He was also influenced by Bernard Sumner and Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame. After replying to an advertisement in the ‘Musicians Wanted’ column of Melody Maker, he successfully auditioned for Suede in 1989. Butler formed a songwriting partnership with singer Brett Anderson, and the quality of their material saw Suede hailed by the music press as ‘the best new band ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1989–2003, 2010–present) With lead singer Brett Anderson stating ‘I’m a bisexual who has never had a homosexual experience’, Suede were one of the most exciting bands to emerge in the UK for years. After a startling eponymous debut (1993) and overblown – but masterful – follow-up Dead Man Star (1994) guitarist Bernard Butler departed. After recruiting another ...
, 1932–88) Tennessee-born Perkins was a rockabilly pioneer. Signed to Sun Records in 1955, he is most famous for 1956’s US country chart-topper/US pop Top 3/UK Top 10 ‘Blue Suede Shoes’. On his way to New York for a TV appearance, Perkins was involved in a serious car crash, and a 1956 Elvis Presley cover version of the ...
For a brief period in early 1956, Carl Perkins was the first singer to take a pure rockabilly record – his self-penned ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ – to the summit of the best-selling charts in the USA. He beat Elvis to the top, but was never a realistic candidate to sustain this early promise because he lacked Presley’s film-star looks ...
Alternative guitarist and singer Jeff Buckley (1966–97) was born in Anaheim, California. Jeff barely knew his father, singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, who died when he was eight. His mother, Mary Guibert, was a classically trained pianist and cellist, which meant that music was all around when Buckley was growing up. He started playing acoustic guitar at ...
stalled when promoting their third album but continued to release records until 2001. Weiland fronted Velvet Revolver until STP’s 2008 reunion. Styles & Forms | Nineties | Rock Personalities | Suede | Nineties | Rock ...
they made two albums (Up The Bracket, 2002 and The Libertines, 2004) of exceptionally idiosyncratic indie, with The Clash’s Mick Jones at the production desk and one-time Suede guitarist Bernard Butler occasionally behind the axe. In Doherty and Barat lay a raucous and compelling songwriting team, capable of bouncing ideas off one another, and presenting them ...
but far less exciting Cast, Mavers remains missing in action, obsessively perfecting the ultimate pop sound that only he can hear. Meanwhile, Bowie-worshipping Londoner Brett Anderson formed Suede in 1989. By 1992, the quartet had released their Suede album to huge critical acclaim, with the mix of Anderson’s Bowie-esque tales of seedy sex and squalid glamour ...
song was often less about perfection than about feel. Rockabilly singer-songwriter Carl Perkins secured his own place in pop history by way of his one major chart hit, ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, which became a rock’n’roll anthem when it was covered by Elvis Presley in 1956. At around the same time, the R&B field delivered the likes of Little Richard ...
of the other glam acts. Although very much an early 1970s phenomenon, a glam rock influence can be seen in several 1990s British bands such as Gay Dad, Suede and Kenickie. Ex-Felt member Lawrence Hayward formed Denim in 1990 as a tribute to glam rock, their debut album Back In Denim (1992) including a song entitled ‘The Osmonds’ ...
Brando-like sexuality stood in sharp and favourable contrast to the pudgy, kiss-curled visage of Bill Haley, pressed home his advantage with a series of blistering rock’n’roll recordings. ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, ‘Hound Dog’ and ‘Jailhouse Rock’ were just a few of the many classic tracks he laid down during a four-year period (along with the songs for the movie King ...
on guitar, resulting in cuts such as ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’, which appeared on the flip side of his first Sun single, and the seminal self-penned ‘Blue Suede Shoes’. A More Commercial Sound Complemented by Phillips’ trademark use of slap-back echo and over-amplification, songs such as ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’ and ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ were quintessential ...
of the rockabilly craze that was sweeping the USA. Financial pressures had forced Sam to sell Presley’s contract to RCA but Perkins gave Phillips his first international hit with ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ (1956). The quality of the recordings made at Sun over the next couple of years was astoundingly high, and many acts deserving of hit records missed out solely ...
signature. Commonly Spotted Bowie Fan Yet it’s not difficult to spot his fans. Whether it be Gary Numan, Echo & The Bunnymen, Joy Division, The Smiths/Morrissey, Suede or Pulp, something about their affected delivery, the esoteric subjects of their lyrics or the rejection of rockin’ archetypes of their instrumentation marks them out as people who ...
music especially, quotations from rock and pop have crept often surreptitiously into quite alien styles and genres – from James Tenney’s (1934–2006) musique concrète manipulation of Elvis Presley’s ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ in the undemonstratively titled Collage No. 1 (1961) to the music of Michael Torke (b. 1961), whose chamber work The Yellow Pages (1987) develops its ironically disjointed minimalist process ...
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