In 1976, Mick Jones found himself out of a job. The Surrey, England, native had a rep as a guitar gunslinger dating back to his own band, Nero & the Gladiators; session credits for George Harrison, Peter Frampton and Johnny Halliday; and tenures with the Leslie West Band and Spooky Tooth.
But after an angry departure from the Leslie West Band, Jones was at a crossroads and looking for his next move. He came up with a winner -- Foreigner. Recruiting an old mate, Ian McDonald from King Crimson, and some unknown American players, Jones created a juggernaut that's sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and enough hits to fill a double-disc retrospective ("No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner," due July 15 on Rhino Records). |
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This April, you could find the members of Chicago's Company of Thieves asleep all over the seats in New York's Madison Square Garden, up until about 10 minutes before they performed during halftime at a sporting event. "It was hilarious. It's very surreal being up on a Jumbotron. You should try it," quips frontwoman Genevieve Schatz, who co-writes Company of Thieves' songs with guitarist Marc Walloch.
The Garden opportunity came on the heels of the band's win at the 2007 New York Songwriters Circle songwriter competition, where Company of Thieves took home the crown for the track "Oscar Wilde." On the strength of that song, plus several others from the band's May 2007 debut, "Ordinary Riches," the group may want to prepare for a long stay in the spotlight |
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When Delta Goodrem was cast in Australia's long-running serial "Neighbours" in 2002, the teenager didn't care for the "bad girl" character written for her -- and had the audacity to renege on the potentially career-making role.
Goodrem had already signed a development deal with Sony Records and felt the part didn't suit the hopeful tone of her music. "It's hard now to believe I had the courage to do that," the 23-year-old says. But as it turns out, show producers wanted to fly with Delta and rewrote the role of shy coffee-shop staffer/budding singer "Nina Tucker" to her liking—and she signed on.
Goodrem has certainly made good on not being bad—but |
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When Delta Goodrem was cast in Australia's long-running serial "Neighbours" in 2002, the teenager didn't care for the "bad girl" character written for her -- and had the audacity to renege on the potentially career-making role.
Goodrem had already signed a development deal with Sony Records and felt the part didn't suit the hopeful tone of her music. "It's hard now to believe I had the courage to do that," the 23-year-old says. But as it turns out, show producers wanted to fly with Delta and rewrote the role of shy coffee-shop staffer/budding singer "Nina Tucker" to her liking—and she signed on.
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Faith, doubt and effort: It takes all three to bring anything meaningful to fruition, according to Anthony David.
"I always liked music as a kid, but I'm from Savannah [Ga.], and music just wasn't an optional career choice for us there," says the singer/songwriter about his early qualms about becoming an artist. "I just really didn't think I could do it."
This mindframe is what led the then-16-year-old former marching band member and choir boy to sign up for the army. Thankfully, after completing his four year stint in the military, David left his fears of the music industry behind him and moved to Atlanta, joining the local poetry scene there.
That move opened the doors for him to mee |
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When his father passed away in seventh grade, Nathan Rateliff quit school and started working in a factory to help support his family in his blue-collar hometown of Hermann, Mo. He, along with friend/bassist Joe Pope, moved to Denver 10 years ago to volunteer at a homeless mission; later he started work at a trucking company.
Rateliff now heads two music projects, one as anthemic rock troupe Born in the Flood and solo as the Wheel, where he performs more singer/songwriter-y fare. Local bands like the Fray, Flobots, Meese and Devotchka used to share the stage—and even open for—Born in the Flood before they blew up bigger than their Denver origins.
It seems that nothing has ever been handed to the songwriter—but ear |
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