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Marilyn Manson, whose real name is Brian Hugh Warner, was born on January
5, 1969 in Canton, Ohio USA; when his family moved to Tampa Bay, Florida,
after he graduated from high school, he began to write stories and poems
and subsequently worked as entertainment journalist for a local magazine,
it was when covering Nine Inch Nails
for his magazine that Brian Warner was given an opportunity to meet Trent
Reznor, who sponsored Warner's upstart band.
He got the name Marilyn Manson as a combination from the names of the
screen icon Marilyn Monroe and the serial killer Charles Manson and in
1990 Marilyn Manson and guitarist Scott Mitchell assembled a band with
bassist Gidget Gein, keyboardist Madonna Wayne-Gacy, alias Pogo and drummer
Sara Lee Lucas; during their early years, the group built up a solid fan
base through gigging around Florida area and made a deep impression on
the Industrial Alternative-Metal scene for their stage show which featured
naked women, bizarre clothes and satanic images.
In late 1993 Gein was fired and Twiggy Ramirez -a.k.a. Jeordie White-
replaced him on bass, the group then decided to record their first album,
"Portrait Of An American Family", which was issued in the summer
of 1994, on Nothing Records, the label founded by Trent Reznor; that same
year, Manson had gained the title of 'Reverend' by Anton Szandor LaVey,
the founder of the Church of Satan.
Over the next year, Lucas was replaced by drummer Ginger Fish, the founder
member Scott Mitchell quit and Marilyn Manson pulled in guitar player
Zim Zum; in October 1995 the band returned with its second effort, the
platinum-certified "Smells Like Children" which included the
cover of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams
(Are Made Of This)"; released as a single it cracked the top 30 of
The Billboard's Rock charts and helped boost the album to #31 on The Billboard
Top 200.
Marilyn Manson's big commercial break came a year later when "Antichrist
Superstar" soared to #3 on The Billboard 200 Albums chart led by
"The Beautiful People", which hit #26 on The Modern Rock Tracks
and #29 on The Mainstream Rock chart; the second single, "Tourniquet"
also went into the top 30 of Billboard's Active Rock chart.
In September 1998, shortly after guitarist John '5' Lowery joined the
band, Marilyn Manson released the instant North-American #1 album, "Mechanical
Animals", its main single, "The Dope Show", climbed into
the top 20 on both Billboard's Active and Modern Rock airplay charts,
it was followed by two more Mainstream Rock top 30 hits: "I Don't
Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)" and "Rock Is Dead";
the album likewise made significant noise on the other side of the Atlantic
where it rocketed to the top 10 in the U.K. Pop Sales chart.
Another two years passed before Manson and his crew returned with the
band's fifth studio album, "Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley
Of Death)", the record reached #13 on The Billboard 200 Albums list
and failed to match its predecessor's sales generating only one Billboard's
Rock charting single, "Disposable Teens".
In December 2001 the band recorded a remake of Soft Cell's "Tainted
Love" for the film "Not Another Teen Movie", the song became
their highest-charting single to date in U.K. managing to enter the top
5 and crawled up to #30 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks.
During the recording sessions for the next album, longtime collaborator
Twiggy Ramirez left the group to join A
Perfect Circle, his replacement was bass player Tim Skold. Marilyn
Manson delivered "The Golden Age Of Grotesque", in May of 2003,
the record rose to #1 on both The Billboard Top 200 and the Canadian Albums
charts, it also smashed into the top 5 in Australia, Britain and several
other European countries charts; the lead single, "Mobscene",
reached the #18 spot on The Mainstream Rock chart.
The band returned a year later with the retrospective collection "Lest
We Forget The Best Of" which contained the cover of Depeche
Mode's "Personal Jesus", Manson's highest charting radio
single ever, the song crawled up to #12 on The Modern Rock chart and the
album peaked at #9 in the States, at #4 in the U.K. and at #3 in Canada.
In 2006 Marilyn Manson recorded a new version of the song "This Is
Halloween", which was featured on the two-disc reissue of "The
Nightmare Before Christmas" soundtrack.
Four years since his last studio album, Marilyn Manson returns with "Eat
Me, Drink Me", the set includes the Hot Modern Rock top 30 hit "Heart-Shaped
Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)".
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