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Everyone has a view on Gwen Stefani:

She’s a punk-rock pin-up, a female David Bowie, the new princess of pop, a style icon, a hip-hop superstar, a movie starlet, the red-carpet goddess, a cultural chameleon. Just don’t call her a faker…

“What I would say to those people,” spits Stefani in her helium-tipped Cali-purr, “is do your research. I was in a band with all guys since I was 16 years old. I’ve been in a fucking rock band touring the fucking world for eighteen years. So if you’re gonna try and erase that, then I’m gonna stick my finger right up in your face. ‘Cos you know what? I did it. And you try and be a girl and do that in 1987. Read the rest of this article »

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Gwen Stefani

Scared solo

When Gwen Stefani got the call that Linda Perry was ready to write with her, the first thing she did was bury her face in a pillow and cry. All she wanted to do was sleep. And now she was going to have to get up and get creative.

When she arrived at Perry’s house, nothing she did seemed fast enough. Stefani would go into another room to try to write some lyrics, and when she came back, Perry would already have the whole song nailed. “Dude, slow down. This is my record. Let me be a part of it,” Gwen thought. Read the rest of this article »

Gwen Stefani puts out her own album, but says No Doubt will go on.

Byline: Ben Wener

She insists it isn’t really a solo album. Merely “a collaborative side project,” a lark that snowballed into something more. And no way is No Doubt over.

Yet that lark  – “Love, Angel, Music, Baby,” the first album issued under Gwen Stefani’s name – comes with trepidation about the future. Intentionally or not, it just might set her on a new career path, one that wouldn’t include the band of brothers she has considered family since she was a feisty teenager from Anaheim, Calif. Read the rest of this article »