Wilder continued to work on his personal project Recoil , releasing a fourth album ( Unsound Methods ) in 1997.
The idea to create Gorillaz came about when Albarn and Hewlett were watching MTV . Hewlett said, “If you watch MTV for too long, it’s a bit like hell – there’s nothing of substance there. So we got this idea for a virtual band, something that would be a comment…
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After the release of the Perverse album, Jesus Jones took an extended hiatus and did not return to the recording studio until December 1996.
Curve’s second studio album, the harder-edged Cuckoo (1993), did not repeat the UK Top 20 success of the band’s debut. That coupled with the stressfulness of the tour in support of the record, may have contributed to Halliday and Garcia’s decision to disband the group in 1994. “It got to…
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U2 began work on their next studio album, Pop , in mid-1995, holding recording sessions with Nellee Hooper , Flood , and Howie B . The band mixed the contrasting influences of each producer into their music, in particular Howie B’s experiences with electronica and dance music. Mullen was sidelined…
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Curve returned to the music business in 1996 with the EP Pink Girl With the Blues . In the same year, Curve collaborated with Paul Van Dyk by reworking the mostly instrumental song “Words” from the album Seven Ways and also adding Halliday’s vocals.
In mid-1996, after his near-fatal overdose in which his heart stopped beating for two minutes, Gahan entered a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program to battle his addiction to cocaine and heroin.
After having left Shaking Hands, Buck-Tick started their own management company, Banker Ltd., on January 31, 1996, and appointed Toll as its president. They also started a new fan club, Fish Tank. On June 21, they released their ninth studio album, Cosmos , which featured a brighter sound than was…
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With Gahan out of rehab in 1996, Depeche Mode held recording sessions with producer Tim Simenon .
In 1996, Carter left Chrysalis Records and joined Cooking Vinyl . With Salv from the band S*M*A*S*H on bass, Wez’s brother Steve on guitar, and teenager Ben Lambert on keyboards , Carter became a six-piece band.