizmatized

#Sexy Nerd

#Modified

#Man Areas

#more tracks TBA

#This is How We Do / We Run This (La'Mady Remix) - La'Mady

Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)>Single Ladies)

Note:

In the twelfth episode of the third season of ''Queer as Folk'', ''Soccer Practice'' can be seen and heard in the background of the bar scene at about 18 minutes into the episode

Soccer Practice is played in the HBO vampire series ''True Blood'' in the third episode of season one. McGovern mentioned it on his weekly podcast and says he highly approves

Artist and raconteur Robert W. Richards drew the album cover for ''Gays Gone Wild''

The photographs used on Jonny McGovern's site and ReMix album where shot by Dick Mitchel

As of June 2007, The song ''Somethin' For The Fellas (That Like the Fellas)'' held the top spot on Logo's ''The Click List: Top 10 Videos'' for over 15 weeks

The video for ''Don't Fall in Love With a Homo (A Song for the Ladies)'' was released on May 1, 2008 with 25,000 views in the first day. It eventually hit number 1 on Logo's Click List and stayed there for 6 weeks

Jonny's Latest single a gay parody of "Like A G6" with Tranz diva Calpernia Addams called "Likin Big Dicks" was a viral video smash garnering over 400,000 views, and a club remix was produced by NYC electro-group Naked Highway. Jonny's spoof of A-trak's "Barbra Streisand" dance track entitled "Marla Gibbs" (honoring the star of 227) was another viral smash and was mentioned several times by Andy Cohen on BRAVO's Watch What Happens Live! He also has a popular web series "Celebrity Donkey Punch" which comes out bi monthly.

Jonny's new EP " Songs About The Golden Girls" comes out this spring followed by a full CD Gay Pride 2011.

References

External links

GayPimp.com The Official Jonny McGovern Website

Jonny McGovern's MySpace

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name	Dave Hill
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
birth name	David John Hill
born	April 04, 1946Holbeton, Devon, England
instrument	Guitar, bass guitar, vocals
genre	Glam rock, hard rock
occupation	Musician
years active	1966–present
associated acts	Slade }}

Dave Hill (born David John Hill, 4 April 1946, Holbeton, Devon, England) is an English musician, who is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the English glam rock group, Slade. The music journalist, Stuart Maconie, commented "he usually wore a jumpsuit made of the foil that you baste your turkeys in and platforms of oil-rig-derrick height. All of this though paled in comparison with his coffure, a sort of demented tonsure with a great scooping fringe. He looked like a glam rock version of a medieval monk".

Early life

Born in Devon the son of a mechanic, he moved with his parents to Penn, Wolverhampton when he was only a year old. There he attended Springdale Junior school and Highfields Secondary school. He bought his first guitar from a mail order catalogue and received some guitar lessons from a science teacher at his school. He then formed a band called 'The Young Ones' with some school friends. Upon leaving school he worked in an office of the firm Tarmac for over two years.

Slade

He originally played with drummer Don Powell in a band called The Vendors. The Vendors changed their name to The 'N Betweens, met bass player Jimmy Lea and singer Noddy Holder, whereafter Slade was born.

Money was tight when the young Hill started playing, and right-handed guitars were much cheaper than left-handed ones, so even though Hill is left-handed, he played and still plays guitar right-handed. Hill's best known guitar was the "John Birch Superyob" that was built in 1973. The guitar was used by Madness guitarist Chris Foreman in the video for Madness' song Shut Up and is now owned by Marco Pirroni of Adam and the Ants. It became a vital part of Hill's image, just like his huge platform boots, his broad grin, the fringes and the outrageous costumes.

Hill stated he felt his guitar work and costumes helped compliment his apparent lack of stature at only 5" 6'. He could find neat catchy rifts, but surprisingly most often left guitar solos out of Slade's big hits altogether. He wrote an effective instrumental track on Slades 1981 heavy rock LP "Till deaf us do part". Hill once broke an ankle when leaving stage in his 6 inch platform boots. A lively performer on stage, he and Lea helped present Slade's always strong stage presence.

Hill was known as the class clown of the band, and his bizarre costumes and antics led to some friction with the more serious Lea. His Metal Nun outfit being an early seventies infamous example. This led to an alleged show-down in a BBC dressing room before a recording of Top of the Pops where Hill replied to Lea's repeated criticism of his dress by saying ''"You write 'em Jim, I'll sell em!"''. By the 1980s his image had sobered down somewhat helping develop the bands image. He also did not do as well financially from Slade as Lea and Holder, who as the principal songwriters commanded more royalties.

In 1989, Hill and Noddy Holder did a cover version of The Everly Brothers' hit song "Crying in the Rain." They released "Crying In The Rain" as a 7" single and it was backed with "Wild Nites", written by Hill and Bill Hunt, on the Mooncrest label under the group name, Blessings In Disguise, both songs with Holder on lead vocals. In 1991, Hill followed it up with a further Blessings In Disguise single "Chance To Be" / "You're The Reason I'm Strong" - which did not feature Holder. "Chance To Be" was a charity record composed by Daniel Somers and Colin Baines to raise money for Queen Alexandra College for the Blind in Birmingham.

Recent years

Slade finally split up in 1991, but Hill decided to carry the group on as Slade II. Don Powell joined him and the band has continued to this day with various lineups. In 1997 the name of Slade II was shortened back to Slade. The band has released the album ''Keep on Rockin' '', which has also been re-packaged as ''Superyob'', and also as ''Cum On Let's Party!''

He embraced the notion of a yob culture. As well as the references to "Superyob" above, Hill, since a young age used the numberplate "YOB 1" on his cars. The most famous of these was a silver Jensen.

Hill married his wife Jan in Mexico City in the 1970s, and they have three children: Jade, Bibi and Sam. Hill and his wife have embraced the Jehovah's Witnesses faith. They live in Lower Penn, Staffordshire, England, where Hill occasionally teaches music at Lower Penn School and Penn Hall School.

Hill was known to date a number of groupies in the seventies, and dated Sable Starr, Lori Maddox, Queenie Glam and Geraldine Edwards, the inspiration for Penny Lane in '' Almost Famous''. He mentioned in a 2002 interview taking Geraldine Edwards to the Polo Lounge as a celebration of her graduating from high-school in 1975 and throwing a three-day party at the Sunset Marquis Hotel afterwards.

In November 2003, XFM radio producer Karl Pilkington jokingly referred to his girlfriend as looking like Dave Hill out of Slade, on the Ricky Gervais Show, after she had her hair cut.

In December 2005, Hill appeared in the Channel 4 TV documentary, ''Bring Back...The Christmas Number One''.

Dave Hill features in the Slade biographies, Slade by George Tremlet, Feel the Noize by Chris Charlesworth and Holders autobiography Who's Crazee Now.

References

External links

The Dave Hill interview on Rocktopia

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