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Canada
Canada (
/ˈkænədə/) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9,900,000 km2 (3,800,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.
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Los Angeles (
i/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ loss-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation /lɒs ˈændʒəliːz/ loss-AN-jə-leez) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".
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Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,145,905. Salt Lake City is further situated in a larger urban area known as the Wasatch Front, which has a population of 2,328,299. It is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other being Reno, Nevada), and the largest in the Intermountain West.
The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young and his Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named "Great Salt Lake City"—the word "great" was dropped from the official name in 1868. Although Salt Lake City is still home to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church today.
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The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
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Art Mann
Art Mann is the host of Art Mann Presents... on Mark Cuban's HDNet.
Art Mann Presents... is a travel show that focuses on cultural and off-beat party events in North America. Mann's persona is a straight-shooting reporter who interviews colorful, sometimes drunken, characters. Art Mann Presents... has aired on HDNet since 2005.
From 1994-2004, Mann hosted a variety of shows for E! Entertainment Television including F.Y.E!, Cut to the Chase, Search Party, and notably Wild On! with Brooke Burke.
Before moving to Southern California, Mann won a 1993 Cable ACE Award, (with A. F. Grant) for his locally produced television show, Cool Stuff, beating out such notables as Rock Talk Live (Denver), A Cable Carol (Chicago), and The Jokester Show (Los Angeles).
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Bas Rutten
Sebastiaan "Bas" Rutten (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɑs ˈrʏtən]; born February 24, 1965) is a retired Dutch mixed martial artist, Karate and Taekwondo blackbelt, and kickboxer. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three time King of Pancrase world champion, and finished his career on a 22 fight unbeaten streak (21 wins, 1 draw). He is currently the star of Punk Payback on Fuel TV and co-host of Inside MMA on HDNet.
As a fighter, one of his favorite tactics was the liver shot (both punch and kick), and he popularized its use in MMA. Rutten is known for his charisma and has capitalized on his celebrity since retiring from fighting in 1999. He has worked as a color commentator in several MMA organizations, including Pride, and has appeared in numerous television shows, movies, and video games. He also coaches MMA and has authored several instructional materials.
Rutten was born in Tilburg, Netherlands and developed from the age of 6 a skin disease, named eczema, and severe asthma. Because of the skin disease he always had to wear long sleeves, turtle necks and gloves to protect him from showing his skin, his asthma made him very skinny and because of all this he was bullied on a daily basis as a kid. Rutten found refuge in climbing trees at a forrest behind his house, when bullies would chase him, he would climb in a tree and could swing from tree top to tree top, which made it impossible for bullies to follow pursued.
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Cara Zavaleta
Cara Zavaleta (born June 15, 1980; Bowling Green, Ohio) is an American model and actress.
Zavaleta was a cast member of MTV's reality show Road Rules during the Road Rules: South Pacific season. During the season, she was voted off by her team and replaced by Tina Barta.
Cara was originally cast as part of the alumni team in 2007 Road Rules: Viewer's Revenge, but dropped out before filming began. She was replaced by Susie Meister. She has also participated on several of Real World/Road Rules Challenges including Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet 2, and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno III.
After her stint on Road Rules, she posed for Playboy, becoming a Playboy Playmate.
Zavaleta is of mixed Mexican and Caucasian descent. On December 23, 2010, Zavaleta announced on her official YouTube page that she and her boyfriend are expecting their first child together, a boy due at the end of March 2011. She has moved back to Chicago, Illinois to be closer to her family.
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Darrell Hammond
Darrell Hammond (born October 8, 1955) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. He was a regular on Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 1995 until 2009, the longest tenure of any cast member. Upon his departure, Hammond, at age 53, was the oldest cast member in the show's history. Hammond has made more SNL appearances than any other cast member and has impersonated more than 107 celebrities (with former President Bill Clinton as his most frequent impression). As of December 10, 2011, he has appeared on the show eight times since leaving the cast.
Hammond was born in Melbourne, Florida, the son of Margaret and Max Hammond. He graduated from Melbourne High School in 1973 where he was a star athlete who lettered in both football and baseball. Darrell was a high school baseball teammate of Bruce Bochy. He then attended Brevard Community College and the University of Florida where he majored in broadcasting. Hammond credits UF theater professor David Shelton for encouraging his work. After completing college, Hammond moved to New York City where he lived for several years before joining the cast of SNL.
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Dominic Monaghan
Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan ( /ˈdɒmɨnɨk ˈmɒnəhæn/; born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. He has received international attention from playing Meriadoc Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and for his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost.
Monaghan was born in Berlin, Germany, to British parents: Maureen, a nurse, and Austin Monaghan, a science teacher. Monaghan's family lived in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Münster, moving about every four years. When he was about 11 years old, his family moved from Germany to Heaton Moor in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Monaghan's first language is English, but he also speaks some German and is well known for his ability to impersonate others and replicate accents[citation needed]. Bernard is his maternal grandfather's name, and Patrick his paternal grandfather's name. He chose Luke as his confirmation name after Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, his favourite film, which was also one of his inspirations for becoming an actor. He attended St Anne's Roman Catholic High School (where his uncle taught and later became head teacher) and Aquinas College, where he studied English literature, drama and geography.
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Hayden Black
Hayden Black (born 27 July 1976) is an English comedian and writer best known for critical and commercial comedy Internet hits Goodnight Burbank and Abigail’s Teen Diary.
Black left a career as an on-air promo producer for the networks to form his own production company Haydenism Inc. Since forming in 2005 he has created, written and acted in some of the most popular shows the web has seen. The Guardian calls him “one of Internet comedy’s brightest stars”.
His first show, Goodnight Burbank, has picked up numerous awards and nominations and has been called a “wicked satire, bracingly funny… competitive with the very best that networks have to offer” by the LA Times and “one of my favorite shows” by the Wall Sreet Journal’s Walt Mossberg.
In 2007 Black launched Abi’s Teen Diary (also known as Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary) about a 13 year old girl with a fictional genetic condition that gives her the appearance of a man in his thirties. It too was nominated for awards and was called "silly, funny & sometimes poignant" by the Manchester Evening News and "cutting-edge comedy" by Fortune magazine.
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Katie Daryl
Katie Daryl is an American television host, best known for her work on Hollywood gossip show TMZ.
Katie started her broadcasting career as a part time radio DJ at the age of 15. While attending Arizona State University, where she was Fiesta Bowl Princess in 1999-2000, she moved her way up the radio chain and worked as a morning show radio producer for KISS-FM in Phoenix, Arizona. When she realized that morning radio meant waking up at 4 am, she moved to New York City where she became a reporter for the MTV political show "Choose or Lose". She then worked in FM radio in Dallas, Texas. Soon thereafter, she found herself sitting next to Mark Cuban as the co-host of "The Mark Cuban Show" for two seasons on UPN and CBS.
Katie joined the HDNet team as host and producer of "True Music" in 2002, and host of "Zippo Hot Tour" in 2005, and currently hosts the network's "Deadline!". Katie also works for VH1 as a music expert on a variety of their count-down themed shows.
Katie is married to Amy Adams' brother Eddie.
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Kenny Rice
Kenny Rice is an American Sportscaster known nationally for his horse racing reporting with NBC and MMA coverage for HDNet.
Kenny Rice was born July 28, 1956 in McDowell, KY. He grew up in the town of Eastern, and began his career as a disc jockey while in high school for WDOC. After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1980, he became the Sports Director for WTVQ TV in Lexington.
A national "stringer" in the early days of ESPN's Sports Center, Rice filed reports from 1982–1990 and was a correspondent for Down the Stretch (1982–1985) and Wire to Wire (1998–2005). Rice was host and reporter for horse racing including Breakfast at the Kentucky Derby and 2Day at the Races (1997–2006). He was an on-site co-host of college basketball's Midnight Madness for the debut of ESPNU (2005). He has also been a frequent contributor of Horse Racing coverage to the ESPN web site.
Since 1999, Rice has covered horse racing, reporting on the Kentucky Derby,Preakness Stakes and Breeders' Cup ('99-'05) and Belmont Stakes. He's worked 2 Summer Olympics; boxing reporter (2004) and host of Equestrian Competition (2008). In addition, Rice covered the U.S. Olympic Trials in both Triathlon(Host) and Equestrian(Reporter) and has reported on the NFL for NBC's Football Night in America. He did play by play of Track and Field, Rugby, and Basketball at the 2008 Paralympic Games for NBC's Universal Sports with his track calls used in an NBC documentary of the games. He called the Pro Bull Riders World Finals ('05, '07). Since 2008 he has been the host of the Hambletonian Harness race.
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Laura Silverman
Laura Jane Silverman (born June 10, 1966, in Bedford, New Hampshire) is an American actress/voice actress, and the elder sister of actress/comedienne Sarah Silverman. She is best known for portraying a fictionalized version of herself alongside her sister in Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic and The Sarah Silverman Program.
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Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American business magnate. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks,Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network HDNet. He is also a "shark" investor on the television series Shark Tank. In 2011, Cuban wrote an e-book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, in which he chronicles his life experiences in business and sports.
Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon, in a Jewish working-class family. His last name was shortened from "Chabenisky" when his Russian grandparents landed on Ellis Island. Cuban's father Norton was an automobile upholsterer. Cuban's first step into the business world occurred at age 12, when he sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes. While in school, he held a variety of jobs, including bartender, disco dancing instructor, and party promoter. He paid for college by collecting and selling stamps, and once gained about $1,100 from starting a chain letter.
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Peter Arnett
Peter Gregg Arnett, ONZM (born November 13, 1934, Riverton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-American journalist.
Arnett worked for National Geographic magazine, and later for various television networks, most notably CNN. He is well known for his coverage of war, including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam, where he was present from 1962 to 1975, most of the time reporting for the Associated Press news agency. In 1994, Arnett wrote Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones. In March 1997, Arnett was able to interview Osama bin Laden. The Journalism School at the Southern Institute of Technology is named after him.
Some of Arnett's early days in journalism were in Southeast Asia, particularly Bangkok. He started out running a small English-language newspaper in Laos in 1960. Eventually, he made his way to Vietnam where he was a reporter for the Associated Press. He worked with other AP staff in their Saigon office writing a number of important articles, such as "Death of Supply Column 21", which attracted the ire of the American government. In July 1963, he was punched in the nose by South Vietnamese undercover police while covering Buddhist protests.
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Rick Steves
Richard "Rick" Steves (born May 10, 1955, Edmonds, Washington) is an American author and television personality focusing on European travel. He is the host of the American Public Television series Rick Steves' Europe, has a public radio travel show, Travel with Rick Steves, and has authored various location-specific travel guides.
Steves started his career by teaching travel classes at his alma mater, University of Washington, and working as a tour guide in the summer. At the time, he also worked as a piano teacher (his father had owned a piano store). In 1979, based on his travel classes, he wrote the first edition of Europe Through the Back Door (ETBD), a general guide on how to travel in Europe. Steves self-published the first edition of his travel skills book ETBD in 1980. Unlike most guidebook entrepreneurs, he opened a storefront business, which at first was both travel center and piano teaching studio. He held travel classes and slide shows, did travel consulting, organized a few group tours per year, and updated his books. He did not provide ticket booking or other standard travel agency services. He incorporated his business as "Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door." The store was in Steves' hometown of Edmonds, Washington (a city north of Seattle). The company's headquarters are still in Edmonds.
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Robert Wilonsky
Robert Elliott Wilonsky (born 24 October 1968) is the managing editor of DallasNews.com, the website for The Dallas Morning News, an American journalist and the former host of Higher Definition, an interview program on the cable television network HDNet.
Wilonsky was born in Dallas, Texas to Margaret and Herschel Wilonsky. Wilonsky graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, where he was an avid swimmer and cheerleader and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. During his senior year he was the managing editor of The Daily Texan.
After graduation, Wilonsky was hired by the Dallas Times-Herald, but moved to the Dallas Observer after the former ceased publication in 1991. He has worked for the Dallas Observer since, aside from a one-year stint with the Los Angeles New Times. Wilonsky has served as feature writer, music editor, film critic, sports columnist and pop culture editor for the Observer. In March 2006, he oversaw the launching of the paper's weblog, Unfair Park, which he edits. He has also been published in Salon and American Way, and has appeared as a guest critic on At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper.
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Ryan Seacrest
Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American radio personality, television host and producer. He is known internationally as host of the top-rated primetime talent showcase American Idol. He has been nominated for an Emmy award in the "Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program" category for his work on American Idol. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for co-hosting the 2005 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade with Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. As a television producer, Seacrest has won an Emmy for the ABC show Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. On radio, Seacrest is host of On Air with Ryan Seacrest, his market-topping #1 nationally syndicated LA morning drive-time radio show for Clear Channel’s 102.7 KIIS-FM. , as well as a nationally-syndicated Top 40 radio show. Seacrest hosted the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 16, 2007. Seacrest has extensive deals with brand heavyweights Proctor & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Microsoft, and has a strategic marketing and technology alliance with Eventful, Inc.
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Zane Lamprey
Zane Lamprey (born April 2, 1976 in Syracuse, New York, United States) is a comedian, actor, editor, producer, and writer for television and movies. He grew up in Syracuse and attended SUNY Cortland in Cortland, New York where he majored in fine arts and minored in theatre.
He has had a varied career in entertainment. Early in his career he worked on several projects for Comedy Central, VH1 and Nickelodeon. He was also a cast member on MTV's Damage Control and host of VH1's reality show Motormouth.
He is best known for hosting Three Sheets, which ran on MOJO HD from 2006 through 2008, Fine Living channel in 2009 and the Travel Channel in 2010. He also hosted Have Fork, Will Travel, which previously ran on Food Network, a show similar to Three Sheets focusing on local food and eating customs. The February/March 2009 of Mutineer Magazine featured an extensive interview with Zane Lamprey, which highlighted Lamprey's views of fine beverage and the evolution of Three Sheets. Zane Lamprey appeared on the April/May 2009 cover of Mutineer Magazine, which also featured an exclusive behind the scenes look at Three Sheets with photos from Lamprey's personal collection.
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The Alistair Overeem Situation - Inside MMA
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Last week Alistair Overeem failed a random drug test administered by the NSAC, now his May 26th fight with Junior Dos Santos is in jeopardy. Tonight, Kenny R...
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HDNet Fights - MFC 33: Richie Whitson vs Kajan Johnson.
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HDNet Fights - MFC 33: Richie Whitson vs Kajan Johnson.
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AXS TV Web Fights - Zambidis vs. Chahid
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From the 2010 K-1 Worldmax Final 18, an absolute slobberknocker, Grecian Mike Zambidis takes on the Moroccan Chahid, and once again proves why K-1 is a world...
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HDNet WebFights - Lashley vs Ott
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From our extensive HDNet FIghts Library we bring you Bobby Lashley vs John Ott from Titan 17.
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From our extensive HDNet FIghts Library we bring you Bobby Lashley vs John Ott from Titan 17.
- published: 29 Mar 2011
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HDNet Web FIghts - Nickels vs Heath
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In a wild and nonsensical slugfest, light heavyweights, Mike Nickels and David Heath beat on each other at MFC 22: Payoff. ; You won't believe the shots that...
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In a wild and nonsensical slugfest, light heavyweights, Mike Nickels and David Heath beat on each other at MFC 22: Payoff. ; You won't believe the shots that...
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311 You Wouldnt Believe live HDNet
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311 You Wouldn't Believe live from HDNet Chicago 7-14-2011 purchased via www.live311.com ALL RIGHTS GO TO 311 AND HDNet.
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311 You Wouldn't Believe live from HDNet Chicago 7-14-2011 purchased via www.live311.com ALL RIGHTS GO TO 311 AND HDNet.
- published: 24 Aug 2012
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HDNet Concerts: 311 - "Down"
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311 performs their classic "Down" on the HDNet Concert performance 311: Live in Chicago.
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311 performs their classic "Down" on the HDNet Concert performance 311: Live in Chicago.
- published: 15 Feb 2012
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HDNet Concerts: 311 - "Beautiful Disaster" Live
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HDNet Concerts: Paul McCartney - "Band on the Run"
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- Duration: 5:20
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Paul McCartney re-invades New York City on the HDNet Concert: Good Evening New York City. Here's a sneak peek with the Wings' hit "Band on the Run"
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Paul McCartney re-invades New York City on the HDNet Concert: Good Evening New York City. Here's a sneak peek with the Wings' hit "Band on the Run"
- published: 29 Dec 2011
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HDNet Concerts: Whitesnake - "Here I Go Again"
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- Duration: 3:02
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Whitesnake performs the classic hit "Here I Go Again" on HDNet Concerts. Watch Whitesnake and other great Metal Music the whole month of May on HDNet.
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Whitesnake performs the classic hit "Here I Go Again" on HDNet Concerts. Watch Whitesnake and other great Metal Music the whole month of May on HDNet.
- published: 14 May 2012
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Fight of the Week - Gambill vs Schermerhorn
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HDNet Fights: ProElite 3 - Kaleo Gambill vs Brent Schermerhorn.
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HDNet Concerts: Nickelback - "Photograph"
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Nickelback performs their hit "Photograph" on HDNet Concerts. HDNet Concerts brings the best artists straight to your living room, check them out on Facebook.
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Nickelback performs their hit "Photograph" on HDNet Concerts. HDNet Concerts brings the best artists straight to your living room, check them out on Facebook.
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HDNet Concerts: Ted Nugent - "Stranglehold"
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HDNet Concerts: Bachman-Turner- "Takin' Care of Business"
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HDNet Concerts: Foreigner - "Double Vision"
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- Updated: 01 Mar 2013
Foreigner performs "Double Vision" on the HDNet Concerts performance, Foreigner: Can't Slow Down - Rockin' at the Ryman.
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Foreigner performs "Double Vision" on the HDNet Concerts performance, Foreigner: Can't Slow Down - Rockin' at the Ryman.
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 4443
- author: hdnetmusic
HDNet Concerts: Lynyrd Skynyrd: "Sweet Home Alabama"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:00
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
Lynyrd Skynyrd performs their hit song "Sweet Home Alabama". See the full concert, only on HDNet Concerts!
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Lynyrd Skynyrd performs their hit song "Sweet Home Alabama". See the full concert, only on HDNet Concerts!
- published: 28 Dec 2011
- views: 7276
- author: hdnetmusic
Selena Gomez | "Naughty But Nice With Rob Shuter" 04/09/2011 HDNet
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:28
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Selena Gomez |Naughty But Nice With Rob Shuter 04092011 hdnet. selenagomez20743 videos. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 733. 1549. Like 37 Dislike 0. Like .... Watch Later Selena Gomez hablando en Argentina + Te amo con todo mi corazon 9.212 WOTNT GEBAby Camila Alvarez8252 views; The Last Emperor hdnet documentary about Fedor Emelianenko in HD 23 927. Watch Later The Last Emperor hdnet documentary about Fedor Emelianenko in HD 23by mmainsightvideo53967 views ...
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Selena Gomez |Naughty But Nice With Rob Shuter 04092011 hdnet. selenagomez20743 videos. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 733. 1549. Like 37 Dislike 0. Like .... Watch Later Selena Gomez hablando en Argentina + Te amo con todo mi corazon 9.212 WOTNT GEBAby Camila Alvarez8252 views; The Last Emperor hdnet documentary about Fedor Emelianenko in HD 23 927. Watch Later The Last Emperor hdnet documentary about Fedor Emelianenko in HD 23by mmainsightvideo53967 views ...
- published: 01 Aug 2011
- views: 1635
- author: SelenaGomez207
HDNet WebFights - Spong vs. Overeem
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 11:21
- Updated: 03 Mar 2013
From the 2010 K-1 World Grand Prix Finals in Japan, HDNet Webfights brings you the intense quarter-final matchup of Tyrone Spong vs Alistair Overeem. ; With ...
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From the 2010 K-1 World Grand Prix Finals in Japan, HDNet Webfights brings you the intense quarter-final matchup of Tyrone Spong vs Alistair Overeem. ; With ...
- published: 11 Jan 2011
- views: 9325
- author: HDNetFights
HDNet Concerts: Stevie Nicks - "Rhiannon"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 24 Feb 2013
Stevie Nicks performs the Fleetwood Mac favorite, "Rhiannon" on HDNet Sunday Concerts. Tune in every Sunday as HDNet brings you the best in music.
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Stevie Nicks performs the Fleetwood Mac favorite, "Rhiannon" on HDNet Sunday Concerts. Tune in every Sunday as HDNet brings you the best in music.
- published: 29 Nov 2011
- views: 13148
- author: hdnetmusic
HDNet Concerts: 311 All Access
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
Get a behind the scenes look at the long awaited HDNet Concerts: 311 Live in Chicago.
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Get a behind the scenes look at the long awaited HDNet Concerts: 311 Live in Chicago.
- published: 25 Jan 2012
- views: 5218
- author: hdnetmusic
HDNet Concerts: The Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk Women"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
Rock N' Roll icons, The Rolling Stones, perform "Honky Tonk Women" during the HDNet Concert: The Rolling Stones Live at the Max.
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Rock N' Roll icons, The Rolling Stones, perform "Honky Tonk Women" during the HDNet Concert: The Rolling Stones Live at the Max.
- published: 29 Dec 2011
- views: 6807
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HDNet Concerts: Los Lonely Boys - "Heaven"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:01
- Updated: 25 Oct 2012
HDNet Concerts presents Los Lonely Boys performing their hit song "Heaven" Live from the Phoenix at SXSW® only on HDNet. Every Sunday HDNet Concerts brings t...
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HDNet Concerts presents Los Lonely Boys performing their hit song "Heaven" Live from the Phoenix at SXSW® only on HDNet. Every Sunday HDNet Concerts brings t...
- published: 19 Mar 2012
- views: 7473
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This is Ring of Honor Wrestling - Best of ROH on HDNet
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 22 Feb 2013
For more info - http://www.rohwrestling.com http://www.facebook.com/ringofhonor http://twitter.com/RingofHonor.
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For more info - http://www.rohwrestling.com http://www.facebook.com/ringofhonor http://twitter.com/RingofHonor.
- published: 05 Apr 2011
- views: 50433
- author: ringofhonor
photo: AP / Aaron Favila
05 Mar 2013
Manila. Members of a major Philippine Muslim rebel force who were meant to have disarmed in the 1990s as part of a peace pact are involved in deadly battles in Malaysia, the group’s leader said on Tuesday. Nur Misuari, who founded the Moro National Liberation Front in the late 1960s, confirmed “freedom fighters” from his group were part of the militia sent by a self-proclaimed sultan to claim the Malaysian state of Sabah....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: AP / Lai Seng Sin
05 Mar 2013
KUALA LUMPUR. Malaysian security forces attacked a group of armed Filipinos early Tuesday to end the group's three-week occupation of a Borneo village, the prime minister said after the siege turned violent and became Malaysia's biggest security crisis in years ... The Philippine government asked Malaysia on Monday to exercise maximum tolerance to avoid further bloodshed ... 9 ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
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05 Mar 2013
WASHINGTON - US Vice-President Joe Biden insisted on Monday that President Barack Obama was not bluffing about using force to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions if all else fails, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a "credible military threat" against Tehran ... "Words alone will not stop Iran. Sanctions alone will not stop Iran ... Tehran denies it is seeking one ... "We are not looking for war ... Previous Page 1 2 Next Page....(size: 3.5Kb)
photo: US Navy / MCS1 Daniel N. Woods
05 Mar 2013
FOSTER KLUG , The Associated Press. Posted. Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 4.12 AM. SEOUL, South Korea - The Cold War still rages in North Korea, and enemy No. 1 is the United States, which Pyongyang blames for making its much-condemned drive to develop nuclear weapons necessary ... North Korea's latest nuclear test in February , its third , has led even China, its only major ally, to support another round of punishing U.N ... invasion plans. U.S ... Cops ... ....(size: 9.2Kb)
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05 Mar 2013
MANCHESTER. Cristiano Ronaldo scored the decisive goal as Real Madrid controversially came from behind to win 2-1 at Manchester United on Tuesday and reach the Champions League quarter-finals. In a breathless game, Nani forced Sergio Ramos to put through his own goal in the 48th minute to give United a 2-1 aggregate lead in the last 16 tie, only for the Portuguese winger to then be sent off for a foul on Alvaro Arbeloa ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
noodls
05 Mar 2013
(Source. AXS TV - HDNet LLC) Alabama Shakes Brings Sold Out Show To AXS TV For a Live Television Concert Event. March 05 2013 5.29 PM EST Alabama Shakes. Live at The Ogden to air nationally Saturday, March 9 ... Fans and critics have taken more than notice of Alabama Shakes, lifting their music to the top of the charts and consistently selling out live shows ... This noodl was issued by AXS TV - HDNet LLC and was initially posted at www.axs.tv....(size: 4.9Kb)
noodls
05 Mar 2013
(Source. Chicago Fire). CHICAGO, Ill. (March 5, 2013) - The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced that WPWR My50 Chicago will be the official television broadcast partner of the Chicago Fire for the 2013 season ... CT ... ... We're looking forward to cultivating our relationship this season." ... In addition, Kelly has done play-by-play for the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Big Ten Network, Denver University Men's hockey and for MLS games on HDNet....(size: 3.6Kb)
Denver Post
01 Mar 2013
A child looks out of a window in Aleppo, Syria, on Feb. 28. (Giath Taha, Reuters). No matter how ugly the war has turned in Syria, few if any Americans want to put our soldiers' boots on the ground there. In fact, in the wake of Iraq and Afghanistan, it's hard to imagine who those few Americans would even be ... The U.S ... Greg Dobbs of Evergreen was a correspondent for ABC News for 23 years, then for HDNet television's "World Report." ... ....(size: 3.9Kb)
noodls
28 Feb 2013
(Source. AXS TV - HDNet LLC) AXS TV Presents Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away Tour" For a Live Television Event. February 27 2013 5.01 PM EST "The Blown Away Tour" Live 2013 Will Air Sunday, March 3 ... "The Blown Away Tour" Live 2013 is not Underwood's first appearance on AXS TV ... LIVE. ... It's going to be a great night!" ... -Orange County Register ... -Tulsa World ... ### ... This noodl was issued by AXS TV - HDNet LLC and was initially posted at www.axs.tv....(size: 6.3Kb)
The Daily Telegraph Australia
27 Feb 2013
IGNORING Twitter could be the main reason Aussie CEOs are failing to rate among the world's most influential online. Australian bosses are noticeably absent from a new list which ranks English-speaking CEOs according to their social media impact ... The rest of the list was dominated by American internet entrepreneurs such as HDNet's Mark Cuban and Foursquare's Dennis Crowley. TV-Oprah Winfrey ... Supplied ... Sir Richard Branson ... Source ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)
Forbes
25 Feb 2013
. Powered by the ability to communicate with customers, partners and suppliers without expensive third parties, CEOs are becoming adept at using social to further their own agendas. According to Reuters and Klout, the CEOs in the list below are the most influential. Most of these CEOs are household names, but some like Lucy Marcus, Tory Johnson and Charlene Li are only known to industry insiders. . Source ... ... HDNet....(size: 4.3Kb)
STL Today
19 Feb 2013
Postseason college basketball tournaments that aren’t the NCAA are, let’s face it, of minimal interest to anyone. So much of the sporting world probably paid little or no attention to the College Basketball Invitational that followed the 2009-10 season, a tournament televised on HDNet that ended with a best-of-three final between St. Louis U. and Virginia Commonwealth ... But it turned out to be a launching point for both teams ... ......(size: 3.2Kb)
STL Today
19 Feb 2013
Postseason college basketball tournaments that aren’t the NCAA are, let’s face it, of minimal interest to anyone. So much of the sporting world probably paid little or no attention to the College Basketball Invitational that followed the 2009-10 season, a tournament televised on HDNet that ended with a best-of-three final between St. Louis U. and Virginia Commonwealth ... But it turned out to be a launching point for both teams ... ......(size: 3.2Kb)
STL Today
19 Feb 2013
Postseason college basketball tournaments that aren’t the NCAA are, let’s face it, of minimal interest to anyone. So much of the sporting world probably paid little or no attention to the College Basketball Invitational that followed the 2009-10 season, a tournament televised on HDNet that ended with a best-of-three final between St. Louis U. and Virginia Commonwealth ... But it turned out to be a launching point for both teams ... ... ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)
noodls
14 Feb 2013
(Source. AXS TV - HDNet LLC) CBS and AXS TV Partner To Enhance Leading Live Events Network Dedicated To Live Music and Pop Culture. February 14 2013 3.47 PM EST ... "It was amazing to see the transformation from HDNet to AXS TV, and now this new partnership with CBS will create a new kind of live entertainment experience for fans," said Leiweke ... About AXS TV ... This noodl was issued by AXS TV - HDNet LLC and was initially posted at www.axs.tv....(size: 8.0Kb)
mediabistro
14 Feb 2013
This afternoon CBS acquired a minority stake in AXS TV, the cable channel formerly known as HDNet. In addition to CBS, AXS is owned by Mark Cuban, Ryan Seacrest, live events company AEG and talent agency CAA ... RELATED.. Chris Licht ... Comments ....(size: 1.2Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
14 Feb 2013
Broadcasting giant CBS Corp. is taking a minority stake in AXS TV, the nascent music-oriented cable channel owned by billionaire Mark Cuban and Los Angeles entertainment giant AEG ... CBS also agreed to promote the channel and its events on CBS' top-rated television network, TV stations, radio stations and even billboards ... AXS, which launched in July and before AEG's involvement was known as HDNet, is also available in standard definition....(size: 7.0Kb)
Stockhouse
14 Feb 2013
"It was amazing to see the transformation from HDNet to AXS TV, and now this new partnership with CBS will create a new kind of live entertainment experience for fans," said Leiweke. "We share Mark's vision of bringing together the best minds and the best companies in the entertainment space. Nobody does it better than CBS and Les ......(size: 7.7Kb)
| HDNet | |
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| 200px | |
| Launched | September 6, 2001 |
| Owned by | HDNet Inc. |
| Picture format | 1080i |
| Slogan | Original. Provocative. Independent. |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Sister channel(s) | HDNet Movies |
| Website | HD.net |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 306 1306 VOD |
| Dish Network | 362 |
| Cable | |
| Available on many cable systems | Check local listings |
| Verizon FiOS | 569 |
HDNet is a men's interest television channel in the United States, broadcasting exclusively in high-definition format and available via cable and satellite television. The channel currently shows a wide variety of HD programming, using the 1080i video standard, without focusing on any specific genre. HDNet is owned by HDNet, Inc., a company founded by investor Mark Cuban in 2001. A share of the channel is in the process of being purchased by a group including Ryan Seacrest and entertainment companies Anschutz Entertainment Group and Creative Artists Agency, a move that will see the channel rebrand as AXS TV sometime during the summer of 2012.[1]
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History[link]
Launch and availability in the United States[link]
On September 6, 2001, HDNet was launched by Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban and Philip Garvin, owner of Colorado Studios and Mobile TV Group. In December 2001 and January 2002 HDNet aired exclusive HD coverage of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan with former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett. In February 2002, they originated eight hours of high definition video each day from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. This feed was picked up by NBC and aired in 24 hour rotation on NBC's digital television stations. The channel has since grown to be available on a number of platforms, including the DirecTV and Dish Network satellite services and the cable systems of Charter Communications, Insight Communications, Mediacom, Suddenlink Communications, Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse. On September 4, 2008, Cuban announced that Comcast officially made an agreement to carry both HDNet and HDNet Movies to their subscribers in various markets, and began rolling out HDNet in many major markets as of September 30, 2010.
Canadian carriage[link]
In fall 2006, Rogers Cable, Bell TV and Cogeco in Canada added HDNet to their lineups; Shaw Cablesystems followed in April 2007. Presently, as is the case with many U.S.-based channels, HDNet does not own the Canadian rights to some of their sporting events or off-network repeats aired in the U.S. These are blacked out and replaced with additional repeats of HDNet's original programming. While referred to on the channel's website as "HDNet Canada", this is not a separate Canadian channel, but an alternate U.S.-based feed.
Bell TV dropped HDNet from their channel lineup on December 7, 2010 as being advertised on the channel's program 'info' screen since October 2010 due to dispute in carriage agreement.
Rogers Cable removed HDNet from their channel lineup on November 1, 2011.
Shaw Direct removed HDNet from their channel lineup on March 20, 2012.
Shaw Cable removed HDNet from their channel lineup on March 20, 2012 due to rising costs, that was being negotiated by HDNet (soon to be AXS), and a low subscription rate from its customers.
Cogeco removed HDNet from their channel lineup on January 31, 2012.
Accordingly, although approved by the CRTC, HDNet has no Canadian carriage agreements at present time.
A Facebook Campaign "We, The Customers Demand That HDNet Be Returned To The Line-up" was started on May 10, 2012 to have HDNet and subsequently the re-branded AXS.tv return to Canadian Televisions, it may work but they will need the numbers to make return a reality at this point. It has been posted by Mark Cuban himself on that page itself, that "Carriage Rates" for the channel were dropped and not raised as Canadian providers previously stated.
Carriage removals[link]
Time Warner Cable announced on May 18, 2009 that it would drop HDNet and HDNet Movies across all cable systems effective May 31. Brighthouse Networks, an affiliate of Time Warner Cable, told its customers that Time Warner Cable canceled negotiations with HDNet and HDNet movies. According to claims made by Brighthouse representatives "HDNet wants to charge Time Warner Cable more for their programming content but Time Warner Cable does not want to pay more in order to save raising the cost of cable services to its (Brighthouse) customers". Subsequently other HD channels by lower cost providers, such as MavTV, The Outdoor Channel and The Sportsman Channel have taken the place of the HDNet networks.
HDNet and HDNet Movies saw more of a fallout in carriage in 2009. Providers who have not renewed deals to carry HDNet and HDNet movies include RCN, Mediacom and MetroCast Cablevision. In February 2011, Cox dropped both channels.
HDNet will be dropped from the Shaw Direct lineup in the spring of 2012, with Bell Media's Space HD taking its place.
Purchase and conversion to AXS TV[link]
On January 18, 2012, HDNet announced a joint venture with TV/radio personality/producer Ryan Seacrest, entertainment company/promoter Anschutz Entertainment Group, and talent agency Creative Artists Agency. AEG, CAA, and Ryan Seacrest Media will purchase a share of the network (with Cuban also retaining ownership), which will rebrand during the summer of 2012 as AXS TV (pronounced "access"), a name taken from AEG's ticket sales site AXS.[1][2]
With the rebrand to AXS TV, the channel will shift its focus to a mix of lifestyle, pop culture, and performances, with an emphasis on live events and programming. Included in the mix will be concert and entertainment events, including those staged at AEG-owned venues (including Los Angeles' Staples Center and L.A. Live and London's The O2). Programs also being considered include red carpet events and a regular pop culture program similar in vein to ESPN's SportsCenter. Some HDNet programming will remain, including Dan Rather Reports and Inside MMA, though some hard-edged male-oriented programming may be phased out.[3]
As part the AXS TV announcement, Dish Network will expand the channel's distribution to non-high-definition customers, meaning the channel will be available to at least 35 million Dish Network subscribers.[2]
Programming[link]
HDNet airs exclusively 1080i high definition content from a diverse base of genres. A number of the channel's programs are original, such as Dan Rather Reports, a signature news program featuring hour-long investigative news pieces (both topical and ongoing) hosted by the veteran journalist - he joined HDNet in July 2006.;[4] HDNet World Report, an hour-long news magazine; Ultimate Trailer Show (hosted by Dallas Observer writer Robert Wilonsky), which centers on teasers and long form trailers; Deadline! (hosted by Katie Daryl); and Get Out! (hosted by Cara Zavaleta). Other programs are licensed from the major media corporations Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Sony Pictures among others. These include Smallville, and Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Programs from public television, such as Rick Steves' travelogue programs and Rudy Maxa's Smart Travels series, are also bought via syndication from their producing stations to air on the network. NASA Space Shuttle launches and landings often air live. In September 2006 Star Trek: Enterprise and Arrested Development joined the HDNet lineup. HDNet also features Bikini Destinations (2003–present) and Get Out!, a travel show featuring various models visiting hot spots around the world. In early 2010, it began broadcasting Girls Gone Wild Presents: Search for the Hottest Girl in America.[5] In October 2011, HDnet picked up Goodnight Burbank, the world's first scripted half-hour comedy originally created for the web starring Hayden Black, Laura Silverman & Dominic Monaghan. Most programs are presented uncensored and unrated during late-night hours.
Sports[link]
The channel also broadcasts a number of sporting events, including Inside MMA a weekly sports program hosted by Kenny Rice and Bas Rutten focused on the sport of mixed martial arts in coordination with Cuban's HDNet Fights promotion.
Unlike most other broadcasters offering high definition programming, HDNet is not available in standard definition. HDNet's sports programming also uses wider shots of the playing field or arena than most SD telecasts, since the network does not have to protect the shot for a 4:3 aspect ratio, giving HDNet the ability to fill the entire 16:9 widescreen with detail. Other networks that simulcast an event in standard definition must either protect the shot for the 4:3 aspect ratio or letterbox the standard definition telecast.
HDNet recently signed a deal with Professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor to produce Ring of Honor Wrestling, a showcase of the promotion that will be filmed using HDNet equipment.
On August 4, 2009, HDNet reached a television partner deal with the United Football League announcing that they would air games on Saturday night in October. The broadcast deal lasted for the first two seasons, before HDNet dropped the league prior to the 2011 season.
In July, 2009, HDNet offered live coverage of the Autobahn Grand Prix, a racing event held at the Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Illinois.
List of Programs[link]
Original Programming[link]
Sports
- HDNet Fights
- Inside MMA
- UFL
- NCAA College Football
- NCAA College Basketball
- The Voice Versus
- National Hockey League
Music
News and Documentaries
Late Night Programming
- Drinking Made Easy with Zane Lamprey
- Girls Gone Wild's Search for the Hottest Girl in America
- Svetlana
- Get Out!
- Deadline!
- Art Mann Presents...
- Bikini Destinations
- Vegas Confessions
- New York Confessions
- Bikini Barbershop: Jersey
Syndicated Programs[link]
On Demand[link]
HDNet and sister channel HDNet Movies also have Video on demand versions. DirecTV added the on demand versions of both on October 24, 2009.[6]
In popular culture[link]
In a 2007 Saturday Night Live sketch, HDNet's Dan Rather Reports was parodied, with Darrell Hammond, as Rather, claiming "You're watching HDNet. In case you just bought an HDTV and want to make sure it's working, we're the channel for you." This is a parody of its actual slogan "The reason HDTV was invented."
HDNet Movies[link]
Main article: HDNet Movies
HDNet's companion channel is HDNet Movies, which airs uncut, commercial free movies from all genres and eras.
References[link]
- ^ a b "Ryan Seacrest Joins AEG, CAA to Relaunch Mark Cuban's HDNet, from The Wrap, 1/18/2012
- ^ a b "Concerts to Be Focus in Shift From HDNet to AXS TV," from The New York Times, 1/18/2012
- ^ "Ryan Seacrest Launching TV Network With Mark Cuban, AEG, CAA," from The Hollywood Reporter, 1/18/2012
- ^ HDNet press release
- ^ Cuban's HDNet partnering with Girls Gone Wild Sporting News May 7, 2010
- ^ DirecTV Adds HDNet On-Demand - Provides movies, news and events via broadband Broadcasting & Cable November 6, 2009
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| Alistair Overeem | |
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 Alistair Overeem in Amsterdam |
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| Born | Alistair Cees Overeem (1980-05-17) May 17, 1980 (age 32) Hounslow, London, England[1] |
| Other names | The Reem, The Demolition Man, Ubereem |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 263 lb (119 kg; 18.8 st) |
| Division | Heavyweight (2007–present) Light Heavyweight (1999–2007) |
| Reach | 81 in (206 cm) |
| Style | Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Submission grappling |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Boca Raton, Florida, United States[1] |
| Team | Golden Glory (1999–2011) Xtreme Couture (2011–2012) Imperial Athletics (2012–present) |
| Trainer | Striking: Roberto Flamingo |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 14 |
| Wins | 10 |
| By knockout | 7 |
| Losses | 4 |
| By knockout | 3 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 48 |
| Wins | 36 |
| By knockout | 15 |
| By submission | 19 |
| By decision | 2 |
| Losses | 11 |
| By knockout | 6 |
| By submission | 2 |
| By decision | 3 |
| No contests | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Occupation | Mixed martial arts fighter |
| Notable relatives | Valentijn Overeem, brother |
| Website | www.thereem.com |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
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Alistair Cees Overeem (born May 17, 1980) is a British born Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer,[2][3] signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is the former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Dream Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and made history by being the only fighter in combat sports to hold a world title in both MMA and K-1 kickboxing at the same time. Alistair Overeem is ranked #3 in the heavyweight division.
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Biography[link]
Overeem was born on (1980-05-17)May 17, 1980,[4][5][6] to a Dutch mother and Jamaican father.[7] His parents divorced when he was six years old. His mother, Clair, then moved Alistair and his brother Valentijn to the Netherlands, where Alistair has lived ever since.[8][9]
As a child, Overeem competed in sports like judo, athletics and basketball.[9] At 15 years of age, his brother Valentijn took him to Chris Dolman's gym to teach him how to defend himself.[9][10] At first he didn't like to train, but after training with Bas Rutten, Joop Kasteel and others, he eventually learned to enjoy it.[11][12]
Mixed martial arts career[link]
Overeem had his first MMA professional fight at 19 years old, defeating Ricardo Fyeet by guillotine choke submission on October 24, 1999 (1999-10-24) at It's Showtime, the first event of the eponymously named promotion.[9][13]
Early MMA Career[link]
After posting a 10–3 record in promotions such as RINGS, Overeem debuted in Pride Fighting Championships on July 20, 2002, defeating Yusuke Imamura by TKO in just 44 seconds.
Pride FC[link]
Overeem would win two more fights in Pride before entering the 2003 Pride Middleweight Grand Prix at Pride Total Elimination 2003 and losing to future UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell in the quarterfinal match. Overeem rebounded to defeat Tomohiko Hashimoto at the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 in 36 seconds. On October 31, 2004 he fought Hiromitsu Kanehara, defeating him by TKO part-way through the first round at Pride 28. He lost his next fight against Brazilian Top Team fighter Antônio Rogério Nogueira.
In 2005, Overeem entered the Pride Middle Weight Grand Prix at Pride Total Elimination 2005 where he defeated former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort by submission in the opening round. Overeem would move on to fight Igor Vovchanchyn in the quarterfinals at Pride Critical Countdown 2005 taking under two minutes to win by submission. Overeem lost in the semi-finals to the eventual champion Mauricio Rua.
In February 2006, Overeem fought Russian Top Team favorite Sergei Kharitonov. Overeem won the fight, dislocating Kharitonov's shoulder in the process. With his win over Kharitonov, Overeem secured a spot in the Pride 2006 Open Weight Grand Prix at Pride Total Elimination Absolute. He fought Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist Fabricio Werdum, losing via kimura in the second round.
Debut in Strikeforce[link]
After his loss, Overeem traveled to San Jose, California to rematch Vitor Belfort at Strikeforce: Revenge. Despite being the main event, Overeem pulled out a decision win.
Return to Pride[link]
A month later Overeem returned to Pride for a highly anticipated rematch with Antônio Rogério Nogueira. Overeem entered the fight with a heavily taped neck. After controlling the first round and a half with his striking, Overeem was stumbled from a punch, Nogueira followed with a flurry of strikes. Worried Overeem would be more severely injured, his corner threw in the towel.
At Pride Final Conflict Absolute, he lost to Ricardo Arona. Overeem was on the receiving end of a leg kick that caused a non-serious injury to his nerves, causing him to lose feeling in his foot and leg. Unable to mount an offense or defend against Arona, Overeem tapped out to avoid further injury.
He then suffered another KO loss to Mauricio Rua at Pride 33, but returned in June 2007 with a submission win over Michael Knaap at K-1 Grand Prix in Amsterdam (despite K-1 being a kickboxing promotion, the bout was fought under MMA rules).
On September 17, 2007, at Hero's 10: Middleweight Tournament Final Alistair faced Sergei Kharitonov again. Overeem showed solid movement as soon as the first round began, but he suffered a KO loss just before the end of the first round.After not making the cut as a light heavyweight, Overeem realized that he had to stop cutting weight and fight at his natural weightclass.
Return to Strikeforce/Dream/Dynamite[link]
On November 16, 2007, Overeem defeated Paul Buentello for the vacant Strikeforce heavyweight title by submission due to knee strikes.[14]
On June 15, 2008 Overeem won by KO in the first round against Lee Tae-Hyun at Dream 4. On July 21, 2008, Overeem defeated K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 champion Mark Hunt in the first round by submission at Dream 5.
His next fight was against Mirko Filipović at Dream 6 on September 23, 2008.[15] After almost half of the first round which saw Overeem taking down Filipovic multiple times and effectively striking from the top position, cutting his Croatian foe, the bout was stopped and declared a no contest due to Alistair landing multiple knees to the groin of Filipovic.
Overeem was rumored to make his first title defense against Heavyweight Brett Rogers on June 6 at Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields, however a hand injury scuttled plans for the fight.[16] According to Golden Glory manager Bas Boon, Overeem had suffered a hand infection following a nightclub brawl early May 2009. According to Boon, Alistair and his brother Valentijn – both heavyweights – had been involved in an altercation that left five security staff needing hospital treatment and nearly cost Alistair his hand.
Overeem was scheduled to make his first Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship defense in a rematch against Fabricio Werdum at Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg, but had to pull out due to a hand injury, most likely caused from his nightclub brawl.
Alistair defeated Tony Sylvester at Golden Glory's 10 year anniversary celebration with a standing guillotine choke.[17] He used the same choke only 8 days later to submit James Thompson at Dream 12.[18]
Overeem has stated that he wants a rubber match with Badr Hari, only this time in an MMA bout.[19]
Overeem was set to face Andrei Arlovski at Dynamite!! 2009 but FEG instead opted to have him face, Kazuyuki Fujita to keep with the Dream Vs. Sengoku theme.[20] Overeem quickly overpowered his opponent and recorded a knockout with a knee to the head.
Overeem then faced Brett Rogers on May 15, 2010 at Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery to defend his Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship.[21] He won the fight via TKO (punches) in the first round. In his post-fight interview, Alistair Overeem declared for another time that he wants to fight Fedor Emelianenko, claiming that Fedor's management can no longer ignore his presence.[22] The majority of Alistair Overeem's pre-fight training camp took place at the newly opened Golden Glory Gym in Pattaya, Thailand, where "The Demolition Man" concentrated on the further improvement of his Muay Thai skills.[23]
Overeem faced Todd Duffee on December 31, 2010 at Dynamite!! 2010.[24] Overeem defeated Duffee by way of knockout 19 seconds into the first round to win the Dream Interim Heavyweight Championship.[25] Overeem was later upgraded to Dream Heavyweight Champion.
Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix[link]
In early 2011, Alistair Overeem was named as one of 8 men that will take part of the Strikeforce Heavyweight GP, alongside rivals Fabricio Werdum, Sergei Kharitonov, Brett Rogers, Josh Barnett, Andrei Arlovski, Antonio Silva and Fedor Emelianenko.
A rematch with Fabricio Werdum took place on June 18, 2011, at Strikeforce: Dallas as part of an eight-man heavyweight tournament.[26] Overeem won by unanimous decision.
Removal from GP/Strikeforce[link]
On July 17, it was announced Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem was removed from the promotion’s 2011 heavyweight grand prix. Overeem went on to state that he felt the September date was too soon for him to return, and that he needed time to rest and heal after his June 18 quarterfinal decision win over Fabricio Werdum. Overeem swapped out for unbeaten up-and-comer Daniel Cormier.[27] Subsequently, on July 29, it was announced that Overeem had been released from the Strikeforce organization as Zuffa exercised their right to eliminate the one remaining fight on his contract.[28][29] It was revealed that the reason behind Overeem's release from Strikeforce was not due to his unwillingness to participate in the GP semi finals, but due to Golden Glory's policy requiring that the money fighters made through fights be paid through their management first.
This disagreement led not only to Overeem's release but also other Golden Glory stars under a Zuffa contract, including former Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion Marloes Coenen, Norwegian UFC heavyweight Jon Olav Einemo, and even brother Valentijn Overeem. Team Golden Glory leader Bas Boon stated he has since changed the policy, and that Alistair Overeem could come to the UFC under an exclusive deal, if the right terms are offered, which he now has.[30]
Ultimate Fighting Championship[link]
On December 30, 2011, at UFC 141, Overeem made his UFC debut in the main event against former heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar in what ultimately turned out to be Lesnar's final mixed martial arts fight. He defeated Lesnar by flooring him with a liver kick then finishing him off with an unanswered flurry of punches, prompting the referee to intervene and stop the fight, awarding Overeem a 1st round TKO victory and earning him a title shot against heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos.
Overeem was scheduled to fight UFC Heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos on May 26, 2012 at UFC 146. However, on April 4, 2012, Overeem was revealed to have failed his pre-fight drug test by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC).[31] He tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone that exceeded a ratio of 10-to-1, over the allowed ratio rate of 6-to-1. On Friday April 20, 2012, UFC President Dana White confirmed that Overeem has been removed from his fight with Dos Santos and replaced by Frank Mir.[32]
One day prior to his meeting with the NSAC, Overeem released a prepared statement to the media in which he claims the positive result of the drug test came as a result of a doctor prescribed "anti-inflammatory medication that was mixed with testosterone."[33] Overeem's lawyer filed a continuation request for additional time to gather support for his recent claim, which was voted on by the NSAC on April 24, 2012.[34] The request was denied and the NSAC voted unanimously to deny Overeem's application status for a period of 9 months, dating back to March 27, the day of his drug test. He may reapply after this time period in December 2012.[35]
Kickboxing career[link]
Overeem had his first professional kickboxing fight at 17 years old, in a K-1 rules fight on November 15, 1997 (1997-11-15).[9][36] After that he fought against Paul Hordijk, winning by decision on March 14, 1999 (1999-03-14). Overeem then moved onto K-1, having two K-1 Kickboxing fights in 6 years against Errol Parris and Glaube Feitosa. Overeem was knocked out in both bouts and stayed with MMA from then on. He did not fight in K-1 for 4 more years.
On December 31, 2008, Overeem faced Badr Hari, one of K-1's top contenders, under K-1 rules. He defeated Hari by way of knockout in the first round. After that, he faced Remy Bonjasky, the defending K-1 champion. Overeem came out aggressive in the first and second rounds, bullying Bonjasky and landing some impressive offense, but in the third was knocked down by a right hook from Bonjasky, who thereby secured a unanimous decision win. All three judges scored the bout 30–28.
On September 26 at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final 16, having been selected by fan voting after his impressive performances against Remy Bonjasky and Badr Hari, Overeem shocked the kickboxing world by achieving a huge upset. He defeated K-1's longest serving member, legendary 3-time champion Peter Aerts by unanimous decision. At the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final, Overeem knocked out Kyokushin Karate Champion, Ewerton Teixeira with a knee strike in the first round, but lost to Badr Hari, via TKO from a head kick in the Semi Finals.
At the K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Yokohama, Overeem defeated Dzevad Poturak via KO (right knee) in Round 1 at 2:40.[37] Overeem defeated Ben Edwards by TKO in the first round on October 2, 2010 at K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 Final 16.[38]
On December 11, at the Ariake Coliseum, Overeem fought at and won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 Final. In the quarter finals, he beat Tyrone Spong by Unanimous decision. In the semi finals he came face to face with his teammate Gokhan Saki, who he defeated by first round TKO due to injury, breaking Saki's right arm with a hard left kick. Saki's arm was already injured as a result of his previous fight with Daniel Ghita. In the finals, he fought Peter Aerts for the second time. Alistair came out aggressively and finished Peter in the first round.
Personal life[link]
Overeem has a daughter named Storm.[39] On a Japanese comedy show, Alistair Overeem claimed that his great-great-grandfather was William III of the Netherlands.[40] Overeem had a cameo in the music video for the song "Sexy and I Know It" and "Sorry for Party Rocking" by LMFAO in September 2011.[41] He won a celebrity sumo tournament in Japan in September 2011.
Legal Issues[link]
On January 1, 2012 following his match with Brock Lesnar at UFC 141, Overeem pushed or shoved a woman in the face, "causing her to stagger back," in an incident that occurred at the Wynn Las Vegas at about 3 a.m., according to the Las Vegas Police Department. Not arrested but summoned to court, Overeem has been charged with misdemeanor battery, facing a maximum of six months in the Clark County Detention Center and not more than a $1,000 fine. He is being represented by David Chesnoff.[42] On March 28, 2012, Overeem was given a suspended 90 day county jail sentence plus 50 hours of community service with anger management. If Overeem fulfills the requirements, the battery charge will be dropped. Overeem is scheduled to be back in court on Sept. 26 to close the case.[43]
Championships and accomplishments[link]
Kickboxing[link]
- K-1
- K-1 2009 World Grand Prix (Third place)
- K-1 2010 World Grand Prix (Champion)
Mixed martial arts[link]
- Strikeforce
- Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship (One time; First; Last)
- One successful title defense
- Pride Fighting Championships
- 2005 Middleweight Tournament (Third place)
- DREAM
- DREAM Interim Heavyweight Champion (One time; First)
- DREAM Heavyweight Championship (One time; First)
- Fastest stoppage in a DREAM title bout (0:19; vs. Todd Duffee)
- 2 Hot 2 Handle
- 2H2H Light Heavyweight Championship (One time)
- 2H2H Light Heavyweight Tournament (Champion)
- World MMA Awards
- 2010 International Fighter of the Year
- 2011 International Fighter of the Year
Submission grappling[link]
- Abu Dhabi Combat Club
- 2005 ADCC European Trials Winner
Mixed martial arts record[link]
| Professional record breakdown | ||
| 48 matches | 36 wins | 11 losses |
| By knockout | 15 | 6 |
| By submission | 19 | 2 |
| By decision | 2 | 3 |
| No contests | 1 | |
| Result | Record | Opponent | Method | Event | Date | Round | Time | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 36–11 (1) | Brock Lesnar | TKO (kick to the body and punches) | UFC 141 | 02011-12-30December 30, 2011 | 1 | 2:26 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | UFC Heavyweight title eliminator. |
| Win | 35–11 (1) | Fabricio Werdum | Decision (unanimous) | Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum | 02011-06-18June 18, 2011 | 3 | 5:00 | Dallas, Texas, United States | Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal, Later pulled out of tournament. |
| Win | 34–11 (1) | Todd Duffee | KO (knee & punches) | Dynamite!! 2010 | 02010-12-31December 31, 2010 | 1 | 0:19 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Won the Dream Heavyweight Championship. Later vacated title. |
| Win | 33–11 (1) | Brett Rogers | TKO (punches) | Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery | 02010-05-15May 15, 2010 | 1 | 3:40 | St. Louis, Missouri, United States | Defended the Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship. Later vacated title. |
| Win | 32–11 (1) | Kazuyuki Fujita | KO (knee) | Dynamite!! 2009 | 02009-12-31December 31, 2009 | 1 | 1:15 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | |
| Win | 31–11 (1) | James Thompson | Submission (standing guillotine choke) | Dream 12 | 02009-10-25October 25, 2009 | 1 | 0:33 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | |
| Win | 30–11 (1) | Tony Sylvester | Submission (standing guillotine choke) | Ultimate Glory 11: A Decade of Fights | 02009-10-17October 17, 2009 | 1 | 1:23 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 29–11 (1) | Gary Goodridge | Submission (kimura) | Ultimate Glory 10: The Battle of Arnhem | 02008-11-09November 9, 2008 | 1 | 1:42 | Arnhem, Netherlands | |
| NC | 28–11 (1) | Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović | No contest (knee to the groin) | Dream 6 | 02008-09-23September 23, 2008 | 1 | 6:09 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Overeem kneed Filipović two times in the groin |
| Win | 28–11 | Mark Hunt | Submission (keylock) | Dream 5 | 02008-07-21July 21, 2008 | 1 | 1:11 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | |
| Win | 27–11 | Lee Tae-Hyun | KO (punches & knee) | Dream 4 | 02008-06-15June 15, 2008 | 1 | 0:36 | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Win | 26–11 | Paul Buentello | Submission (knees to the body) | Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives | 02007-11-16November 16, 2007 | 2 | 3:42 | San Jose, California, United States | Won inaugural Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship |
| Loss | 25–11 | Sergei Kharitonov | KO (punch) | Hero's 10 | 02007-09-17September 17, 2007 | 1 | 4:21 | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Win | 25–10 | Michael Knaap | Submission (guillotine choke) | K-1 World Grand Prix 2007 in Amsterdam | 02007-06-23June 23, 2007 | 1 | 4:51 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Moves up to Heavyweight full-time |
| Loss | 24–10 | Maurício Rua | KO (punches) | Pride 33 | 02007-02-24February 24, 2007 | 1 | 3:37 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |
| Loss | 24–9 | Ricardo Arona | Submission (punches) | Pride Final Conflict Absolute | 02006-09-10September 10, 2006 | 1 | 4:28 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | |
| Loss | 24–8 | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | TKO (corner stoppage) | Pride Critical Countdown Absolute | 02006-07-01July 1, 2006 | 2 | 2:13 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Returns to Light Heavyweight |
| Win | 24–7 | Vitor Belfort | Decision (unanimous) | Strikeforce: Revenge | 02006-06-09June 9, 2006 | 3 | 5:00 | San Jose, California, United States | Fought at catchweight of 210 lb |
| Loss | 23–7 | Fabricio Werdum | Submission (kimura) | Pride Total Elimination Absolute | 02006-05-05May 5, 2006 | 2 | 3:43 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | Pride 2006 Openweight Grand Prix Opening Round |
| Win | 23–6 | Nikolajus Cilkinas | Submission (armbar) | WCFC: No Guts, No Glory | 02006-03-18March 18, 2006 | 1 | 1:42 | Manchester, England | |
| Win | 22–6 | Sergei Kharitonov | TKO (knees) | Pride 31 | 02006-02-26February 26, 2006 | 1 | 5:13 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Moves up to Heavyweight |
| Loss | 21–6 | Maurício Rua | KO (punches) | Pride Final Conflict 2005 | 02005-08-28August 28, 2005 | 1 | 6:42 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Pride 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Semifinal |
| Win | 21–5 | Igor Vovchanchyn | Submission (guillotine choke) | Pride Critical Countdown 2005 | 02005-06-26June 26, 2005 | 1 | 1:20 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Pride 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal |
| Win | 20–5 | Vitor Belfort | Submission (guillotine choke) | Pride Total Elimination 2005 | 02005-04-23April 23, 2005 | 1 | 9:36 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | Pride 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Opening Round |
| Loss | 19–5 | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | Decision (unanimous) | Pride 29 | 02005-02-20February 20, 2005 | 3 | 5:00 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | |
| Win | 19–4 | Hiromitsu Kanehara | TKO (doctor stoppage) | Pride 28 | 02004-10-31October 31, 2004 | 2 | 3:52 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | |
| Win | 18–4 | Rodney Glunder | Submission (guillotine choke) | 2 Hot 2 Handle | 02004-10-10October 10, 2004 | 1 | 1:32 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Wins 2H2H Light-Heavyweight Championship |
| Win | 17–4 | Tomohiko Hashimoto | TKO (knees and punches) | Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 | 02003-12-31December 31, 2003 | 1 | 0:36 | Kobe, Hyogo, Japan | |
| Loss | 16–4 | Chuck Liddell | KO (punches) | Pride Total Elimination 2003 | 02003-08-10August 10, 2003 | 1 | 3:09 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | Pride 2003 Middleweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal. |
| Win | 16–3 | Mike Bencic | Submission (knee to the body) | Pride 26 | 02003-06-08June 8, 2003 | 1 | 3:44 | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Win | 15–3 | Aaron Brink | Submission (guillotine choke) | 2H2H 6: Simply the Best 6 | 02003-03-16March 16, 2003 | 1 | 0:53 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 14–3 | Bazigit Atajev | TKO (knee to the body) | Pride 24 | 02002-12-23December 23, 2002 | 2 | 4:59 | Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| Win | 13–3 | Dave Vader | TKO (doctor stoppage) | 2H2H 5: Simply the Best 5 | 02002-10-13October 13, 2002 | 1 | 3:17 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2H2H Light Heavyweight Tournament Final |
| Win | 12–3 | Moise Rimbon | Submission (triangle choke) | 2H2H 5: Simply the Best 5 | 02002-10-13October 13, 2002 | 1 | 1:03 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2H2H Light Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal |
| Win | 11–3 | Yusuke Imamura | TKO (knee and punches) | Pride The Best Vol.2 | 02002-07-20July 20, 2002 | 1 | 0:44 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 10–3 | Vesa Vuori | TKO (punches) | 2 Hot 2 Handle: Germany | 02002-05-26May 26, 2002 | 1 | 2:15 | Krefeld, Germany | |
| Win | 9–3 | Sergey Kaznovsky | Submission (armbar) | M1 Mix-Fight Championship: Russia vs. the World 3 | 02002-04-26April 26, 2002 | 1 | 3:37 | Saint Petersburg, Russia | |
| Win | 8–3 | Roman Zentsov | Submission (keylock) | 2H2H 4: Simply the Best 4 | 02002-03-17March 17, 2002 | 1 | 1:26 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 7–3 | Stanislav Nuschik | TKO (knees) | 2H2H 2: Simply The Best | 02001-03-18March 18, 2001 | 1 | 0:53 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 6–3 | Vladimer Chanturia | Submission (rear naked choke) | Rings: King of Kings 2000 Final | 02001-02-24February 24, 2001 | 1 | 1:06 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 5–3 | Peter Verschuren | Submission (keylock) | It's Showtime: Christmas Edition | 02000-12-12December 12, 2000 | 1 | 1:06 | Haarlem, Netherlands | |
| Loss | 4–3 | Bobby Hoffman | KO (punches) | Rings: Millennium Combine 2 | 02000-06-15June 15, 2000 | 1 | 9:39 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Loss | 4–2 | Yuriy Kochkine | Decision (split) | Rings Russia: Russia vs. The World | 02000-05-20May 20, 2000 | 2 | 5:00 | Yekaterinburg, Russia | |
| Win | 4–1 | Yasuhito Namekawa | Submission (armbar) | Rings: Millennium Combine 1 | 02000-04-20April 20, 2000 | 1 | 0:45 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 3–1 | Can Sahinbas | KO (knee) | 2 Hot 2 Handle 1 | 02000-03-05March 5, 2000 | 1 | 2:21 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 2–1 | Chris Watts | KO (knee to the body) | Rings Holland: There Can Only Be One Champion | 02000-02-06February 6, 2000 | 1 | 3:58 | Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| Loss | 1–1 | Yuriy Kochkine | Decision (majority) | Rings: King of Kings 1999 Block A | 01999-10-28October 28, 1999 | 2 | 5:00 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 1–0 | Ricardo Fyeet | Submission (guillotine choke) | It's Showtime - It's Showtime | 01999-10-24October 24, 1999 | 1 | 1:39 | Haarlem, Netherlands |
Kickboxing record[link]
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Submission grappling record[link]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Method | Event | Date | Notes |
| Win | 3–0 |  Mikael Grothe |
(Submission: Guillotine Choke) | ADCC European Trials | January 25, 2005 | −98.9 kg Final |
| Win | 2–0 |  Andreas Olsen |
(Submission: Guillotine Choke) | ADCC European Trials | January 25, 2005 | −98.9 kg |
| Win | 1–0 | Arben Latifi |
(Submission: Guillotine Choke) | ADCC European Trials | January 25, 2005 | −98.9 kg |
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- ^ "Strikeforce reportedly releases heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem". mmajunkie.com. July 29, 2011. http://mmajunkie.com/news/24621/strikeforce-reportedly-releases-heavyweight-champ-alistair-overeem.mma.
- ^ "Strikeforce Releases Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem". MMAweekly.com. 2011-07-29. http://mmaweekly.com/strikeforce-releases-heavyweight-champion-alistair-overeem.
- ^ "Team Golden Glory Willing to Work with Zuffa; Says Overeem Could Even Be Exclusive to UFC". MMAweekly.com. 2011-08-11. http://mmaweekly.com/team-golden-glory-willing-to-work-with-zuffa-says-overeem-could-even-be-exclusive-to-ufc.
- ^ "Alistair Overeem fails pre-fight drug test, likely out of UFC 146 title fight". mmajunkie.com. http://mmajunkie.com/news/28109/alistair-overeem-fails-pre-fight-drug-test-likely-out-of-ufc-146-title-fight.mma. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
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- ^ "After failed test, UFC's Alistair Overeem blames prescribed medication for high T/E ratio". mmajunkie.com. April 23, 2012. http://mmajunkie.com/news/28388/after-failed-test-ufcs-alistair-overeem-blames-prescribed-medication-for-high-te-ratio.mma. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
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- ^ Overeem, Alistair (2010-07-31) (in English/Japanese). K-1 WGP 2010 FINAL 事前番組 Pre-Show 3/4. Japan: Youtube. Event occurs at 2:45–3:45. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jIIDAB3h0. Retrieved 2010-09-26. "I, myself, am not a member of the royal familiy of Holland. But my mother's, grandfather, has been a son, baby, of king Willem the third."
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External links[link]
- Official web site
- Official UFC Profile
- Professional MMA record for Alistair Overeem from Sherdog
- Personal life documentary
- Profile at K-1
- Profile at Dream (Japanese)
- Profile at Pride
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| New championship | 1st Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion November 16, 2007 – July 29, 2011 |
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| New title | 1st Dream Interim Heavyweight Champion December 31, 2010 – September 6, 2011 |
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| New title | 1st Dream Heavyweight Champion | Vacant
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| Name | Overeem, Alistair |
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| Short description | Mixed martial artist and kickboxer |
| Date of birth | May 17, 1980 |
| Place of birth | Hounslow, England |
| Date of death | |
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| Sir Paul McCartney MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM |
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 McCartney performing in England, 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | James Paul McCartney |
| Born | (1942-06-18) 18 June 1942 (age 70) Liverpool, England, UK |
| Genres | Rock, pop, classical, electronica |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, music producer, film producer, businessman |
| Instruments | Vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, drums, ukulele, mandolin, recorder |
| Years active | 1957–present |
| Labels | Hear, Apple, Parlophone, Capitol, Columbia, Concord, EMI, One Little Indian, Vee-Jay |
| Associated acts | The Quarrymen, The Beatles, Wings, The Fireman, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine |
| Website | www.paulmccartney.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Höfner 500/1 Rickenbacker 4001S Epiphone Texan Gibson Les Paul Epiphone Casino Martin D-28 |
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Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles.[1] With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness.[2] As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
He has composed film scores, classical and electronic music, and released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist. He has taken part in projects to help international charities, and has been an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education; he has been active in campaigns against landmines and seal hunting, and supported efforts such as Make Poverty History. His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than 25,000 songs, including those written by Buddy Holly, as well as the publishing rights to the musicals Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease. He is one of the UK's wealthiest people, with an estimated fortune of £475 million in 2010. He has been married three times and is the father of five children.
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Childhood[link]
Main article: Jim and Mary McCartney
McCartney was born in Walton Hospital in Liverpool England, where his mother, Mary (née Mohin), had twelve years earlier, "satisfied her state registry requirements" for nursing, writes Beatles biographer Bob Spitz.[3] His father James, or "Jim" McCartney, was absent at his son's birth due to his work as a volunteer fire fighter during World War II.[3] McCartney has one brother, Michael, born 7 January 1944, and though they were baptised in their mother's Roman Catholic faith, "religion did not play a part in their upbringing" according to biographer Barry Miles, as McCartney's father was a Protestant turned agnostic.[4]
In 1947 he began attending Stockton Wood Road Primary School, by 1952 Joseph Williams Junior School,[5] where he passed the 11-plus exam in 1953 with three others out of ninety examinees, thus gaining admission to the Liverpool Institute.[6] However, when he took his A-level exams at age nineteen, he passed only one subject – Art.[7] In 1954, while taking the bus from his home in the suburb of Speke to the Institute, he met George Harrison,[8] who had also passed the exam, meaning they could both go to a grammar school rather than a secondary modern school, which the majority of pupils attended until they were eligible to work.[9]
In 1955 the McCartneys moved to 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, where they lived through 1964.[10] Paul was the first member of his family to own a car and his mother rode a bicycle to houses where she worked as a midwife; he describes an early memory of her leaving at "about three in the morning" the "streets ... thick with snow".[11] On 31 October 1956, when he was fourteen, his mother died of an embolism after a mastectomy operation to stop the spread of her breast cancer.[12] The loss of his mother at fourteen was later a point of relation with John Lennon, whose mother Julia also died when he was young, after being struck by a car when he was seventeen.[13]
McCartney's father was a trumpet player and pianist who had led Jim Mac's Jazz Band in the 1920s and encouraged his son to be musical. He kept an upright piano in the front room that he purchased from Epstein's North End Music Stores.[14] His father, Joe McCartney, played an E-flat tuba.[15] Jim McCartney used to point out the bass parts in songs on the radio, and often took his son to local brass band concerts.[16] Jim gave his son a nickel-plated trumpet for his fourteenth birthday,[17] but when rock and roll became popular on Radio Luxembourg,[18] Paul traded it for a £15 Framus Zenith (model 17) acoustic guitar, realising it would be too difficult to sing, "with a trumpet stuck in your mouth."[17] Being left-handed, he found right-handed guitars difficult to play, but when he saw a poster advertising a Slim Whitman concert, he realised that Whitman played left-handed with his right-handed guitar strung the opposite way. He then restrung his guitar and after some adjustments, found it easier to play.[17] McCartney wrote his first song ("I Lost My Little Girl") on the Zenith, and an early tune which became, "When I'm Sixty-Four", on the piano, for which, despite his father's advice, he took only a couple of lessons for, preferring instead he says, to learn "by ear."[14] He was heavily influenced by American rhythm and blues music, and has stated that Little Richard was his idol when he was in school. The first song he ever sang on a stage in public was "Long Tall Sally", at a Butlins holiday camp talent competition.[19]
Musical career[link]
Main article: Paul McCartney's musical career
1957–1960: The Quarrymen[link]
Main article: The Quarrymen
McCartney met Lennon and the Quarrymen at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton on 6 July 1957, when he was fifteen years old.[20] He joined the group soon after, and formed a close working relationship with Lennon. Harrison joined in 1958 as lead guitarist, followed in 1960 by Lennon's art school friend, Stuart Sutcliffe on bass.[21] By May 1960, they had tried several new names, including "Johnny and the Moondogs" and "the Silver Beetles", playing a tour of Scotland under that name with Johnny Gentle. They changed the name of the group to "the Beatles" in mid-August 1960 and recruited Pete Best on drums prior to the first of what would be five engagements in Hamburg, Germany.[22]
1960–1970: The Beatles[link]
Main article: The Beatles
From August 1960 the Beatles were booked by Allan Williams to perform in Hamburg, and during their extended stays there over the next two years, they performed as the resident group at two of Bruno Koschmider's clubs, the Indra, then the Kaiserkeller, and upon returns to Liverpool, at the Cavern Club.[23] In 1961 Sutcliffe left the band, and McCartney reluctantly became their bass player.[24] The Beatles recorded their first published music in Hamburg, performing as the backing band for Tony Sheridan on the single "My Bonnie".[25] The recording would later bring them to the attention of a key figure in their subsequent development and commercial success, Brian Epstein, who became their manager in January 1962.[26] Epstein eventually negotiated a record contract for the group with Parlophone in May of that year.[27] After replacing Best with Ringo Starr in August, they became increasingly popular in the UK during 1963 and in the US in 1964, in a frenzied adolation that became known as "Beatlemania",[28] during which McCartney was dubbed, "the cute Beatle", according to Miles.[29] In 1965 they were each appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).[30]
After the recording of the Beatles hit "Yesterday" (1965), McCartney contacted the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale London, to ask if they would record an electronic version of the song, but he never followed up.[31] When visiting artist John Dunbar's flat in London, he would bring along tapes he had compiled at then girlfriend Jane Asher's home,[32] mixes of various songs, musical pieces and comments made by McCartney that Dick James made into a demo for him.[33] Heavily influenced by American avant-garde musician John Cage, he made tape loops by recording voices, guitars, and bongos on a Brenell tape recorder, and splicing the various loops together. He reversed the tapes, sped them up, and slowed them down to create the effects he wanted, some of which were later used on Beatles' recordings, such as "Tomorrow Never Knows" (1966). He referred to the tapes as "electronic symphonies".[34] In 1966 he rented a ground floor and basement flat from Starr at 34 Montagu Square, to be used as a small studio for spoken-word recordings by poets, writers (including William S. Burroughs) and avant-garde musicians.[35] The Beatles' Apple Records then launched a sub-label, Zapple with Miles as its manager, ostensibly to release recordings of a similar aesthetic, although few releases would ultimately come of the endeavour as Apple and the Beatles slid into business and personal difficulties.[35] After touring almost non-stop for a period of nearly four years, and giving more than 1,400 live performances internationally,[36] the group gave their final commercial concert at the end of their 1966 US tour.[37]
They continued to work in the recording studio and before their break-up in 1970 produced what some critics consider to be their finest material, including the innovative and widely influential albums Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (1968) and Abbey Road (1969).[38] Between 1963 and 1970 the group released twenty-two UK singles and twelve LPs, of which seventeen of the singles and eleven of the LPs became number ones.[39] The band topped the US Billboard Hot 100 twenty times, and recorded fourteen number one albums.[40] Lennon and McCartney became one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.[41] McCartney's contributions to the band's hit song's include: "Can't Buy Me Love" (1964), "Yesterday" (1965), Paperback Writer" and "Eleanor Rigby" (1966), "Hello, Goodbye" (1967), "Hey Jude" (1968), "Get Back (1969)", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" (1970).[42]
In March 1969 he married Linda Eastman, whom he first met in May 1967. The couple had their first child together, Mary, named after Paul's late mother, in August 1969.[43] In October 1969 a rumour surfaced that McCartney had died in a car crash, but it was quickly proven false when a November Life magazine cover featured him and his family with the caption, "Paul is Still With Us."[44]
1970–1981: Wings[link]
Main article: Wings (band)
After the Beatles break-up in 1970 McCartney continued his musical career, releasing his first solo album, McCartney, in 1970, which contained the stand-out track "Maybe I'm Amazed", written for Linda.[45] With the exception of some vocal contributions from her, it is a "one-man album with Paul playing all the instruments" himself, writes Beatles biographer Bill Harry.[46] In 1971 Paul collaborated with Linda on a second album, Ram, a UK number one which included the co-written US number one hit song, "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey".[47] Later that year, the pair were joined by ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell to form the group Wings, and release their first album together, Wild Life. In September 1971 the McCartney family added a second child, Stella, named in honour of Linda's grandmothers.[48]
In 1973 McCartney wrote Wings' first US number one, "My Love", included on their second LP, Red Rose Speedway, and his collaboration with Linda and former Beatles' producer George Martin resulted in the James Bond theme song and Wings hit, "Live and Let Die", which was nominated for an Oscar, and earned Martin a Grammy for his orchestral arrangement.[49] In 1974 Paul wrote a second US number one for Wings, "Band on the Run"; the acclaimed album of the same name, Wings' third, was a massive success that became their first platinum LP.[50] They followed with the chart topping LPs, Venus and Mars (1975) and Wings at the Speed of Sound (1976).[51] In September 1977 a third child was born to the McCartneys, a son they named James,[52] and in November, the Wings song "Mull of Kintyre" was fast becoming "the best-selling single in UK history", writes Beatles biographer Peter Doggett.[53] Achieving double the sales of the previous record holder, "She Loves You", the track would go on to sell 2.5 million copies, and hold the UK sales record until the 1984 charity single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?".[54] In 1977 he released Thrillington, an orchestral arrangement of Ram, under the pseudonym Percy "Thrills" Thrillington[55], with a cover designed by Hipgnosis.[56]
While London Town (1978) and Back to the Egg (1979) passed with little critical or commercial notice,[57] the latter involved McCartney's collaboration with a rock supergroup dubbed, "the Rockestra", though credited to Wings, that included Pete Townshend, David Gilmour, Gary Brooker, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham.[58] Active through 1981, Wings produced seven studio albums, five of which topped the US charts,[59] as well as their live triple LP, Wings over America,[60] one of few live albums ever to achieve the top spot in America.[61] They also recorded six US number one singles including, "Listen to What the Man Said", "Silly Love Songs, "With a Little Luck", and "Coming Up".[62]
1982–1989[link]
In 1980 he released his second solo LP, the self-produced McCartney II, and as with his first, he composed all the music and performed the instrumentation himself. The album contained the hit songs "Coming Up", "Waterfalls", and "Temporary Secretary".[63] In 1982 he collaborated with Stevie Wonder on the Martin produced number one hit, "Ebony and Ivory", included on McCartney's Tug of War LP, and with Michael Jackson on "The Girl Is Mine" from Thriller.[64] The following year he worked with Jackson on the US number one, "Say Say Say", and he earned a UK number one with the title track of his LP release that year, "Pipes of Peace".[65]
In 1984 he wrote, produced, and starred in the feature film Give My Regards to Broad Street, a musical which "was savagely panned by the critics" according to Harry; and described by Variety as: "Characterless, bloodless, and pointless."[66] Roger Ebert awarded the film a single star and wrote, "you can safely skip the movie and proceed directly to the sound track",[67] which fared much better, reaching number one in the UK, and producing the hit single, "No More Lonely Nights", featuring Gilmour on lead guitar.[68]
He collaborated with Eric Stewart on Press to Play (1986), who co-wrote more than half the songs on the LP, and in 1988, McCartney released Снова в СССР, a Russia-only title that contained eighteen covers which he recorded over the course of two days.[69] In 1989 he joined forces with fellow Merseysiders including Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers and Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood to record a new version of "Ferry Cross the Mersey", originally recorded twenty-five years earlier by Gerry and the Pacemakers, to generate money for the appeal fund of the Hillsborough disaster, which occurred in April that year when ninety-five Liverpool F.C. fans died as a result of their injuries. The recording was a number one hit in the UK.[70] In 1989 he released Flowers in the Dirt, a collaborative effort with Elvis Costello which included musical contributions from Gilmour and Nicky Hopkins.[71]
1990–2000[link]
In 1990 he released the triple LP, Tripping the Live Fantastic, which contained select performances from The Paul McCartney World Tour, his first in over a decade.[72] The following year he ventured into orchestral music, when the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society commissioned a musical piece by him to celebrate its sesquicentennial. He collaborated with Carl Davis to release Liverpool Oratorio; involving opera singers Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sally Burgess, Jerry Hadley and Willard White, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the choir of Liverpool Cathedral.[73] The Guardian was critical of the work stating that the music is, "afraid of anything approaching a fast tempo", and the piece has "little awareness of the need for recurrent ideas that will bind the work into a whole".[74] In response, McCartney wrote a defensive letter to the paper, which they published, where he states: "Happily, history shows that many good pieces of music were not liked by the critics of the time so I am content to ... let people judge for themselves the merits of the work."[74]
During the 1990s he twice collaborated with Youth of Killing Joke under the alias the Fireman, and released the electronica albums: Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest (1993) and Rushes (1998).[75] Released in 1993, the rock album Off the Ground was supported by "The New World Tour", which produced the album, Paul Is Live later that year.[76] Starting in 1994 he took a four-year hiatus from his solo career to work on Apple's the Beatles Anthology project with Harrison, Starr and Martin. He recorded a radio series called "Oobu Joobu" in 1995, for the American network Westwood One, which he described as being "wide-screen radio".[77] Also in 1995 Prince Charles presented him with an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal College of Music, "kind of amazing for somebody who doesn't read a note of music", commented McCartney,[78] and in December 1996 he was informed that he was to be named in the 1997 New Year Honours and knighted for services to music; his ceremony took place in March 1997.[79]
In 1997 he released the rock album Flaming Pie, and the classical work Standing Stone; in 1998 Rushes, his second electronica album as the Fireman.[80] Run Devil Run (1999), featuring Ian Paice and Gilmour, was primarily an album of covers with three McCartney originals, something he said he had "wanted to do for years", having been previously encouraged to do so by Linda, who had died in April 1998 after losing a seventeen-month battle with cancer.[81] He contributed a song, "Nova", to a tribute album of choral music dedicated to her called, A Garland for Linda (2000).[82] He continued his experimentation with orchestral music on Working Classical (1999), and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in March of the same year.[83] In May 2000 he was awarded a Fellowship by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and in August he released the electronica album, Liverpool Sound Collage with Super Furry Animals and Youth, utilising the sound collage and musique concrète techniques that fascinated him in the mid-1960s.[84]
2001–present[link]
In 2001 McCartney released a live album of acoustic-only performances called, Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).[85] Having witnessed the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks from the JFK airport tarmac, he was inspired to take a lead role in organising The Concert for New York City, and his studio album release that year Driving Rain included the song "Freedom", written for the event as a response to the tragedy.[86] He toured in support of Driving Rain and in 2002 released the double live album Back in the U.S. (released internationally in 2003 as Back in the World.[87] In November 2002, on the first anniversary of Harrison's death, McCartney performed at the Concert for George.[88] He has also participated in the National Football League's Super Bowl, performing "Freedom" in the pre-game show for Super Bowl XXXVI[89] and headlining the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXIX.[90]
In 2005 he released the rock album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, and the electronica offering, Twin Freaks; a collaborative project with bootleg producer and remixer Freelance Hellraiser, consisting of remixed versions of songs from throughout his solo career.[91] In 2006 he released the classical work Ecce Cor Meum; the rock album Memory Almost Full followed in 2007, and in 2008, his third Fireman release, Electric Arguments. In 2008 he performed at a concert in Liverpool to celebrate the city's year as European Capital of Culture.[92] In 2009, more than forty-five years after the Beatles first appeared on American television during The Ed Sullivan Show, he returned to the same New York theatre to perform on Late Show with David Letterman.[93] In 2010 he was honoured by Barack Obama with the Gershwin Prize for his contributions to popular music in a live show for the White House with performances by Stevie Wonder, Lang Lang and others.[94] He returned to the White House later that year as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
McCartney's enduring fame has made him a popular choice to open new venues. In 2009 he played three sold out concerts at the newly built Citi Field in Queens, New York, constructed to replace Shea Stadium, and he released a double live album culled from those performances called, Good Evening New York City later that year.[95] In 2010 he opened the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,[96] and in 2011 he performed the first concerts at the new Yankee Stadium, and released the classical work, "Ocean's Kingdom". He has been touring since 2001 with guitarists Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray, Paul "Wix" Wickens on keyboards and drummer Abe Laboriel, Jr. An upcoming tribute album is expected in June 2012, to coincide with his 70th birthday, featuring recordings of his songs by Kiss, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Willie Nelson, Steve Miller, B.B. King and others.[97] Kisses on the Bottom, a collection of standards, was released in February 2012,[98] that same month he was honoured as MusiCares Person of the Year, two days prior to his performance at the 54th Grammy Awards.[99]
Musicianship[link]
As a musician, McCartney was largely self-taught, musicologist Ian MacDonald describes his approach as, "by nature drawn to music's formal aspects yet wholly untutoured ... [He] produced technically 'finished' work almost entirely by instinct, his harmonic judgement based mainly on perfect pitch and an acute pair of ears."[100]
- Bass guitar
He has been acknowledged by a diverse group of bass players including, Sting, long-time Dr. Dre bassist Mike Elizondo, and Colin Moulding of XTC.[101] McCartney is known to play using a plectrum, or pick almost exclusively, but he occasionally plays fingerstyle as well.[102] During his early years with the Beatles he primarily used a Höfner 500/1 bass live and when recording, though in 1965 he began using a Rickenbacker 4001s for recording, while consistently using Vox amplifiers.[103] In recent years he has used Mesa Boogie bass amplifiers live and while recording. McCartney confirms the influence of Motown on his playing, in particular that of James Jamerson, whom he described as a "hero", and included with Brian Wilson as his "two biggest influences".[104]
"He's an egomaniac about everything else but his bass playing he'd always been a bit coy about".[105]
~ John Lennon
Whereas MacDonald identifies "She's a Woman" as the point in time which McCartney's bass playing began to evolve dramatically,[106] Beatles biographer Chris Ingham singles out Rubber Soul as the time when his bass playing, "began to come into its own", particularly on "The Word".[105] Authors Tony Bacon and Gareth Morgan agree, calling his "groove" on the track, "a high point in pop bass playing" and "the first proof on a recording of his serious technical ability on the instrument."[107] MacDonald infers the influence of James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", and Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour", American soul tracks from which McCartney absorbed elements and drew inspiration as he "delivers his most spontaneous bass-part to date". He also played piano on the recording.[108]
Bacon and Morgan describe his bassline for the Beatles' song "Rain" as "an astonishing piece of playing ... [McCartney] thinking in terms of both rhythm and 'lead bass' ... [choosing] the area of the neck ... he correctly perceives will give him clarity for melody without rendering his sound too thin for groove."[109] MacDonald calls it the Beatles "finest B-side", its "clangorously saturated texture resona[ting] around McCartney's bass".[110] He describes the bassline as "so inventive that it threatens to overwhelm the track", and he draws attention to the influence of Indian classical music in "exotic melismas in the bass part".[110]
- Acoustic guitar
Examples of his acoustic guitar playing on Beatles tracks include: "Yesterday", "I'm Looking Through You", "Michelle", "Blackbird", "I Will", "Mother Nature's Son" and "Rocky Raccoon".[111] He played an Epiphone Texan on many, if not most of his acoustic recordings, but he has also used a Martin D-28.[112]
- Electric guitar
He played lead electric guitar on several Beatles' recordings, including what MacDonald describes as a "fiercely angular slide guitar solo" on "Drive My Car",[113] which he played on an Epiphone Casino, about which McCartney said: "If I had to pick one electric guitar it would be this."[114] He also contributed what MacDonald calls "a startling guitar solo" on the Harrison composition, "Taxman", and the "shrieking" guitar on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Helter Skelter", as well as "a coruscating pseudo-Indian" solo on "Good Morning Good Morning".[115] In recent years he has primarily used a Gibson Les Paul for electric work, particularly while performing live.
- Piano
He played a piano on many Beatles' songs including, "Every Little Thing", "For No One", "A Day in the Life", "Hello, Goodbye", "Hey Jude", "Lady Madonna", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road".[116]
Creative outlets[link]
During the 1960s, McCartney delved into the visual arts, becoming a close friend of leading art dealers and gallery owners, explored experimental film, and regularly attended movie, theatrical and classical music performances. His first contact with the London avant-garde scene was through artist John Dunbar, who introduced him to the art dealer Robert Fraser, who in turn introduced McCartney to an array of writers and artists.[117] He later became involved in the renovation and publicising of the Indica Gallery in Mason's Yard, London — where Lennon first met Yoko Ono.[118] The Indica Gallery brought McCartney into contact with Miles, whose underground newspaper, the International Times, McCartney helped to start.[119] Miles would become de facto manager of Apple's short-lived Zapple Records label,[120] and he wrote McCartney's official biography, Many Years From Now (1997).[121]
While living at then girlfriend Jane Asher's parent's house, he took piano lessons arranged by Jane's mother, provided by a teacher from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a school Beatles' producer Martin had previously attended.[122] McCartney studied composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio.[123] He later wrote and released several pieces of modern classical music and ambient electronica, as well as writing poetry and painting. He is lead patron of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, an arts school in the building formerly occupied by the Liverpool Institute for Boys. The 1837 building, which he attended during his schooldays, had become derelict by the mid-1980s, however, on 7 June 1996, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the redeveloped building.[124]
- Painting
In 1966 he met art gallery-owner Robert Fraser, whose flat was visited by many well-known artists, some of which McCartney met, including; Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Blake, and Richard Hamilton, and it was at Fraser's flat where McCartney first learned about art appreciation.[125] He later started buying paintings by Magritte, using his painting of an apple for the Apple Records logo, and McCartney now owns one of Magritte's easels and a pair of his spectacles.[126]
McCartney's love of painting surfaced after watching artist Willem de Kooning paint, in Kooning's Long Island studio.[127] He took up painting in 1983,[128] and in 1999, he exhibited his paintings (featuring McCartney's portraits of John Lennon, Andy Warhol, and David Bowie) for the first time in Siegen, Germany, and included photographs by Linda. He chose the gallery because Wolfgang Suttner (local events organiser) was genuinely interested in his art, and the positive reaction led to McCartney showing his work in UK galleries.[129] The first UK exhibition of his work was opened in Bristol, England with more than 50 paintings on display. McCartney had previously believed that "only people that had been to art school were allowed to paint" – as Lennon had.[129]
In October 2000, Ono and McCartney presented art exhibitions in New York and London. McCartney said, "I've been offered an exhibition of my paintings at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool where John and I used to spend many a pleasant afternoon. So I'm really excited about it. I didn't tell anybody I painted for 15 years but now I'm out of the closet."[130] McCartney designed a series of six postage stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post in 2002, and according to BBC News, he is the first major rock star in the world to do so.[131]
- Writing and poetry
When he was young, his mother read him poems and encouraged him to read books, and his father was interested in crosswords and invited he and his brother Michael to solve them with him, so as to increase their "word power", says McCartney.[132] He was later inspired – in his school years – by Alan Durband, an English literature teacher at the Liverpool Institute.[133] Durband was a co-founder and fund-raiser at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, where Willy Russell also worked, and introduced McCartney to Geoffrey Chaucer's works.[134]
In 2001 he published 'Blackbird Singing', a volume of poems and lyrics to his songs for which he gave readings in Liverpool and New York City.[135] In the foreword of the book, he explains: "When I was a teenager ... I had an overwhelming desire to have a poem published in the school magazine. I wrote something deep and meaningful——which was promptly rejected——and I suppose I have been trying to get my own back ever since."[136] Years later, he wrote a poem about the death of his childhood friend, Ivan Vaughan.[136] In 2005 he collaborated with author Philip Ardagh and animator Geoff Dunbar to write, High in the Clouds: An Urban Furry Tail, which The Guardian labelled an "anti-capitalist children's book".[137]
- Film
He was interested in animated films as a child, and in 1981 he asked Geoff Dunbar to direct a short animated film called Rupert and the Frog Song. McCartney was the writer and producer and he also added some of the character voices.[138] In 1992 he worked with Dunbar on an animated film about the work of French artist Honoré Daumier, which won both of them a BAFTA award.[139] In 2004 they worked together on the animated short film, Tropic Island Hum. In 1995 he made a guest appearance in the "Lisa the Vegetarian" episode of The Simpsons, and directed a short documentary about the Grateful Dead.[140]
In May 2000 he released Wingspan: An Intimate Portrait, a retrospective documentary that features behind-the-scenes film and photographs that he and Linda took of their family and bands.[141] Interspersed throughout the eighty-eight minute film is an interview by Mary McCartney with her father. Mary was the baby photographed inside McCartney's jacket on the back cover of his first solo album, McCartney, and was one of the producers of the documentary.[142]
Lifestyle[link]
- Drugs
McCartney's introduction to drugs started in Hamburg, Germany, when the Beatles would play for long hours and were often using Preludin to maintain energy, sometimes supplied by friend Astrid Kirchherr. According to McCartney, he would usually take only one, but Lennon would often take four or five by the end of a night.[143] He recalls getting "very high" and "giggling uncontrollably" when the Beatles were introduced to marijuana by Bob Dylan in a New York hotel room in 1964.[144] His use of which soon after became habitual,[145] and according to Miles, any future Beatles' lyrics containing the words "high", or "grass" were written specifically as a reference to cannabis, as was the phrase "another kind of mind" in "Got to Get You into My Life".[146] During the filming of Help!, he claims he occasionally smoked a joint in the car on the way to the studio during filming, which often made him forget his lines.[147] Director Dick Lester says that he overheard "two beautiful women" trying to cajole McCartney into using heroin, but he refused.[147] He was introduced to cocaine by art dealer Robert Fraser, and it was readily available during the recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[148] McCartney admits that he used the drug for about a year but stopped because of his dislike of the unpleasant melancholy he felt after the drug wore off.[149]
While initially reluctant to try LSD, he eventually did so in the fall of 1966 with friend Tara Browne.[150] He took his second "acid trip" with Lennon on 21 March 1967 after a Sgt. Pepper studio session.[151] He later became the first Beatle to discuss the drug publicly, declaring in a magazine interview that "it opened my eyes" and "made me a better, more honest, more tolerant member of society."[152] His attitude about cannabis was made public in 1967, when he added his name to a 24 July advertisement in The Times which called for its legalisation, the release of all prisoners imprisoned because of possession, and research into marijuana's medical uses. The advertisement was produced by a group called Soma and was signed by sixty-five people, including Members of Parliament, the Beatles, Epstein, RD Laing, Francis Crick, and Graham Greene.[153]
Though never arrested by Norman Pilcher's Drug Squad, as Lennon, Harrison, and Mick Jagger had been,[154] in 1972 Swedish police fined him for cannabis possession, and soon after Scottish police found plants growing on his farm.[155] He was again arrested for marijuana possession in 1975, and in January 1980, when Wings flew to Tokyo for an eleven concert tour of Japan, as McCartney was going through customs, officials found approximately 8 ounces (218.3 g) of cannabis in his luggage, and he was arrested and taken to a local jail while the Japanese government decided what to do. After ten days, he was released without charge and deported.[156] He was again arrested for possession of marijuana in 1984 and in 1997, he spoke out in support of decriminalisation, stating "People are smoking pot anyway and to make them criminals is wrong."[157]
- Activism
Paul and Linda became outspoken animal rights activists after their vegetarianism was realised when Paul happened to notice through a window, lambs in a field, as they ate a meal of lamb.[158] He has also credited the 1942 Disney film Bambi, in which the young deer's mother is shot by a hunter, as the original inspiration for him to take an interest in animal rights.[159] In his first interview after Linda's death, he promised to continue working for animal rights.[160] In 1999 he spent £3,000,000 to ensure Linda McCartney Foods remained free of genetically engineered ingredients.[161]
Following his marriage to Mills, he joined her in a campaign against landmines, becoming patrons of Adopt-A-Minefield.[162] In 2003 he played a personal concert for the wife of a wealthy banker and donated his one million dollar fee to the charity.[163] He also wore an anti-landmines t-shirt during the Back in the World tour.[164] In 2006 the McCartneys travelled to Prince Edward Island to bring international attention to the seal hunt, this would be their final public appearance together. Their arrival sparked attention in Newfoundland and Labrador where the hunt is of economic significance.[165] The couple also debated with Newfoundland's Premier Danny Williams on the CNN show Larry King Live. They further stated that the fishermen should quit hunting seals and begin a seal watching business.[166] McCartney has also criticised China's fur trade[167] and supports the Make Poverty History campaign.[168]
He has been involved with several charity recordings and performances, such as the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Ferry Aid, Band Aid, Live Aid, and the recording of "Ferry Cross the Mersey" (1989) following the Hillsborough disaster.[169] In 2004 he donated a song to an album to aid the "US Campaign for Burma", in support of Burmese Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi,[170] and in 2008 he donated a song to Aid Still Required's CD to assist with the restoration of the devastation done to Southeast Asia from the 2004 Tsunami.[171]
In 2009, he wrote to the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, and asked him why he wasn't a vegetarian, McCartney explains: "He wrote back very kindly, saying, my doctors tell me that I must eat meat. And I wrote back again, saying, you know, I don't think that's right. So we had a little correspondence [and] I think now he's vegetarian most of the time. I think he's now being told ... that he can get his protein somewhere else. It's a little old-fashioned to think that he can only get it from meat [and] It just doesn't seem right – the Dalai Lama, on the one hand, saying, 'Hey guys, don't harm sentient beings ... Oh, and by the way, I'm having a steak.'"[172]
- Football
He attended the 1968 FA Cup Final played by West Bromwich Albion against the Everton Football Club, and after the match, shared cigarettes and whisky with other fans.[173] Though he has publicly professed support for Everton,[174] he has also shown support for Liverpool F.C., as in 1968 when he was photographed wearing their rosette.[175] The ex-Liverpool footballer, Albert Stubbins, was shown on the Sgt. Pepper cover,[176] and the video for his song "Pipes of Peace" (1983) recreated the 1915 Christmas football game played between German and British troops during World War I.[177] At the end of "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)" the crowd chants "Paul McCartney!" until McCartney takes over and changes it to "Kenny Dalglish!", referring to then Liverpool and Scotland striker. At the same concert, Gordon Smith, former football player for the Rangers and Brighton & Hove Albion, met the McCartneys, and later accepted an invitation to visit their home in East Sussex in 1980. Smith later said that McCartney was "thrilled I knew Kenny Dalglish"[178]
He attended the 1986 FA Cup Final between Liverpool and Everton,[173] and performed at the Liverpool F.C. Anfield stadium in 2008, as a part of Liverpool's European Capital of Culture year. Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters sang with McCartney on "Band on the Run", and played drums on "Back in the U.S.S.R.".[179] Ono and Olivia Harrison attended the concert, along with Ken Dodd, and the former Liverpool F.C. football manager Rafael Benítez.[180] In 2008 he ended speculation about his allegiance when he said: "Here's the deal: my father was born in Everton, my family are officially Evertonians, so if it comes down to a derby match or an FA Cup final between the two, I would have to support Everton. But after a concert at Wembley Arena I got a bit of a friendship with Kenny Dalglish, who had been to the gig and I thought 'You know what? I am just going to support them both because it's all Liverpool."[181]
- Meditation
On 24 August 1967, McCartney met the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the London Hilton, and later went to Bangor, in North Wales, to attend a weekend 'initiation' conference, at which time he and the other Beatles learned Transcendental Meditation (TM).[182] "The whole meditation experience was very good and I still use the mantra ... I find it soothing and I can imagine that the more you were to get into it, the more interesting it would get."[183] The time McCartney later spent in India at the Maharishi's ashram was highly productive, as nearly all of the songs that would later be recorded for The White Album and Abbey Road were composed there.[184] Although he was told never to repeat the mantra to anyone else, he admitted he told Linda, and said he meditated a lot while he was in jail in Japan.[185] In 2009 McCartney and Starr headlined a benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall, raising three million dollars for the David Lynch Foundation to fund instruction in Transcendental Meditation for at-risk youth.[186]
Personal relationships[link]
Main article: Personal relationships of Paul McCartney
Girlfriends[link]
- Dot Rhone
McCartney's first serious girlfriend in Liverpool was Dot Rhone, whom he met at the Casbah club in 1959.[187] According to Spitz, Rhone feels McCartney had a compulsion to control situations, chosing clothes and make-up for Rhone, encouraging her to grow her hair out like Brigitte Bardot's,[188] and at least once insisting she have it re-styled, to disappointing effect.[189] When he first went to Hamburg with the Beatles, he wrote to Rhone regularly, and she accompanied Cynthia Lennon to Hamburg when they played there again in 1962.[190] The couple had a two-and-a-half-year relationship, and were due to marry until Rhone's miscarriage, when according to Spitz, McCartney now "free of obligation", ended the engagement.[191]
- Jane Asher
He first met the British actress Jane Asher on 18 April 1963, when a photographer asked them to pose together at a Beatles performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.[192] The two began a relationship and he took up residence with Asher at her parents' house at 57 Wimpole Street London, where he lived for nearly three years before the couple moved to McCartney's own house in St. John's Wood.[193] He wrote several songs while at the Ashers', including "Yesterday" and several inspired by Asher, among them "And I Love Her", "You Won't See Me", and "I'm Looking Through You".[194] They had a five-year relationship, and planned to marry, but Asher broke off the engagement after she discovered he had become involved with another woman, Francie Schwartz.[195]
Wives[link]
- Linda Eastman
Linda Eastman was a music fan who once commented: "All my teen years were spent with an ear to the radio", and who would at times be truant from school to instead see artists such as: Fabian, Bobby Darin, and Chuck Berry.[196] She was a popular photographer with groups such as: the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Grateful Dead, the Doors, and the Beatles, whom she first met at Shea Stadium in 1966, about which she commented: "It was John who interested me at the start. He was my Beatle hero. But when I met him the facination faded fast and I found it was Paul I liked."[197] The pair first properly met in 1967 at a Georgie Fame concert at The Bag O'Nails club,[198] during her UK assignment to take photographs of rock musicians in London,[199] Paul remembers: "The night Linda and I met, I spotted her across a crowded club, and although I would normally have been nervous chatting her up, I realised I had to ... Pushiness worked for me that night!"[197] Linda said this about their meeting: "I was quite shameless really. I was with somebody else [that night] ... and I saw Paul at the other side of the room. He looked so beautiful that I made up my mind I would have to pick him up."[197] The pair were married in 1969; he describes their relationship: "We had a lot of fun together ... just the nature of how we are, our favourite thing really is to just hang, to have fun. And Linda's very big on just following the moment."[200] He also added, "We were crazy. We had a big argument the night before we got married and it was nearly called off ... [its] miraculous that we made it. But we did."[201]
They collaborated musically after the break-up of the Beatles, and later formed Wings together in 1971, a commercially successful band that was active through 1981.[202] They were both vegetarian and supported the animal rights organisation PETA.[203] They had four children – Linda's daughter Heather (legally adopted by Paul), Mary, Stella and James – and remained married until Linda's death from breast cancer in 1998.[204] After her death, Paul stated in The Daily Mail: "I got a counsellor because I knew that I would need some help. He was great, particularly in helping me get rid of my guilt [about wishing I'd been] perfect all the time ... a real bugger. But then I thought, hang on a minute. We're just human. That was the beautiful thing about our marriage. We were just a boyfriend and girlfriend having babies."[205]
- Heather Mills
In 2002 he married Heather Mills, a former model and anti-landmines campaigner.[206] In 2003, the couple had a child, Beatrice Milly, the first name in honour of Heather's late mother, the second for one of Paul's aunts.[207] They separated in April 2006 and were divorced in March 2008.[208] In 2004 he commented on media animosity toward his partners, "They [the British public] didn't like me giving up on Jane Asher", "I married a New York divorcee with a child, and at the time they didn't like that."[209]
- Nancy Shevell
He married New Yorker Nancy Shevell in a civil ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall, London on 9 October 2011. The wedding was a "low-key affair" attended by a group of around 30 family and friends.[210] The couple had been dating since November 2007.[211] A breast cancer survivor,[212] she is a member of the board of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority as well as vice president of a family-owned transportation conglomerate which owns New England Motor Freight.[213]
Beatles[link]
This section is about social and other general interactions. For creative collaborations, see Collaborations between ex-Beatles.
- John Lennon
Despite a strained relationship with Lennon, they briefly became close again in 1974, and played music together on two occasions, the only times since the Beatles break-up in 1970.[214] In later years however, the two grew apart.[215] While McCartney would often phone, he was apprehensive about the reception he would receive, as during one call when he was told, "You're all pizza and fairytales!"[216] In McCartney's effort to avoid talking with him only about business, they often spoke of cats, baking bread, or babies.[217]
On 24 April 1976,[218] the two were watching an episode of Saturday Night Live together at Lennon's home in New York City, during which Lorne Michaels made a $3,000 cash offer for the Beatles to reunite, and while they seriously considered going to the SNL studio just a few blocks away, they decided it was "too late" and according to Lennon, this was the last time he and McCartney ever spent time together.[219] This event was fictionalised in the 2000 television film Two of Us.[220] His last telephone call to Lennon, just days before Lennon and Ono released Double Fantasy, was friendly, he said this about the phone call: "[It is] a consoling factor for me, because I do feel it was sad that we never actually sat down and straightened our differences out. But fortunately for me, the last phone conversation I ever had with him was really great, and we didn't have any kind of blow-up."[221]
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- Reaction to Lennon's murder
Main article: Death of John Lennon
On the morning of 9 December 1980, he awoke to the news that Lennon had been murdered the previous night, his death creating a media frenzy around the surviving members of the band.[222] During the evening of 9 December, as he was leaving an Oxford Street recording studio, he was surrounded by reporters and asked for a reaction. He was later criticised for what appeared, when published, to be a superficial response: "It's a drag".[218] He later explained, "When John was killed somebody stuck a microphone at me and said: 'What do you think about it?' I said, 'It's a dra-a-ag' and meant it with every inch of melancholy I could muster. When you put that in print it says, 'McCartney in London today when asked for a comment on his dead friend said, "It's a drag."' It seemed a very flippant comment to make."[218] He describes his first exchange with Ono after the murder, and his last conversation with Lennon:
I talked to Yoko the day after he was killed and the first thing she said was, "John was really fond of you." The last telephone conversation I had with him we were still the best of mates. He was always a very warm guy, John. His bluff was all on the surface. He used to take his glasses down, those granny glasses, and say, "It's only me." They were like a wall, you know? A shield. Those are the moments I treasure.[218]
In 1983, he said: "I would not have been as typically human and standoffish as I was if I knew John was going to die. I would have made more of an effort to try and get behind his "mask" and have a better relationship with him."[218] He said that he went home that night and watched the news on television – while sitting with his children – crying most of the evening. In 1997, he admitted the ex-Beatles were nervous at the time that they might be the "next" one murdered.[223] In 2002 he told Mojo magazine that Lennon was his greatest "hero".[224] In June 1981, six months after the murder, McCartney sang backup on Harrison's tribute to their ex-bandmate, "All Those Years Ago", which also featured Starr on drums.[225] In 1982 McCartney released "Here Today", a song musicologist Walter Everett describes as "a haunting tribute" to their friendship.[226]
- George Harrison
Harrison said this about working with McCartney: "Paul would always help along when you'd done his ten songs—then when he got 'round to doing one of my songs, he would help. It was silly. It was very selfish, actually ... There were a lot of tracks, though, where I played bass ... because what Paul would do—if he'd written a song, he'd learn all the parts for Paul and then come in the studio and say (sometimes he was very difficult): "Do this." He'd never give you the opportunity to come out with something.[227]
In late 2001, McCartney learned that Harrison was losing his battle with cancer, and upon his death on 29 November 2001, McCartney issued a statement outside his home in St. John's Wood, calling him "a lovely guy and a very brave man who had a wonderful sense of humour", "We grew up together and we just had so many beautiful times together – that's what I am going to remember. I'll always love him, he's my baby brother."[228] Harrison spent his last days in a Hollywood Hills mansion that was once leased by McCartney.[229] On the first anniversary of his death, McCartney played Harrison's "Something" on a ukulele at the Concert for George.[88] He also performed "For You Blue" and "All Things Must Pass", as well as playing the piano on Eric Clapton's rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".[230]
- Ringo Starr
Though Starr once described McCartney as "pleasantly insincere", the two generally enjoy each other's company, and at least once vacationed together in Greece, including stops in Athens and on the islands Corfu and Rhodes.[231] Starr recalls: "We couldn't understand a word of the songs the hotel band were playing, so on the last night Paul and I did a few rockers like "What'd I Say." [231] There was at times discord between them as well, particularly during Beatles' sessions for "The White Album", as Apple's Peter Brown recalls, "It was a poorly kept secret among Beatle intimates that after Ringo left the studio Paul would often dub in the drum tracks himself ... [Starr] would pretend not to notice".[232] In August 1968 the two got into an argument over McCartney's critique of Starr's drum part for "Back in the USSR", which led to Starr temporarily leaving the band.[232] He returned in September[233] to find bouquets of flowers on his drum kit. Starr comments on working with McCartney: "Paul is the greatest bass player in the world. But he is also very determined ... [to] get his own way ... [thus] musical disagreements inevitably arose from time to time."[232]
Recognition and achievements[link]
Main article: List of awards received by Paul McCartney
McCartney has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million albums, 100 million singles, and a writer's credit on forty-three songs that have sold over one million copies each.[1] According to Guinness, he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK singles chart history, and has written or co-written "188 charted records, of which 129 are different songs. Of these records, 91 reached the Top 10 and 33 made it to No.1. In total, the songs have spent 1,662 weeks on the chart (up to the beginning of 2007)."[2] In 1986 he received acclaim from the Guinness Book of Records Hall of Fame, "as the most successful musician of all-time."[234]
In the US, as a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100; including twenty with the Beatles and nine solo and/or with Wings,[235] one as a co-writer on Elton John's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds",[236] and one as a co-writer of "A World Without Love", a number one single for Peter and Gordon.[237] As of 2012, he has sold 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.[238]
Although Elvis Presley has achieved the most UK number-ones as a solo artist with eighteen,[239] McCartney has been involved in more number-ones in the UK than any other artist under a variety of credits, totalling twenty-four singles: including seventeen with the Beatles, one solo, and one each with Wings, Stevie Wonder, Ferry Aid, Band Aid, Band Aid 20 and one with "The Christians et all".[240] He is the only artist to reach the UK number one as a soloist ("Pipes of Peace"), duo ("Ebony and Ivory" with Wonder), trio ("Mull of Kintyre", Wings), quartet ("She Loves You", the Beatles), quintet ("Get Back", the Beatles with Billy Preston), and as part of a musical ensemble for charity (Ferry Aid).[241]
His song "Yesterday" is thought to be the most covered in history with more than 2,200 recorded versions,[242] and according to the BBC, "The track is the only one by a UK writer to have been aired more than seven million times on American TV and radio and is third in the all-time list ... [and] is the most played song by a British writer this century in the US."[243] His 1968 Beatles composition, "Hey Jude", is also a career highlight. It achieved the highest sales in the UK that year, and topped the US charts for nine weeks, longer than any other Beatles' single. It was also the longest single ever released by the band, and at seven minutes fifteen seconds was the longest of any number one to that point. Its been covered by several notable artists, including Presley, Bing Crosby, Count Basie, and Wilson Pickett.[244] It is the best-selling Beatles' single of all-time, with sales of over five million copies achieved soon after its release.[245]
He played for the largest stadium audience in history when 184,000 people paid to see him perform at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 21 April 1990,[246] that year the minor planet 4148, was named "McCartney" in his honour.[247] In July 2005 he was involved with the fastest-released single in history, when his performance of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with U2 at Live 8 was released before the concert was over. The single reached number six on the Billboard charts, just hours after the single's release, and hit number one on numerous online download charts across the world.[248]
On 18 June 2006, McCartney celebrated his 64th birthday, a milestone that was the subject of a tune he wrote at the age of sixteen, which would later become the Beatles' song "When I'm Sixty-Four".[249] In 2008 he received a BRIT award for Outstanding Contribution to Music,[250] as well as an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University.[251] In 2012 he became the last of the "Fab Four" to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[252]
- Business
McCartney is one of the UK's wealthiest people, with an estimated fortune of £475 million in 2010.[253] In addition to an interest in Apple Corps, MPL Communications, an umbrella company for his business interests, owns a significant music publishing catalogue, with access to over 25,000 copyrights,[254] including the publishing rights to the musicals Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease.[255] He earned £40 million in 2003, making him Britain's highest media earner.[256] This rose to £48.5 million by 2005.[257] In 2006 the Trademarks Registry reported that MPL had started a process to secure the protections associated with registering the name "Paul McCartney" as a trademark.[258]
- Northern Songs
Northern Songs was established in 1963 by Dick James to publish the songs of Lennon–McCartney.[259] The Beatles' partnership was replaced in 1968 by a jointly held company, Apple Corps, which continues to control Apple's commercial interests. Northern Songs was purchased by Associated Television (ATV) in 1969, and was sold in 1985 to Michael Jackson. For many years McCartney was unhappy about Jackson's purchase and handling of Northern Songs.[260]
Despite the lack of publishing rights to most of his Beatles' songs, he continues to receive his respective share of the writers' royalties, which together are 33⅓% of total commercial proceeds in the US and which vary elsewhere around the world between 50 and 55%.[261] Two of the Beatles' earliest songs—"Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You"—were published by an EMI subsidiary, Ardmore & Beechwood, before signing with James. McCartney acquired their publishing rights from Ardmore in the mid 1980s,[262] and they are the only two Beatles songs owned by MPL Communications.[263]
Discography[link]
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Citations[link]
- ^ a b Harry 2002, pp. 388–389.
- ^ a b Guinness: World Records 2009. Guinness World Records. 2008. p. 168. ISBN 978-1-904994-37-4.
- ^ a b Spitz 2005, p. 75.
- ^ Miles 1997, p. 4.
- ^ "Beatle's schoolboy photo auction". BBC. 16 August 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8203923.stm. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ Miles 1997, p. 9.
- ^ Spitz 2005, p. 205.
- ^ Spitz 2005, p. 125.
- ^ Spitz 2005, pp. 82–83.
- ^ Harry 2002, pp. 340–341.
- ^ Miles 1997, p. 6.
- ^ Miles 1997, p. 20.
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- Gould, Jonathan (2007). Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America (First Paperback ed.). Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-35338-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=gTAjZ235qfsC&dq.
- Harry, Bill (2000a). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0481-9.
- Harry, Bill (2003). The George Harrison Encyclopedia. Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0822-0.
- Harry, Bill (2000b). The John Lennon Encyclopedia. Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0404-8.
- Harry, Bill (2002). The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia. Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0716-2.
- Ingham, Chris (2009). The Rough Guide to The Beatles (3rd ed.). Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84836-525-4.
- Levy, Joe (editor) (2005). Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (First Paperback ed.). Wenner Books. ISBN 978-1-932958-61-4.
- Lewisohn, Mark (1992). The Complete Beatles Chronicle:The Definitive Day-By-Day Guide To The Beatles' Entire Career (Revised 2010 ed.). Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-56976-534-0.
- Lewisohn, Mark (editor) (2002). Wingspan: Paul McCartney's Band on the Run. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-86032-1.
- MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (3rd (2007) ed.). Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=YJUWJhIbkccC&dq.
- McCartney, Paul; Mitchell, Adrian (editor) (2001). Blackbird singing: Poems and Lyrics 1965–1999. W.W. Norton and Company Inc.. ISBN 978-0-393-02049-6.
- Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now (1st Hardcover ed.). Henry Holt & Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-5248-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=-eh8BedNtLgC&dq.
- Miles, Barry (1998). The Beatles: A Diary—An Intimate Day by Day History (2009 ed.). JG Press. ISBN 978-1-57215-010-2.
- Miles, Barry (2001). The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years. Omnibus. ISBN 978-0-7119-8308-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=trRB-lo4qR8C&dq.
- Raymer, Miles (2010). How to Analyze the Music of Paul McCartney. Abdo Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-61613-531-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=23jlYDQOz2sC&dq.
- Roberts, David (editor) (2005). British Hit Singles & Albums (18 ed.). Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN 978-1-904994-00-8.
- Sandford, Christopher (2006). McCartney. Carroll & Graf. ISBN 978-0-7867-1614-2.
- Sounes, Howard (2010). Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81783-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=jQJk-qRy5IUC&dq.
- Southall, Brian; Perry, Rupert (contributor) (2006). Northern Songs: The True Story of the Beatles Song Publishing Empire. Omnibus. ISBN 978-1-84609-237-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=HWSRvGfa3-sC&dq.
- Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-80352-6.
- The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0-8118-3636-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=HWuQu8EMDKcC&dq.
Further reading[link]
- Barrow, Tony (2005). John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me: The Real Beatles Story. Thunder's Mouth. ISBN 1-56025-882-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=BNnzcGw8JQsC&dq.
- Barrow, Tony (2004). Paul McCartney. Carlton Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84442-822-9.
- Benitez, Vincent Perez (2010). The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-34969-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=bYxJWNiLO94C&dq.
- Davies, Hunter (2009). The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (3rd revised ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-33874-4.
- Gambaccini, Paul (1993). Paul McCartney: In His Own Words. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-86001-239-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=FikUAQAAIAAJ&q.
- Gambaccini, Paul (1996). The McCartney Interviews: After the Break-Up (2 ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-7119-5494-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=xKPEyk1WXFUC&q.
- Gracen, Jorie B. (2000). Paul McCartney: I Saw Him Standing There. Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 978-0-8230-8372-5.
- Kirchherr, Astrid; Voormann, Klaus (1999). Hamburg Days. Guildford, Surrey: Genesis Publications. ISBN 978-0-904351-73-6.
- Martin, George (1979). All You Need Is Ears. New York: St. Marten's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-11482-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=4Yoio9MewhcC&dq.
- McGee, Garry (2003). Band on the Run: A History of Paul McCartney and Wings. Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87833-304-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=UG0IAQAAMAAJ&q.
- Pawlowski, Gareth L. (1989). How They Became The Beatles (1st ed.). E. P. Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-24823-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=7IkIAQAAMAAJ&q.
- Peel, Ian (2002). The Unknown Paul McCartney: McCartney and the avant-garde. Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 978-1-903111-36-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=uS4UAQAAIAAJ&q.
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| Name | McCartney, Paul |
| Alternative names | Sir James Paul McCartney |
| Short description | English rock musician |
| Date of birth | 18 June 1942 |
| Place of birth | Liverpool, UK |
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| Ted Nugent | |
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 Nugent in concert in Naples, Italy, June 1, 2004 |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | The Nuge, Motor City Madman, Uncle Ted |
| Born | (1948-12-13) December 13, 1948 (age 63) Redford, Michigan, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock, hard rock |
| Occupations | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals, bass guitar |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Associated acts | The Amboy Dukes, Damn Yankees, Damnocracy |
| Website | www.tednugent.com |
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Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent ( /tɛd ˈnuːdʒɨnt/; born December 13, 1948) is an American musician. From Detroit, Michigan, he gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes before embarking on a solo career. He is noted for his conservative political views and his defense of hunting and gun ownership rights.
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Early life[link]
Nugent was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Marion Dorothy (née Johnson) and Warren Henry Nugent.[1][2] Nugent's father was an Army staff sergeant, and he was raised in a very strict household.[3] He moved to Palatine, Illinois, as a teenager, and has two brothers: John and Jeffrey. Raised Catholic, Nugent has mentioned his ties with the Christian faith many times during interviews, and has stated that he regularly attends church. He attended St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights, IL.
Career[link]
Nugent has released more than 34 albums and has sold a career total of 30 million records. He was known throughout his early career in the 1970s for using Fender amps, a large part of his signature sound, and for playing the hollow-body Gibson Byrdland guitar.
Performing since 1958,[4] Nugent has been touring annually since 1967, averaging more than 300 shows per year (1967–73), 200 per year (1974–80), 150 (1981–89), 127 concerts in 1990, 162 concerts in 1991, 150 concerts in 1993, 180 in 1994, 166 in 1995, 81 in 1996, Summer Blitz '97, '98, Rock Never Stops '99, 133 concerts with KISS 2K. Nugent's 2005 plans involved a tour with country music singer-songwriter Toby Keith, whom Nugent met in Iraq while they were both performing in USO-sponsored shows for the coalition troops.[citation needed] Nugent toured with local Detroit musician Alex Winston during the summers of 2007 and 2008.[5]
On July 4, 2008, at the DTE Energy Music Theater in Clarkston, Michigan, Ted Nugent played his 6,000th concert.[4] Derek St. Holmes (original singer for the Ted Nugent band), Johnny Bee Badanjek (drummer for Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels), and Nugent's guitar teacher from 1958 Joe Podorsek all jammed on stage with Nugent for various tunes.
Amboy Dukes[link]
His first edition of The Amboy Dukes played at The Cellar, a teen dance club outside of Chicago in Arlington Heights, Illinois, starting in late 1965, while Nugent was a student at St. Viator High School. The Cellar's "house band" at the time had been the Shadows of Knight, although the Amboy Dukes eventually became a staple until the club's closing.[6]
The Amboy Dukes' second single was "Journey to the Center of the Mind", which featured lyrics written by the Dukes' second guitarist Steve Farmer. Nugent, an ardent anti-drug campaigner, has always claimed that he had no idea that this song was about drug use.[7] The Amboy Dukes (1967), Journey to the Center of the Mind (1968) and Migration (1969) — all recorded on the Mainstream label — sold moderately well. On April 4, 1968, Nugent along with a group of musicians paid tribute to Martin Luther King by having a folk, rock and blues jam session. Joni Mitchell played first, followed by Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix. Other musicians who participated were BB King and Al Kooper.[8]
After settling down on a ranch in Michigan in 1973, Nugent signed a record deal with Frank Zappa's DiscReet Records label and recorded Call of the Wild. The following year, Tooth Fang & Claw (which contained the song "Great White Buffalo") established a fan base for Nugent and the other Amboy Dukes. Personnel changes nearly wrecked the band, which became known as Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes. Nugent reunited with the other members of the Amboy Dukes at the 2009 Detroit Music Awards, which took place April 17, 2009. The psychedelic band received a distinguished achievement honor at the event. The Dukes also played together at the ceremony, marking their first public performance in more than 30 years.[7] The Amboy Dukes were voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame in 2008.[9]
Solo career[link]
Main article: Ted Nugent discography
Nugent dropped the Amboy Dukes band name for good in 1975, and signed to Epic Records. Derek St. Holmes (guitar, vocals), Rob Grange (bass) and Clifford Davies (drums) were the primary additional band members for his 1970s multi-platinum[10] albums: Ted Nugent (1975), Free-for-All (1976) and Cat Scratch Fever (1977). These albums produced the popular radio anthems "Hey Baby", "Stranglehold", "Dog Eat Dog", and "Cat Scratch Fever". It was during these three years that Nugent emerged as a guitar hero to hard rock fans, many of whom were unaware of his lengthy apprenticeship with the Amboy Dukes.[11] This band lineup toured extensively, also releasing the multi-platinum live album Double Live Gonzo!, until its breakup in 1978 when St. Holmes and Grange departed. St. Holmes was replaced by Charlie Huhn and Grange by Dave Kiswiney. Davies left around 1982 after staying on to record Weekend Warriors (1978), State of Shock (1979), Scream Dream (1980) and Intensities in 10 Cities (1981).
On July 8, 1979, Ted was on the rock radio program King Biscuit Flower Hour. This was the original broadcast of Ted's performance of Live at Hammersmith '79 which had been recorded during the second set of a night at London's Hammersmith Odeon in 1979. An album of this program was released in 1997.
During this era, Nugent was notable for his declarations that he did not drink alcoholic beverages or smoke tobacco or marijuana. In an interview for VH1's Behind The Music, Nugent said this was due to his father's having reprimanded him when he came home smelling of alcohol after a night of drinking. Nugent has been cited as an influence on the straight edge movement, which disavows drinking and recreational drug use.[12]
Influences[link]
Nugent has been praised for his playing style, and is cited as an influence by many other hard rock and heavy metal musicians. Nugent has cited his own musical influences as Vanilla Fudge, Jeff Beck, Chuck Berry, The Kinks, Jimmy Page, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Yardbirds, Bo Diddley, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, The Animals, Little Richard, MC5, Frank Zappa, and Muddy Waters.
Damn Yankees[link]
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Ted Nugent live in 2007
During the period of 1982-89, Nugent released a series of moderately successful solo albums. In 1989, he formed the supergroup Damn Yankees, with Jack Blades (bass/vocals, formerly of Night Ranger), Tommy Shaw (guitar/vocals, formerly of Styx) and Michael Cartellone (drums). Damn Yankees (1990) was a hit, going multi-platinum in the U.S., thanks in no small part to the smash hit power ballad "High Enough". The video for this song featured Nugent in a priest's collar, and later in a zebra-striped cape during the guitar solo. It also saw the first appearance of his 'WhackMaster' hat.
Back to solo[link]
Returning to a solo career, Nugent released Spirit of the Wild in 1995, his best-reviewed album in quite some time. The album also marked the return of Derek St. Holmes to Nugent's studio band. A series of archival releases also came out in the 1990s, keeping Nugent's name in the national consciousness. He also began hosting a radio show in Detroit on WWBR-FM ("102.7 The Bear, Detroit's Rock Animal") and took ownership in several hunting-related businesses. He created TV shows for several networks; Wanted: Ted or Alive on Versus, Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild on PBS and The Outdoor Channel, as well as Surviving Nugent and Supergroup-Damnocracy on VH1. In 2006, Nugent was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame as a solo artist.[13]
Ted Nugent appears on David Crowder Band's 2007 release, Remedy, playing guitar on the song "We Won't Be Quiet".[14] He announced his "Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead" tour on April 21, 2010.[15]
On March 14, 2011, Nugent released a new song, "I Still Believe", as a free download via his website to subscribers to his news letter. Nugent says of the song: "America is a target-rich environment for an independent man addicted to logic, truth and The American Way. 'I Still Believe' throttles the animal spirit of rugged individualism in pure MotorCity ultra high-energy rhythm and blues and rock and roll."[16][17] In April 2011 Nugent announced that former frontman Derek St. Holmes would be joining his band for Nugent's I Still Believe Tour.[18]
Media appearances[link]
Reality programming[link]
Nugent starred in his own outdoors television show named after his popular song "Spirit of the Wild". The song was the theme music to the TV series in which Nugent took viewers on a variety of wild game hunts using his bow. In the series he teaches and advises hunters and "hands-on" conservationists around the world on the different aspects of hunting and politics, and informs the public on the importance of getting children away from the TV and video games and getting them out beyond the pavement in order to better their lives.[19]
In 2003, he was host of the VH1 reality television program Surviving Nugent in which city dwellers such as model Tila Tequila moved to Nugent's Michigan ranch in order to survive such "backwoods" activities as building an outhouse and skinning a boar. The success of the two-hour show spawned a four-part miniseries in 2004 entitled Surviving Nugent: The Ted Commandments. This time it was filmed on Nugent's ranch in China Spring, Texas. During filming, Nugent injured himself with a chainsaw, requiring 44 stitches and a leg brace.
In 2003, Nugent also guested on the VH1 program Forever Wild, hosted by Sebastian Bach (former lead vocalist for the band Skid Row). They shot some firearms and walked around Nugent's cabin in the woods. Two years later he hosted a reality-type show, Wanted: Ted or Alive on OLN (now the sports channel 'Versus') where contestants competed for money as well as for opportunities to go hunting with "Uncle Ted." The contestants had to kill and clean their own food to survive.
In 2006, he appeared on VH1's reality show SuperGroup, with Scott Ian (Anthrax, guitar), Evan Seinfeld (Biohazard, bass), Sebastian Bach (ex-Skid Row, vocals) and Jason Bonham (Bonham, UFO, Foreigner, drums). The name of the supergroup was originally FIST but later was changed to Damnocracy. Bach had lobbied for the name Savage Animal. Captured on film by VH1 was a rare Nugent duet with guitarist Joe Bonamassa at the Sand Dollar Blues Room for a 45-minute blues jam. He starred in another reality show for CMT in August 2009. The show, entitled Runnin' Wild ... From Ted Nugent, featured Nugent instructing competitors in the art of survival; the competitors had to use those skills in challenges in which they were hunted down by Nugent.[20]
In 2008, Ted Nugent was on the episode Southwest Road Trip Special of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, where he spoke against obesity and public health care.[21][22]
Also in 2009, he played guitar at The Alamo for a Tax Day Tea Party hosted by Glenn Beck and Fox News. Most notable in his set was a version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in which he used alternate picking and whammy bar effects. The clip and sound bite of this is played extensively on Fox News as well as on The Glenn Beck Program.
Acting[link]
In 1976 Nugent was in the documentary Demon Lover Diary, about the making of the John Dods' horror/comedy movie My Demon Lover. He is shown supplying real guns for the making of My Demon Lover, as the crew films at Nugent's house.
In 1986, he guest starred in an episode of the hit television show Miami Vice entitled "Definitely Miami". Nugent played a villain. His song "Angry Young Man" was featured in the episode. His song "Little Miss Dangerous" was also featured on a Miami Vice episode of the same name, although he did not appear in the episode.
In 2001, Nugent appeared as himself in a third season episode of That '70s Show entitled "Backstage Pass". Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon), who works for radio station WFPP, obtains tickets to the upcoming Ted Nugent concert for the entire gang. Following the concert, her boss Max (Howard Hesseman) gives Donna a backstage pass to meet Nugent, where he volunteers to sit for an interview. Meanwhile, Steven Hyde (Danny Masterson) and Fez (Wilmer Valderama) try to sell unauthorized concert t-shirts accidentally spelled Tad Nugent.
Also in 2001, Nugent appeared as himself in the second episode of the short-lived university campus FOX comedy series, Undeclared. In the episode "Full Bluntal Nugety", Nugent is a guest at the university, there to speak on his favorite topics, mainly hunting and gun control. This is where new student Steven Karp (Jay Baruchel) takes his love interest Lizzie (Carla Gallo) on their first date. Karp tries to heckle Nugent during his speech in an attempt to impress Lizzie, with disastrous results. FOX didn't like the idea of Nugent and his political views appearing on this show, so the episode was re-shot and re-edited as "Oh, So You Have a Boyfriend?" which aired without any Ted Nugent content whatsoever. The complete "Full Bluntal Nugety (Director's Cut)" episode is available in its entirety, in the Undeclared DVD box set, including some extra Ted Nugent scenes that had been deleted.
He made a guest appearance on the cult television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in the episode "Gee Whiz", on Adult Swim. Locals believe to have seen the face of Jesus in a billboard, and they mention how it looks like Ted Nugent. Throughout the episode they think it's Jesus' face, but at the end they discover it was in fact Nugent's. He proceeds to shoot a flaming explosive arrow at Carl (mistaking him for a "varmint"). Ted also appeared on Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy when he kills the Ghost of Christmas Past and serves him to guests for dinner.
In 2007, Nugent appeared in the music video for Nickelback's "Rockstar", and in 2008 he played a key role in the Toby Keith movie Beer For My Horses as the quiet deputy named Skunk.
In 2007, Nugent debated The Simpsons producer Sam Simon on the Howard Stern Show about the ethics of hunting animals. Coincidentally, he would later lend his voice to an over-the-phone appearance in the season 19 episode of The Simpsons, "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", where, in a humorous jab at his political stance, inmate Dwight picks up his call for voting no to the fictional Proposition 87, which bans crossbows in public schools. As part of his pre-recorded message, Nugent asks "If we outlaw crossbows in our public schools, who's going to protect our children from charging elk?".[23]
In 2012, Nugent appeared on the January 8th Episode of The Simpsons as himself.
Other media appearances[link]
Attracting attention for his outspoken statements on issues ranging from guns to biodiversity, Nugent has been a regular guest on such programs as Larry King Live, The Howard Stern Show, and Politically Incorrect.
In 1978 Ted Nugent appeared on the Midnight Special as host and a performer. Season 7, Episode 8, Aired Nov 24, 1978
In 1980 Ted Nugent appeared on Fridays as the musical guest. He performed "Paralyzed" and "Scream Dream"' Oct. 24, 1980.
In 1991, he guest-starred on the PBS science show Newton's Apple in a short comedic feature called Science of the Rich and Famous in which he demonstrates and explains the phenomenon of electric guitar feedback. On March 13, 2007, Nugent was interviewed on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and performed the songs "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Rawdogs and Warhogs".
On April 15, 2009, Nugent appeared onstage with his guitar in San Antonio as part of Glenn Beck's coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests on the Fox News Channel. He hosted the show with Glenn Beck, and played music for the protestors at the Alamo. He made an appearance in Guitar Hero: World Tour As part of the solo guitar career, the player engages in a guitar duel with Nugent, after which the song "Stranglehold" is unlocked and Dirty Nuge becomes available as a playable character.
Nugent was interviewed on the The Alex Jones Show July 30, 2008 about his new book "Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" (2008).[24][25] On July 9, 2010 Ted was again interviewed by Alex Jones and he criticized the latest policies issued by the Obama Administration and the Supreme Court concerning gun policy. He claimed that rejecting the idea of the right to self-defense being expressed in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which Nugent called "gun control" policies, are most likely to destroy the American society. Nugent also claimed similar policies were the cause of the downfall of every society in human history.[26]
Nugent appeared on Penn and Teller's BS episode on P.E.T.A
Nugent was portrayed on the January 8, 2012 episode of The Simpsons entitled "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson."
Personal life[link]
In the late 1990s, Nugent began writing for various magazines. He has written for more than 20 publications and is the author of New York Times Best Seller God, Guns and Rock 'n' Roll (July 2000), Kill It and Grill It (2002) (co-authored with his wife, Shemane), BloodTrails II: The Truth About Bowhunting (2004), and "Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" (2008).
In 1996 Nugent joined the WWBR-FM air staff. The Ted Nugent Morning Show on 102.7 FM in Detroit was a success. He and co-host Steve Black (now host of the syndicated radio show Chop Shop and Chop Shop Classic) often shocked Detroit with their opinions.
Nugent is a fan of the Detroit Pistons. He wore a Pistons shirt in the Damn Yankees music video for "Come Again". He is also a fan of the Dallas Cowboys and attends many games with his children and grandchildren.
Family[link]
He has had two wives and has eight children, including three out of wedlock in two liaisons almost 30 years apart. In the late 1960s, prior to his first marriage, Nugent fathered a boy, Ted (Mann) and a girl, whom he gave up for adoption in infancy. This did not become public knowledge until 2010. The siblings were adopted separately and had no contact with one another. The son learned the identity of his birth father in 2010 through the daughter's quest to make contact with him and their birth parents. According to a news report, Nugent over the years had discussed the existence of these children with his other children.[27]
In 2005 Nugent was involved in a legal battle for not paying enough child support for a child he had out of wedlock in 1995.[28] It was finally resolved when Nugent was ordered to pay $3,500 in child support.[29]
He was married to his first wife, Sandra Jezowski, from 1970 to 1979. They had three children, son Theodore Tobias "Toby" Nugent, and daughters Sasha and Starr Nugent. Sandra died in a car crash in 1982. His second marriage was to Shemane Deziel, whom he met while a guest on Detroit's WLLZ-FM, where she was a member of the news staff. They married on January 21, 1989. Together they have two children, son Rocco Winchester Nugent, and daughter Chantal Nugent.
In 1978, Nugent began a relationship with seventeen-year-old Hawaii native Pele Massa. Due to the age difference they could not marry so Nugent joined Massa's parents in signing documents to make himself her legal guardian, an arrangement that Spin magazine ranked in October 2000 as #63 on their list of the "100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock".[30][31]
Hearing loss[link]
Nugent also suffers from hearing loss. A November 2005 Rolling Stone article noted Nugent, among others, has publicly acknowledged hearing problems.[32] "The ear's not too good, especially with background noise", he said in a 2007 interview. "[But] that's a small price to pay. Believe me the journey was worth it."[33]
Activism[link]
Drugs and alcohol stances[link]
Since the early 1990s Nugent has become both popular and criticized for his conservative beliefs and his anti-drug and anti-alcohol stances. He is a national spokesman for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program, advocating the "natural highs" to be found in an outdoor lifestyle.
Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) law[link]
Nugent is a strong advocate of the right to bear arms. When interviewed by Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith in season 5 of TexasMonthlyTalks he said, "I would rather that [a victim of violent crime] in Massachusetts last month who was taking her daughter to soccer when they were carjacked by a recidivist maggot, who had been in the prison system all his life but was let out again because we feel sorry for him, maybe he had a bad childhood. Instead of her being hijacked and murdered, I'd rather she just shot the bastard dead... But in Massachusetts, somebody decided she can't do that. So she's dead. I would rather she was alive and the carjacker was dead."[34]
Nugent currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association (NRA).[35][36]
Conflicts with animal rights groups[link]
Nugent once said in an interview, “I'm stymied to come up with anything funnier than people who think animals have rights. Just stick an arrow through their lungs.”[37] In 2000, Bhaskar Sinha was jailed briefly following an incident outside a department store in San Francisco in which he threatened and physically assaulted Nugent, who in turn took Sinha into custody until San Francisco Police arrived and arrested the protester. However, protesters claim that Nugent started the altercation by spitting in one of the protester's faces when he was offered an anti-fur flyer.[38]
Nugent has reported receiving death threats against him and his family from animal rights activists. On the Penn & Teller's Bullshit! episode about People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Nugent claimed, "We've got reports and files with law enforcement across America where left-wing animal rights extremists are on record threatening to kill my children on the way to school because we eat pheasant." In 2006 he stated in an interview that "anyone who thinks hunting is terrible can kiss my ass."[39]
In a 1992 radio interview, Nugent referred to Heidi Prescott of the Fund for Animals as a "worthless whore" and a "shallow slut," asking "who needs to club a seal, when you can club Heidi?" He was ordered by a court to pay Prescott $75,000.[40]
Nugent owns a hunting ranch near Jackson, Michigan, called Sunrize Acres. Anti-hunters claim this fenced facility offers "canned" hunts. Nugent has said, "I understand the criticism from those who say canned hunting violates the ethic of fair chase," though he still operates the facility, and refers to it as "high fence hunting". Nugent was interviewed in October 2011 by Field & Stream magazine regarding "canned" hunts.[41] At Sunrize Acres he personally guides customers on a hunt for trophy bull bison ($5,000), Russian boar, or white-tailed deer ($1,000 each).[42]
The band Goldfinger released a song called "FTN", which is critical of Ted Nugent.[43]
Criminal convictions[link]
In September 2009, Nugent embarked on a hunt near Somerset, El Dorado County, California. He was accompanied by a guide and a cameraman, filming for his Outdoor Channel show "Spirit of the Wild." The video taken appeared in an episode of the show first broadcast on February 9, 2010. California Fish and Game wardens who watched the broadcast noticed that it showed Nugent killing a very young buck which had been attracted by commercial bait. Both the killing of such a young deer and the use of bait are crimes under California state law. On August 13, 2010, he pled no contest in Yuba County to two misdemeanors: illegally baiting a deer, and failing to have a deer tag signed by a government official after a kill. He was fined USD $1,750 by the court and is banned from hunting in California until June 2012. In April 2012 Nugent signed a plea bargaining agreement to plead guilty to two misdemeanors for illegally taking a bear after shooting one earlier at a bait station. He will be fined $10,000, banned from hunting in Alaska and on Federal land for one year and must complete two years on federal probation.[44]
Politics[link]
In 2007 and 2008, during a period of years when he publicly speculated about running for governor of Michigan, Nugent singled out prominent Democratic politicians with violent or vulgar rhetoric or gestures. At a concert on August 21, 2007, Nugent made controversial comments about Democratic Party presidential aspirants Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and California's senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. He complained, "Obama's a piece of shit, and I told him to suck on my machine gun."[45][46] Referring to Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm (in office 2003-11), during performances he would frequently interject "Jennifer Granholm, kiss my ass" into his songs, and shoot an arrow at her likeness. In a 2007 interview, in discussing running for governor of Michigan, he stated that Granholm "is not doing an ugly job, but as the perfect woman, she is scrotumless".[47]
Although Nugent has never run for government office, in the 2000s (decade), he publicly speculated about doing so on several occasions. In May 2005, he announced he was "getting real close to deciding to run" for governor of Michigan in 2006, while in 2007, he talked about running for that office in 2010. During the latter period, he stated, "Michigan was once a great state. Michigan was a state that rewarded the entrepreneur and the most productive, work-ethic families of the state. Now the pimps and the whores and the welfare brats are basically the state's babies."[33] Earlier, Nugent had been rumored to be under consideration by the Illinois Republican Party as its candidate in that state's 2004 Senate race, given his roots in Palatine, Illinois.[48] In July 2008, Nugent declared "I was serious when I threatened to run for office in the past if I cannot find a candidate who respects the U.S. Constitution and our sacred Bill of Rights."[49] When asked by Imagineer magazine in a 2010 interview about what he would do if elected to political office, he responded: "Slash the living hell out of the waste and corruption and the outrageous army of do-nothing bureaucrats. I would fire every government worker whose job I would deem to be redundant and wasteful. No able-bodied human being would ever get a handout again."[50]
Nugent is a fervent supporter of Republican Party politicians.[51] On July 17, 2008, during the presidential election season, shortly before the Republican presidential nominating convention, however, he stated that front-runner John McCain was "catering to a growing segment of soulless Americans who care less what they can do for their country, but whine louder and louder about what their country must do for them. That is both un-American and pathetic".[52] He was a weekly contributor to the newspaper, the Waco Tribune-Herald until 2009.[53][dead link] He has been a special deputy sheriff in Lake County, Michigan since 1982 and he also has been a reserve deputy constable in McLennan County, Texas.
At a 2009 West Virginia rally sponsored in part by Massey Energy, Nugent "defended mountaintop removal mining," according to reporters on the scene. "On behalf of the Nugent family, I say, start up the bulldozers and get me some more coal, Massey," Nugent was recorded as saying.[54]
During an interview with Piers Morgan, Nugent denied that he considered himself homophobic, saying "I’m repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex, I think it’s against nature. I think it’s strange as hell, but if that’s what you are I love you. I’m not going to judge another’s morals. I say live and let live. I have friends that are gay."[55][56] As a reward for entertaining US troops in Iraq in 2004, he visited Saddam Hussein's war room. "It was a glorious moment. It looked like something out of Star Wars. I saw his gold toilet. I shat in his bidet."[57] Nugent also said: "Our failure has been not to Nagasaki them."[57]
Nugent was initially scheduled to speak at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on August 28, 2010, but subsequently cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.[58]
At a Republican event in February, 2012, Nugent said, "The whole world sucks, but America still sucks less," followed by, "But with this administration, we are catching up."[59]
On March 2, 2012, Nugent endorsed Mitt Romney for president.[60]
In a Romney stump speech at the 2012 NRA Convention in St. Louis, Nugent said, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." He also compared the Obama administration to coyotes who needed to be shot, and encouraged voters to "chop [Democrats'] heads off in November."[61] Nugent received a visit from the Secret Service for these remarks.[62] Following these comments, commanders at Fort Knox opted not to allow him to perform at a previously scheduled event with REO Speedwagon and Styx. [63]
Military[link]
In 2006, an interviewer from the British newspaper The Independent questioned Nugent about a 1977 interview in High Times magazine[64] in which Nugent admitted taking elaborate steps to avoid the Vietnam draft.[57] In the interview Nugent says, contrary to the story in High Times, that "I had a 1Y [student deferment]. I enrolled at Oakland Community College.". However, the Selective Service classification for student deferment is actually 2-S, and medical deferment is 1-Y. A copy of Nugent's Selective Service record shows that he had at separate times both a 1-Y medical deferment and 2-S student deferment, .[65] "... if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd kill all the hippies in the foxholes ... I would have killed everybody," he told the Detroit Free Press in an interview published July 15, 1990."
Tours[link]
- Little Miss Dangerous Tour 1986
- Summer Blitz Tour 1997
- 1998 Tour
- Rock Never Stops Tour 1999
- Remember The Alamo Tour 2005
- Unleash The Beast Tour 2006
- Unleash The Nuge Beast Killer Rock Tour 2007
- Rolling Thunder Tour 2008
- Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead Tour 2010
- I Still Believe Tour 2011
- Great White Buffalo Tour 2012
Discography[link]
Main article: Ted Nugent discography
Published books[link]
- Nugent, Ted. Blood Trails: The Truth About Bowhunting Ted Nugent (1991) ISBN B0006ORP2G (146 pages)
- Nugent, Ted. God, Guns & Rock and Roll. Regnery Publishing, Inc. (August 21, 2000) ISBN 0-89526-173-1 (316 pages)
- Nugent, Ted. Blood Trails II: The Truth About Bowhunting. Woods N' Water Inc. (November 12, 2004) ISBN 0-9722804-7-2 (256 pages)
- Nugent, Ted and Nugent, Shemane. Kill It & Grill It: A Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish. Regnery Publishing, Inc. (June 25, 2005) ISBN 0-89526-164-2 (250 pages)
- Nugent, Ted. Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto . Regnery Publishing Inc. (November 12, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59698-555-1 (256 pages)
Articles[link]
- Nugent, Ted (March 13, 2001). "Cat Scratch Thiever: Hey Napster, get your greasy paws off my intellectual property.". The Wall Street Journal. http://www.tednugent.com/news/newsDetails.aspx?PostID=917643. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
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- ^ New York Daily News report on Nugent's children, March 11, 2011
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- ^ "IMDB: Biography". IMDb. 2006. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637823/bio. Retrieved 2006-08-18.
- ^ Ringen, Jonathon (November 18, 2005). "Music Making Fans Deaf?". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/8841090/music_making_fans_deaf. Retrieved 2006-08-18.
- ^ a b Tanner, Adam. "Ted Nugent might run for Governor of Michigan." Article at MaconDaily.com, via Reuters, on August 19, 2007.
- ^ "Texas Monthly Talks". Texasmonthly.com. http://www.texasmonthly.com/texasmonthlytalks. Retrieved 2010-11-25.
- ^ "NRA 2011 Annual Meetings & Exhibits - Past Meetings". Nraam.org. http://www.nraam.org/pastmeetings/. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
- ^ "Nugent: Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster - CNN.com". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/commentary.nugent/index.html. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^ "INSIDE THE MIND OF TED NUGENT – RF6 Exclusive « Royal Flush Magazine". Royalflushmagazine.com. 2009-12-29. http://royalflushmagazine.com/2009/12/29/inside-the-mind-of-ted-nugent. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
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- ^ Relevant part of the interview reproduced (as well as discussed) in "Claim: Ted Nugent evaded the draft in the 1960s by taking drugs and acting crazy: Undetermined", snopes.com, April 25, 2012.
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 Gomez attending "The 6th Annual Hollywood Style Awards", Beverly Hills, CA on Oct. 10, 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Selena Marie Gomez |
| Born | (1992-07-22) July 22, 1992 (age 19) Grand Prairie, Texas, U.S. |
| Genres | Pop, dance, pop rock[1] |
| Occupations | Actress, singer, Fashion Designer |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, guitar, drums |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Labels | Hollywood |
| Associated acts | Selena Gomez & the Scene, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift |
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Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992)[2] is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently ventured into feature films and has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She made her starring theatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus.
Her career has expanded into the music industry; Gomez is the lead singer and founder of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which has released three RIAA Gold certified studio albums, Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, and When the Sun Goes Down, spawned three RIAA Platinum certified singles, "Naturally", "Who Says" and "Love You Like a Love Song" and charted four No. 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs.[3] Gomez has also contributed to the soundtracks of Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Shake It Up after signing a record deal with Hollywood Records.
In 2008, Gomez was designated a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.[4]
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Early life[link]
Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas.[2] She is the daughter of former stage actress Amanda Dawn "Mandy" Teefey (née Cornett) and Ricardo Joel Gomez.[5][6][7] Her father is of Mexican ancestry, and her mother is of part Italian descent.[8][9] Regarding her Hispanic heritage, Gomez said: "My family does have Quinceañeras, and we go to the communion church. We do everything that's Catholic, but we don't really have anything traditional except [that we] go to the park and have barbecues on Sundays after church."[10] Her birth parents divorced when she was five years old, and she was raised as an only child by her working mother.[5][11] In 2006, Mandy remarried Brian Teefey.[12] She was named after Tejano singer Selena, who died almost three years after Gomez was born.[13] In a 2009 interview with People, Gomez mentioned that she developed an early interest in acting from watching her mother prepare for and act in theater productions.[11] She earned a high school diploma through homeschooling in May 2010.[14]
Career[link]
[edit] 2002–06: Barney & Friends and early work
Gomez began her acting career at age seven, playing Gianna on Barney & Friends.[15] She later had minor roles in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and the TV film Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial By Fire. Gomez also starred in the television movie Brain Zapped. (Selena Gomez also found out that she wanted to be an actress because in E Special she states that "I would also watch my mom on stage do her lines".)
In 2004, Gomez was discovered by the Disney Channel in a USA-wide scouting.[16] Gomez appeared as a guest star on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and had a guest appearance – that later turned into a recurring role – on Hannah Montana from seasons two to three. Gomez previously taped two different pilots that were spin-offs to two previous Disney series.[17] The first one, What's Stevie Thinking?, was the spin-off to Lizzie McGuire. Gomez played Stevie Sanchez, Miranda Sanchez's little sister. The other show was titled Arwin!, the spin-off to The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, in which she played Alexa. Neither series was picked up.
[edit] 2007–09: Wizards of Waverly Place and Selena Gomez & The Scene
In early 2007 Gomez was cast in the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place as one of the three main characters, Alex Russo. The show premiered to an audience of 5.9 million, becoming a hit. Many news outlets began dubbing Gomez the next 'Miley Cyrus' causing some controversy and a reported 'feud'. Gomez clarified that there was no feud and that she was flattered by the comparison, saying: "It's a little overwhelming, but I think really, it's a compliment. She's obviously extremely successful, and I think she's a wonderful performer ... So being compared to her, I was very, very flattered."[18] Gomez recorded four songs, one of which was a cover, for theWizards of Waverly Place soundtrack, only one single (Magic) from the album was released.
In 2008, Gomez recorded a cover of "Cruella de Vil"—which included a music video—for the compilation albumDisneyMania 6. Gomez also recorded "Fly to Your Heart" for the 2008 animated film Tinker Bell. In July 2008, before Gomez' sixteenth birthday, she signed a recording deal with Hollywood Records, a music label owned by Disney.[19] In May, of the same year, Gomez was featured, with Forever the Sickest Kids, on a duet version of the non-album song "Whoa Oh!".[20] The same year Gomez appeared in Another Cinderella Story, the direct-to-DVD sequel to the 2004 Hilary Duff film, opposite Drew Seeley. She also had a minor voiceover role as one the Mayor's ninety-six daughters in Horton Hears a Who! which released in March of that year. In April, Lacey Rose, of Forbes ranked Gomez as being fifth on their "Eight Hot Kid Stars To Watch" list; and Rose described Gomez as having been "a multitalented teen".[21] Gomez recorded three songs for the movie's soundtrack.
In 2009, Gomez formed the teen pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene. Kiss & Tell, the band's debut studio album and was released on September 29, 2009 by Hollywood Records. On March 5, 2010, the album was certified Gold by RIAA.[3] The album's single, "Naturally", was certified Platinum by the RIAA on July 15, 2010.[3] In February 2009, Gomez signed on to star as one of the two female leads in Ramona and Beezus, a film adaption of the children's novel series by Beverly Cleary.[22][23] Gomez stated that she felt no pressure in taking more adult roles: "I think I’m fully aware of my audience and I’m still just a kid myself. I wouldn’t do a role I don’t feel comfortable doing or that my audience wouldn’t feel comfortable seeing."[24]
In June 2009, Gomez did a guest appearance as herself in one episode of best friend Demi Lovato's Disney Channel television show, Sonny with a Chance, entitled "Battle of The Network Stars". That same month Gomez appeared alongside Lovato in the made-for-television Disney Channel movie, Princess Protection Program.[25] The telecast garnered 8.5 million viewers becoming, at the time, the third most watched Disney Channel Original Movie.[26] One month later, Gomez, along with two cast members of Wizards of Waverly Place appeared in a television three-way cross-over episode with Hannah Montana and The Suite Life on Deck, entitled Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana.
On August 28, 2009 two months after appearing in Princess Protection Program, Gomez starred in Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, a made-for-television film based on the show.[27] The film premiered to an audience of 11.4 million viewers becoming cable's No. 1 scripted telecast of 2009 and Disney Channel's second most-viewed film premiere after High School Musical 2.[28] In September 2009, Wizards of Waverly Place won "Outstanding Children's Program" at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.[29] In 2010, the film adaptation won the series its second consecutive Emmy for "Outstanding Children's Program" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.[29]
[edit] 2010–2011:Theatrical film debut, A Year Without Rain and When The Sun Goes Down
Gomez's first theatrical film Ramona & Beezus premiered on July 23, 2010 and met with generally positive reviews.[30] In March 2010, Variety reported that Gomez was set to star as one of the three lead roles in Monte Carlo, alongside Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy.[31] In the film Gomez plays Grace, a girl who’s “mistaken for a socialite while on a trip to Paris.”[32] To prepare for the role Gomez learned how to play polo and also took two weeks of vocal training to learn two different British accents.[33][34] The same year Gomez confirmed that the fourth season of her hit Disney Channel show, Wizards of Waverly Place, would be its last.
On September 17, 2010 , Selena Gomez and The Scene released their second studio album, A Year Without Rain The record debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 4, selling 66,000 copies. On January 19, 2011, the album was certified Gold by RIAA.[3] As of April 2011, the band has sold 1,354,000 albums in the United States.[35] To support the album, the band embarked on the mini-tour A Year Without Rain Tour. In February 2011, Deadline.com reported that Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment had acquired the novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher with Gomez attached to the lead.[36] That same month TV Guide reported that Gomez would make a cameo in the Muppets film.[37] On March 23, 2011, Hollywood Records announced through a press release that Selena Gomez & The Scene would be embarking on their third concert tour in the United States, the We Own the Night Tour ran during the summer of 2011.[38] Production for the final season of Wizards of Waverly Place came to a wrap on May 14, 2011.[39] Gomez co-hosted the 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards on June 19.[40] She also hosted the 2011 MTV EMAs on November 6, 2011, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she performed her band's single "Hit the Lights". Near the end of 2011, it was reported Gomez was in talks to star in two upcoming films. Deadline.com announced in October that Gomez would take part in the comedy Hot Mess.[41]
In early November, Variety reported that Gomez was in talks to star in the upcoming film Spring Breakers alongside James Franco and Vanessa Hudgens.[42] Gomez confirmed to MTV that she had signed on for the project and that production will begin in early 2012.[43] On June 28, 2011, Selena Gomez & the scene released their third studio album, When the Sun Goes Down, previously titledOtherside,[44] The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200, selling 78,000 copies its first week and the following week, the album rose to number 3 on the Billboard chart, becoming the band's highest charting album to date.[45][46] On November 17, 2011, the album was certified platinum.[3] The album's lead single, "Who Says" was certified Platinum by RIAA on June 23, 2011 and has become the band's highest charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 to date, peaking at number 21.[3][47] The second single, "Love You Like a Love Song", was certified Platinum by RIAA on December 2, 2011, and became the act's first to sell over two-million copies.[3][48]
2012–present: Focus on film[link]
In January 2012, Gomez announced that she would put her music career on hold.[49] This was later reaffirmed as Gomez wrote on her Facebook page that she was taking a break from music in order to focus on her acting career, "my band and I are going our separate ways for a while. This year is all about films and acting and I want my band to play music wherever with whoever. We will be back but, it will be a good while."[50] In February 2012, Gomez announced that the band would be taking a hiatus, so that she could focus on film for the year. She encouraged her band mates to work with other artists during the hiatus.[51] The same month, it was announced that Gomez will replace Miley Cyrus in the animated comedy Hotel Transylvania playing Mavis, the daughter of Dracula who will be voiced by Adam Sandler.[52] As of March 2012, Gomez has been cast in four upcoming films; in which three of them she has been cast as a lead role. She will first appear in Hotel Transylvania, an animated film, voicing the character of Mavis, who was originally supposed to be voiced by Miley Cyrus, however Cyrus dropped out of the film in early 2012 in order to focus on her music career.[53] The film is scheduled to be released on September 21, 2012.[54] Next, Gomez will appear in Spring Breakers, which is currently being filmed on location in Sarasota, Florida. The film is being written and directed by Harmony Korine.[55] Gomez has also been cast as the main role of Hannah Baker in the film adaptation of young-adult fiction novel, 13 Reasons Why. The novel was written by Jay Asher.[56] She will also play the lead role in a film called Hot Mess, a comedy film directed by Dave Meyers.[56] On April 7, 2012, Gomez posted a video for fans in which she revealed that she will be filming a new movie called "The Getaway" in Bulgaria. [57]
Other projects[link]
Philanthropy[link]
Gomez was involved in the UR Votes Count campaign which encouraged teenagers to learn more about 2008 presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.[58] In October 2008, Gomez participated in St. Jude's Children's Hospital "Runway For Life" benefit.[59] Gomez is a spokesperson for Borden Milk; she is featured in the campaign's print and television ads.[60] She is the ambassador of DoSomething.org after being involved with the charity Island Dog, which help dogs in Puerto Rico.[61] She got involved while filming Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie in Puerto Rico.[62] Gomez is a spokesperson for State Farm Insurance, and is featured in their TV commercials; which air on the Disney Channel, to raise awareness of being a safe driver.[63] Gomez is also involved with the charity RAISE Hope For Congo, an initiative of the Enough Project, which helps raise awareness about conflict minerals and violence against Congolese women.[64]
In October 2008, Gomez was named UNICEF's spokesperson for the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign, which encouraged children to raise money on Halloween to help children around the world.[4] She said that she was "extremely excited" to "encourage other kids to make a difference in the world."[4]
In August 2009, a 17-year-old Gomez became the youngest UNICEF ambassador ever, passing fellow songstress Hayley Westenra, who was 18 when she was chosen. In her first official field mission, Gomez traveled to Ghana on September 4, 2009 for a week to witness first-hand the stark conditions of vulnerable children that lack vital necessities including clean water, nourishment, education and healthcare.[65][66] Gomez explained during an interview with Associated Press that she wanted to use her star power to bring awareness to Ghana: “That’s why I feel very honored to have a voice that kids listen to and take into consideration [...] I had people on my tour asking me where IS Ghana, and they Googled it [...] and because I went there, they now know where Ghana is. So it’s pretty incredible.”[66][67] Gomez said of her role as ambassador that: "Every day 25,000 children die from preventable causes. I stand with UNICEF in the belief that we can change that number from 25,000 to zero. I know we can achieve this because every moment, UNICEF is on the ground providing children with the lifesaving assistance needed to ensure zero becomes a reality."[65]
Gomez was named spokesperson for UNICEF's 2009 Trick-or-Treat campaign, for the second year in a row.[68] Gomez, who raised over $700,000 for the charity in 2008, stated that she hopes to be able to raise 1 million dollars in 2009.[66] Gomez participated in a celebrity auction[69] and hosted a live web cast series on Facebook in support of the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign.[70] Gomez returned as the UNICEF spokesperson for the 60th anniversary of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign in 2010.[71] In celebration of the 60th anniversary, Gomez and her band, The Scene, held a benefit concert donating all proceeds to the campaign.[72]. On January 22nd 2010, Gomez participated in the Hope for Haiti Now Telethon with a number of other celebrities[73].
In February 2011, Gomez traveled to Chile to witness and meet with the families of UNICEF's supported program, "Programa Puente" which helps families better understand and develops skills to deal effectively with early childhood education, development and other issues related to raising children. From her field trip experience, Gomez said "UNICEF is helping Chilean families get out of poverty, prevent violence within the home and promote education. To witness first hand these families' struggles, and also their hope and perseverance, was truly inspiring."[74] In March 2011, Gomez participated in the UNICEF Tap Project's "Celebrity Tap Pack," limited-edition, custom-made water bottles featuring tap water from the homes of each celebrity advocate, in order to raise funds and increase profile for the clean water and sanitation programs.[75] She is also featured in videos promoting the campaign.[76][77]
Gomez is involved in Disney's Friends for Change, an organization which promotes "environmently-friendly behavior", and appears in its public service announcements.[78] Gomez, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, and the Jonas Brothers recorded "Send It On", a charity single with all of its proceeds to the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund.[79][80] It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 20.[79] Also in 2009, Gomez made a surprise visit to a Los Angeles elementary school as part of the "A Day Made Better" program that was sponsored by OfficeMax. During her visit, Gomez gave the school an award and $1,000 worth of school supplies, and talked to students about the importance of giving back to the community.[81][82]
Gomez is also the owner of six rescue dogs and describes herself as a "huge animal-lover".[83]
In April 2012, Gomez was named ambassador to the Ryan Seacrest Foudation[84].
Entrepreneurship and sponsorships[link]
Gomez was part of Sears back-to-school fashion ad campaign.[85] As part of the campaign Gomez was featured in the television commercials. In August 2009, Gomez also hosted the "Sears Arrive Air Band Casting Call" – to select five people for the first-ever "Sears Air Band", which performed at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.[86]
In October 2008, Gomez launched her own production company, July Moon Productions, and partnered with XYZ Films to create star vehicles for Gomez. As part of the agreement Gomez will have the opportunity to be able option articles, hire writers and create talent packages to shop to studios.[87][88] Also, as part of the deal, "XYZ Films will allow Gomez to star in and produce at least two films.[81] Variety reported that: "In August, XYZ [Films] inked a similar deal with Time Inc. and management-production company the Collective to finance the development of the print media giant's content for the bigscreen [...] As part of the July Moon-XYZ deal, [Selena] Gomez will have the ability to cherry-pick projects from the vast Time Inc. library, which includes Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Life."[88]
In October 2009, Gomez announced her plan to launch her own fashion line, called "Dream Out Loud by Selena Gomez". The clothing line launched in the fall of 2010.[89][90] The collection consists of and features bohemian dresses, floral tops, jeans, skirts, jackets, scarves and hats, all made from recycled or eco-friendly materials.[91][92] Gomez said that the line will reflect her own personal style and described the clothing as being "pretty, feminine, and bohemian," and: "With my line, I really want to give the customer options on how they can put their own looks together [...] I want the pieces that can be easy to dress up or down, and the fabrics being eco-friendly and organic is super important [...] Also, the tags will all have some of my inspirational quotes on them. I'm just looking to send a good message."[89][92] Gomez, who has no background in fashion, teamed up with designers Tony Melillo and Sandra Campos, both who have worked with big-name fashion houses.[90] Gomez said of the partnering: "When I met Tony and Sandra, I was instantly comfortable with them and now they are just like family to me ... They are so creative and I love how I can just call them up whenever and talk to them about everything, even if it's just about changing a button ... They've been so cool about everything."[89][90][91][92] The brand will be manufactured by, Melillo and Campos teamed with New York-based Adjmi Apparel and formed by Adjmi CH Brands LLC; which is the holding company for the brand.[93]
It was announced on July 14, 2011, that Gomez had signed a license agreement with Adrenalina, an extreme sports and adventure-themed lifestyle brand, to develop, manufacture, and distribute the actress' fragrance. It is expected to debut in May of 2012. Chairman and C.E.O. of Adrenalina, Ilia Lekach, said, "We are incredibly enthused to be working with Ms. Gomez and will reveal more details pertaining to the fragrance as we get closer to the launch date."[94]
Personal life and Image[link]
With a solid fan and media following, Selena Gomez is considered a teen idol. She has appeared on several magazine covers, including People Magazine,[95] Cosmopolitan,[96] Billboard,[97] TVGuide,[98] Teen Vogue,[99] Seventeen,[100] Elle[101].
Wax statues of Gomez are on display at Madame Tussauds wax museums in New York[102], London[103], Washington D.C[104] and Hollywood.
Relationships[link]
Gomez has had several high-profile relationships. She had an on-off relationship with singer Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers from 2008 to 2010.[105] In 2009, she met actor Taylor Lautner in Vancouver, while she was filming Ramona and Beezus and he was shooting New Moon[106], and the two dated for almost a year. However the pressure of the media became too much for them and caused the two to break-up.[107] On February 27 2011, Gomez attended the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party with Canadian singer Justin Bieber,[108] confirming several months of media speculation about a romantic relationship between the pair.[109][110][111][112][113][114] The relationship has since continued to garner significant media attention.[115][116][117][118][119]
Filmography[link]
Film[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | Waterpark Girl | |
| 2005 | Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire | Julie | |
| 2008 | Another Cinderella Story | Mary Santiago | Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie Teen Choice Award for Celebrity Dancer |
| Horton Hears a Who! | Helga | Nominated - Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Voice-over Role | |
| 2009 | Princess Protection Program | Carter Mason | Nominated - Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie Teen Choice Award for Summer TV Star (Female) |
| Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie | Alex Russo | Nominated - Imagen Award for Best Television Actress | |
| Arthur and the Vengeance of Maltazard | Princess Selenia | (Replaced Madonna) | |
| 2010 | Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds | Princess Selenia | |
| Ramona and Beezus | Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby | Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Summer Movie Star (Female) | |
| 2011 | Monte Carlo | Grace Bennett/ Cordelia Winthrop Scott |
Nominated - ALMA Award for Favorite Movie Actress in a Musical/Comedy Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Summer Movie Star (Female) |
| The Muppets | Herself | ||
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | Mavis | |
| 2013 | Spring Breakers | Faith | |
| Aftershock | TBA | ||
| The Getaway | Kid | ||
| TBA | Thirteen Reasons Why | Hannah Baker | |
| TBA | Hot Mess | TBA | |
| TBA | The Sky Is Everywhere | Lennie Walker |
Television[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–2003 | Barney & Friends | Gianna | Recurring role |
| 2006 | Brain Zapped | Emily Grace Garcia | Unsold pilot[120] |
| 2006 | The Suite Life of Zack & Cody | Gwen | "A Midsummer's Nightmare" (season 2: episode 22) |
| 2007–2008 | Hannah Montana | Mikayla | "I Want You to Want Me... to Go to Florida" (season 2: episode 13) "That's What Friends Are For?" (season 2: episode 18) "(We're So Sorry) Uncle Earl" (season 2: episode 22) (uncredited) |
| 2007–2012 | Wizards of Waverly Place | Alex Russo | Lead role |
| 2008 | Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream | Herself | (Season 1, episode 7) |
| 2008 | Studio DC: Almost Live | Herself | Second Show |
| 2008 | Disney Channel Games | Herself | Third annual |
| 2009 | The Suite Life on Deck | Alex Russo | "Double-Crossed" (season 1: episode 21) |
| 2009 | Hannah Montana | Alex Russo | "Super(stitious) Girl" (season 3: episode 19) |
| 2009 | Sonny with a Chance | Herself | "Battle of the Networks' Stars" (season 1: episode 13) |
| 2011 | So Random! | Herself | "Selena Gomez & the Scene" (season 1: episode 3) Musical guest singing "Who Says" |
| 2011 | PrankStars | Herself | "Something to Chew On (Pilot)" (season 1: episode 1) |
| 2012 | Funny Or Die | Woman | "'Fifty Shades Of Blue'" Parody Video |
Discography[link]
See also: Selena Gomez & the Scene discography
- Albums
- 2009: Kiss & Tell
- 2010: A Year Without Rain
- 2011: When the Sun Goes Down
Soundtrack albums[link]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [121] |
US OST [121] |
US Kids [121] |
NOR [122] |
|||
| Another Cinderella Story |
|
116 | 8 | — | — | |
| Wizards of Waverly Place |
|
24 | 4 | 2 | 27 | |
| "—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart. | ||||||
Singles[link]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [123] |
CAN [123] |
NOR [124] |
|||
| "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" | 2008 | 58 | — | — | Another Cinderella Story |
| "Magic" | 2009 | 61 | 86 | 5 | Wizards of Waverly Place |
| "Shake It Up" | 2011 | — | — | — | Shake It Up: Break It Down |
Featured singles[link]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US [123] |
|||
| "Whoa Oh!" (Forever The Sickest Kids featuring Selena Gomez) |
2009 | — | non-album song |
| "Send It On" (among Disney's Friends for Change) |
20 | non-album song |
Other charted songs[link]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US [123] |
|||
| "One and the Same" (with Demi Lovato) |
2009 | 82 | Disney Channel Playlist |
Music videos[link]
| Song | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Burnin' Up" | 2008 | A Little Bit Longer; played Nick Jonas' love interest |
| "Cruella De Vil" | 2008 | Disneymania 6 |
| "Fly to Your Heart" | 2008 | Tinker Bell |
| "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" | 2008/2009 | Kiss & Tell |
| "One and the Same" | 2009 | Princess Protection Program, Disney Channel Playlist |
| "Send It On" | 2009 | Send It On |
| "Falling Down" | 2009 | Kiss & Tell |
| "Naturally" | 2009 | Kiss & Tell |
| "Round and Round" | 2010 | A Year Without Rain |
| "A Year Without Rain" | 2010 | A Year Without Rain |
| "The Dance Routine" | 2011 | non-album, The Midnight Beast, cameo |
| "Who Says" | 2011 | When the Sun Goes Down |
| "Love You Like a Love Song" | 2011 | When the Sun Goes Down |
| "Hit the Lights" | 2011 | When the Sun Goes Down |
| "Hit the Lights" | 2012 | When the Sun Goes Down |
Tours[link]
| Year | Tour | Gross revenue |
|---|---|---|
| 2009/2010 | Live in Concert | $85,102 |
| 2010/2011 | A Year Without Rain Tour | $634,667 |
| 2011/2012 | We Own the Night Tour | $5,754,314 |
Rankings[link]
| Year | Title | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | People Magazine's Most Beautiful Under 21[125] | No. 1 |
| 2010 | Billboard's Hottest Music Stars Under 21[126] | No. 3 |
| People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People[127] | Top 50 | |
| 2011 | Latina Magazine's 25 Most Beautiful Latino Stars Under 25[128] | No. 4 |
| Latina Magazine's 15 Latinas We Love![129] | No Specific Order | |
| Paper Magazine's Most Beautiful People[130] | No Specific Order | |
| Billboard's Hottest Music Stars Under 21[126] | No. 3 | |
| 2012 | AskMen's Top 99 Women[131] | No. 14 |
| AskMen's Top 99 Women (UK)[132] | No. 33 | |
| People Magazine's Most Beautiful Look-alikes[133] | No. 3 | |
| FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World[134] | No. 75 | |
| Glamour Magazine's Best Dressed Women in the World (UK)[135] | No. 33 | |
| Maxim's Hot 100[136] | No. 24 |
Awards and nominations[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Selena Gomez
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| Name | Gomez, Selena |
| Alternative names | Gomez, Selena Marie |
| Short description | Actress, singer |
| Date of birth | July 22, 1992 |
| Place of birth | Grand Prairie, Texas, United States |
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