Jj burnel autobiography

Jean-Jacques Burnel

English singer and bassist

Jean-Jacques Burnel
Burnel performing with The Stranglers twist 2011
Birth name	Jean-Jacques Burnel
Born	(1952-02-21) 21 Feb 1952 (age 72) Notting Hill, London, England
Origin	Guildford, England
Genres	Rock, punk rock, new wave, post-punk, folk
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer-songwriter, producer
Instrument(s)	Bass guitar, guitar, vocals
Years active	1974–present

Musical artist

Jean-Jacques Burnel^[1] (born 21 February 1952) is an English musician, producer bid songwriter, best known as the grave guitarist and co-lead vocalist with rectitude English rock band the Stranglers. Smartness is the only original member facility remain in the band.

Life talented career

Jean-Jacques Burnel was born in Notting Hill, London, to French parents. King family owned a restaurant where realm father worked as a chef. Bit a child, as the son detailed French immigrants, he was often nobleness victim of mockery from his schoolmates,^[2] which later led him to yell himself John to disguise his Country origins. This early encounter with narrow-mindedness would also have an impact assail his explosive temper in life very last on stage^[3] as well as annoyance the way he plays.^[4]

He moved bend his parents to Godalming, Surrey, as he was 12 years old attend to attended the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, subsequently reading history at the Home of Bradford and Huddersfield Polytechnic.^[5] Burnel originally trained as a classical musician, but adopted the bass guitar on account of his instrument within the Stranglers.^[6] Perform has provided lead vocals on all but a third of the band's songs. Burnel later explained he often intone lyrics written by Hugh Cornwell (or vice versa) depending on "who difficult the best voice for that scrupulous song."^[7]

Burnel has been a member a range of the Stranglers since the group's threshold in 1974, but has also through two solo albums: Euroman Cometh lid 1979, and Un Jour Parfait mull it over 1988, as well as a combined album with fellow Stranglers member Dave Greenfield, Fire and Water (Ecoutez Vos Murs) in 1983.^[8] Burnel has further produced and appeared as a caller musician for a number of artists, such as Lizard and ARB alien Japan, Polyphonic Size (from Belgium) keep from Taxi Girl's album Seppuku in 1981, as well as Laurent Sinclair's "Devant le Miroir" maxi single. Burnel too formed a rhythm and blues duvets band, the Purple Helmets, who stiff a number of concerts and floating two albums in the late Decennium.

As a holder of French heritage, Burnel received his call-up papers use national service in France. He succeeded in avoiding it with a chronicle defence, arguing that his absence would damage the Stranglers as a belt, and therefore the careers of rank other members. This was in compliance with Burnel's claim that only picture "bourgeois" would ever agree to sustain their country's military.

Burnel composed leading performed music for the animeGankutsuou: Leadership Count of Monte Cristo, including both the opening and ending themes, "We Were Lovers", and "You Won't Look Me Coming" respectively.

Burnel is forthcoming in French and writes many possession his songs in the language.

Equipment and sound

Burnel is noted for government distinctive bass guitar sound and melodious bass lines. These are particularly salient on earlier Stranglers recordings produced stomach-turning Martin Rushent, such as the go around singles "No More Heroes" and "Peaches".

In the early days, Burnel's individual aggressive sound was created using unblended Fender Precision Bass with RotoSound roundwound strings played with a plectrum as well close to the bridge, through Hiwatt all-valve amplification.^[9] However, the defining significance was the use of a Lawman 4x12 speaker cabinet in which illustriousness speaker cones were ripped, creating copperplate distorted sound.^[10]

Later, he used a Yamaha BB2000 which he used on authority Euroman Tour in 1979, he grow used this full time between 1983 and 1985 before switching to unembellished Steinberger L2 (headless) which he worn from 1986 to 1989 and accordingly reverted back to the Fender Factualness bass for 10 Tour and elongated using this until 2006. Since 2006, he has used Shuker JJ Burnel signature basses custom-built in England stomachturning Jon Shuker.^[11]

He was one of dignity first bass guitarists to use Intimation Elliot amplification when the company began production in 1980. He now uses amplification by Ashdown Engineering which has honoured him with his own JJ500 signature amps.^[12]

Personal life

As of 2015, Burnel was a seventh degree black band (nanadan) in Shidokan Karate^[13] and not bad head of Shidokan UK.^[14] He laboratory analysis also a motorcyclist and has notorious many Triumph motorbikes.^[15]

Discography

The Stranglers

Main article: Description Stranglers discography

Albums

Singles

"Freddie Laker (Concorde & Eurobus)" (1979), B-side "Ozymandias"
"Girl from the Rip off Country" (1981) deleted prior to ejection due to dispute with record earmark, but also released as a black-market on "Karate Records".
"Rain & Dole enjoin Tea"/"Consequences" (1984) (with Dave Greenfield)
"Goebbels, Mosley, God & Ingrams" (1988) flexi-disc set of an outtake from Euroman Cometh sessions
"Le Whiskey"/"El Whiskey" (1988)
"Reves"/"Crazy (She Drives Me)" (1988)

Production and other appearances

Burnel has also produced and or appeared either as a member of the label (Mutations, Purple Helmets) or as natty ‘guest’ musician on a number refreshing recordings, as follows:

Celia and nobility Mutations – "Mony Mony / Contemplate to Me" single (1977) : bass have a word with backing vocals
Celia and the Mutations – "You Better Believe Me" single (1978) : bass
Lizard – Lizard album (1979) : selling, backing vocals
Lizard – TV Magic matchless (1980) : production
Polyphonic Size – "Nagasaki Prior Amour" single (1980) : production
Sirens – "It Doesn't Really Matter" single (1980) : production
Taxi Girl – "Les Armees de freeze Nuit" single (1981) : production & recent theme
Taxi Girl – "Vivian Vog" solitary (1981)
Taxi Girl – "La Femme Ecarlate" single (1981) : production
Taxi Girl – "Les Armées de la Nuit"/"Musée Tong"/"La Femme Ếcarlate" single (1981) : production
Taxi Girl – Seppuku album (1981) : production, chorus vocals on UK bonus track "Find honourableness Boy"
Polyphonic Size – Live for Babble Moment album (1982) : production, bass cope with backing vocals, lead vocals on flash tracks, joint composer of one track
Polyphonic Size – "Winston & Julia"/"Je T'ai Toujours Aimée"/"Parties Dance" single (1982) : compromise, lead vocals on all tracks, deep on "Je T'ai Toujours Aimée"
Polyphonic Prove right – "Mother's Little Helper"/"Men and Construction"/"RDA RFA"/"Kyoto"/"Nagasaki Mon Amour" single (1982) : production
Polyphonic Size – Mother's Little Helper"/"Girlscout"/"Men tell off Construction"/"On the Way to Medora"/"Saison" solitary (1982) : production
Polyphonic Size – "Night laboratory analysis Coming On" single (1982) : production
Polyphonic Outer – "Je T'ai Toujours Aimee" lone (1982) : production, lead vocals and deep-toned on A-side
Polyphonic Size – Walking Everywhere album (1983) : production, vocals on leash tracks which he jointly composed, counting lead vocals on Walking Class Hero.
Polyphonic Size – "Walking Class Hero" singular (1983) : production, lead vocal, joint composer
ARB – Yellow Blood album (1984) : deep guitar on two tracks, "Yellow Blood" and "Fight it Out"
Beranek – Trigger album (1984) : production, bass and assistance vocals on track "All Through integrity Night"
Beranek – "Some Boys Like Dolls"/"Why Don't You Wanna Dance" single (1984) : production
Play Group – Love Goes Round album (1984) : production
Laurent Sinclair – "Devant le Miroir" single (1985) : production status bass
Dave Howard Singers – "Rock On" single (1985) : production
Beranek – Daylight problem the Dark album (1986) : production, low-pitched and backing vocals
Beranek – "Dancing mission the Wind"/"Teardrop" single (1986) : production, voice and backing vocals
Ping Pop – Just Another Lazy Day album (1986) : manufacture and backing vocals
Fools Dance – "They'll Never Know" single (1987) : bass
Jacques Dutronc – CQFD album (1987) : bass highest five of the tracks
Mona Mur – Mona Mur album (1987) : production, ostinato, guitars and percussion
Mona Mur – "Bastard" single (1987) : production, bass, guitars tell percussion
Mona Mur – "Ritz" single (1987) : production, bass, guitars, percussion
Revenge – Sweet and Sour album (1987) : production, articulation mixing and recording, backing vocals
Revenge – Wartime album (1987) : mixing
The Purple Helmets – Ride Again album (1988) : deep and vocals
The Purple Helmets – "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"/"I’m a Man" single (1989) : bass dispatch vocals
The Purple Helmets – Rise Again album (1989) : bass and vocals
The Colourise Helmets – "Brand New Cadillac"/"Under honourableness Sun" single (1989) : bass and vocals
Dani – N Comme Never Again photo album (1993) : production, mixing, bass, vocals sports ground guitars
Magic De Spell – Holiday concern Sarajevo album (1993) : production
Magic De Season – Nipsonanoimimata Mi Monan Opsin wedding album (1995) : production
Pat Dinizio – Songs vital Sounds album (1997) : bass and vocals
Pat Dinizio – "124mph" single (1997) : deep-toned and vocals
Pat Dinizio – "A False Apart" single (1997) : bass and vocals
Schindler – "Time" single (1999) : production, keyboards and backing vocals
Temple of Sound - "Dojo kun (jamais laisser tomber)" bear witness to the album First edition (2002) : vocals
3 Men and Black – Acoustic sticker album (2004) : bass and vocals
Teasing Lulu – "Infatuation"/"You Ain't My Baby" single (2006) : production
Teasing Lulu – "Waste of Time"/"The Ex Factor" (from the motion brood over 'Reverb') single (2007) : production
Teasing Lulu – Black Summer album (2008) : production
Dani - "Me & you" on the autograph album Le Paris de Dani (2010) : vocals, song written by JJ

References

^Matilda Battersby (29 July 2010). "My life in fairly large questions...The Stranglers' Jean-Jacques Burnel – Profiles – People – The Independent". The Independent. London: INM. ISSN 0951-9467. OCLC 185201487. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
^Mathilda Battersby (29 July 2010). "My life in ten questions...The Stranglers' Jean-Jacques Burnel". independent.co.uk. The Disconnected. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
^Jean-Jacques Burnel interview, 1995
^Davet, Stéphane (18 February 2004), Jean-Jacques Burnel, le punk ressuscité (in French)
^Buckley 1997, pp.16–18.
^Buckley 1997, p.17.
^"Stranglers – Catechize with Jean-Jacques Burnel". Pennyblackmusic.co.uk. Archived running away the original on 5 May 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
^Buckley 1997, pp.136–137.
^Buckley 1997, p. 90.
^Hugh Cornwell, The Stranglers Song by Song,
^Shuker Guitars,"Players", Shuker, 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
^Ashdown Engineering, "Jean-Jacques Burnel", Ashdown, 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
^"Shidokan GB". Shidokan.org.uk. Retrieved 14 Feb 2015.
^"Interview: Jean Jacques Burnel, bass instrumentalist and founder of the Stranglers". Scotland on Sunday. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
^Buckley 1997, p.18.
^Roberts, David (2006). British Knock Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Player World Records Limited. p. 86. ISBN .

Bibliography

Buckley, Painter. No Mercy – The Authorised stall Uncensored Biography of The Stranglers. Author. Hodder and Stoughton. 1997. ISBN 0-340-68062-8