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- Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 10:48:43am MDT
- Artist.......: Lenny Kravitz
- Album........: Live de la Semaine
- Label........: n/a
- Genre........: Rock
- Catnr........: n/a
- Source.......: DVBS
- Rip.date.....: Apr-01-2008
- Str.date.....: Mar-28-2008
- Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
- Url..........: http://www.lennykravitz.com/
- track title time
- Live de la Semaine
- 01. Stéphane Saunier - Intro
- 02. Lenny Kravitz - Bring it on
- 03. Lenny Kravitz - I'll be waiting
- 04. Lenny Kravitz - Always on the run
- 05. Lenny Kravitz - Let love rule
- 06. Lenny Kravitz - Love revolution
- 07. Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way
- 08. Stéphane Saunier - Ending
- Runtime 33:21 min
- Size 41,0 MB
- Release Notes:
- Performed / Recorded : March 2008 (Canal+ / France)
- There may have been other "retro" rock acts before him,
- but Lenny Kravitz was one of the first to not be
- pigeonholed to a single style as he touched upon such
- genres as soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic,
- folk, and ballads over the years. Born in New York on May
- 26, 1964 (his mother was actress Roxie Roker, best-known
- for her role as Helen Willis on the popular TV series The
- Jeffersons, and his father was a TV producer), Kravitz was
- raised in Los Angeles, where he found himself around
- countless musical giants as a youngster due to his parents
- friendships with the likes of Duke Ellington, Sarah
- Vaughan, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Short, and
- Miles Davis. Kravitz was a member of the California Boys
- Choir until his teenage years, when he decided to pursue
- rock & roll while in high school and under the heavily
- influence of funk rocker Prince. Kravitz's admiration of
- the Purple One was so great that he at first patterned his
- style and approach directly after Prince and became known
- as "Romeo Blue" (complete with blue contact lenses), but
- failed to land a recording contract.
- In the late '80s, Kravitz relocated back to New York City,
- where one of his roommates turned out to be actress Lisa
- Bonet (who played the part of Denise Huxtable on The Cosby
- Show); they eventually got married. During this time,
- Kravitz wisely discarded his Prince-like approach and
- looked back to such '60s/'70s classic rockers as Led
- Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield,
- Bob Marley, and the Beatles for inspiration. Kravitz found
- a kindred spirit in engineer Henry Hirsch (who would stick
- by Kravitz throughout his career). With a back-to-basics
- approach, his style was quite refreshing in the humorously
- gaudy late '80s. He inked a recording contract with Virgin
- Records and issued his debut release, Let Love Rule, in
- 1989. Kravitz's debut proved to be a surprise hit due to
- the success of the title track, which became a hit single
- and oft-aired video. A few critics were quick to assume
- that Kravitz's retro look and sound were simply a shtick
- to get the public's attention, but come the '90s, it had
- become integrated into the mainstream (both musically and
- fashion-wise), proving that Kravitz was a bit of a
- trendsetter. It was around this time that Kravitz penned a
- major hit single, not for himself but for Madonna, who
- went to number one with the sultry track "Justify My
- Love."
- What should have been a time of happiness for Kravitz
- quickly turned sour as he and Bonet divorced by the early
- '90s. Kravitz's heartbreak was very evident in his
- sophomore effort, Mama Said, which was even stronger than
- its predecessor, highlighted by the Led Zep-like funk
- rocker "Always on the Run" (a collaboration with Guns N'
- Roses guitarist Slash), as well as the mega hit with the
- Curtis Mayfield-esque soul ballad "It Ain't Over 'Til It's
- Over," which confirmed that Kravitz's success was no
- fluke. But the best was yet to come for Kravitz. His third
- release overall, 1993's Are You Gonna Go My Way, is often
- considered to be the finest album front to back of his
- entire career, and with good reason: Every single song was
- a winner, including the up-tempo anthemic title track,
- which turned out to be one of MTV's most played videos for
- that year. The album was a massive hit and Kravitz became
- an arena headliner stateside, as well as being featured on
- countless magazine covers.
- Despite an almost two-year gap between albums, Kravitz's
- fourth release, Circus, came off sounding unfocused and
- was a major letdown compared to his stellar previous few
- releases. Perhaps sensing that he needed to stir things up
- musically, Kravitz dabbled with electronics and trip-hop
- loops for his next album, 1998's 5. Although not a huge
- hit right off the bat, the album proved to have an
- incredibly long chart life, spawning the biggest hit of
- Kravitz's career, "Fly Away," almost a year after its
- original release. With the single's success, Virgin
- decided to cash in on the album's sudden rebirth by
- reissuing it around the same time with a pair of extra
- added bonus tracks, one of which became another sizeable
- hit single, a remake of the Guess Who's "American Woman"
- (which was used in the hit 1999 comedy movie Austin
- Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me). Kravitz's first best-of
- set, the 15-track Greatest Hits, was issued as a stopgap
- release in 2000, while his sixh studio release overall,
- Lenny, was issued a year later. Baptism followed in 2004.
- After starting a residential, commercial, and product
- design company called Kravitz Design, he recorded a funky
- version of John Lennon's "Cold Turkey" for Amnesty
- International's 2007 benefit compilation Instant Karma.
- Before the end of the year it was announced that Kravitz
- would return in 2008 with a new album, It Is Time for a
- Love Revolution. The album arrived in February,
- accompanied by a brief tour.
- In addition to his own albums, Kravitz continues to pen
- songs for other artists and his compositions have appeared
- on albums by such rock heavyweights as Aerosmith and Mick
- Jagger, while he produced and wrote the majority of
- Vanessa Paradis' obscure self-titled 1992 release.
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