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Gavin McGregor Rossdale (born October 30, 1967 in Kilburn, London, England)
was the lead singer and guitarist of the British rock group Bush. His
parents are Barbara (who was born in Scotland) and Douglas Rossdale (a
doctor of Russian Jewish descent); they divorced when he was eleven years
old. He has a younger sister, Soraya, who taught him how to play the guitar,
and an older sister, Lorraine. He is a former pupil of Westminster School.
Rossdale and Nigel Pulsford met in 1992, and together they formed Bush soon
after.
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In 2004, Rossdale put Bush on the shelf and formed rock group Institute.
Institute's first CD, entitled Distort Yourself, was released on September
13, 2005. The first single is called "Bullet-Proof Skin."
Bush's first album, Sixteen Stone (1994), was a modest commercial success,
but critics lambasted them as an inferior derivative of bands such as
Nirvana and Pixies. This criticism followed them throughout their entire
career as a band. In particular, Rossdale's throaty singing voice and random,
stream of consciousness-style lyrics were dismissed as a pale imitation of
Nirvana's lead singer, Kurt Cobain. Critics also derided his "heart-throb"
status among teenage girls, often dismissing him as little more than a pinup
with a guitar.
Bush's albums include Razorblade Suitcase (produced by Steve Albini, who
also produced Nirvana's In Utero) and Golden State. Neither sold as well as
their debut album. The band has officially been on hiatus since 2002.
On September 14, 2002, Rossdale married Gwen Stefani, who at the time was
the lead vocalist of the pop band No Doubt. In 2004, it was revealed that he
was the father of Pearl Lowe's 15-year-old daughter, the model Daisy Lowe.
He was featured on the Sony Pictures XXX soundtrack in 2002 with a song
called "Adrenaline." The song was also the official theme song for WWE's
Unforgiven pay-per-view event in September 2002.
In 2005 Rossdale appeared in the film Constantine as the villain Balthazar.
On December 20, 2005, US Weekly reported that Rossdale and wife Gwen Stefani
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