Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

Label history[link]

Beginnings[link]

The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company.^[1] Its early releases as a record label were issued in 1968, distributed by London Records. From the beginning, Sire introduced underground, progressive British bands to the American market. Early releases included the Climax Blues Band, Barclay James Harvest, Tomorrow, Matthews Southern Comfort and proto-punks The Deviants. The label was distributed by Polydor Records from 1970 until 1971, during which time the now-famous logo was introduced, and then by Famous Music from 1972 to 1974, during which the progressive rock band Focus charted with their 1972 hit "Hocus Pocus". In the seventies, Sire released a number of compilation LPs, including the 3 volume "History Of British Rock" series, and diverse artists such as The Turtles, Duane Eddy, The Small Faces and Del Shannon. ABC Records inherited Sire's distribution contract when it acquired Famous Music in 1974. The UK signing policy was vindicated when Climax Blues Band scored a Top 40 hit in 1977 with "Couldn't Get It Right". Also in 1977 Stein, who had worked with the group in the 1960s, convinced the Shangri-Las to reform and return to the studio. But the trio was unhappy with the quality of material it recorded, and the trio opted out of its contract. Those tracks have yet to be released.

Acquisition by Warner[link]

In the later 1970s, Sire transformed itself into a successful independent record label and went on to sign artists from the burgeoning punk rock and new wave scenes, including the Ramones, the Dead Boys, The Undertones and Talking Heads. Sire switched distribution to Warner Bros. Records in 1977; in 1978, Warner would acquire Sire Records. During the 1980s, Sire achieved mainstream status after having launched the recording careers of Madonna (its biggest act), Ice-T, Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Pretenders and The Cure in North America. Into the 1990s, the label had continued success with Seal, k.d. lang, Tommy Page and Ministry.

In 1994, Sire switched distribution from Warner Bros. Records to sister label Elektra Records (also part of parent company Warner Music). Stein had been appointed president of Elektra Records under Elektra's newly appointed CEO Sylvia Rhone. Sire later left Elektra in 1997, becoming a stand-alone label, and, in 2000, Sire and the US division of London Records (not London Classics USA) were merged to become London-Sire Records. This partnership dissolved in April 2003, at which point the company went back to being called Sire Records, and it returned to distribution with Warner Bros. Records again. Currently, it signs newcomers like the Ready Set and Lights.

In 2009, official music videos displayed on the Sire Records Web site^[2] were taken down^[3] because of a copyright claim by parent Warner Music Group, after royalty negotiations between WMG and YouTube (which Sire had been using to host the videos) broke down in December 2008. Although an agreement was made in September 2009 and the videos returned, users have to view the WMG videos within YouTube itself, as embedding codes for them have been disabled.

Current artists[link]

• Avenged Sevenfold
• Blu
• D.R.U.G.S.
• Foxy Shazam
• Eric Hutchinson
• Jack's Mannequin
• Lights
• The Maine
• Mastodon
• Meg & Dia
• Mêlée
• My Chemical Romance
• Never Shout Never
• The Ready Set
• Ximena Sarinana
• Regina Spektor
• The Spill Canvas
• Taking Back Sunday
• Serj Tankian
• Evan Taubenfeld
• Tegan and Sara
• The Veronicas

See also[link]

• List of record labels

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Sire album discography from BSN Pubs
• Discogs profile

Seymour Stein (born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an entrepreneur in the music industry who has been a part of the business since getting his first job as a clerk for Billboard magazine in 1958. Stein is a vice president of Warner Bros. Records and a co-founder of Sire Records.

Music career[link]

In 1966 Stein and record producer Richard Gottehrer founded Sire Productions, which led to the formation of Sire Records, the label under which he signed pioneer artists such as the Ramones and Talking Heads in 1975, the Pretenders in 1980 and Madonna in 1982. Other acts signed by Sire include Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Ice-T, The Undertones and Echo & the Bunnymen.

Such was Stein's influence in signing and promoting the "New Wave" genre of music that he is sometimes credited with coming up with the name as an alternative to the term "punk", which he found derogative. The term had previously been used to refer to the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s.

To date, Stein remains the President of Sire Records and is also Vice President of Warner Bros. Records with which he has had a marketing and distribution deal from 1976 to 1994 and again since April 2003. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2005, under the lifetime-achievement category.

Seymour Stein was formerly married to the late music promoter and real estate executive Linda Stein; together, the couple had two daughters before they divorced, on amicable terms, in the late 1970s.

Stein has never remarried.

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Legacy[link]

• Seymour Stein is the subject of an eponymous song by the Scottish musical group Belle and Sebastian.
• He was the winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Dance Music Awards in 2010.

See also[link]

• Sire Records
• Sire Records artists
• "New Wave"

External links[link]

• Biography by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Interview with Seymour Stein - The Citizen (South Africa), 17 August 2006
• Seymour Stein biography at allmusic.com
• Seymour Stein lyrics (Sung By Belle and Sebastian) - at belleandsebastian.com
• Interview with Seymour Stein by Terry Gross of Fresh Air, 15 October 2009

The following is a list of significant men and women known for being the father, mother, or considered the founders mostly in Western socities in a field, listed by category. In most non-science fields, the title of being the "father" is debatable.

Church[link]

Games[link]

Humanities[link]

Military[link]

Nations[link]

Natural and social sciences[link]

Sports[link]

Technology[link]

Fields[link]

Inventions[link]

Towns, cities and regions[link]

Transport[link]

See also[link]

• List of inventors
• Father of medicare
• Founders of statistics

References[link]

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Dee Dee Ramone
Background information
Birth name	Douglas Glenn Colvin
Also known as	Dee Dee King
Born	(1951-09-18)September 18, 1951 Fort Lee, Virginia, USA
Died	June 5, 2002(2002-06-05) (aged 50) Los Angeles, California, USA
Genres	Punk rock, hip hop
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Bass guitar, vocals, guitar
Years active	1966–2002
Labels	Sire, Wanker, World Service, Other People's Music, Corazong
Associated acts	Ramones, GG Allin, Nina Hagen, Furious George, Paul Kostabi, Christian Martucci, Stefan Adika
Website	www.deedeeking.net
Notable instruments
Fender Precision Bass

Dee Dee Ramone (born Douglas Glenn Colvin) (September 18, 1951^[1] – June 5, 2002) was an American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, songwriter, and bassist for punk rock band the Ramones.

Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the band's most prolific lyricist and songwriter, writing many of the band's most well-known songs, such as "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Rockaway Beach", and "Poison Heart". He was initially the band's lead vocalist, though his (then) inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties. Dee Dee would serve as the band's bassist and songwriter from 1974 through 1989, when he left to pursue a short-lived career in hip hop music under the name Dee Dee King. He soon returned to his punk roots and released three solo albums featuring brand new songs, many of which were later recorded by the Ramones. He toured the world playing his new songs, Ramones songs and some old favorites in small clubs, and continued to write songs for the Ramones until 1996, when the band officially retired.

Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager, and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. He appeared to clean up his act in the early 1990s but began using heroin again some time later. He died from a heroin overdose in 2002.^[2]

Biography[link]

Childhood[link]

Born Douglas Colvin in Fort Lee, Virginia, he was the son of an American soldier and a German woman. As an infant, his family relocated to Berlin, Germany, due to his father's military service. His father's military career also required the family to relocate frequently. These frequent moves caused Dee Dee to have a lonely childhood with few real friends. His parents separated during his early teens, and he remained in Berlin until the age of 15, when he, along with his mother and sister Beverley, moved to the Forest Hills section of New York City's borough of Queens, in order to escape Dee Dee's alcoholic father.^[3] There he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy "Ramone"), then playing in a band called The Tangerine Puppets, named after a Donovan song.

Marriage[link]

In 1978, he married Vera Boldis.^[4] According to Vera, Dee Dee's struggles with mental illness and drug abuse put a strain on the couple's relationship.^[5] They separated in 1990 before finalizing their divorce in 1995.^[6][7]

Ramones[link]

Dee Dee Ramone, July 1, 1977 Kelly's Pub, St. Paul, Minnesota

Colvin, later Dee Dee, and Cummings, later Johnny, quickly became friends, as they were both social outcasts in their heavily middle class neighborhood. After an unsuccessful guitar audition for Television, Johnny convinced Dee Dee to form their own band with then-drummer Jeffry Hyman, later Joey Ramone, in 1974. Joey took over vocal duties after Dee Dee decided that he could not sing lead vocals for longer than a few songs as his voice shredded. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!"

It was Dee Dee who first suggested naming the band the Ramones, after reading that Paul McCartney often signed into hotels under the alias "Paul Ramon". He added an 'e' to the end of that surname and the band members all agreed to adopt the surname "Ramone" as a means of conveying their unity.

Dee Dee wrote or co-wrote much of the Ramones' repertoire, such as "53rd and 3rd" (a song about male prostitution at 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, allegedly based on personal experience), "Glad to See You Go" (written about his then-girlfriend, a stripper and fellow drug user with a volatile personality), "It's a Long Way Back to Germany", "Chinese Rock" (originally recorded by Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers, as guitarist Johnny Ramone was not enthusiastic about the Ramones doing songs about drugs) and "Wart Hog" (a song Dee Dee wrote in rehab). After he quit the Ramones, Dee Dee continued to write songs for them, contributing at least three songs to each of their albums.

According to Mondo Bizarro's liner notes, for example, the Ramones once bailed Dee Dee out of jail in exchange for the rights to his songs "Main Man", "Strength to Endure" and "Poison Heart", which would become a minor hit for the band. The band's final studio album, 1995's Adios Amigos, consists of several of Dee Dee's solo songs, such as "I'm Makin' Monsters for My Friends" and "It's Not for Me to Know" from his album I Hate Freaks Like You.

Later projects[link]

In 1989, before leaving the Ramones, Dee Dee embarked on a brief hip hop career as rapper "Dee Dee King" with the album Standing in the Spotlight. Dee Dee had recorded "Funky Man" as Dee Dee King in 1987, while still a member of the Ramones. Music critic Matt Carlson wrote that the album "will go down in the annals of pop culture as one of the worst recordings of all time.^[8] After the album failed, he returned to punk rock with various short-lived projects such as Sprokkett (which also featured Richard 'The Atomic Elf' Bacchus) of D Generation and later, The Spikey Tops.

In 1991, Dee Dee was briefly involved with transgressive punk rock singer-songwriter GG Allin, playing guitar with Allin's backup band The Murder Junkies. His involvement lasted approximately one week, enough for him to be briefly interviewed during the filming of Todd Phillips' Allin documentary Hated: GG Allin And The Murder Junkies. In the film, Dee Dee reveals that he was unaware of the band's name, even after joining. Rehearsal recordings of him with Allin and The Murder Junkies appears on the Hated soundtrack, as well as on the posthumous live Allin compilation Res-Erected. Video footage of the rehearsals is available on DVD through Allin's estate's website.^[9] Dee Dee never actually played a live gig with the band.^[10]

In 1992, Dee Dee formed another short lived project named The Chinese Dragons, which was followed by the most successful of his post-Ramones projects, a group named Dee Dee Ramone I.C.L.C. (Inter-Celestial Light Commune), which lasted from 1994 to 1996. The group featured New York City bassist John Carco (formerly of Queens' hardcore group Misguided) who befriended Dee Dee when the two attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings together during the summer of 1992. After writing more than a dozen songs and recording several demos for an upcoming Ramones album with producer Daniel Rey, Dee Dee decided to keep the material for his new band. After working with several drummers and playing several live shows in the New York City area, Dee Dee and Carco moved to Amsterdam to record a four song EP and fourteen track album for Rough Trade Records. I Hate Freaks Like You was released on April 17, 1994, featuring Nina Hagen on two of the album's fourteen tracks. The three-piece line up now consisted of Dee Dee (vocals, guitar), Carco (bass, vocals), and Dutch drummer Danny Arnold Lommen.

I.C.L.C. would go on to promote the I Hate Freaks Like You album by touring 22 countries over a 10-month period. During this tour, in November 1994, Dee Dee met 16-year-old Barbara Zampini while searching for his lost guitar outside his hotel in Argentina.^[11] Zampini was a big fan of the Ramones and had been playing bass for two years, heavily influenced by Dee Dee's early work. They later married, and remained together until his death.

In January, 1995, the group had completed their 10-month tour and returned to their headquarters in Amsterdam to begin recording a second album. The group was soon dropped, however, by their record label, Rough Trade World Service. With this development, bassist John Carco left the group and moved to Los Angeles where he began playing with Frankie O. and Pete Stahl. Carco would later pursue an acting career. Songs written by Dee Dee and Carco for the never released second I.C.L.C. album would eventually be recorded by the Ramones on their final album Adios Amigos. One of these songs, Born to Die in Berlin, would ultimately be the final song on the final Ramones' album, and featured Dee Dee singing in German on the bridge of the song.

Dee Dee was also a special guest at the final Ramones' show at The Palace in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996, performing the lead vocals on the song "Love Kills".

Dee Dee formed a Ramones' tribute band called The Ramainz with his wife Barbara ("Barbara Ramone", bass) and former Ramones' member Marky (drums). They recorded an album, Live in NYC, released in Argentina, and played a couple of times with C.J. Ramone.

Dee Dee also recorded several solo albums under his old name Dee Dee Ramone. "Zonked!", the first album release under the Dee Dee Ramone moniker was re-titled "Ain't It Fun?" for the European release, but other than the addition of the bonus track "Please Kill Me", the music is identical. The line up for this album was Dee Dee Ramone on guitars and lead vocals, Marky Ramone on drums, longtime partner Daniel Ray producing and on guitars, and Barbara "Ramone" / Zampini on bass and lead vocals. Guests included Joey Ramone singing lead on "I am seeing UFOs", and The Cramps' vocalist Lux Interior doing the same on "Bad Horoscope".

The second solo-album was called Hop Around; the line-up consisted of Dee Dee Ramone, Barbara Ramone / Zampini, Chris Spedding on guitars and Billy Rogers on drums. Dee Dee also released Greatest and Latest, with Barbara, Spedding and Chase Manhattan on drums. This album consisted of re-recording of Ramones songs, a re-recorded solo song ("Fix Yourself Up", originally from Zonked! / Ain't It Fun?), cover-songs and an unreleased new solo-song ("Sidewalk Surfin'").

In the 21st century, Dee Dee teamed up with Paul Kostabi, leader of the hardcore punk band Youth Gone Mad and former guitarist for White Zombie. An established artist, Kostabi was instrumental in getting Dee Dee's new career as a painter off the ground. Together with Barbara, the trio collaborated on several hundred works that sold quickly for a few hundred dollars each.

On Halloween, 1998, while staying at the Hotel Chelsea, Dee Dee and Zampini met the Hollywood band SEXYCHRIST, which featured adult film star Kurt Lockwood. Lockwood encouraged them to move to Hollywood, and together the two bands shared a successful tour of the U.S. in early 1999. Afterwards, Dee Dee formed The Dee Dee Ramone Band, with members including Christian Martucci (vocals and guitar), Anthony Smedile (drums), Chase Manhattan (drums), and Stefan Adika (bass). With the exception of one show at the Spa Club in NYC and a Club Makeup performance, this would be his last touring band. Dee Dee would release a book, entitled Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone, written while on tour in Europe in 2001.^[12]

Dee Dee later moved to California where he continued to make music and pursued an acting career. Though largely unsuccessful as an actor, he landed a major role in the 2002 low budget film Bikini Bandits.^[13] He also contributed the song, "In a Movie", to the film's soundtrack, which features his wife Barbara on lead vocals.

His next album—a live album produced by Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N' Roses), to have been recorded on June 12, 2002 at Hollywood's Key Club—never materialized. Several bootlegs of The Dee Dee Ramone Band exist, including, Live in Milan, Italy. Dee Dee's final studio recordings were released by tREND iS dEAD! records as the 2002 album, Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone. He also worked with the band Terrorgruppe.

Death[link]

Gravestone at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Dee Dee Ramone was found dead on the evening of June 5, 2002, by his wife Barbara at his Hollywood, California apartment. An autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death. He had been booked to play a show at the Majestic Ventura Theater, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor.

Dee Dee Ramone is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, not far from the cenotaph of his former Ramones' bandmate, Johnny Ramone. His headstone features the Ramones seal with the line "I feel so safe flying on a ray on the highest trails above" taken from his song, "Highest Trails Above", from the Ramones' Subterranean Jungle album. At the stone's base is the line "O.K...I gotta go now."

Equipment[link]

Dee Dee Ramone used Ampeg amplification during his entire career with the Ramones.^[14] His preferred bass guitars included:

• Danelectro Bass: Natural, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1974–1975)
• Fender musicmaster bass: red, white pickguard, rosewood fretboard ( 1974–1975 )
• Fender '62 Precision Bass: White, Tortoise pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1975–1977)
• Fender '75 Precision Bass: Black, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1975–1977)
• Fender '76 Precision Bass: White, Black pickguard (changed to Red), Maple neck (1977–1983) (He used at least 3 such basses).
• Fender '78 Precision Bass: Sunburst, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1982–1983) (He used at least 2 such basses).
• Fender '79 Precision Bass: Black, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988)
• Fender '83 Precision Bass: White, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988)
• ESP Custom Precision Bass: Cream, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1988)
• ESP Custom P-style Bass: Orange w. Spider Graphic, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1989)
• ESP Custom Thunderbird Bass: Yellow w. Chinese Dragon Graphic and "Ramones" lettering, Rosewood fretboard (1988–1989)

Author[link]

Dee Dee Ramone wrote two books: Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones (aka Lobotomy) and Legend of a Rock Star, a daily journal of commentary on his last, hectic European tour in the spring of 2001.

He also penned a novel, Chelsea Horror Hotel, in which he and his wife move into New York City's famous Hotel Chelsea and believe they are staying in the same room where Sid Vicious allegedly killed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. In the book, Ramone is visited by Vicious himself, as well as other dead punk rock friends such as Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, and Jerry Nolan.

Memorial book "Rock In Peace: Dee Dee And Joey Ramone" (2004) is composed by Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone - (2004) ^[15]

Discography[link]

Ramones

• Ramones (1976)
• Leave Home (1977)
• Rocket to Russia (1977)
• Road to Ruin (1978)
• End of the Century (1980)
• Pleasant Dreams (1981)
• Subterranean Jungle (1983)
• Too Tough to Die (1984)
• Animal Boy (1986)
• Halfway to Sanity (1987)
• Brain Drain (1989)

Solo

• Standing in the Spotlight (1989) (used the name Dee Dee King)
• Chinese Bitch four-song CD EP (1994)
• I Hate Freaks Like You (1994)
• Zonked! (1997)
• Hop Around (2000)
• Greatest & Latest (2000)
• Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone (2002)
• Too Tough To Die Live in NYC (2003)

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

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Foxy Shazam
Foxy Shazam performing in Sydney, 2011.
Background information
Origin	Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Genres	Glam Rock Alternative Rock Pop-Rock Post-hardcore
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Sire/Warner Bros. Records
Associated acts	Look Afraid, V-MOB, Train of Thought, Cadaver Dogs, Skin Curtain, Tub Ring
Website	www.foxyshazam.com
Members
Eric Sean Nally Loren Daniel Turner Daisy Caplan Schuyler Vaughn White Aaron McVeigh Alex Nauth
Past members
Joseph Allen Halberstadt Elijah Rust Jamison Pack Teddy Aitkins John Sims Skylyn Ohlenkamp

Foxy Shazam is an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2004. The band is composed of lead vocalist Eric Sean Nally, guitarist Loren Turner, pianist Sky White, and bass player Daisy. Later, trumpeter and back-up vocalist Alex Nauth joined, and Aaron McVeigh became the band's permanent drummer. After forming, the band immediately recorded The Flamingo Trigger independently, then committed to an extensive national touring regimen. Shortly thereafter, Foxy signed with Ferret Records and recorded its second album, Introducing, which was produced by Casey Bates (Chiodos, Portugal. The Man).^[1][2] and released on January 22, 2008. The following year, the band recorded its first major label record with multi-platinum record producer John Feldmann. Foxy Shazam signed with Sire Records (a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records) and released its self-titled major label debut in 2010. The band's fourth studio album, The Church of Rock and Roll, was released in January 2012.

The band name originated from a slang phrase used by students at vocalist Eric Sean Nally's high school. "Foxy shazams" meant 'cool shoes'. (e.g. "Those are some foxy shazams!").^[3] In a Rockline radio interview in March 2012, Eric stated that this was not the case by saying that the truth is not as interesting as real life. He had been lying about it for 5 years and it just stuck.

Biography[link]

In 2008, they were named one of the "100 Bands You Need to Know" by Alternative Press. They toured with bands such as the Strokes, the Fall of Troy, Hole, Portugal. The Man, Tub Ring, the Dear Hunter, Tera Melos, Free Energy, Bad Rabbits, Panic! at the Disco, and the Young Veins. In 2010, Foxy Shazam was included on the Spin (magazine) list of "Ten Bands You Need To Know".^{[citation needed]} Also in 2010, vocalist Eric Sean Nally helped write songs for Meat Loaf's album Hang Cool, Teddy Bear.

Foxy Shazam previously played the Lollapalooza festival, also appeared in various magazines to help support its latest release, such as Alternative Press and Spin. The band played a 3-song set on Fuel.tv's The Daily Habit Show, ^[4][5][6] performed a 5-song set on shockhound.com, ^[7] as well as performing an acoustic three-song set for Spin magazine; one of which was a brand-new song titled "I'm in Love with a Boy."^[8] They also performed a full set, with interview. on Chicago's JBTV in July 2010,^[9] and later performed a live and exclusive version of "Oh, Lord" for music discovery app Shazam.^[10]

In 2010, Foxy Shazam was named a spotlight band for the 2011 Vans Warped Tour.^[11]

On February 7, 2010, the band's single "Unstoppable" was featured in Super Bowl XLIV.^[3] It was featured in the video game NHL 11 and also on the Cartoon Network's second live-action show Tower Prep, as a theme song. It was also in a trailer of the movie Your Highness, and has been featured in a series of commercials for MLB Network.

On October 6, 2011, "I Like It" was released for free on their Facebook page and the new album, The Church of Rock and Roll, was released on January 24, 2012.^[12] The album has a more refined, produced sound than previous records and contains 11 songs. They were able to secure the opening slot on a tour with The Darkness, before embarking on their own headlining tour later in April 2012.^[13]

Music style and influences[link]

A quotation from lead singer Eric Sean Nally about the band's influence: "When I listen to a Foxy Shazam record I think of Evel Knievel; Bruce Springsteen; my childhood; Van Morrison; my old friends from high school I don't talk to anymore; Elton John; the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and beyond; Iggy Pop; and my first kiss."^[3]

Eric Sean Nally said that an album that influenced him was Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill.^{[citation needed]} Many media outlets compare the band to Queen and Meat Loaf because of its use of theatrics and over-the-top lyrics. One live review stated, " If Noel Fielding and Freddie Mercury had a love child it would be Foxy Shazam vocalist Eric Sean Nally." ^[14] The magazine Alternative Press compared the band to bands like Queen, My Chemical Romance, and The Darkness, while also believing that the band has a very unique sound that should best be seen live.^[15] Lead singer of punk rock band The Squids Joey Spatafora has declared Foxy Shazam "The 2nd greatest rock and roll band of all time behind only The Beatles", and predicted Foxy Shazam would be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame the very second that they are eligible in 2029.

Members[link]

Current members

• Eric Sean Nally - vocals
• Loren Daniel Turner - guitars
• Daisy - bass
• Schuyler Vaughn White - keyboards
• Alex Nauth- horns/backing vocals
• Aaron McVeigh - drums

Former Members

• Joseph Allen Halberstadt - drums
• Elijah Rust - drums
• Jamison Pack - drums
• Teddy Aitkins - drums
• John Sims - drums
• Skylyn Ohlenkamp - bass
• Trevor Erb - bass (tour fill-in)
• Scott Hogle - guitar (tour fill-in)
• Baron Walker - bass, keyboards (tour fill-in)

Discography[link]

The discography of Foxy Shazam, an American rock band, consists of four studio albums, seven singles and five music videos.

Studio albums[link]

Singles[link]

Music videos[link]

Non album songs[link]

• "Walking in the Air (Howard Blake Cover)" - 4:08 (from "Gift Wrapped – 20 Songs That Keep on Giving!")
• "Heaven on Their Minds (Tim Rice Cover)" - 4:51 (from "Gift Wrapped Vol. II")
• "Drain You (Nirvana Cover)" - 4:09 (from SPIN's Nirvana tribute album: "Newermind")
• "Hybrid Moments (Misfits Cover)" - 2:02 (Released through Foxy Shazam's Youtube)
• "I'm In Love With A Boy" - (SPIN exclusive track)

References[link]