SuperHeavy

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
SuperHeavy
  DE 2 09/30/2011 (9 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 09/30/2011 (9 weeks)
  CH 2 October 02, 2011 (7 weeks)
  UK 13 October 01, 2011 (2 weeks)
  US 26th 08/10/2011 (5 weeks)
Singles
Miracle Worker
  AT 35 07/22/2011 (12 weeks)
  CH 63 October 02, 2011 (3 weeks)

SuperHeavy is a supergroup created by David Stewart , Mick Jagger , Joss Stone , AR Rahman and Damian Marley that aims to combine different musical genres.

founding

The band announced their founding in May 2011, but had already got together in 2009 to experiment with different ideas. Dave Stewart said he had the idea of ​​a music group that would combine styles from different parts of the world when he was met by various styles of music in his home in Jamaica . He then got in touch with Mick Jagger. He liked the idea and they managed to win over the other band members for the project, so that the musicians met for jam sessions in a studio in Los Angeles . The band name is said to have come about by chance when Damian Marley was improvising and singing "Heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy, super heavy" to himself. A song with this text and the title Superheavy is on the first album of the same name by the vocal group.

style

The aim of the band is to combine different styles of music from different parts of the world. The debut album SuperHeavy , for example, contains a mixture of reggae , rock , ballads and soul music as well as a song in Urdu .

Publications

The first single Miracle Worker was released in July 2011, the release of the debut album SuperHeavy followed in September.

literature

  • Dave Stewart: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This - From Eurythmics to SuperHeavy (The Autobiography) . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85445-495-3 (Original edition: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This ).

Footnotes

  1. Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. ^ A b c Andy Greene: Mick Jagger Forms Supergroup with Dave Stewart, Joss Stone and Damian Marley. In: rollingstone.com. May 20, 2011, accessed July 17, 2011 .
  3. SuperHeavyOfficial: SuperHeavy - an introduction to ...... You Tube, June 21, 2011, accessed on July 21, 2011 (English, promotion video).
  4. Mick Jagger's SuperHeavy reveal debut album tracklisting. In: NME.com. August 11, 2011, accessed on August 16, 2011 (English, online music magazine, lists the tracks on the SuperHeavy album ).
  5. Mick Jagger forms new band Super Heavy. In: NME.com. May 21, 2011, accessed on July 11, 2011 (English, online music magazine).
  6. Jagger is "foreign" with Joss Stone - musically. In: Welt Online. July 13, 2011, accessed August 16, 2011 .

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