Gavin Rossdale

Gavin McGregor Rossdale is an English musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush. He helped form Bush in 1992. Upon the band's separation in 2002, he became the lead singer and guitarist for Institute and later began a solo career. He resumed his role in Bush when the band reunited in 2010. In 2013, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement. Template:Toc limit

Early life

Rossdale was born 30 October 1965<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> or 30 October 1967<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in London, England.<ref name="auto"/> He is the son of Douglas Rossdale<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Barbara Stephan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His mother was born in Scotland, whereas his father was of Russian Jewish descent. His father's family's surname had been changed to Rossdale from Rosenthal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Rossdale was unable to speak until the age of four.<ref name="MTV99">Template:Cite news</ref>

Rossdale's parents divorced when he was 11 years old.<ref name="SPIN96">Template:Cite news</ref> At around this time, Rossdale became interested in the then-current 1970s British punk rock phenomenon through his elder sister, Lorraine; Rossdale said in 1999: "everything I learned was from trying to hang out with [Lorraine's] friends. I was 12 when [punk] happened. At the top of our road was this record shop and I was always going in and getting one single at a time. That's why I've got X-Ray Spex and the Buzzcocks, practically the first edition of everything."<ref name="twentyseven" /> The Sex Pistols were also an influence on Rossdale at the time, with Rossdale telling American Songwriter in 2021 that they "changed his life" and that he "fell in love" with them "when I was 11 or 12 years old", having seen them "swearing at Bill Grundy on the TV."<ref name="batlin">Template:Cite news</ref>

Beginning in 1979, Rossdale was educated at the independent Westminster School. Rossdale disliked his time at the school, as he was the target of bullying.<ref>Nine, Jennifer, Like the English Sun: The Official Story of Bush. Virgin, 1999, p. 15</ref>

Music career

Before Bush

During the 1980s,<ref name="Boone" /> Rossdale formed a pop band called Midnight with Sacha Puttnam.<ref name="Boone">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="AM" /> Despite touring as far afield as Ireland and enjoying support slots for artists including Big Country and Cyndi Lauper,<ref name="twentyseven">Template:Cite book</ref> his band saw little success after releasing two singles.<ref name="Boone" /><ref name="AM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rossdale later became a member of the group The Little Dukes.<ref name="twentyseven" /> According to Alex Tate, the Little Dukes' music was contrary to Rossdale's musical preferences at the time.<ref name="twentyseven" /> After travelling to Los Angeles and New York City with the hope of being signed to a record label,<ref name="twentyseven" /> and crossing paths with a future Bush manager,<ref name="twentyseven" /> the band broke up in autumn 1991.<ref name="twentyseven" />

Bush

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In 1992, Rossdale established the grunge band Bush,<ref name="twentyseven" /> initially known as Future Primitive,<ref name="twentyseven" /> as its vocalist and rhythm guitarist after befriending lead guitarist Nigel Pulsford in November 1991.<ref name=Bracket2004>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="twentyseven" /> Their debut album, Sixteen Stone (1994), was a huge commercial success.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Bush's follow-up albums include Razorblade Suitcase, Deconstructed, The Science of Things, and Golden State. Each had commercial success, making Bush one of the best-selling rock groups of the 1990s.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Although the band reached superstar status in the US, they failed to have much impact in the UK.<ref>Albums of the weekTemplate:Dead link, at Entertainment.uk</ref> The main exception to this was the UK chart success of the album Razorblade Suitcase (number 4) and its single "Swallowed" (number 7). A change in record labels and management did not bode well for the band, who disbanded in 2002.<ref name="band"/>

On 21 June 2010, it was announced that Bush would return and planned to release a new album. The Sea of Memories was released on 13 September 2011.<ref name="band">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Bush have since released four more albums: Man on the Run in 2014, Black and White Rainbows in 2017, The Kingdom in 2020, and The Art of Survival in 2022.

Other projects

Rossdale performed a song entitled "Adrenaline" for the soundtrack of the film XXX, which features it during the end credits. This song was also the official theme song for WWE's Unforgiven pay-per-view event in September 2002 and also was The Undertaker's Desire/Tribute theme of that same year.Template:Citation needed He also guest appeared for Blue Man Group's "The Current" and is featured in its video. This song was used in the ending credits of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref>Template:Better source needed

In 2004, after Bush had been on hiatus for two years, Rossdale formed Institute. Their album, Distort Yourself, released on 13 September 2005 achieved moderate success and the single "Bullet Proof Skin" was used in the motion picture Stealth. In an interview published in November 2008, Rossdale noted that the Institute record was, "for all intents and purposes, a solo record. It was just a bad marketing decision to call it something else".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Institute broke up in 2006, after one album.Template:Citation needed

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Rossdale in August 2005

Rossdale's single, "Can't Stop the World", was the introduction theme to Fox's programme, Drive.Template:Citation needed In 2007, he covered John Lennon's "Mind Games" for the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.Template:Citation needed Rossdale's first solo record, entitled Wanderlust, was released 3 June 2008.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Gwen Stefani, Rossdale's then-wife, sang background vocals on the track "Can't Stop The World", with other vocalists on the album including Shirley Manson, Katy Perry and Dave Stewart.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bush and Institute guitarist Chris Traynor also played on the album. He also made a guest appearance on the DT8 Project album Perfect World, taking lead vocals and co-writing the track Falling.Template:Citation needed

On 1 April 2008 the first single from WANDERlust, "Love Remains The Same", was released through digital retailers. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at Number 76, rising to 27 in October 2008, giving Rossdale his first Top 40 hit since the days when he fronted the post-grunge band Bush. Rossdale mounted a full-scale solo tour in Spring 2009.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Of the album's title, Rossdale said, "I just liked it because it's kind of sexy enough, it's powerful, it's one word. Wanderlust sums up that desire for music and for singing and performing and this life."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rossdale also provides the vocals for the Apocalyptica song "End of Me", which is the lead single from their 2010 album, 7th Symphony.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rossdale was a judge for the tenth annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2013, Rossdale was awarded in the Ivor Novello Awards, for International Achievement in Songwriting,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> which was presented to him by Chris Martin.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 27 October 2017, Rossdale sang with Linkin Park at their special memorial concert in memory of vocalist Chester Bennington. He performed the song "Leave Out All the Rest".Template:Citation needed

Acting career

Rossdale acted in the film Constantine (2005), playing the half-demon Balthazar.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has also appeared in Zoolander (2001), Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2004), Little Black Book (2004), the Game of Their Lives (2005), How to Rob a Bank (2007), and The Bling Ring (2013). Additionally, he featured in the crime drama television series Criminal Minds in the episode "The Performer" (2009), portraying a rock star named Paul Davies who takes a vampire-like alter ego named Dante whose music is involved in a string of exsanguination murders.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Rossdale was also in the eighth episode of season 5 of Burn Notice,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and he played the villain Johnny Moreau in the 100th episode of Hawaii Five-0 in November 2014. In 2021, he starred alongside Bella Thorne in the thriller film Habit.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

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Rossdale and then-wife Gwen Stefani with Mirka Federer at the 2010 US Open

In the late 1980s, Rossdale dated Suze DeMarchi, lead singer for the Australian band Baby Animals. Bush's song "Comedown" from 1994's Sixteen Stone is about their relationship.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1995, Rossdale met Gwen Stefani, lead singer of the rock band No Doubt, when Bush and No Doubt were on tour together.<ref>[1] Template:Webarchive</ref> During a break in his relationship with Stefani, Rossdale dated Hole frontwoman and Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love for eight months in 1995 and 1996.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Rossdale then married Stefani in 2002. The two have three sons together; their sons were born in May 2006,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> August 2008,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and February 2014,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> respectively. On 3 August 2015, Stefani filed for divorce from Rossdale, claiming adultery on his part.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The divorce was finalized in April 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Boy George, in his 1995 autobiography Take It Like a Man, wrote that Rossdale had a relationship with Peter Robinson, also known as Marilyn, in the 1980s. In a 1996 interview for Rolling Stone, Rossdale responded, "That's George's take – he doesn't know me. There's a queue of people going to their lawyers about stuff in his book..I hope he manages to sell some books by putting my name in there."<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Elsewhere, both Rossdale and Robinson initially denied the story;<ref name="Stuff.co.nz_2364482">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="intouchweekly.com">Template:Cite magazine</ref> however, in 2003, Robinson dedicated the Marilyn single "Hold on Tight" to Rossdale, citing "the years of [their] passionate relationship" and featuring a photo of him and Rossdale on the cover.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2010, Rossdale acknowledged having had a relationship with Robinson, describing the relationship as experimentation and "part of growing up".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Robinson had previously stated that he "had a five-year relationship with Gavin which he agreed to keep secret for the sake of his rock career" and called Rossdale "the love of my life".<ref name="intouchweekly.com"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2004, a paternity test revealed that Rossdale was the father of Pearl Lowe's daughter, Daisy Lowe (born 1989). Rossdale and Pearl had a brief relationship, and Rossdale had been Daisy's godfather.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Rossdale subsequently cut off all contact with Pearl and Daisy.<ref name="entertainment.timesonline.co.uk">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2009, however, several websites published photos of Daisy walking with Rossdale's son in London.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Both Daisy and Rossdale said in 2010 that their relationship is good and based on respect.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Discography

Bush

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• Sixteen Stone (1994)
• Razorblade Suitcase (1996)
• Deconstructed (1997)
• The Science of Things (1999)
• Golden State (2001)
• The Sea of Memories (2011)
• Man on the Run (2014)
• Black and White Rainbows (2017)
• The Kingdom (2020)
• The Art of Survival (2022)

Institute

• Distort Yourself (2005)

Solo

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
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WANDERlust	Released: 3 June 2008 Label: Interscope Records	33	40	64	95

Singles

As lead artist

title	Year	Peak chart positions								Album
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"Adrenaline"	2002	—	24	20	—	—	78	62	—	XXX
"Love Remains the Same"	2008	27	—	33	2	28	52	24	71	WANDERlust
"Forever May You Run"	2009	—	—	—	32	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

As featured artist

title	Year	Peak chart positions					Album
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"The Current" (Blue Man Group featuring Gavin Rossdale)	2003	—	—	—	96	93	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
"End of Me" (Apocalyptica featuring Gavin Rossdale)	2010	1	20	81	—	—	7th Symphony
"Bang A Gong" (Santana featuring Gavin Rossdale)	2010	—	—	—	—	—	Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time
"DooM Dance" (Gunship featuring Carpenter Brut and Gavin Rossdale)	2023	—	—	—	—	—	Unicorn
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

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