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Gavin Rossdale: FOXNews.com Interview

FOXNews.com – Exclusive: Gavin Rossdale Talks Music, Paps and Life as a Dad – Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment
At MTV’s “Spring Break” in 1996, Gavin Rossdale performed his band Bushs hit single “Glycerine” alone in the pouring rain. In that ultimate rock star moment, he risked electrocution and being struck by lighting, all for the fans who had braved the elements to hear him.

The performance is considered one of the highlights of his fourteen-year career. And while much has changed in Rossdale’s personal life since then – a solo career, fatherhood and marriage to Gwen Stefani — don’t think that’s changed his attitude toward his music.

“I just continue to find new inspiration in different areas,” he says.

His new record and first turn as a solo artist, “Wanderlust,” is inspired by his desire to travel and see the world, while telling stories about “human dilemmas.”

Rossdale, who says he’s “no darling of the music industry,” had a lot of self-imposed pressure to make “Wanderlust” stand out. Having risen to fame in the post-grunge era as the frontman for Bush, he penned massive hits including “Machine Head,” “Glycerine” and “Swallowed.” Then, in 2005, he released an album with the group Institute and briefly toured with U2. While Institute’s record contained some of Rossdale’s deepest material, including “Letting the Cables Sleep” and “Ambulances,” Rossdale characterized it as “a really painful left turn.”

“It scared all the chicks away,” he jokes.

“Wanderlust” has already yielded the hit single “Love Remains the Same,” and has been labeled by critics as some of the best work of his career. But just don’t try to tell him that it’s more mellow than some of his previous work.

“People take the record as a sort of ‘last supper of sound,’ but it’s just 12 songs I wrote in June,” he says, arguing that he is not necessarily looking to achieve anything lighter than his other material.

“It’s not like you get to jettison your earlier stuff. I don’t leave it behind. People hear the single that my label chose, but really, it’s just one song that is not necessarily the ambassador or my record.”

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