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Hoboken, New Jersey
Hoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the city's population was 38,577. The city is part of the New York metropolitan area and contains Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub for the region. Hoboken is also the location of the first recorded baseball game in the United States, and of the Stevens Institute of Technology, one of the oldest technological universities in the United States.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and number of books. The head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress, currently James H. Billington.
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Orange, California
The City of Orange is located in Orange County, California. It is approximately 3 miles (6 kilometers) north of the county seat, Santa Ana. Orange is unusual in that many of the homes in its Old Town District were built prior to 1920; whereas many other cities in the region demolished such houses in the 1960s, Orange decided to preserve them. The small affluent city of Villa Park is surrounded by the city of Orange.
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Alec Foege
Alec Foege is an American author and magazine journalist. A former contributing editor to Rolling Stone, he is the author of three books: Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story (St. Martin's, 1994); ''The Empire God Built: Inside Pat Robertson's Media Machine (Wiley, 1996); and Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio (Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008). His writing also has appeared in The New York Times, People, Mediaweek, Adweek, Fortune Small Business, Spin, Variety, Vogue, Corporate Counsel'' and Veronis Suhler Stevenson's Communications Industry Forecast.
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Anne DeMarinis
Anne DeMarinis is a musician and artist. She is a former member of Sonic Youth.
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Big Youth
Manley Augustus Buchanan (born 19 April 1949, Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica), better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s.
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Bob Bert
Robert Bertelli, better known as Bob Bert, is an American rock drummer.
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Brigitte Fontaine
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Cat Power
Cat Power is the stage name of American singer/songwriter Chan Marshall (born Charlyn Marie Marshall on January 21, 1972). She is known for her minimalist style, sparse guitar and piano playing, and breathy vocals.
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Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was convicted of the murders through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's object.
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Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay (born 1955) is an American visual artist and composer based in New York.
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Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy.
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D. Boon
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David Browne
David Browne is an American journalist and author of music biographies. He was the resident music critic at Entertainment Weekly between 1990 and 2006. He was an editor at Music & Sound Output magazine and a music critic at the New York Daily News before EW. He has written articles for a variety of publications including: the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, New Republic and Blender. He has written two books: ' (2001) a dual father/son biography of musicians Jeff Buckley and Tim Buckley, and also ' (2004). His third book, , was published in 2008 by Da Capo.
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.
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Erase Errata
Erase Errata is a band from San Francisco, California. They often name experimentalists such as Captain Beefheart, The Fall, and the Minutemen as inspirations. The group favors improvisation as a compositional tool and each of their performances is a unique manifestation of established songs.
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Gerard Cosloy
Gerard Cosloy (born 1964) is an American music industry executive.
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Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a German visual artist.
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Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is a highly influential avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
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Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley, Jr. (born November 3, 1959) is an American film director, writer, and pioneer of the independent film movement, who was educated at the State University of New York at Purchase.
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Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author.
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Henry Cowell
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Ian MacKaye
Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye () (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer and guitarist. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk band Minor Threat, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well as The Evens. He is a co-founder and co-owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label, along with Jeff Nelson.
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Jason Lee (actor)
Jason Michael Lee (born April 25, 1970) is an American skateboarder and actor, known for his role as the title character on the NBC television series My Name is Earl, his portrayal of Syndrome in the film The Incredibles and his work with director Kevin Smith. Lee is currently starring in the new TNT series Memphis Beat, which premiered on June 22, 2010.
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Jimi Hendrix
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John Agnello
John Agnello (born c. 1960) is a producer, recording engineer and mixer who has been involved with many influential albums throughout the last 25 years. Most recently, John has been involved with Dead Confederate, Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Jemina Pearl and Sherlock's Daughter, to name a few.
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John Cage
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John Peel
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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Kim Gordon
Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953, Rochester, New York) is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She sings and plays bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz (of Pussy Galore). Gordon has collaborated with a number of musicians, including Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Courtney Love, Alan Licht and Chris Corsano.
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Lee Ranaldo
Lee M. Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, of Sonic Youth, the 33rd and 34th Greatest Guitarists of All Time, respectively.
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Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. He became widely known for his potrayal of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and . At the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple. He was also considered one of the late entertainer Michael Jackson's best friends.
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Mark Ibold
Mark Ibold (born October 17, 1962) is a New York-based bass guitarist, member of the indie band Pavement from 1992 to 1999, and again as of their 2010 reunion. He is also currently in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth.
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Martin Bisi
Martin Bisi is an American producer and songwriter.
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Mike Kelley (artist)
Mike Kelley (born 1954 in Detroit, lives and works in Los Angeles) is a U.S. artist, known for his stitched doll bought objects. Kelley's work involves textile banners and carpets, and his output also includes drawings, objects, assemblage, collage, performance and video. He is often associated with the concept of abjection.
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Mike Watt
Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.
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Neil Young
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Nels Cline
Nels Cline (born in Los Angeles in 1956) is an American guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco. David Carr's book Torture-Free but Still a Rock Star describes Cline as "one of the best guitarists in any genre."
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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People (magazine)
People (originally called People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and #3 on ''Adweek's'' "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006.
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Philip K. Dick
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Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel; October 22, 1969) is an American director and producer, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation., and for his work as director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll.
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Steve Reich
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Swans (band)
Swans are an influential American post-punk band initially active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Formed by Gira in 1982, the Swans employed a shifting lineup of musicians until their dissolution in 1997. Besides Gira, the only other constant members were keyboardist/vocalist/songwriter Jarboe from 1984 to 1997, and semi-constant guitarist Norman Westberg. The band was noted for droning vocals and strange instrumentation. In January 2010, Michael Gira reactivated Swans and released a new album, My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky on September 23, 2010.
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Takehisa Kosugi
is a Japanese composer and violinist associated with the Fluxus movement.
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Thurston Moore
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label.
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Tony Oursler
Tony Oursler (b. New York City, 1957) is a multimedia and installation artist.
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William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web.
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William Winant
William Winant is an American percussionist.
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Wire (band)
Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), and Robert Gotobed (drums). They were originally associated with the punk rock scene, appearing on the Live at the Roxy WC2 album - a key early document of the scene, and was later central to the development of post-punk.
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Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music, and is also considered a pioneer and major influence of the 1970s new wave genre. She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
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Youth, Sonic Filmography
- Massage the History (2010)
- Simon Werner a disparu... (2010)
- All Tomorrow's Parties (2009)
- American Music: Off the Record (2007)
- Sonic Youth: Do You Believe in Rapture? (2006)
- The Work of Director Mark Romanek (2005)
- (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale (2004)
- Ich und das Universum (2003)
- SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions (2003)
- Burning Man: The Burning Sensation (2002)
- Demonlover (2002)
- Things Behind the Sun (2001)
- Noites em Que Tudo Corre Mal (1998)
- The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special (1995)
- Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (1995)
- 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992)
- Goo (1991)
- Death Valley 69 (1986)
- Death Valley 69 (1986)
- Death Valley 69 (1986)
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- Loop Cat
- Kim's Chords
- Beautiful Plateau
- Three-Part Sectional Love Seat
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- The Diamond Sea
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- Stones
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- I Love You Golden Blue
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- Dirty Boots
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- Part 1 intro
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- Part 8 processed voice
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- 100%
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1992-07-04: Sonic Starpower: Central Park, New York City, NY, USA
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Released [1993]
- Teen Age Riot
- Burning Spear / Dirty Boots
- Drunken Butterfly
- I Love Her All the Time
- Youth Against Fascism
- Swimsuit Issue
- Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit
- 100%
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1992-10-05: How Can You Want Me? Riviera Theater, Chicago, IL, USA
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Released [1993]
- Shoot
- 100%
- Kool Thing
- Theresa's Sound-World
- Youth Against Fascism
- Sugar Kane
- Genetic
- Swimsuit Issue
- Purr
- Drunken Butterfly
- Silver Rocket
- JC
- Teen Age Riot
- Nic Fit
- Teen Age Riot
- Hey Joni
- The Wonder
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- ’Cross the Breeze
- Kissability
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- The Sprawl
- I Love Her All the Time
- Eliminator Jr.
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- Hot Wire My Heart
- Beauty Lies in the Eye
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- Tunic (Song for Karen)
- Dirty Boots
- Kill Yr. Idols
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- Mary-Christ
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- 100%
- Dirty Boots
- Kool Thing
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- Genetic
- Theresa's Sound-World
- Tom Violence
- Sugar Kane
- Schizophrenia
- Drunken Butterfly
- Youth Against Fascism
- J.C.
- Mote
- Tunic (Song for Karen)
- Dirty Boots
- Chapel Hill North Carolina
- I Love Her All the Time
- Mary-Christ
- Kool Thing
- Expressway (for Patti Sm.)
- Spot'ssz Christ?!
- Shoot
- 100%
- Kool Thing
- Swimsuit Issue
- Sugar Kane
- Eric's Trip
- Theresa's Sound-World
- Dirty Boots
- Brother James
- Tom Violence
- Drunken Butterfly
- Schizophrenia
- J.C.
- Youth Against Fascism
- Expressway to Yr. Skull
- Tom Violence
- White Kross
- Dirty Boots
- Tunic (Song for Karen)
- Titanium Exposé
- The Wonder
- Mote
- Cinderella's Big Score
- Kool Thing
- Mary-Christ
- (I Got a) Catholic Block
- Kill Yr. Idols
- Death Valley '69
- I Love Her All the Time
- Brother James
- Flower
- Kill Your Idols
- [untitled]
- Marilyn Moore
- Tom Violence
- White Kross
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Death to Our Friends
- Secret Girls
- Green Light
- Expressway to Yr. Skull
- Starpower
- Beauty Lies in the Eye
- Kotton Krown
- Stereo Sanctity
- Personality Crisis
- Dirty Boots (demo)
- Is It My Body
- Flower (Anti Fuckword radio edit)
- I Wanna Be Your Dog (live)
- Song For Karen (live)
- Computer Age
- Burning Farm
- Gum
- Electric Pen
- Disappearer (demo)
- That's All I Know (Right Now)
- White Kross
- Sister (live)
- Rewolf (Special Natas mix)
- It's an Interview
- My Friend Goo (live)
- Cinderella's Big Score (live)
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1985-08-11: Anarchy on St. Mary's Place: The Smart Bar, Chicago, IL, USA
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Released [1991]
- Halloween
- Death Valley '69
- Intro
- Brave Men Run (in My Family)
- Into the Groove(y) (tape)
- I Love Her All the Time
- Ghost Bitch
- I'm Insane
- Kat n Hat (instrumental) / Brother James
- Kill Your Idols
- Secret Girl
- Flower / Burning Spear
- Expressway to Yr. Skull
- Dirty Boots
- Disappearer
- Tunic (Song for Karen)
- Titanium Exposé
- Cinderella's Big Score
- My Friend Goo
- Mote
- Mary-Christ
- Kool Thing
- Mildred Pierce
- Notorious Rockin' Lee
- I Know There's an Answer
- [intro]
- Tom Violence
- Leaky Lifeboat
- Sacred Trickster
- No Way
- What We Know
- Poison Arrow
- Anti Orgasm
- Hey Joni
- Malibu Gas Station
- Calming the Snake
- Walkin Blue
- Come and Smash Me Said the Boy With the Magic Penis
- Magic Wand
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
- Expressway to Yr. Skull
- Beauty Lies in the Eye
- Cotton Crown
- Stereo Sanctity
- My New House
- Rouche Rumble
- Psychomafia
- Victoria
- Corporate Ghost
- Ruben's Beard
- Major Label Chicken Feed
- Clippers
- Burning Spear
- Youth Against Fascism
- Crème Brûlée
- Purr
- Stereo Sanctity
- Mote
- Flower
- Kill Yr Idols
- Tunic
- Dirty Boots
- Catholic Block
- Mary Christ
- Kool Thing
- Cinderella's Big Score
- Tom Violence
- White Kross
- My Friend Goo
- Titanium Exposé
- Marylin Moore
- The World Looks Red
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Star Power
- Death to Our Friends
- Tom Violence
- White Kross (1)
- Secret Girl
- Burning Spear
- Green Light
- Brother James
- Flower
- Expressway to Yr. Skull
- Stereo Sanctity
- White Kross (2)
- Beauty Lies in the Eye
- Pacific Coast Highway
- Psychic Hearts
- [Gregory Corso reading]
- Mote
- Film Music to Leah Singer’s Films
- The Empty Page
- Disconnection Notice
- Rain on Tin
- [untitled]
- [untitled]
- [untitled]
- Fuzzy Sun
- Halfway to a Threeway
- Intro
- Incinerate
- Reena
- Tom Violence
- What a Waste
- Mote
- Do You Believe in Rapture?
- The Neutral
- 100%
- Jams Run Free
- Rats
- (I've Got a) Catholic Block
- Pink Steam
- Or
- Sleepin' Around
- Schizophrenia
- Turquoise Boy
- Lights Out
- Schizophrenia
- (I Got a) Catholic Block
- Beauty Lies in the Eye
- Stereo Sanctity
- Pipeline / Kill Time
- Tuff Gnarl
- Pacific Coast Highway
- Hot Wire My Heart
- Kotton Krown
- White Kross
- Master-Dik
- Tom Violence
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Star Power
- In the Kingdom #19
- Green Light
- Death to Our Friends
- Secret Girl
- Marilyn Moore
- Expressway to Yr. Skull
- Bubblegum
- Intro
- Brave Men Run (In My Family)
- Society Is a Hole
- I Love Her All the Time
- Ghost Bitch
- I'm Insane
- Justic Is Might
- Death Valley '69 (feat. Lydia Lunch)
- Satan Is Boring
- Flower
- Hallowe'en
- Razor Blade
- Doctor's Orders
- A-Master Dik
- Intoxication
- Mariah Carey & the Arthur Doyle Handcream
- Compilation Blues
- The Fucking Youth of Today
- Teenage Buddhist
- Smiling Pets
- Just Tell Her That I Really Like Her
- Shit You Hear at Parties
- European Son
- Pushing the Extreme
- Fourth Day of July
- Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
- Mama You've Been on My Mind
- Within You Without You
- Blonde Redhead
- Fly by Night
- The Empty Page
- Disconnection Notice
- Schizophrenia
- Bull in the Heather
- Starfield Road
- Self-Obsessed and Sexee
- Washing Machine
- No Queen Blues
- Saucer-Like
- 100%
- Waist
- Becuz
- Bone
- Eric's Trip
- The Diamond Sea
- Teenage Riot
- The Wonder
- Hyperstation
- Rain King
- Teen Age Riot
- ’Cross the Breeze
- Hey Joni
- Providence
- Candle (Intro)
- Candle
- Kissability
- Eliminator Jr.
- Silver Rocket
- Teen Age Riot
- Bull in the Heather
- Starfield Road
- Washing Machine
- Junkie's Promise
- Saucer-Like
- Becuz
- Sugar Kane
- Skip Tracer
- Skink
- The Diamond Sea
- Green Light
- Brother James
- Kill Yr. Idols
- 'Mad' Groove
- I Love Her All the Time
- Expressway to Yr Skull
- Death Valley '69
- The Burning Spear
- Death Valley '69
- Speed Jamc
- Ghost Bitch / I'm Insane
- World Looks Red
- Flower
- Brother Jam-Z
- Kill Yr Idols
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
- Personality Crisis
- I Am Right
- Computer Age
- Within You, Without You
- European Son
- Burning Farm
- Electricity
- Is It My Body
- Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence
- Mama You've Been on My Mind
- Black Candy
- I Know There's an Answer
- Ça Plane Pour Moi
- Touch Me I'm Sick
- That's All I Know
- Superstar
- Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope
- Moist Vagina
- Simpsons Theme
- Teen Age Riot
- Kissability
- 'Cross the Breeze
- Hey Joni
- Trilogy
- The Sprawl
- Jam
- Silver Rocket
- Interview
- Interview
- Shoot
- 100%
- Kool Thing
- Swimsuit Issue
- Genetic
- Sugar Kane
- Theresa's Sound World
- Youth Against Fascism
- Sister
- Drunken Butterfly
- JC
- Go for Tune
- Teen Age Riot
- Bull in the Heather
- Starfield Road
- Washing Machine
- Junkie's Promise
- Saucer-Like
- Becuz
- Sugar Kane
- Skip Tracer
- Skink
- The Diamond Sea
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Sonic Youth - Superstar
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- Duration: 4:10
- Published: 07 Oct 2009
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Music video by Sonic Youth performing Superstar. (C) 2004 Geffen Records
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Superstar
SONIC YOUTH live TEENAGE RIOT
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- Duration: 9:59
- Published: 08 Jul 2008
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
[kim] Youre it No, youre it Hey, youre really it Youre it No I mean it, youre it Say it Dont spray it Spirit desire (face me) Spirit desire (dont displace me) Spirit desire We will fall Miss me Dont dismiss me Spirit desire Spirit desire [x3] We will fall Spirit desire We will fall Spirit desire [x3] We will fall Spirit desire We will fall [thurston] Everybodys talking bout the stormy weather And whats a man do to but work out whether its true? Looking for a man with a focus and a temper Who can open up a map and see between one and two Time to get it Before you let it Get to you Here he comes now Stick to your guns And let him through Everybodys coming from the winter vacation Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you You come running in on platform shoes With marshall stacks To at least just give us a clue Ah, here it comes I know its someone I knew Teenage riot in a public station Gonna fight and tear it up in a hypernation for you Now I see it I think Ill leave it out of the way Now I come near you And its not clear why you fade away Looking for a ride to your secret location Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation, for you Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer thats rockin And a cord and a pedal and a lock, thatll do me for now It better work out I hope it works out my way cause its getting kind of quiet in my citys head Takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now You better look it Were gonna shake it Up to him He acts the hero We paint a zero On <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/SONIC_YOUTH_live_TEENAGE_RIOT
Sonic Youth - 100%
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- Duration: 2:36
- Published: 09 Oct 2009
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Music video by Sonic Youth performing 100%. (C) 2004 Geffen Records
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_100_
Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane
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- Duration: 5:03
- Published: 07 Oct 2009
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Music video by Sonic Youth performing Sugar Kane. (C) 2004 Geffen Records
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Sugar_Kane
Sonic Youth - Incinerate
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- Duration: 4:54
- Published: 23 Nov 2009
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Music video by Sonic Youth performing Incinerate. (C) 2006 Geffen Records
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Incinerate
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing live
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- Duration: 5:55
- Published: 03 Sep 2006
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Sonic Youth live in Hultsfred, Sweden playing Kool Thing 6-14-02 check my other vids if you wish
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Kool_Thing_live
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
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- Duration: 4:39
- Published: 21 Mar 2008
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Just the song.
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Schizophrenia
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
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- Duration: 6:56
- Published: 24 Mar 2008
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Just the song.
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Teenage_Riot
Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
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- Duration: 5:07
- Published: 08 Oct 2009
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Music video by Sonic Youth performing Dirty Boots. (C) 2004 Geffen Records
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Dirty_Boots
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
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- Duration: 4:09
- Published: 08 Oct 2009
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Music video by Sonic Youth performing Kool Thing. (C) 2004 Geffen Records
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Kool_Thing
Sonic Youth - "Sacred Trickster"
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- Duration: 2:11
- Published: 11 Jun 2009
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Here's the video for The Eternal album opener "Sacred Trickster". Buy The Eternal here: www.matadorrecords.com itunes: itunes.apple.com Amazon: www.amazon.com Directed by Tom Surgal
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Sacred_Trickster
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot (1991)
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- Duration: 4:36
- Published: 19 Sep 2006
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Footage of Sonic Youth playing the song Teenage Riot during the European tour in 1991.
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Teenage_Riot_1991
Sonic Youth-Superstar
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- Duration: 4:10
- Published: 04 Feb 2011
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Sonic Youth covering Superstar. From the album If I Were A Carpenter. I posted this video because VEVO is crap.
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth-Superstar
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia (Live)
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- Duration: 4:23
- Published: 27 May 2006
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
the year punk broke(1991)
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Schizophrenia_Live
Sonic Youth - Peel Session 1992
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- Duration: 50:55
- Published: 07 Aug 2012
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
The complete session recorded live at the Brixton Academy on 14 December 1992 by Sonic Youth for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 22 January 1993. Tracklist: 1. 100% (0:20) 2. Dirty Boots (3:43) 3. Kool Thing (8:32) 4. Swimsuit Issue (12:39) 5. Genetic (16:09) 6. Theresa's Sound-World (20:12) 7. Tom Violence (26:12) 8. Sugar Kane (29:47) 9. Schizophrenia (37:41) 10. Drunken Butterfly (43:53) 11. Youth Against Fascism (46:49)
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Peel_Session_1992
Sonic Youth - Bull In The Heather
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- Duration: 3:04
- Published: 07 Oct 2009
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Music video by Sonic Youth performing Bull In The Heather. (C) 2004 Geffen Records
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Bull_In_The_Heather
![Crush 40-Sonic Youth [Lyrics] [FULL SONG]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121012041718im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0RBX6qRWclQ/0.jpg "Crush 40-Sonic Youth [Lyrics] [FULL SONG]")
Crush 40-Sonic Youth [Lyrics] [FULL SONG]
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- Duration: 3:51
- Published: 24 Jun 2012
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Yes! We FINALLY got our hands on the FULL version of Sonic Youth! In celebration of Sonic's 21st birthday, we decided to upload this video complete with lyrics and a pretty good quality version of the song. This has pretty much become my new favorite song, and my new saying is going to be "Crushing 40 all the time" XD [Lyrics] When Opened My Heart And I've Lived and Learned When I've taken a step in His World When I've danced in the shadows, When I felt the Sonic Boom, When I am who I am with you Racing forward on my mind Crushing 40 all the time Never seems to disappear Oh no, always know Always knowing that you're near (Chorus) Now don't you worry It's a never ending story Stand proud Let it out Let 'em know Let it show until they hear Hear the Sonic Youth (It's as easy as you want it to be it's easy it's easy) (x2) Like a Sonic Hero Or a Knight in the Wind Now you know What I'm Made Of... You can Watch Me Fly Live Life or die Never Turn Back you and I Racing forward on my mind Crushing 40 all the time Never seems to disappear Oh no, you can feel That the Sonic Youth is near (Chorus) 'Til they hear Hear the Sonic Youth We are the Sonic Youth (Youth) We are the Sonic Youth Now you know What I'm Made Of... Hey! (Chorus) 'Til they hear Hear the Sonic Youth Me and you Hear the Sonic Youth That's you ................................................ A lot of big fans will immediately pick up that this song has references to other songs by Crush 40 in it, like Live and Learn <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/Crush_40-Sonic_Youth_Lyrics_FULL_SONG_
Sonic Youth - Sunday (Live)
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- Duration: 3:27
- Published: 07 Jan 2006
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
SY playing Sunday, Live on Letterman
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Sunday_Live
Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane ( Live - Jools Holland Show ' 92 )
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- Duration: 5:50
- Published: 30 Dec 2006
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
a classic :)
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Sugar_Kane_Live_Jools_Holland_Show_'_92_
Sonic Youth Aren't Dude-Core - Soft Focus
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- Duration: 26:42
- Published: 21 Jul 2012
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
In the second of this UK-based round of Soft Focus, Ian saddles up beside Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, perennially fine composers, writers, and artists—and one-half of Sonic Youth. After twice escaping certain disaster, first at the hands of a disappearing interviewee and second at a few haphazardly placed plastic water bottles, Ian recaptures this episode and once again delivers on his promise of insightful, fruit-bearing conversation. ** Come with Soft Focus as we retreat from the world and into the woods in search of some forgotten remedy for lame stream radio pollution, hideous condominiums, and brutish power tripping police. In between walks around the lake and contemplating existence, we'll interview some of the most intriguing artists of this underground rock and roll culture we covet as our own cure for the world's square minded music industry. In Noisey's long form interview show, Soft Focus, we delve deep into the minds and hearts of some of the most influential and seminal musicians to grace the underground stage. Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook fb.com Follow Noisey on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: noiseymusic.tumblr.com
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_Aren't_Dude-Core_Soft_Focus
schizophrenia sonic youth
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- Duration: 4:40
- Published: 28 Aug 2009
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Schizophrenia sonic youth from the album sister
http://wn.com/schizophrenia_sonic_youth
![Austin City Limits - PBS - Sonic Youth [HD]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121012041718im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q3lqSlP9fVk/0.jpg "Austin City Limits - PBS - Sonic Youth [HD]")
Austin City Limits - PBS - Sonic Youth [HD]
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- Duration: 24:28
- Published: 02 Apr 2012
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Austin City Limits - PBS - Sonic Youth [HD]
http://wn.com/Austin_City_Limits_PBS_Sonic_Youth_HD_
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:45
- Published: 08 Oct 2009
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Music video by Sonic Youth performing The Diamond Sea. (C) 2004 Geffen Records
http://wn.com/Sonic_Youth_The_Diamond_Sea
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Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, “YOKOKIMTHURSTON” (Chimera) There are no songs on “YOKOKIMTHURSTON.” This is a practical heads-up before firing up this mess of a collaboration between Yoko Ono and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. Loading... Comments...(size: 2.0Kb)
Star Tribune
Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, "YOKOKIMTHURSTON" (Chimera) There are no songs on "YOKOKIMTHURSTON." This is a practical heads-up before firing up this mess of a collaboration between Yoko...(size: 1.4Kb)
Starpulse
Two guitars stolen from Sonic Youth's truck 13 years ago have been found. The band was left devastated on July 4th, 1999 when a vehicle housing its collection of one-of-a-kind modified touring gear, including drums and...(size: 1.4Kb)
Bloomberg
“Paul -- you wanted to play Tripoli in 1969. Inshallah, you will play in a free Libya soon!” The Paul is McCartney and the text is embroidered on the Libyan flag’s green and red stripes. It refers to a canceled Beatles tour in North Africa in 1969 -- and more recent events in the region. In “The...(size: 6.1Kb)
Sonic Youth to release 1985 live album
13 Sep 2012
Music News
It's been a long time coming but Sonic Youth will finally put out their vintage live album Smart Bar: Chicago 1985 on November 14 via Goofin' Records....(size: 1.3Kb)
Sonic Youth Albums From Worst To Best
06 Sep 2012
Stereogum
16 Photos » It is difficult to imagine indie rock without Sonic Youth. Only the Velvet Underground can reasonably boast a more important alternative history to the grand narrative of rock and roll. Combining the methodology of no-wave, the populism of punk, and the urbanity of the New York City art...(size: 9.1Kb)
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Entertainment Weekly
Want some alt-rock-inspired duds? Kim Gordon has got you covered. The singer is auctioning off a ton of designer pieces from her closet over on Mercy Vintage’s website. Fans of the Sonic Youth...(size: 1.3Kb)
'Perks Of Being A Wallflower' Soundtrack Features Sonic Youth, Galaxie 500, David Bowie, The Smiths & More
17 Aug 2012
IMDb
Every good teen movie needs a soundtrack of great tunes to go with it. For the upcoming "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower," it looks like...(size: 0.9Kb)
The Guardian
Following the end of his marriage to Kim Gordon and with Sonic Youth on indefinite hiatus, Moore is set to join Twilight for their third album...(size: 3.3Kb)
| Sonic Youth | |
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 Kim Gordon (left) and Thurston Moore (right) performing live in Stockholm, 2005 |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | New York City, United States |
| Genres | Alternative rock, noise rock, experimental rock, indie rock, no wave, post-punk |
| Years active | 1981–2011 (indefinite hiatus) |
| Labels | Neutral, Ecstatic Peace!, Blast First, Homestead, SST, Enigma, DGC, SYR, Interscope, Matador |
| Associated acts | Ciccone Youth |
| Website | www.sonicyouth.com |
| Past members | |
| Kim Gordon Thurston Moore Lee Ranaldo Steve Shelley Mark Ibold Richard Edson Anne DeMarinis Bob Bert Jim Sclavunos Jim O'Rourke |
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Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. Their most recent lineup consisted of Thurston Moore (guitar and vocals), Kim Gordon (bass guitar, vocals, and guitar), Lee Ranaldo (guitar and vocals), Steve Shelley (drums), and Mark Ibold (guitar and bass).
In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the no wave art and music scene in New York City. Part of the first wave of American noise rock groups, the band carried out their interpretation of the hardcore punk ethos throughout the evolving American underground that focused more on the DIY ethic of the genre rather than its specific sound. As a result, some consider Sonic Youth as pivotal in the rise of the alternative rock and indie rock movements. The band experienced success and critical acclaim throughout their existence, continuing into the new millennium, including signing to major label DGC in 1990, and headlining the 1995 Lollapalooza festival.
Sonic Youth expressed a wide variety of influences, ranging from the influential protopunk musician Patti Smith to composer John Cage. The band was praised for having "redefined what rock guitar could do",[1] using a wide variety of unorthodox guitar tunings, and preparing guitars with objects like drum sticks and screwdrivers to alter the instruments' timbre. In 2011, Ranaldo announced that the band was "ending for a while," following Moore and Gordon's separation.[2]
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History[link]
Formation and early history: 1977–1981[link]
Sonic Youth's history began when guitarist Thurston Moore moved to New York City in early 1976.[3] Interested in punk, Moore joined the Coachmen, a guitar-based quartet, after arriving in the city. Lee Ranaldo, an art student at Binghamton University, became a fan of the Coachmen, and he and Moore were soon friends. Ranaldo was a member of Glenn Branca's electric guitar ensemble, touring throughout the United States and Europe. After the breakup of the Coachmen, Moore began jamming with Stanton Miranda, whose band, CKM, featured local artist Kim Gordon.[4]
Moore and Gordon formed a band, appearing under names like Male Bonding and Red Milk before agreeing upon the Arcadians in late 1980. The band had recently changed their name to Sonic Youth by the time they played Noise Fest in June 1981 at New York's White Columns gallery. Branca's ensemble played at the festival. Their performance impressed Moore, who described them as "the most ferocious guitar band that I had ever seen in my life." After Branca's set, Moore asked Ranaldo if he wanted to join the band. Ranaldo accepted; the band played three songs at the festival later in the week without a drummer. Each band member took turns playing the drums, until they met drummer Richard Edson.[5]
The name Sonic Youth came from combining the nickname of MC5's Fred "Sonic" Smith with the trend of reggae artists, such as Big Youth, featuring the word "Youth" in their names. Gordon later recalled that "as soon as Thurston came up with the name Sonic Youth, a certain sound that was more of what we wanted to do came about."[6]
Early releases: 1982–1985[link]
Branca signed Sonic Youth as the first act on his record label Neutral Records. In December 1981 the group recorded five songs in a studio in New York's Radio City Music Hall. The material was released as the Sonic Youth mini-LP that, while largely ignored, was sent to a few key members of the US press that gave it uniformly favorable reviews.[7] After their first record, Edson quit the group for an acting career and was replaced by Bob Bert.
During their early days as part of the New York music scene, Sonic Youth formed a friendship with noisy New Yorkers Swans. The bands came to share the same rehearsal space, and Sonic Youth embarked on its first tour, a two-week journey through the southern United States starting in November 1982, supporting Swans. During a second tour with Swans of the Midwest the following month, tensions ran high and Moore constantly criticized Bert's drumming, which he felt was not "in the pocket".[8] Bert was fired afterwards and replaced by Jim Sclavunos, who played drums on the band's 1983 album Confusion Is Sex. Sonic Youth set up a two-week tour of Europe for the summer of 1983. Sclavunos, however, quit after only a few months. The group asked Bert to rejoin, and he agreed, on the condition that he would not be fired again after the tour's conclusion.[9]
Sonic Youth found themselves well-received in Europe, but the New York press largely ignored the local noise rock scene. Eventually, as the press began to take notice of the genre, Sonic Youth was grouped along with bands like Big Black, the Butthole Surfers and Pussy Galore under the "pigfucker" label by Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau.[10] (Christgau saw these bands as sharing an abrasive, noisy and confrontational aesthetic.) Based on this classification, and on a negative live review by Christgau, a feud developed between Moore and the critic, with Moore renaming the song "Kill Yr Idols" to "I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick" before the two sorted out their differences amicably.[11]
During another tour of Europe in 1984, Sonic Youth's disastrous London debut (where the band's equipment malfunctioned and Moore consequently destroyed the equipment onstage in frustration) actually resulted in rave reviews in Sounds and the NME. By the time they returned to New York, they were so popular they played shows practically every week.[12] That same year Moore and Gordon were married and Sonic Youth released Bad Moon Rising, a self-described "Americana" album that served as a reaction to the state of the nation at the time.[13] The album, recorded by Martin Bisi, was built around transitional pieces that Moore and Ranaldo had come up with in order to take up time onstage while the other guitarist was busy tuning his instrument;[12] as a result there are almost no breaks between the songs on the record, which feature walls of feedback and pounding rhythms. Bad Moon Rising featured an appearance by Lydia Lunch on the album's single "Death Valley '69", inspired by the Charles Manson Family murders. In contrast to their abrasive, atonal material of the time, the band considered the song relatively conventional. Due to a falling-out with Branca over disputed royalty payments from their Neutral releases, they were signed to Homestead Records by Gerard Cosloy and by Blast First in the UK (which founder Paul Smith created simply so he could distribute the band's records in Europe).[14] While even the New York press ignored Bad Moon Rising upon its release, now viewing the band as too arty and pretentious, Sonic Youth was becoming quite critically acclaimed in the United Kingdom, where the new album had sold 5,000 copies in just six months.[15]
Claiming he was bored with playing Bad Moon Rising live in its entirety for over a year, Bert quit the group and was replaced by Steve Shelley, formerly of the hardcore group Crucifucks. The band was so impressed with Shelley's drumming after seeing him play live they hired him without an audition.[16] Bert has remained on good terms with the group; he and Shelley both appeared in the music video for "Death Valley '69", as Bert performed the drums on the song, but Shelley was the group's drummer when the video was made.
SST and Enigma: 1986–1989[link]
Sonic Youth had a long fascination with influential indie label SST Records. Ranaldo said, "It was the first record company we were on that we really would have given anything to be on."[17] Sonic Youth eventually signed to the label in early 1986 and began recording EVOL with Martin Bisi in March of that year.
EVOL itself represented an evolution of sorts for the band: in addition to increasingly melodic material and the impact of new drummer Shelley's playing, the record also dealt with themes of celebrity, particularly with songs like "Madonna, Sean, And Me" (called "a classic" by Neil Young"[18]) and "Marilyn Moore". Signing to SST catapulted the band on to a national stage, something that did not happen to their peers in the New York underground.[19] The mainstream music press subsequently began to take notice of the band. Robert Palmer of The New York Times declared that Sonic Youth was "making the most startlingly original guitar-based music since Jimi Hendrix" and even People praised EVOL as the "aural equivalent of a toxic waste dump."[20] EVOL is also notable for a guest appearance by bass guitarist Mike Watt, a friend whom the band coaxed to come to New York after he was deeply depressed by the death of his bandmate, D. Boon.
On 1987's Sister, Sonic Youth continued refining their blend of pop song structures with uncompromising experimentalism. Another loose concept album, Sister is partly inspired by the life and works of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (the "sister" of the title was Dick's fraternal twin, who died shortly after her birth, and whose memory haunted Dick his entire life).[21] Sister sold 60,000 copies and received very positive reviews, becoming the first Sonic Youth album to crack the Top 20 of the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll.
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Despite the critical success, the band was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with SST due to concerns about payment and other administrative practices.[22] Sonic Youth decided to release their next record on Enigma Records, which was distributed by Capitol Records and partly owned by EMI. The 1988 double LP Daydream Nation was a critical success that earned Sonic Youth substantial acclaim. The album came in second on the Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll and topped the year-end album lists of the NME, CMJ, and Melody Maker. In 2006, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.[23] The lead single from the album, "Teen Age Riot", was the first song from the band to reach significant success, receiving heavy airplay in modern and college rock stations. A number of prominent music periodicals including Rolling Stone hailed Daydream Nation as one of the best albums of the decade and named Sonic Youth as the "Hot Band" in its "Hot" issue.[24] Unfortunately, distribution problems arose and Daydream Nation was often difficult to find in stores. Moore considered Enigma a "cheap-jack Mafioso outfit" and the band began looking for a major label deal.[25]
Major label career and alternative icons: 1990–1999[link]
In 1990, Sonic Youth released Goo (their first album for Geffen), which featured the single "Kool Thing" on which Chuck D from rap group Public Enemy guested. "Kool Thing" became the song that many casual music fans associate with the band;[26] it was later featured in the Hal Hartley film Simple Men and the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and was made available as a paid download for the Rock Band video game. The record is considered much more accessible than their previous work.[27]
In 1992, the band released Dirty on the DGC label. Their influence as tastemakers continued with their discovery of acclaimed skateboard video director Spike Jonze, who they recruited for the video for "100%", which also featured skateboarder turned actor Jason Lee. This song, along with the Gordon tune "JC" contain lyrical references to the murder of Joe Cole, a friend who worked with the band as a roadie. The album features artwork by Los Angeles-based artist Mike Kelley. "Dirty" features a guest appearance by Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat and Fugazi) playing guitar on the track "Youth Against Fascism".
In 1993, the band contributed the track "Burning Spear" to the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization.
In 1994 the band released Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, their best charting release in the United States (until 2009's The Eternal), which peaked at #34 on the Billboard 200.[28] The album was filled with low-key melodies and even produced a hit single, "Bull in the Heather". Moore and Gordon's daughter, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore was born earlier in the year, and many of the songs from the album were never played live because there was never a full tour to support the album due to Gordon's pregnancy. In 1994, the band also released a cover of The Carpenters' 1971 hit "Superstar" for the tribute album If I Were a Carpenter; their version would later be featured in the 2007 film Juno.
The band headlined the 1995 Lollapalooza festival.[28] By that time, alternative rock had gained considerable mainstream attention, and the festival was parodied on The Simpsons 1996 episode "Homerpalooza", which featured voiceovers from the band. They also performed the final credits theme for that episode.
Gordon collaborated in Free Kitten, and started a clothing label X-Girl, based in Los Angeles. Ranaldo and Moore have played with many experimental/noise musicians, including William Hooker, Nels Cline, Tom Surgal, Don Dietrich, Christian Marclay, DJ Spooky and Mission of Burma, among others. Shelley runs the Smells Like Records record label, as well as playing in backing bands for Chan Marshall (Cat Power) and Two Dollar Guitar. Thurston Moore has also done several guest appearances on DJ Spooky's albums combining rock and hip hop.
From Sonic Youth's earliest days, Gordon had occasionally played guitar with the group. About the time of A Thousand Leaves and Washing Machine she began playing guitar more frequently, resulting in a three-guitar and drums lineup. These songs were something of a shift for the group's sound, and would lead to the introduction of a fifth member a few years later.
The Washing Machine album started a major shift in the band, away from their punk roots, that saw them working with longer noise-jam sections and included two tracks that showed the new approach in full force – the title track "Washing Machine", which is just under 10 minutes long, and "The Diamond Sea", which is over 19 minutes long.
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the band began releasing a series of highly experimental records on their own Hoboken, New Jersey-based label SYR. The music was mostly instrumental and improvised, and the album and track titles and even the liner notes and credits were in different languages: SYR1 was in French, SYR2 in Dutch, SYR3 in Esperanto, SYR5 in Japanese, SYR6 in Lithuanian, SYR7 in Arpitan, and SYR8 in Danish. SYR3 was the first to feature Jim O'Rourke, who went on to become an official band member. Tracks from the SYR releases featured in their live sets in 1998, particularly "Anagrama" from SYR1, and tracks from SYR2 formed the basis of two tracks from A Thousand Leaves.
Released in 1998, A Thousand Leaves has a dreamy, semi-improvised feel, and features extended jam sections on tracks such as "Wildflower Soul" and "Female Mechanic Now On Duty". The album also features two Ranaldo led numbers, "Hoarfrost" and "Karen Koltrane". The only single to be released from this album, "Sunday", was accompanied by a video directed by Harmony Korine and starring Macaulay Culkin.
SYR4 was subtitled "Goodbye, 20th Century" and featured works by avant-garde classical composers such as John Cage, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, and Christian Wolff played by Sonic Youth along with several collaborators from the modern avant-garde music scene, such as Christian Marclay, William Winant, Wharton Tiers, Takehisa Kosugi and others. The album received mixed reviews, but some critics praised the group's efforts at popularizing and reinterpreting the composers' works.
Later DGC period: 2000–2006[link]
On July 4, 1999, Sonic Youth's instruments, amps, and gear were stolen in the middle of the night while on tour in Orange, California (see initial post on Usenet). Forced to start from scratch with new instruments, they recorded NYC Ghosts & Flowers and opened for Pearl Jam during the east coast leg of their 2000 tour.
In 2001 Sonic Youth collaborated with French avant-garde singer and poet Brigitte Fontaine in Fontaine's album "Kékéland".
When the September 11, 2001 attacks occurred, several members of the band were blocks away, Jim at their NYC studio (Echo Canyon on Murray Street), and Ranaldo and his wife Leah nearby at home. After the attacks, they curated the first U.S. outing of the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in L.A. The festival was originally scheduled for October 2001, but it was delayed until March the following year due to the attacks.
In the summer of 2002, Murray Street was released; many critics heralded a "return to form for SY", seemingly revitalized by the addition of Jim O'Rourke, who became a full member during this period, playing bass guitar, guitar, and occasionally synthesizer. This was followed in 2004 by the release of Sonic Nurse, an album similar in sound and approach to its immediate predecessor that also received positive reviews. "Pattern Recognition", a song named after the 2003 William Gibson novel, finds the band once again using Gibson's work for inspiration. The band also showed their pop culture commentary and sense of humor with the track "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream", a faster-tempo song sung by Gordon, which spoofed Carey's life, including her short-lived relationship with rapper Eminem, which originally appeared on a 2003 split 7" with Erase Errata (on the album cover, the reference to "Mariah Carey" in the title was replaced by "Kim Gordon"[29] due to potential copyright issues.[30] Sonic Nurse had decent sales, in part due to performances on TV talk shows including Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The band was also slated to perform in 2004's Lollapalooza tour along with acts such as Pixies and The Flaming Lips, but the concert was canceled due to lackluster ticket sales. When the band toured later that year, they played extensively from their 1980s catalog.
On October 6, 2005, Los Angeles CityBeat reported that some of the gear stolen in 1999 was surprisingly recovered and that it might be used for recording of the next album, then tentatively titled Sonic Life.[31] The report also said that Jim O'Rourke might be leaving the band soon; his departure was confirmed by Lee Ranaldo in an interview to Pitchfork Media.[32] In May 2006, the group announced on their website that ex-Pavement member Mark Ibold would play bass for the band on their upcoming tour.
Rather Ripped was released in Europe on June 5, 2006 and in the USA on June 13, 2006. Compared to previous Sonic Youth recordings, the album features many short, conventionally structured, melodic songs and fewer feedback-fuelled left field improvisations (the band's avant-garde tendencies nowadays have been largely exorcised through SYR releases and solo outings rather than band albums). Later that summer, Sonic Youth played the 2006 Bonnaroo Festival, as well as Lollapalooza, promoting the album. In December, Rolling Stone made it their number three Album of the Year 2006.
The band released The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities in December 2006. It features tracks previously available only on vinyl, limited-release compilations, b-sides to international singles, and some material that had never before been released. This marked the band's final Geffen release.[33]
Independent agents and signing to Matador: 2007–2011[link]
In 2008 the band independently re-released Master-Dik for the first time on CD exclusively at their online store. They also released two more editions to the SYR series, SYR7: J'Accuse Ted Hughes, and SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth. SYR7 was released on April 22, and SYR8 was released July 28. On June 10, they also released a compilation album on Starbucks Music, called Hits Are for Squares. The first 15 tracks were selected by other celebrities, and track 16, "Slow Revolution", is a new recording by Sonic Youth.
Also in June, the band was the subject of an intensively researched biography, Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth written by music journalist David Browne. The book was cited as "compelling" (Salon), "compulsively readable" (Publishers Weekly), and "an expressway to the soul of the influential band" (Vanity Fair). The book featured new interviews with the band as well as nearly 100 friends, family members, and peers. It was published by Da Capo and included over 60 rare photos.
On August 30, 2008, the band premiered two new songs at the final McCarren Park Pool show. Thurston Moore stated that in November 2008 the band would start recording a new studio album. The band did not continue their contract with Geffen, being discontented at the way Geffen handled their last four or five albums.[34] On September 8, 2008, it was confirmed by Matador's Matablog that Sonic Youth would release its sixteenth album (titled The Eternal) in spring, 2009, on Matador Records.[35] In December 2008 it was also announced that the group had recently collaborated with John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame) on a piece that served as the soundtrack for a new Merce Cunningham Dance Company piece. This work was performed by the company on April 16–19, 2009, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in celebration of Cunningham's 90th birthday.[36] On February 12, the band revealed the cover art for The Eternal via their website and blog. The album, produced by John Agnello,[37] was released on June 9, 2009.[38] With the release Matador Records also offered an exclusive live LP only available to those who preordered the album.[39] The band scored and composed the soundtrack of the French thriller-drama Simon Werner a Disparu, which premiered in May, 2010 as part of the Cannes International Film Festival.[40] The soundtrack has been released in 2011 as the latest edition of the SYR series, SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu.
On October 14, 2011, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced that they separated after 27 years of marriage through a statement by Matador.[41] The announcement has raised doubts over the future of Sonic Youth after Matador revealed that plans for the band remained "uncertain," despite the fact the band had previously hinted they would record new material later in the year.[42]
In a interview on November 28, 2011, Lee Ranaldo said that Sonic Youth are "ending for a while". "I'm feeling optimistic about the future no matter what happens at this point," Ranaldo said. "It was a pretty good tour overall. I mean, there was a little bit of tiptoeing around and some different situations with the travelling – you know, they're not sharing a room any more or anything like that … It remains to be seen at this point what happens. I think they are certainly the last shows for a while and I guess I'd just leave it at that." Ranaldo also suggest there are no plans for Sonic Youth to record new material. "There's tons and tons of archival projects and things like that still going on," he said. "I'm just happy right now to let the future take its course."[43]
Musical style and influences[link]
Alternative tunings[link]
Sonic Youth's sound relies heavily on the use of alternative tunings. Scordatura on stringed instruments has been used for centuries and alternative guitar tunings had been used for decades in blues music, and to a limited degree in rock music (such as with Lou Reed's Ostrich guitar on The Velvet Underground & Nico), but Sonic Youth began using a variety of tunings more radical than nearly anything in rock music history. Azerrad writes that early in their career,
[Sonic Youth] could only afford cheap guitars, and cheap guitars sounded like cheap guitars. But with weird tunings or something jammed under a particular fret, those humble instruments could sound rather amazing – bang a drum stick on a cheap Japanese Stratocaster copy in the right tuning, crank the amplifier to within an inch of its life, and it will sound like church bells.—Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life, pg. 243
The tunings were painstakingly developed by Moore and Ranaldo during the band's rehearsals; Moore once reported that the odd tunings were an attempt to introduce new sounds: "When you're playing in standard tuning all the time ... things sound pretty standard."[44] Rather than re-tune for every song, Sonic Youth generally use a particular guitar for one or two songs, and can take dozens of instruments on tour. This can be the source of much trouble for the band, as some songs rely on specific guitars that have been uniquely prepared.
Influences[link]
Besides Branca, French avant-gardist Brigitte Fontaine, Patti Smith, Wire,[45] Public Image Ltd (PiL) and The Stooges, another influence was 1980s-era hardcore punk; after seeing Minor Threat perform in May 1982, Moore declared them "the greatest live band I have ever seen".[46] While recognizing that their own music was very different from hardcore, Moore and Gordon, especially, were impressed by hardcore's speed and intensity, and by the nationwide network of musicians and fans. "It was great," said Moore, "the whole thing with slam dancing and stage diving, that was far more exciting than pogoing and spitting.... I thought hardcore was very musical and very radical."[47]
Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo have expressed on numerous occasions their admiration for the music of Joni Mitchell, such as this quote by Thurston Moore: "Joni Mitchell! I’ve used elements of her songwriting and guitar playing, and no one would ever know about it."[48] Additionally, Joni Mitchell has always used a number of alternative tunings, as does Sonic Youth. The band named a song after her, "Hey Joni".
Members of the band have also maintained relationships with other avant-garde artists from other genres and even other media, drawing influence from the work of John Cage and Henry Cowell. For a 1988 Peel Session, Sonic Youth covered three songs by The Fall and "Victoria" by The Kinks, also covered by The Fall. Sonic Youth has featured album art by several well-known avant-garde visual artists, such as Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler and Gerhard Richter, whose paintings from his "Candles" series was used as artwork on Daydream Nation.
Musical Instruments[link]
Sonic Youth's sound is generated by their vast collection of unique and exclusive instruments, from guitars altered to meet the needs of the unique tunings employed, to effects and amps designed to around their whims, Sonic Youth use a wide array of custom instruments in creating their sound. The Sound Destruction Device is an example of an effect designed for them, in which a fuzz pedal with 2 gain stages and gate creates oscillating distortion sounds
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Discography[link]
Main article: Sonic Youth discography
- Studio albums
- Sonic Youth (1982)
- Confusion Is Sex (1983)
- Bad Moon Rising (1985)
- EVOL (1986)
- Sister (1987)
- The Whitey Album (Ciccone Youth) (1988)
- Daydream Nation (1988)
- Goo (1990)
- Dirty (1992)
- Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (1994)
- Washing Machine (1995)
- A Thousand Leaves (1998)
- NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000)
- Murray Street (2002)
- Sonic Nurse (2004)
- Rather Ripped (2006)
- The Eternal (2009)
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Bibliography[link]
- Azerrad, Michael. Our Band Could Be Your Life. New York: Little, Brown, 2001.
- Browne, David. Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth. Da Capo Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-306-81515-7
- Foege, Alec. Confusion is Next: The Sonic Youth Story. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
- Ignacio, Julia & Jaime Gonzalo. Sonic Youth: I dreamed of noise. Barcelona: RUTA 66, 1994.
- George-Warren, Holly and Patricia Romanowski, ed. (2005). "Sonic Youth". The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. New York, New York: Fireside. ISBN 978-0-7432-9201-6.
- Prendergrast, Mark. The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance, the Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age. Bloomsbury, 2000. ISBN 1-58234-134-6
- Wild, Peter (editor). The Empty Page: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth. Serpent's Tail, 2008. ISBN 978-1-85242-956-0
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| Birth name | John Robert Parker Ravenscroft |
| Born | (1939-08-30)30 August 1939 Heswall, England |
| Died | 25 October 2004(2004-10-25) (aged 65) Cusco, Peru |
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John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style.
He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, and dance music.
Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular 'Peel sessions', which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame. (These 'sessions' are similar to 'Live Lounge' sessions recorded today for the station.) Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.
Peel appeared frequently on British television as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and he provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes. He became popular with the audience of BBC Radio 4 for his Home Truths programme, which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners' domestic lives.
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Life and career[link]
Early life[link]
Peel was born in Heswall Cottage Hospital in Heswall on the Wirral Peninsula, near Liverpool, and grew up in the nearby village of Burton.[1] His father was an upper middle class cotton merchant,[2] and he was sent away to be educated as a boarder at Shrewsbury School.[3]
His housemaster, R H J Brooke, whom Peel described as "extraordinarily eccentric" and "amazingly perceptive," wrote on one of his school reports, "Perhaps it's possible that John can form some kind of nightmarish career out of his enthusiasm for unlistenable records and his delight in writing long and facetious essays."[4] In his posthumously published autobiography, Peel revealed that he had been raped by an older pupil while at Shrewsbury.[5]
After finishing his National Service in 1959 in the Royal Artillery as a B2 radar operator,[6] he worked as a mill operative at Townhead Mill in Rochdale[7] and travelled home each weekend to Heswall on a scooter borrowed from his sister. Whilst in Rochdale Monday to Friday, he stayed in a bed-and-breakfast in the area of Milkstone Road and Drake Street. Peel was a vegetarian.[8]
United States[link]
In 1960, he went to the United States to work for a cotton producer who had business dealings with his father.[9] Once this job finished, he took a number of others, including working as a travelling insurance salesman, remaining in the United States until 1967. While in Dallas, Texas, where the insurance company he worked for was based, he spoke to John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate and his running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, who were touring the city during the 1960 Presidential election campaign.
Following Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, Peel passed himself off as a reporter for the Liverpool Echo in order to attend the arraignment of Lee Harvey Oswald, and he and a friend can be seen in the footage of the 22/23 November midnight press conference at Dallas Police Department when Oswald was paraded before the media.[10] He later phoned in the story to the Liverpool Echo.
While working for the insurance company, Peel filed card programs for an early IBM 1410 computer (which led to his entry in Who's Who noting him as a former computer programmer), and he got his first radio job, albeit unpaid, working for WRR (AM) in Dallas. There, he presented the second hour of the Monday night programme Kat's Karavan, which was primarily hosted by the American singer and radio personality Jim Lowe. Following this, and as Beatlemania hit the United States, Peel got a job with the Dallas radio station KLIF as the official The Beatles correspondent on the strength of his connection to Liverpool. He later worked for KOMA in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma until 1965 when he moved to KMEN in San Bernardino, California, using the name John Ravencroft to present the breakfast show.[11]
While in Dallas, in 1965, he married his first wife, Shirley Anne Milburn, in what Peel later described as a "mutual defence pact". The marriage was never happy and although she accompanied Peel back to Britain in 1967, they were soon separated. The divorce became final in 1973.[12]
Return to Britain[link]
Peel returned to England in early 1967 and found work with the offshore pirate radio station Radio London. He was offered the midnight-to-two shift, which gradually developed into a programme called The Perfumed Garden (some thought it was named after an erotic book famous at the time - which Peel claimed never to have read). It was on "Big L" that he first adopted the name John Peel (the name was suggested by a Radio London secretary) and established himself as a distinctive radio voice.
Peel's show was an outlet for the music of the UK underground scene. He played classic blues, folk music and psychedelic rock, with an emphasis on the new music emerging from Los Angeles and San Francisco. As important as the musical content of the programme was the personal—sometimes confessional—tone of Peel's presentation, and the listener participation it engendered. Underground events he had attended during his periods of shore leave, like the UFO Club and "The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream", together with causes célèbres like the drug "busts" of the Rolling Stones and John "Hoppy" Hopkins, were discussed between records. All this was far removed from Radio London's daytime format. Listeners sent Peel letters, poems, and records from their own collections, so that the programme became a vehicle for two-way communication; by the final week of Radio London he was receiving far more mail than any other DJ on the station.[13]
After the closure of Radio London in 1967 Peel wrote a column under the title The Perfumed Garden for the underground newspaper the International Times (from autumn 1967 to mid-1969), in which he showed himself to be a committed, if critical, supporter of the ideals of the underground. A Perfumed Garden mailing list was set up by a group of keen listeners, which facilitated contacts and gave rise to numerous small-scale, local arts projects typical of the time, including the poetry magazine Sol.
BBC career[link]
When Radio London closed down on 14 August 1967, John Peel joined the BBC's new pop music station, BBC Radio 1, which began broadcasting the following month. Unlike Big L, Radio 1 was not a full-time station, but a hybrid of recorded music and live studio orchestras. Peel recalled, "I was one of the first lot on Radio 1 and I think it was mainly because ... Radio 1 had no real idea what they were doing so they had to take people off the pirate ships because there wasn't anybody else." Peel presented a programme called Top Gear. At first he was obliged to share presentation duties with other DJs (Pete Drummond and Tommy Vance were among his co-hosts) but in February 1968 he was given sole charge of Top Gear; he continued to present the show until it ended in 1975. Peel played an eclectic mix of the music that caught his attention, which he would continue to do throughout his career.
During 1969, after hosting a trailer for a BBC programme on VD on his Night Ride programme, Peel received significant media attention because he divulged on air that he had suffered from a sexually transmitted disease earlier that year. This admission was later used in an attempt to discredit him when he appeared as a defence witness in the 1971 Oz obscenity trial.
The Night Ride programme, advertised by the BBC as an exploration of words and music, seemed to take up from where The Perfumed Garden had left off. It featured rock, folk, blues, classical and electronic music. A unique feature of the programme was the inclusion of tracks, mostly of exotic non-Western music, drawn from the BBC Sound Archive; the most popular of these were gathered on a BBC Records LP, John Peel's Archive Things (1970). Night Ride also featured poetry readings and numerous interviews with a wide range of guests, including personal friends Marc Bolan, journalist and musician Mick Farren, poet Pete Roche, and singer-songwriter Bridget St. John and stars such as the Byrds, the Rolling Stones and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The programme captured much of the creative activity of the underground scene. Its anti-establishment stance and unpredictability did not find approval with the BBC hierarchy, and it ended in September 1969 after 18 months. In his sleeve notes to the Archive Things LP Peel calls the free-form nature of Night Ride his preferred radio format. His subsequent shows featured a mixture of records and live sessions, a format which would characterise his Radio 1 programmes for the rest of his career.
After separation from his first wife, Peel's personal life began to stabilise, as he found friendship and support from new Top Gear producer John Walters - and from his girlfriend Sheila Gilhooly, who he identified on-air as "the Pig". Peel married Sheila on 31 August 1974. The reception was in London's Regent's Park, with Walters as best man. Peel wore Liverpool football colours (red) and walked down the aisle to the song "You'll Never Walk Alone". Their sheepdog, Woggle, served as a bridesmaid.
Peel's enthusiasm for music outside the mainstream occasionally brought him into conflict with the Radio 1 hierarchy. In early 1977 station controller Derek Chinnery contacted John Walters and asked him to confirm that the show was not playing any punk, which he (Chinnery) had read about in the press and disapproved of. Chinnery was evidently somewhat surprised by Walters' reply that in recent weeks they had been playing little else.[14] In 1979 Peel stated: "They leave you to get on with it. I'm paid money by the BBC not to go off and work for a commercial radio station...I wouldn't want to go to one anyway, because they wouldn't let me do what the BBC let me do."[15]
Peel's reputation as an important DJ breaking unsigned acts into the mainstream was such that young hopefuls sent him an enormous amount of records, CDs, and tapes. When he returned home from a three week holiday at the end of 1986 there were 173 LPs, 91 12"s and 179 7"s waiting for him. Another example in point is that in 1983 unsigned artist Billy Bragg drove to the Radio 1 studios with a mushroom biryani and a copy of his record after hearing Peel mention that he was hungry, the subsequent airplay launching his career.[16] Another example is that John Peel's favourite record for over a year in the late seventies/early eighties was Mopsie Beans EP "One Out" .[17]
In the 1970s Peel and Sheila moved to a thatched cottage in the village of Great Finborough near Stowmarket in Suffolk, nicknamed "Peel Acres". In later years Peel broadcast many of his shows from a studio in the house, with Sheila and their children often being involved or at least mentioned. Peel's passion for Liverpool F.C. was reflected in his children's names: William Robert Anfield, Alexandra Mary Anfield, Thomas James Dalglish, and Florence Victoria Shankly. His later shows also regularly featured live performances (broadcast live, unlike the pre-recorded Peel sessions), mostly from BBC Maida Vale Studios in West London, but occasionally in the Peel Acres living room.
In addition to his Radio 1 show, Peel broadcast as a disc jockey on the BBC World Service, 30 years on the British Forces Broadcasting Service BFBS (John Peel's Music on BFBS), VPRO Radio3 in the Netherlands, YLE Radio Mafia in Finland, Ö3 in Austria (Nachtexpress), and on Radio 4U, Radio Eins (Peel ...), Radio Bremen (Ritz) and some independent radio stations around FSK Hamburg in Germany. As a result of his BFBS programme he was voted, in Germany, 'Top DJ in Europe'.
Peel was an occasional presenter of Top of the Pops on BBC 1 TV from the late 1960s until the 1990s, and in particular from 1982 to 1987 when he appeared regularly. In 1971 he appeared not as presenter but performer, alongside Rod Stewart and The Faces, pretending to play mandolin on "Maggie May". He often presented the BBC's television coverage of music events, notably Glastonbury Festival.
Later years[link]
Between 1995 and 1997, Peel presented a show about children, called Offspring, on BBC Radio 4. In 1998, Offspring grew into the magazine-style documentary show Home Truths. When he took on the job presenting the programme, which was about everyday life in British families, Peel requested that it be free from celebrities, as he found real life stories more entertaining. Home Truths was described by occasional stand-in presenter John Walters as being "about people who had fridges called Renfrewshire". Peel also made regular contributions to BBC Two's humorous look at the irritations of modern life Grumpy Old Men. His only appearance in an acting role in film was in 1999 as a "grumpy old man who catalogues records" in Five Seconds to Spare, although he had provided narration for others.[18]
He appeared as a celebrity guest on a number of TV shows, including This Is Your Life (1996, BBC), Travels With My Camera (1996, Channel 4 TV) and Going Home (2002, ITV TV), and presented the 1997 Channel 4 series Classic Trains.[19] He was also in demand as a voice-over artist for television documentaries, such as BBC One's A Life of Grime.
At the age of 62 he was diagnosed with diabetes, following many years of fatigue.[20]
In April 2003, the publishers Transworld successfully wooed Peel with a package worth up to £1.6 million for his autobiography, having placed an advert in a national newspaper aimed only at Peel. Unfinished at the time of his death it was completed by Sheila and journalist Ryan Gilbey. It was published in October 2005 under the title Margrave of the Marshes. A collection of Peel's miscellaneous writings, The Olivetti Chronicles, was published in 2008.[21]
Death[link]
Peel died suddenly at the age of 65 from a heart attack on 25 October 2004, on a working holiday in the Inca city of Cusco in Peru. Shortly after the announcement of his death, tributes began to arrive from fans and supporters both in and out of public life. On 26 October 2004 BBC Radio 1 cleared its schedules to broadcast a day of tributes. London's Evening Standard boards that afternoon read "the day the music died".
Peel had often spoken wryly of his eventual death. He once said on the show Room 101, "I've always imagined I'd die by driving into the back of a truck while trying to read the name on a cassette and people would say, 'He would have wanted to go that way.' Well, I want them to know that I wouldn't."[22] At one point, he said that if he died before his producer John Walters, he wanted the latter to play Roy Harper's "When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease". Walters having died in 2001, it was left to Andy Kershaw to end his tribute programme to Peel on BBC Radio 3 with the song. Peel's stand-in on his Radio 1 slot, Rob da Bank, also played the song at the start of the final show before his funeral. Another time, Peel said he'd like to be remembered with a gospel song. He stated that the final record he would play would be the Rev C. L. Franklin's sermon "Dry Bones in The Valley".
On his Home Truths BBC radio show John once commented about his own death: "I definitely want to be buried, although not yet. I'm 61 on Wednesday - just a working day for me, I'm afraid - so actuarily (sic) I should have a mile or two left in me, but I do want the children to be able to stand solemnly at my graveside and think lovely thoughts along the lines of 'Get out of that one, you swine', which they won't be able to do if I've been cremated. I think I want 'Teenage dreams, so hard to beat' on my gravestone and every night at dusk the trumpeters of the 5th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry to play Misty in Roots' Mankind over the grave. Lovely."[citation needed]
Peel's funeral, on 12 November 2004, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was attended by over a thousand people, including many of the artists he had championed. Eulogies were read by his brother, Alan Ravenscroft, and DJ Paul Gambaccini. The service ended with clips of him talking about his life and his coffin was carried out to the accompaniment of his favourite song, The Undertones' "Teenage Kicks".[23] Peel had written that, apart from his name, all he wanted on his gravestone were the words, "Teenage dreams, so hard to beat", from the lyrics of "Teenage Kicks".[24] A headstone engraved in accordance with his wishes was placed at his grave in 2008.[25] Peel is buried at St Andrew's Church, in the village of Great Finborough, Suffolk.
Life in music[link]
Peel sessions[link]
See also: List of Peel sessions
A feature of Peel's BBC Radio 1 shows were the famous John Peel Sessions, which usually consisted of four pieces of music pre-recorded at the BBC's studios. The sessions originally came about due to restrictions imposed on the BBC by the Musicians' Union and Phonographic Performance Limited which represented the record companies dominated by the EMI cartel. Because of these restrictions the BBC had been forced to hire bands and orchestras to render cover versions of recorded music. The theory behind this device was that it would create employment and force people to buy records and not listen to them free of charge on the air. One of the reasons why all of the offshore broadcasting stations of the 1960s were called "pirates" was because they operated outside of British laws and were not bound by the needle time restriction on the number of records they could play on the air.
The BBC employed its own house bands and orchestras and it also engaged outside bands to record exclusive tracks for its programmes in BBC studios. This was the reason why Peel was able to use "session men" in his own programmes. Sessions were usually four tracks recorded and mixed in a single day; as such they often had a rough and ready, demo-like feel, somewhere between a live performance and a finished recording. Peel remained on BBC Radio 1 for 37 years, until his death in 2004. During that time over 4000 sessions were recorded by over 2000 artists.[26] Many classic Peel Sessions have been released on record, particularly by the Strange Fruit label.
Festive Fifty[link]
Main article: Festive Fifty
An annual tradition of Peel's Radio 1 show was the Festive Fifty—a countdown of the best tracks of the year as voted for by the listeners. Despite Peel's eclectic play list, the Festive Fifty tended to be composed largely of "white boys with guitars", as Peel complained in 1988. In 1991 the broadcast of the chart was cancelled due to a lack of votes, although many have speculated that it was because it didn't feature a single entry from the dance acts that Peel had been championing that year[citation needed]. Topped by Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", this Phantom Fifty was eventually broadcast at the rate of one track per programme in 1993.[27] The 1997 chart was initially cancelled due to the lack of air-time Peel had been allocated for the period, but enough "spontaneous" votes were received over the phone that a Festive Thirty-One was compiled and broadcast.[27]
Peel wrote that "The Festive 50 dates back to what was doubtless a crisp September morning in the early-to-mid Seventies, when John Walters and I were musing on life in his uniquely squalid office. In our waggish way, we decided to mock the enthusiasm of the Radio 1 management of the time for programmes with alliterative titles. Content, we felt, was of less importance than a snappy Radio Times billing. In the course of our historic meeting we had, I imagine, some fine reasons for dismissing the idea of a Festive 40 and going instead for a Festive 50, a decision that was to ruin my Decembers for years to come, condemning me to night after night at home with a ledger, when I could have been out and about having fun, fun, fun."[28]
After his death, the Festive Fifty was continued on Radio 1 by Rob Da Bank, Huw Stephens and Ras Kwame for two years, but then given to Peel-inspired Internet radio station Dandelion Radio, which continues to compile it to this day.
Dandelion Records and Strange Fruit[link]
In 1969 Peel founded Dandelion Records (named after his pet hamster) so he could release the debut album by Bridget St John, which he also produced. The label released 27 albums by 18 different artists before folding in 1972. Of its albums, There is Some Fun Going Forward was a sampler intended to present its acts to a wide audience, however Dandelion was never a great success, with only two releases charting in national charts: Medicine Head in the UK with "(And The) Pictures In The Sky" and Beau in Lebanon with "1917 Revolution".
As Peel stated:
It was never a success financially. In fact, we lost money, if I remember correctly, on every single release bar one. I did quite like it but it was terribly indulgent. Not as indulgent as it would have been had I not had a business partner, admittedly... I liked having a label. It enabled you to put out stuff that you liked without, in those days, having to worry about whether it was going to work commercially. I've never been a good business man.
Peel appeared on one Dandelion release: the David Bedford album Nurses Song with Elephants, recorded at the Marquee Studios, as part of a group playing twenty-seven plastic pipe twirlers on the track "Some Bright Stars for Queen's College".
In the 1980s Peel set up the Strange Fruit Records with Clive Selwood to release material recorded by the BBC for Peel Sessions.
Production (albums)[link]
- 1969: Mike Hart Bleeds - Mike Hart
- 1969: The Year of the Great Leap Sideways - Occasional Word Ensemble
- 1969: Soundtrack - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
- 1970: New Bottles Old Medicine - Medicine Head
- 1970: Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - Burnin' Red Ivanhoe (co-produced w/ Tony Reeves)
- 1970: The Going's Easy - The Greatest Show on Earth
- 1970: Horizons - The Greatest Show on Earth
- 1970: The Asmoto Running Band - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
- 1972: Bugger Off! - Stack Waddy
- 1976: Between The Poppy and the Snow - Robert MacLeod
Favourite music[link]
John Peel wrote in his autobiography, Margrave of the Marshes, that the band of which he owned the most records was The Fall. Regulars in the Festive 50, and easily recognised by vocalist Mark E. Smith's distinctive delivery, The Fall became synonymous with Peel's Radio 1 show through the 1980s and 1990s. Peel kept in contact with many of the artists he championed but only met Smith on two, apparently awkward, occasions.
The Misunderstood is the only band that Peel ever personally managed—he first met the band in Riverside, California in 1966 and convinced them to move to London. He championed their music throughout his career; in 1968, he described their 1966 single "I Can Take You to the Sun" as "the best popular record that's ever been recorded."[29] and shortly before his death, he stated, "If I had to list the ten greatest performances I've seen in my life, one would be The Misunderstood at Pandora's Box, Hollywood, 1966 ... My god, they were a great band!"[30]
His favourite single is widely known to have been "Teenage Kicks" by The Undertones; in an interview in 2001, he stated "There's nothing you could add to it or subtract from it that would improve it."[31] In the same 2001 interview, he also listed "No More Ghettos in America" by Stanley Winston, "There Must Be Thousands" by The Quads and "Lonely Saturday Night" by Don French as being amongst his all-time favourites. He also described Lianne Hall as one of the great English voices.
A longer list of his favourite singles was revealed in 2005 when the contents of a wooden box in which he stored the records that meant the most to him were made public.[32] The box was the subject of a television documentary, John Peel's Record Box. Out of 130 vinyl singles in the box, 11 of them were by The White Stripes, more than any other band in the box.[33]
In 1999 Peel presented a nightly segment on his programme titled the Peelennium, in which he played four recordings from each year of the 20th century.
Awards and honorary degrees[link]
Peel was 11 times Melody Maker's DJ of the year, Sony Broadcaster of the Year in 1993, winner of the publicly-voted Godlike Genius Award from the NME in 1994, Sony Gold Award winner in 2002 and is a member of the Radio Academy Hall of Fame. At the NME awards in 2005 he was Hero of the Year and was posthumously given a special award for "Lifelong Service To Music". At the same event the "John Peel Award For Musical Innovation" was awarded to The Others.
He was awarded many honorary degrees including an MA from the University of East Anglia, doctorates (Anglia Polytechnic University and Sheffield Hallam University), various honorary degrees (University of Liverpool, Open University, University of Portsmouth, University of Bradford) and a fellowship of Liverpool John Moores University.
He was appointed an OBE in 1998, for his services to British music. In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time, in which Peel was voted 43rd.
Legacy[link]
Since his death various parties have recognised Peel's influence. A stage for new bands at the Glastonbury Festival, previously known simply as 'The New Bands Tent' was renamed 'The John Peel Stage' in 2005, while in 2008 Merseytravel announced they would be naming a train after him.[21]
In 2009 the first blue plaque to bear his name was unveiled in Heywood, part of Rochdale, Greater Manchester to recognise Peel's contribution to the local music industry in financing Tractor's recording studios.
On 13 October 2005, the first "John Peel Day" was held to mark the anniversary of his last show.[34] The BBC encouraged as many bands as possible to stage gigs on the 13th, and over 500 gigs took place in the UK and as far away as Canada and New Zealand, from bands ranging from Peel favourites New Order and The Fall, to many new and unsigned bands. A second John Peel day was held on 12 October 2006, and a third on 11 October 2007. The BBC had originally planned to hold a John Peel Day annually, however Radio 1 has not held any official commemoration of the event since 2007, though a number of gigs still take place around the country to mark the anniversary.[35][36][37]
At the annual Gilles Peterson's World Wide Awards, the "John Peel Play More Jazz Award" award was named in his honour.
In his Heswall birthplace a pub was opened, named The Ravenscroft, in his honour.[38]
A number of Peel-related compilation albums have been released since his death, including John Peel and Sheila: The Pig's Big 78s: A Beginner's Guide, a project Peel started with his wife that was left unfinished when he died, and Kats Karavan: The History of John Peel on the Radio (2009), a 4 CD box set. Rock music critic Peter Paphides said in a review of the box set that "[s]ome artists remain forever associated with him", including ...And the Native Hipsters with "There Goes Concorde Again", and Ivor Cutler with "Jam".[39] A sizable online community has also emerged dedicated to sharing recordings of his radio shows.
Peel's adult sons Tom and William Ravenscroft have followed him into radio DJing and music journalism, with an emphasis on spotting new talent.
In 2011, BBC 6 Music inaugurated the annual John Peel Lecture, named in honour of the DJ.[40]
In May 2012 a campaign was started to turn demolition threatened Bradford Odeon into the John Peel Creative Arts Centre in the North[41]. It is proposed that part of his record collection is housed there, plus converting the building back to a live music venue. He met "The Pig" at a gig at the University of Bradford.
See also[link]
Notes[link]
- ^ Heatley, p.11
- ^ Heatley, p.12
- ^ Heatley, p.17
- ^ "BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Biography - 1939-1959". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/biography/1930s/1939-1959. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
- ^ Kumi, Alex (10 October 2005). "Peel's child rape revelation praised by campaigners". London: The Guardian. http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1588441,00.html. Retrieved 26 August 2006.
- ^ Heatley, p.25
- ^ Heatley, p.26
- ^ International Vegetarian Union (2010). "John Peel (1939-2004)". Ivu.org. http://www.ivu.org/people/radio/peel.html. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
- ^ Heatley, pp.26–27
- ^ Interview with Fillerzine, Issue No. 5, September 1996. Pics & audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aHDJy0R8nQ
- ^ "BBC - 6 Music - Events - Peeling Back The Years". www.bbc.co.uk. http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/peel/perfumed_garden.shtml. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
- ^ Peel, John; Sheila Ravenscroft (2005). Margrave of the Marshes. London: Bantam Press. pp. 183–4, 211–12, 178, 228–9, passim. ISBN 0-593-05252-8.
- ^ Interview re Perfumed Garden
- ^ "Simon Garfield interview with John Peel". http://www.simongarfield.com/assets/pdfs/books_extracts/the_nations_favourite.pdf. Retrieved 14 November 2006.
- ^ Hepworth, David (1979) "Forty is More Fun: John Peel, Superfan, Talks to David Hepworth", Smash Hits, EMAP National Publications Ltd, 4–17 October 1979, p.15
- ^ Andrew Collins, 2002. Still Suitable for Miners (Billy Bragg: The Official Biography). Virgin Books; ISBN 0-7535-0691-2 (Revised and Updated edition).
- ^ Jerry Beans. Can't kick the sucky tit and other cream cakes p. 7.
- ^ "Keeping it Peel, BBC Radio 1 Broadcast 30 September 2007. IMDb reference (Retrieved 30 September 2007)
- ^ Aaronovitch, David (16 February 1997). "Critics are ignorant - and I should know". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/critics-are-ignorant--and-i-should-know-1278957.html.
- ^ Peel 'relieved' to be diagnosed with diabetes
- ^ a b "Memorial sees Peel try new tracks", BBC News, 20 October 2008
- ^ "John Peel Biography" (pdf). bbc.co.uk. 2005. pp. 22. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/images/pdfs/John_Peel_Biography.pdf. Retrieved 23 October 2008.
- ^ "Thousands mourn Peel at funeral". BBC News Online. 12 November 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4005023.stm. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- ^ Peel, John (2 November 2001). "So hard to Beat". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,585007,00.html. Retrieved 31 August 2006.
- ^ Peck, Sally (13 February 2008). "John Peel gets Teenage Kicks epitaph". London: The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1578522/John-Peel-gets-Teenage-Kicks-epitaph.html. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
- ^ "BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Sessions". http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions. Retrieved 26 August 2006.
- ^ a b BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Festive 50s
- ^ Peel, J., "Bang Bang hits the tops", The Times (London) ISSN 0140-0460, 2 January 1993, Features section pg. SR.12.
- ^ John Peel, Top Gear (BBC Radio 1), 8 November 1968.
- ^ "Index Magazine 2003 - Interview with John Peel Weblink". http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/john_peel.shtml. Retrieved 8 March 2007.
- ^ John Peel So hard to Beat, The Guardian, 2 November 2001. Accessed online 31 August 2006.
- ^ "The records that John Peel loved the most!". http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/peel2005.htm. Retrieved 9 April 2007.
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GebrWLppW8
- ^ "It's Peel day - small but in a big way". The Daily Mail. 13 October 2005. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-365260/Its-Peel-day--small-big-way.html. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
- ^ John Peel Day 2008, BBC Radio Berkshire, 11 October 2008
- ^ Pull Yourself Together presents... JOHN PEEL DAY 2009, listentomanchester.co.uk
- ^ List of John Peel Day events for 2011 at keepingitpeel.wordpress.com
- ^ Chapple, Mike (24 February 2007). "The Ravenscroft, Heswall". Liverpool Daily Post. Trinity Mirror. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/02/24/the-ravenscroft-heswall-64375-18678819/. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- ^ Paphides, Peter. "Kats Karavan: The History of John Peel on the Radio". The Sunday Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article6948969.ece. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ^ "Pete Townshend calls Apple 'a vampire'", BBC News, 1 November 2011
- ^ John Peel Creative Arts Centre in the North
References[link]
- Heatley, Michael (2004). John Peel: A Life in Music. Michael O'Mara Books Limited. ISBN 1-84317-151-1.
Further reading[link]
- Margrave of the Marshes, Autobiography with Sheila Ravenscroft, Bantam Press, 2005. ISBN 0-593-05252-8
- The Olivetti Chronicles. Articles for The Observer, Radio Times, The Guardian a.o., selected by his wife Sheila and their children. Bantam Press 2008. ISBN 978-0-593-06061-2
External links[link]
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| Name | Peel, John |
| Alternative names | Ravenscroft, John Robert Parker |
| Short description | English disc jockey, radio presenter |
| Date of birth | (1939-08-30)30 August 1939 |
| Place of birth | Heswall, England |
| Date of death | 25 October 2004(2004-10-25) (aged 65) |
| Place of death | Cusco, Peru |
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| Jools Holland | |
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 Holland at the British Academy Television Awards 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Julian Miles Holland |
| Born | (1958-01-24) 24 January 1958 (age 54) Blackheath, London, England |
| Genres | Boogie-woogie, jazz, blues, R&B |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, television presenter, bandleader |
| Instruments | Piano, keyboard, guitar |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Associated acts | Squeeze Rhythm & Blues Orchestra |
| Website | Official site |
Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze (1974-1980 & 1985-1990) and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine and Bono.
Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music. He currently hosts Later... with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show Hootenanny, is based.[1]
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Life and career[link]
His great grandfather came from Ireland.[2]
Holland played as a session musician before finding fame, and his first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track "F*ck Off."[3]
Holland was a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze, formed in March 1974, in which he played keyboards until 1981 and helped the band to achieve millions of record sales, before pursuing his solo career.[3]
Holland began issuing solo records in 1978, his first EP being Boogie Woogie '78. He continued his solo career through the early 1980s, releasing an album and several singles between 1981 and 1984. He branched out into TV, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show The Tube with Paula Yates. Holland achieved notoriety by inadvertently using the phrase "groovy fuckers" in a live, early evening TV trailer for the show, causing it to be suspended for six weeks.[4] He referred to this in his sitcom "The Groovy Fellers" with Rowland Rivron.
In 1983 Holland played an extended piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for the album Soul Mining. In 1985, Squeeze (which had continued in Holland's absence through to 1982) unexpectedly regrouped including Jools Holland as their keyboard player. Holland remained in the band until 1990, at which point, he again departed Squeeze on amicable terms to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host.
In 1987, Holland formed The Jools Holland Big Band which consisted of himself and Gilson Lavis from Squeeze. This gradually became his 18-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.[3]
Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the music performance program Sunday Night on NBC late-night television.[5] Since 1992 he has presented the music program Later... with Jools Holland, plus an annual New Year's Eve Hootenanny.
In 1996, Holland signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records,[3] and his records are now marketed through Rhino Records.
Holland has a touring band, The Rhythm And Blues Orchestra, which often includes singers Sam Brown and Ruby Turner. In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the headline act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff.
Personal[link]
Holland lives in the Westcombe Park area of Blackheath in South East London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design, inspired by Portmeirion, the setting for the 1960s TV series The Prisoner.[6] Holland owns costumes and props from the series and occasionally appears wearing the trademark brown-with-white-pipe blazer featured in the series. In 1987, Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof documentary, The Laughing Prisoner, with Stephen Fry, Terence Alexander and Hugh Laurie.[6] Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan, and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magnum and XTC. Holland performed a number towards the end of the program. His younger brother, Christopher, also plays organ in the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, as well as being a singer-songwriter.
Holland was an interviewer for The Beatles Anthology TV project, and appeared in the 1997 film Spiceworld as a musical director.
He received an OBE in 2003 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician. In September 2006 Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent.[7] He is also known for his charity work: in June 2006 he performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay,[8] and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings.[9] He is also patron of the Drake Music Project[10] and has raised many thousands of pounds for the charity.
Holland was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.[11]
On 29 August 2005 Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years (between 1983 and 1995 she had been married to Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham, before they divorced). The wedding, at St James's Church, Cooling near Rochester, was attended by many celebrities, including Ringo Starr, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, Noel Gallagher, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.[12]
Holland is also a patron for The Milton Rooms, an Arts centre in Malton, North Yorkshire, along with Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Kathy Burke.[13]
Writing[link]
His 2007 biography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts was BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland. He is the author or joint author of four other books.
Discography[link]
See also: Squeeze and Squeeze discography
Albums that have charted and gained Certifications[link]
| Year | Album | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) [14] |
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| 1996 | Jazz & Rock & Roll | 38 | - | |
| 1998 | Best Of | - | - |
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| 2000 | Hop The Wag | - | - |
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| 2001 | Small World Big Band | 8 | 23 |
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| 2002 | SWBB Volume Two: More Friends | 17 | 44 |
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| 2003 | Jack O The Green (SWBB Friends 3) | 39 | - |
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| 2005 | Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska | 36 | - | |
| 2007 | Best of Friends | 9 | - |
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| 2011 | Finding The Keys - The Best of | 127[17] | - | |
Releases[link]
- 1978 "Boogie Woogie '78" (EP)
- 1981 Jools Holland and His Millionaires
- 1984 Jools Holland Meets Rock 'A' Boogie Billy (U.S. release only)
- 1990 World Of His Own
- 1991 The Full Complement
- 1992 "Together Again" (single with Sam Brown)
- 1992 The A-Z Geographer's Guide To The Piano
- 1994 Solo Piano
- 1994 Live Performance
- 1996 " Jazz & Rock & Roll
- 1997 Lift The Lid
- 1998 Best Of
- 1999 Sunset Over London
- 2000 Hop The Wag
- 2001 Small World Big Band
- 2002 SWBB Volume Two: More Friends
- 2003 Jack O The Green (SWBB Friends 3)
- 2004 Tom Jones & Jools Holland
- 2005 Beatroute
- 2005 Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska
- 2006 Moving Out To The Country
- 2007 Best of Friends
- 2008 The Collection
- 2008 The Informer (With Ruby Turner)
- 2008 "The Informer" (single with Ruby Turner)
- 2009 "I Went By" (single with Louise Marshall)
- 2010 Rockinghorse
Film and television[link]
- 1981 Urgh! A Music War
- 1982 Police: Around the World
- 1982 - 1987 The Tube (Host for 121 editions)
- 1983 Rebellious Jukebox: Compere
- 1984 The Young Ones: Punk (Episode entitled "Summer Holiday")
- 1985 Walking To New Orleans (Jools Holland in New Orleans)
- 1987 Eat the Rich: Sun Reporter
- 1987 Filthy Rich & Catflap: Strip Show Pianist (Episode #1.3)
- 1987 The Laughing Prisoner: No. 7
- 1987 French and Saunders (Episode 1.5)
- 1988 Sunday Night: Host (unknown episodes)
- 1989 Juke Box Jury: Host (unknown episodes)
- 1989 The Groovy Fellers Himself, 6 episodes
- 1991 Mr Roadrunner (Jools Holland in Memphis)
- 1994 There's No Business: Pianist
- 1994 - 1995 Don't Forget Your Toothbrush
- 1995 The Beatles Anthology
- 1997 Spice World: Musical Director
- 1997 Name That Tune: Host and Pianist
- 2003 Jool's History of the Piano : Presenter
- 2006 Top Gear: Star in a reasonably priced car.
- 2007 Fairport@Forty: Interview
- 2009 Chop Shop Rover Concept: The Jet 1 Car : Customer
Current television programmes[link]
- 1992–present Later... with Jools Holland
- 1993–present Hootenanny
Books[link]
- "Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road, (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998), (ISBN 0-670-88051-5)
- Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1998), (ISBN 0-575-06700-4)
- Ray Charles: Man and Music, (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999), (ISBN 0-86241-929-8)
- Hand That Changed Its Mind , International Music Publications (2007), (ISBN 1-84328-645-9)
- Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts , Michael Joseph Ltd (2007), (ISBN 0-7181-4915-7)
References[link]
- ^ "BBC Later With Jools Holland". http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008rqnv. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
- ^ Barratt, Nick (28 July 2007). "Family detective: Jools Holland". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/familyhistory/3354288/Family-detective-Jools-Holland.html.
- ^ a b c d "About Jools – Official site". http://www.joolsholland.com/aboutjools.htm. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
- ^ "Laughing Policeman Wireless Society: History of Swearing". http://www.laughingpoliceman.com/swear.htm. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
- ^ "Sunday Night" episodes #104 (1988), #113 (1989), #114 (1989), #121 (1989)
- ^ a b "About Jools – Biography – Official site". http://www.joolsholland.com/biography.htm. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ^ Farndale, Nigel (19 November 2006). "A man in touch with his inner anorak". (Interview with Jools Holland) (London: Telegraph.co.uk). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3656666/A-man-in-touch-with-his-inner-anorak.html. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ "Jools Holland rocks the Park for Charity". http://www.thenetco.co.uk/mildmaynew/events.aspx?pg=events-joolshollandconcert. Retrieved 5 December 2007. [dead link]
- ^ "Jools Holland To Play UK Charity Concerts". 25 January 2007. http://www.easier.com/view/Lifestyle/Entertainment/Going_Out/article-95595.html. Retrieved 5 December 2007.
- ^ patrons, trustees and staff - Drake Music Project
- ^ "Widdecombe, Holland and Underwood are appointed honorary fellows". Canterbury Christ Church University. 3 February 2009. http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/News/newsRelease.asp?newsPk=1301. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ BBC News 30 August 2005: Wedding bells for Jools Holland
- ^ The Milton Rooms homepage
- ^ http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx
- ^ "UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". everyHit.com. 2000-03-16. http://www.everyhit.com/. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Discography Jools Holland". charts.org.nz. http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Jools+Holland. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/110618cluk.txt
External links[link]
- Official website
- Jools Holland at the Internet Movie Database
- Jools Holland's Radio 2 show at BBC Programmes
- Later...with Jools Holland at BBC Online
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| Persondata | |
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| Name | Holland, Julian Miles |
| Alternative names | Holland, Jools |
| Short description | Musician and television personality |
| Date of birth | 24 January 1958 |
| Place of birth | Blackheath, London, England |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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