Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin McGregor Rossdale is an English musician and actor, known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush. Following Bush's separation in 2002, which lasted for eight years, he was the lead singer and guitarist for Institute, and later began a solo career. When performing solo, Rossdale plays songs from his musical libraries. He was ranked 75th in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader. In 2013 Rossdale received the British Academy's Ivor Novello...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 October 1965
CityLondon, England
I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
My life's changed a lot in the last couple of years, ... and hopefully this reflects it. I wanted to do something a little bit harder than Bush. It's got a paranoid edge to it.
I wanted to do something a little bit harder than Bush, ... It's got a paranoid edge to it. It's a pretty difficult transition to go from my band Bush to this new terrain, this whole other world.
Everything is fine now, ... We resolved it and the war of attrition is over. We're concentrating on all working hard together to make this record well known. We're down with them. It's just really good to be having a record out.
I love the hard music but I'm a sucker for melody.
I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
It felt, at first, slightly adulterous, and now it feels completely right.
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.