Mark Oliver Everett

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Mark Oliver Everett (born April 10, 1963 in Virginia ) is an American musician and the front man of the rock band Eels . The son of the physicist Hugh Everett III, the founder of the Many Worlds Interpretation , is also known as E (at times he also insisted on Mr. E ).

Everett developed a fondness for toy instruments as a child ; a preference that would continue in his later life and should have an essential part in his music. B. expressed by the title Symphony for Toy Piano in G Minor ( Symphony for children's piano in G minor ).

At the age of 19, E found his father dead in bed. In the 1980s, E (or Mark E., as he called himself at the time) was in several bands (including The Toasters - not to be confused with the ska band of the same name ), recorded numerous promo tapes and finally his first album on ("Bad Dude In Love"), which was limited to 500 copies. Eventually, in 1987, Everett moved from his native Virginia to California. He began his musical career with two solo albums: A Man Called E and Broken Toy Shop. The pseudonym E was used by Everett in both publications.

Both his two solo albums and the albums by his band Eels have received critical acclaim for innovative use of a variety of musical styles.

In 2000, Everett went on a spiritual hiatus in which he forbade himself to write or say anything. But he broke that rule after he thought he was inspired enough and wrote the lyrics for Eels' fourth album Souljacker. During this hiatus, Everett also met his future wife, whom he married in 2001.

In 2003 he composed the soundtrack for the film Levity (with Billy Bob Thornton and Morgan Freeman , among others ), which contains a total of twelve instrumental pieces and two Eels songs. The soundtrack was released under his real name.

In January 2008, his preliminary autobiography Things The Grandchildren Should Know was published by a New York imprint of Macmillan Publishers .

In 2017 Everett had a son named Archie.

After Everett's hiatus, this time almost four years, a new Eels album was released in April 2018.

Discography

  • Bad dude in love. 1985
  • A Man Called E. 1992
  • Broken Toy Shop. 1993
  • Music from the film "Levity". 2003
  • (under the pseudonym MC Honky ): I Am the Messiah. 2003

See also the publications with his band in the corresponding section under Eels .

Book publications

  • Things The Grandchildren Should Know. Thomas Dunne Books, NYC 2008, ISBN 0-312-38513-7 .
    • German translation: Happy days in hell. How music saved my life Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04094-4 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Everett in an interview with Steve Jones , available on YouTube under E from Eels in-studio on Jonesy's Jukebox ; from approx. 3'00 ″
personal data
SURNAME Everett, Mark Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES E; Mr. E
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician, mastermind of the indie rock band Eels
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Virginia