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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. St�phane 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. St�phane 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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