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Barenaked Ladies
Canadian rock band
Barenaked Ladies (BNL) are a Canadian rock band formed in 1988 in the Torontosuburb of Scarborough, Ontario. The band developed a following in Canada, with their self-titled 1991 cassette becoming the first independent release to be certified gold in Canada. They reached mainstream success in Canada when their debut with Reprise Records, Gordon, featuring the singles "If I Had $1000000" and "Brian Wilson", was released in 1992. The band's popularity subsequently spread into the US, beginning with versions of "Brian Wilson" and "The Old Apartment" off their 1996 live album Rock Spectacle, followed by their fourth studio album Stunt, their breakout success in 1998. The album featured their highest-charting hit, "One Week", as well as "It's All Been Done" and "Call and Answer".[2] Their fifth album, Maroon, featuring the lead single "Pinch Me", also charted highly. The band is also recognized for creating and performing the theme song to the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Initially a duo of Ed Robertson and Steve
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Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies, clever Canadian band on the razor’s edge of pop and novelty. Membership: Steven Page, gtr., voc. (b. Scarborough, Ontario, June 22); Ed Robertson, gtr., voc. (b. Ontario, Oct. 25, 1970); Jim Creeggan, acou. bs. (b. Feb. 12, 1970); Andrew Creeg-gan, kybd. (b. July 4, 1971); Tyler Stewart, drm. (b. Sept. 21, 1967).
Singing guitarists Steven Page and Ed Robertson knew each other from their grade-school days, but only started playing together in their late teens, when they were working at a camp for musically gifted children. They started making demo tapes just for fun in Page’s basement. They came up with a name for their act during a Bob Dylan concert. They were so bored that they started making up band names, and came up with Barenaked Ladies. The name reflects their songs, once described as a mixture of intellectual hedonism and vaudeville clowning.
Initially, Page and Robertson played on the street, busking for coins. When they started getting paying gigs, they brought the Creeggan brothers on board—Jim on double bass and Andrew on keyboards
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The 1991 release of The Yellow Tape, initially meant as a demo cassette, would go on to become the first independent tape to ever achieve platinum status, with over 100,000 copies sold in Canada. Following multiple indie cassette releases, the band signed to Sire Records, with whom they released their first full album entitled Gordon. Gordon was a cultural phenomenon in Canada and was certified Diamond (selling over 1 million records). Stunt, released in 1998, would become the band’s most commercially successful record, climbing all the way to No.3 on the Billboard album chart, anchored by the smash hit “One Week,” which peaked at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The band has seen incredible success over their lengthy career with international tours including performances at Madison Square Garden, The Royal Albert Hall and Wembley. Known for such hits as “Pinch Me,” “It’s All Been Done,” “Brian Wilson,” “If I Had $1,000,000,” “Jane,” “Odds Are” and many more, the band also penned the theme song for the hit CBS series, The Big Bang Theory. In 2013 Barenaked Ladies
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