Bush: Gavin Rossdale – Venice Magazine

Read below for excerpts from the Venice Magazine interview with Gavin Rossdale - full interview here

The return of Bush and Gavin Rossdale

Rossdale, who will turn 46 in October, possesses silver-screen leading-man good looks, but acts as if he’s completely unaware of his heartthrob status. Married since 2002 to glamorous No Doubt lead singer, Gwen Stefani, the couple are the parents of two boys, Kingston, a five-year-old charmer who has been the focus of several TMZ posts and TV segments, and three-year-old Zuma. Yet Rossdale seems more concerned with delivering a knockout performance, even jumping into the middle of a rabid crowd to strengthen a connection with his audience that began with 1994’s debut, Sixteen Stone, than worry about being a matinee idol. In person, he’s quite down-to-earth and soft spoken.

”“I had aspirations of Peter Gabriel and Robbie Robertson. They came from, obviously, successful bands and carved out their own world,” Rossdale continues. “I tried that and I feel like I got some good results sonically, but commercially, trying to change the thrust of the expectations of me, some people just wanted Bush. If I did a movie, all the grips would ask when I was going back to the studio. If I was at the gas station, people would ask, ‘Where’s the next Bush record, buddy?’  It felt like the whole solo world that I was in that whole time was like being in a fist fight with one arm tied behind my back. It was really difficult to maneuver, despite the success we had. So I began to write songs and the better the songs got, the clearer it became that it should just be Bush.”

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