MARILYN MANSON
official site
ALBUMS
Portrait Of An American Family - 1994
Smells Like Children - 1995
Antichrist Superstar - 1996
Mechanical Animals - 1998
The Last Tour On Earth - 1999
Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death) - 2000
The Golden Age Of Grotesque - 2003
Eat Me,Drink Me - 2007
Состав
Marilyn Manson - вокал
Tim Skold - бас
Johnny 5 - гитара
Madonna Wayne Gacy - клавишные
Ginger Fish - ударные
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Глава этой скандальной команды Брайан Уорнер появился на свет 5
января 1969 года в городе Кантон, что в штате Огайо. В детстве он ходил
в христианскую школу, где по-видимому были слишком "хорошие" учителя,
что мальчик решил стать атеистом. В 18 лет Брайан переехал во Флориду,
где занялся журналистской деятельностью, попутно сочиняя стихи. Через
пару лет Уорнер задумал основать свою группу. Начал он с того, что взял
себе псевдоним Мэрилин Мэнсон, составленный из имени и фамилии двух
известных личностей. Соответственно также поступили и остальные
музыканты. Гитарист Скотт Патески стал Дэйзи Берковицем, басист Брайан
Татаник – Оливией Ньютон Банди, а клавишник Перри Пандреа – За За
Спеком. Роль ударника исполняла драм-машина, за программирование
которой отвечал Берковиц. Новоиспеченный проект обозвали "Marilyn
Manson and the Spooky Kids".
Вывеска вскоре была урезана, а заодно произошли изменения в
составе: за клавишные встал Мадонна Вэйн Гэйси, басуху взял Гиджет Гейн
(Брэд Стюарт), а за барабаны уселся Сара Ли Лукас (Фредди Стрейтхорст).
Гейн оказался законченным наркоманом, и когда он чуть не подох от
передозировки героина, его пришлось заменить Твигги Рамирезом (Джорди
Уайт).
После совместных концертов группы с "Nine Inch Nails" Мэнсон
показал демозапись своей команды Тренту Резнору. Тому пленка
понравилась и он взял "Мэнсонов" на свой лейбл "Nothing". Под
руководством Резнора был записан дебютный альбом "Portrait Of An
American Family". Однако из-за некоторых юридических неурядиц его выход
был отложен до 1994 года. После первого глобального американского турне
из "Marilyn Manson" ушел Лукас, уступивший место Джинджеру Фишу. К тому
времени группа уже получила скандальную известность из-за своих шоу с
демоническими нарядами, голыми девками, козлиными головами и прочим
подобным фуфлом. Куда бы команда не собиралась ехать, везде церковные
деятели сразу вставали на дыбы, пытаясь запретить концерты "Marilyn
Manson". Мэнсон реагировал на это по разному. Так на одном из
выступлений он порвал священную книгу мормонов, за что последние его
вообще люто возненавидели.
Однако поклонников группы тоже хватало. Вышедший в 1995-м
альбом "Smells Like Children" оказался на 53-й строчке "Billboard", а
кавер-версия песни "Eurythmics" "Sweet Dreams" стала хитом года, и к
осени 1996-го сингл с этой песней приобрел платиновый статус. Во время
британского тура 1996 года в команде появился новый гитарист по кличке
Зим Зам.
Изгнанный Берковиц подал на группу в суд, требуя выплаты части
доходов от продажи дисков. А годом раньше такой же иск предъявил Гиджет
Гейн. Пока длилась судебная бодяга группа записала новый лонгплей,
"Antichrist Superstar". Этот релиз стартовал в "Billboard" уже с
третьей позиции. Пластинка получилась более серьезной, мрачной и
экстремальной. В 1997 году "Marilyn Manson" раскатывали с гастролями по
всему миру, однако везде ревностные церковники старались любыми
способами сорвать их концерты. Чего только не приписывали группе, чтобы
отвадить от нее молодежь. Однако Мэнсону сотоварищи это работало только
на рекламу. Но внутри коллектива не все было гладко и в 1998-м не
поладивши с Мэрилином команду покинул Зим Зам. На его место взяли Джона
Ловери, тут же переименованного в Джонни 5. В 1999-м "Marilyn Manson"
сподобились выпустить первый концертник, "The Last Tour On Earth". В
том же году разразился очередной скандал вокруг группы в связи с тем,
что двое фанов Мэнсона расстреляли тринадцать подростков. Однако суду
не удалось признать музыкантов виновными в подстрекательстве к насилию.
Годом позже Мэнсон был также оправдан по давнему делу о сексуальных
домогательствах.
Немножко освободившись от судебных разборок группа продолжила
студийную работу. В 2000 году вышел альбом "Holy Wood", завершающий
трилогию, начатую в "Antichrist Superstar" и "Mechanical Animals". А в
2002-м было официально объявлено об уходе Твигги Рамирез. Новым
басистом команды стал Тим Сколд.
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Brian Hugh Warner (born 5 January 1969), better known by his stage
name Marilyn Manson, is an American musician and artist known for his
outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous
band. His stage name was formed from the names of actress Marilyn
Monroe and convicted murderer Charles Manson. In 2004, the band's hit
"Mobscene" was nominated for a Grammy for "Best metal Performance."
Biography
Early life
Warner was born in Canton, Ohio, the son of Barb (née Wyer) and
Hugh Warner. His father was a Catholic and his mother Episcopalian.
According to his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Warner
is of German and Polish ancestry on his father's side. He was raised in
his mother's religion, attending Heritage Christian School, though he
later transferred out, graduating from Cardinal Gibbons High School in
1987. In 1990, Warner was a college student attending Broward Community
College. He was working toward a journalism degree, and gaining
experience in the field by writing music articles for a South Florida
lifestyle magazine, 25th Parallel when he met several of the musicians
to whom his own band would later be compared, including My Life With
the Thrill Kill Kult and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.
Music
Warner formed Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids in Florida in
1989 (the name was shortened to Marilyn Manson in 1992). While with The
Spooky Kids, he was involved with Jeordie White (also known as Twiggy
Ramirez) and Stephen Gregory Bier Jr. (also known as Madonna Wayne
Gacy) in two side-projects: Satan on Fire, a faux-Christian death metal
ensemble where he played bass, and drums in Mrs. Scabtree, a
collaborative band formed with White and then girlfriend Jessicka
(vocalist with the band Jack Off Jill)as a way to combat contractual
agreements that prohibited Marilyn Manson from playing in certain
clubs. In the summer of 1993, the band drew the attention of Trent
Reznor. Reznor produced their 1994 debut album, Portrait of an American
Family and released it on his Nothing Records label. The band began to
develop a cult following, which grew larger with the release of Smells
Like Children in 1995. That EP yielded the band's first big MTV hit
with "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", a cover of the 1983 Eurythmics
hit. Antichrist Superstar (co-produced by Trent Reznor) was an even
greater success.Three of the band's albums have been awarded platinum
certification, three more gold, and the band has seen three of its
releases debut in the top ten, including two number-one albums.
Warner first worked as a producer with the band Jack Off Jill.
He helped name the band and produce most of the band's early
recordings, and also played guitar on the song "My Cat" and had the
band open most of his South Florida shows. Warner later wrote the liner
notes to the band's album Humid Teenage Mediocrity 1992-1995, a
collection of early Jack Off Jill recordings.
Warner has appeared as a guest performer on DMX's album Flesh
of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood and on Godhead's 2000 Years of Human
Error album — the only album released on his vanity label Posthuman.
Warner's latest musical project is a cover of the Danny Elfman
song "This is Halloween" that will be included on the soundtrack of the
2007 3D re-release of the 1993 Tim Burton film The Nightmare Before
Christmas.
Mansinthe
Marilyn Manson launched his own brand of absinthe which was not
exactly positively embraced by critics who compared the drink's odour
to sewage water and one even described the taste as being "as bad as
piss". The official website for the product was also flagged by Google
as a one that may install malicious software on your computer.[9]
Film and television
Warner made his film debut in 1997, as a pornographic actor in
David Lynch's Lost Highway. Since then he has appeared in a variety of
minor roles and cameos, including Party Monster; then-girlfriend Rose
McGowan's 1998 film Jawbreaker; Asia Argento's 2004 film The Heart Is
Deceitful Above All Things; Rise; and The Hire: Beat The Devil, the
sixth installment in the BMW Films series. He appeared as himself in
Michael Moore's political documentary Bowling for Columbine discussing
possible motivations for the Columbine massacre and allegations that
his music was somehow a factor. He has appeared in animated form in
Clone High and participated in several episodes of the MTV series
Celebrity Deathmatch, becoming the show's unofficial champion and
mascot; he often performed the voice for his claymated puppet, and
contributed the song "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" to the
soundtrack album.
In July 2005, Warner told Rolling Stone that he was shifting
his focus from music to filmmaking - "I just don't think the world is
worth putting music into right now. I no longer want to make art that
other people — particularly record companies — are turning into a
product. I just want to make art."
He is currently working on his directorial debut,
Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, In the film, he plays
Lewis Carroll, author of Alice In Wonderland. Rather than a web-only
release, he decided to give the estimated $42 million budget film a
conventional cinema release, originally slated for mid-2007. The film
will have an original music soundtrack with previously unreleased
songs. Production of the film has been postponed until an undefined
period following the Eat Me, Drink Me tour.
Art
Warner claimed in a 2004 interview with i-D magazine to have
begun his career as a watercolor painter in 1999 when he made
five-minute concept pieces and sold them to drug dealers. On September
13-14, 2002, his first show, The Golden Age of Grotesque, was held at
the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Centre. Art in America's Max
Henry likened them to the works of a "psychiatric patient given
materials to use as therapy" and said his work would never be taken
seriously in a fine-art context, writing that the value was "in their
celebrity, not the work". On September 14-15, 2004, Warner held a
second exhibition on the first night in Paris and the second in Berlin.
The show was named ‘Trismegistus’ which was also the title of the
center piece of the exhibit – a large, three-headed Christ painted onto
an antique wood panel from a portable embalmers table.
Warner named his self-proclaimed art movement Celebritarian
Corporation. He has coined a slogan for the movement: "We will sell our
shadow to those who stand within it.” In 2005 he said that the
Celebritarian Corporation has been "incubating for seven years" which
if correct would indicate that Celebritarian Corporation, in some form,
started in 1998.
Celebritarian Corporation is also the namesake of an art
gallery owned by Warner, called the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery
of Fine Art in Los Angeles for which his third exhibition was the
inaugural show. From April 2-17, 2007, his recent works were on show at
the Space 39 Modern & Contemporary in Florida. 40 pieces from this
show traveled to Germany's Gallery Brigitte Schenk in Cologne to be
publicly exhibited from June 28 - July 28, 2007. Manson was refused the
entrance to the Cologne Cathedral, better known under the German name
Kölner Dom, when he was in the city to attend the opening night. This
was, according to Warner, due to his makeup. Other sources gave
different reasons, however.
Video games
Warner made an appearance in the video game Area 51 as a Grey
Alien named Edgar. His song "Cruci-Fiction In Space" is featured in a
commercial for The Darkness. His likeness is also featured on the
Celebrity Deathmatch video game for which he recorded a song for the
soundtrack (2003). The song "Use your fist and not your mouth" was the
credits score of the game Cold Fear as well as Spawn: Armageddon.
Personal life
According to his autobiography, Warner is six feet and three inches tall.
Warner was offered the title of "Reverend Manson" by Church of
Satan founder Anton Lavey and holds it as an honorary title, as
described in his autobiography.
Prior to dating Rose McGowan, Warner dated a woman named
Melissa "Missi" Romero. As explained in his autobiography The Long Hard
Road Out of Hell, during the production of Antichrist Superstar, she
became pregnant with Warner's child; however, she had an abortion
during her second trimester.
He had been a long time fan of Dita Von Teese, and was a member
of her website. They first met when he asked her to dance in one of his
music videos. Though she was unable to, the two kept in contact. On his
32nd birthday, she arrived with a bottle of absinthe, and they became a
couple. He proposed on March 22, 2004 and gave her a 1930s-era,
7-carat, European round-cut diamond engagement ring.
On November 28, 2005, they were married in a private,
non-denominational ceremony in their home. A larger ceremony was held
on December 3 at Gurteen Castle in Kilsheelan (County Tipperary),
Ireland, the home of their friend, Gottfried Helnwein. The wedding was
officiated by surrealist film director and comic book writer Alejandro
Jodorowsky. They reportedly exchanged vows in front of approximately 60
guests, including burlesque performer Catherine D'lish, Lisa Marie
Presley, Eric Szmanda, Jessicka and Christian Hejnal. She wore a royal
purple silk taffeta gown, made by Vivienne Westwood and a tri-corned
hat designed by Stephen Jones and matching Mr. Pearl corset. Moschino
designed an additional wardrobe for the rest of the weekend,
exclusively for Von Teese. The reception music was provided by the
retro German band Palast Orchester mit Max Raabe. Guests were invited
to participate in skeet shooting, archery and falconry in the days
following the wedding. The wedding pictures appeared in the March 2006
edition of Vogue under the heading "The Bride Wore Purple".
On December 30, 2006 Von Teese filed for divorce due to
"irreconcilable differences". ET.com and People claimed that Warner was
having an extramarital affair with then 19-year-old actress Evan Rachel
Wood, who is to co-star in his upcoming horror film Phantasmagoria: The
Visions of Lewis Carroll, and features in the video for his 2007
single, "Heart-Shaped Glasses". The relationship was confirmed by Von
Teese in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, "I get the impression
he thinks I was unsupportive, but the truth is I wasn't supportive of
his lifestyle, and someone else came along who was."[18] Warner's
alcohol abuse and distant behavior were also cited as cause for the
split. He is reportedly fighting for custody of the couple's three
cats. A judgement of divorce was entered in Los Angeles Superior Court
on December 27, 2007.
Prior to his six-year relationship with von Teese, he was engaged to actress Rose McGowan.
Lawsuits
* In 1997, former guitarist and songwriter Scott Mitchell
Putesky "Daisy Berkowitz", filed suit against Manson seeking unpaid
royalties for his contributions to the band's output up to that period,
including the recently released Antichrist Superstar. The case was
concluded in 1998, although the outcome was confidential. * In a civil
battery suit, David Diaz, a security officer from a concert in
Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 27, 2000, sued for $75,000 in a
Minneapolis federal court. The federal court jury found in Warner's
favor.
* In a civil suit presented by Oakland County, Michigan,
Warner was charged with sexual misconduct against another security
officer, Joshua Keasler, during a concert in Clarkston, Michigan on
July 30, 2001. Oakland County originally filed assault and battery and
criminal sexual misconduct charges,[26] but the judge reduced the
latter charge to misdemeanor disorderly conduct.[27] Manson pleaded no
contest to the reduced charges, paid a $4,000 fine,[28] and later
settled the lawsuit under undisclosed terms.
* On April 3, 2002 Maria St. John filed in Los Angeles
Superior Court accusing Warner of providing her adult daughter,
Jennifer Syme, with cocaine and instructing her to drive while under
the influence.
* On August 2, 2007, former band member Stephen "Pogo/Madonna
Wayne Gacy" Bier filed a lawsuit against Warner unpaid "partnership
proceeds" seeking $20 million in back pay. Several details from the
lawsuit leaked to the press. In November 2007, additional papers were
filed saying that Warner purchased a child's skeleton and masks made of
human skin. He also allegedly bought stuffed animals, such as a grizzly
bear and two baboons, and a collection of Nazi memorabilia. In December
2007, Marilyn Manson countersued, claiming that he failed to fulfill
his duties as a bandmember to play for recordings and to promote the
band.
Marilyn Manson also filed a countersuit against former keyboard
player Stephen Bier[34] who filed a suit against the star in 2007.
Manson is accusing Bier of breach of contract for showing up late to
band recordings and promotional appearances. He is also accusing the
former keyboardist of giving confidential band information to the
media. Manson filed the papers in the Los Angeles Superior Court on
December 19.
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