Gavin Rossdale

Gavin McGregor Rossdale (born 30 October 1965) is a British musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush.

During the 1980s, Rossdale formed a pop band called Midnight with Sacha Puttnam.

Despite touring as far afield as Ireland and enjoying support slots for artists including Big Country and Cyndi Lauper, his band saw little success after releasing two singles.

Rossdale later became a member of the group The Little Dukes.

According to Alex Tate, the Little Dukes' music was contrary to Rossdale's musical preferences at the time.

All albums had commercial success, which led Bush to be one of the best-selling rock groups to come out of the 1990s.

Although the band reached superstar status in the US, they failed to have much impact in the UK.

The main exception to this was the UK chart success of the album Razorblade Suitcase (number 4) and its single "Swallowed" (number 7).

After travelling to Los Angeles and New York City with the hope of being signed to a record label, and crossing paths with a future Bush manager, the band broke up in autumn 1991.

He helped form Bush in 1992; on the band's separation in 2002, he became the lead singer and guitarist for Institute and later began a solo career.

In 1992, Rossdale established the grunge band Bush, initially known as Future Primitive, as its vocalist and rhythm guitarist after first befriending lead guitarist Nigel Pulsford in November 1991.

Their debut album, Sixteen Stone (1994), was a huge commercial success.

Bush's albums include the aforementioned Sixteen Stone, Razorblade Suitcase, Deconstructed, The Science of Things, and Golden State.

A change in record labels and management did not bode well for the band, who disbanded in 2002.

This song was also the official theme song for WWE's Unforgiven pay-per-view event in September 2002 and also was The Undertaker's Desire/Tribute theme of that same year.

He also guest appeared for Blue Man Group's "The Current" and is featured in its video.

This song was used in the ending credits of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

In 2004, after Bush had been on hiatus for two years, Rossdale formed Institute.

Their album, Distort Yourself, released on 13 September 2005 achieved moderate success and the single "Bullet Proof Skin" was used in the motion picture Stealth.

Institute broke up in 2006, after one album.

Rossdale's single, "Can't Stop the World", was the introduction theme to Fox's programme, Drive.

In 2007, he covered John Lennon's "Mind Games" for the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.

In an interview published in November 2008, Rossdale noted that the Institute record was, "for all intents and purposes, a solo record. It was just a bad marketing decision to call it something else".

Rossdale's first solo record, entitled Wanderlust, was released 3 June 2008.

Gwen Stefani, Rossdale's then-wife, sang background vocals on the track "Can't Stop The World", with other vocalists on the album including Shirley Manson, Katy Perry and Dave Stewart.

Bush and Institute guitarist Chris Traynor also played on the album.

He also made a guest appearance on the DT8 Project album Perfect World, taking lead vocals and co-writing the track Falling.

On 1 April 2008 the first single from WANDERlust, "Love Remains The Same", was released through digital retailers.

It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at Number 76, rising to 27 in October 2008, giving Rossdale his first Top 40 hit since the days when he fronted the post-grunge band Bush.

Rossdale mounted a full-scale solo tour in Spring 2009.

He resumed his role in Bush when the band reunited in 2010.

On 21 June 2010, it was announced that Bush would return and planned to release a new album.

The Sea of Memories was released on 13 September 2011.

In 2013, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.

Rossdale was born in Marylebone, London, England, the son of Barbara Stephan (née Bowie) and Douglas Rossdale, a doctor.

His mother was born in Scotland, whereas his father was of Russian Jewish descent, the family's surname originally being Rosenthal.

Rossdale was unable to speak until the age of four, and his parents divorced when he was 11 years old.

Rossdale was educated at the independent Westminster School.

Bush have since released four more albums: Man on the Run in 2014, Black and White Rainbows in 2017, The Kingdom in 2020, and The art of survival in 2022.

Rossdale performed a song entitled "Adrenaline" for the soundtrack of the film XXX, which features it during the end credits.