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 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 think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.
I think that in order to survive, there's this concept of having bulletproof skin,
I always figured that, you know, everyone had a bush. It wasn't specifically female. Anyway, we all come from bush.
he says. ''But I like to create challenges for myself. There are loads of producers less edgy than Page, but he's been great in many ways, doing guitar parts and arrangements and also knowing when to leave me alone.
He hasn't been allowed to come to the showroom because I wanted it to be a surprise.
I love the hard music but I'm a sucker for melody.
I play rock music but grew up with Massive Attack and Tricky. I am not just some rock musician; I want to cover the whole lot.