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Genre : Rock
Latest Release : Gutterflower
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Goo Goo Dolls
This US rock trio, formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1986, comprises bass player and vocalist Robby Takac (b. 30 September 1964), guitarist and vocalist Johnny Rzeznik (b. 1967, USA) and drummer George Tutuska. The band's first two albums were compared to Cheap Trick and the Replacements. They started doing unlikely cover versions on Jed, when the professional crooner Lance Diamond sang guest vocals on a cover version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Down On The Corner'. He also sang on a version of Prince's 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man' on Hold Me Up. Both albums featured unpretentious pop punk songwriting, and the band was now being celebrated by a growing number of fans in the media. Their commercial breakthrough came with 1995's hit single 'Name' and A Boy Named Goo, which was produced by Pere Ubu, Husker and Sugar accomplice Lou Giordano. Their career showed signs of stalling in 1997 following litigation with their record company Warner Brothers Records and the departure of Tutuska. They were saved by the song 'Iris', which became a huge radio hit after featuring on the soundtrack of the Nicolas Cage movie, City Of Angels. Having built up a strong following on the back of that single, the new album Dizzy Up The Girl climbed to number 15 on the Billboard 200 album chart in October 1998. 'Slide' hit the US Top 10 the following January as the album continued its march to multi-platinum status. To put out a 'best of' album in 2001 seemed just a little premature. Gutterflower, the long-awaited follow-up to Dizzy Up The Girl, was released in April 2002.
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Artist Biography - Goo Goo Dolls
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 Dissatisfied with the royalty rates in their Metal Blade contract, the band waged a legal battle that wound up allowing them to jump to parent company Warner Brothers. Somewhat drained, Rzeznik and the band shook off a case of writer's block to contribute the ballad 'Iris' to the soundtrack of the 1998 Nicolas Cage/Meg Ryan romance City of Angels. Appearing that April, the song was a monster smash, although it was never released as a single (so its official Top Ten pop-chart status doesn't convey how popular it was); for a better indicator, 'Iris' spent nearly a year on Billboard's airplay charts, including an astonishing 18 weeks at number one, and was nominated for three Grammys. The band's next album, Dizzy Up the Girl, was released in September, during the middle of 'Iris's marathon airplay run, and sold over three million copies. Its clean, polished sound completed the Goo Goo Dolls' transformation into mainstream pop-rockers who happened to have alternative roots. Further hits from the record followed over the next year, including 'Slide,' 'Dizzy,' and the Grammy-nominated 'Black Balloon,' and the band toured heavily in support. The Goo Goo Dolls revamped their sound for 2001's career retrospective Ego Opinion Art and Commerce. A year later, the trio hits the charts with 'Here Is Gone' from their seventh studio album Gutterflower.
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