The Gavin Report
Flipping through radio stations in the car yesterday, I heard Gavin Rossdale’s solo single, “Love Remains the Same,” which has not been a monster hit, but evidently is getting some airplay. In the ’90s, I wrote about Gavin (and his band Bush) often enough that Gavin and I called each other “my namesake.” This article was the first one, a cover story for the Details “Music Issue” in 1996. It includes a visit to the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium a week before they tore it down, and my front-row seat for the early stages of Gavin’s courtship with Gwen Stefani (now his wife). The story was written during that brief moment when grunge-flavored rock bands kept topping the singles charts. Bush were thought to live on the crass commercial end of that spectrum, but time favors catchiness over authenticity; their hits sound really good today.
Checking out the web, I see that Gavin’s birthdate is now generally reported as October 30, 1965; at the time, he was apparently shaving two years off his age. When published, this article had one of my favorite author credits ever: Before reporting this story, Gavin Edwards had never heard arenas full of women shouting his name.
posted 16 July 2008 in Archives, Articles and tagged author credits, Bush, Details, Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani. 1 comment
July 16th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Yes.