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No Doubt is an American pop/ska/rock band. No Doubt is heavily influenced by Jamaican culture and have dabbled in ska and reggae music, teaming up with Jamaican artists such as Lady Saw and Bounty Killer. No Doubt's multiple genre style is noted in the song "Move On" where they state "We meshed the styles of five alive and intertwined and fused it".

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History

Beginnings

No Doubt was formed by Eric Stefani (keyboards) in Anaheim, California with his friend John Spence (lead vocals) in November 1986. Eric's younger sister, Gwen Renée Stefani, joined the group that same year as co-vocalist. The trio played their first gig on New Year's Eve 1986/1987. The band from then on began to play small gigs around the Orange County area. Tony Kanal went to one of these early shows and soon joined the band as a bassist. In 1987 lead vocalist John Spence committed suicide, leaving Gwen Stefani as lead vocalist. Although the band was hit hard by Spence's death, they continued on and began to develop a live following, mainly in the band's home state of California. In 1988 and 1989 two new members were added to the band: Tom Dumont (guitar) and Adrian Young (drums). In 1991 the band received their first big break and were signed to the American record label Interscope Records. No Doubt's self-titled first album was released in 1992 and featured the single "Trapped in a Box". The album was not a success and No Doubt's record label began to lose faith in the band. The recording for their second album, The Beacon Street Collection, was funded by the band and when released renewed faith in the band from the record label and gained No Doubt some new fans. In the fall of 1994 No Doubt would suffer yet another setback when Eric Stefani left the band because he did not like the direction the band was heading in and began to pursue an animation career on the cartoon TV series The Simpsons.

Mainstream success

The cover of Tragic Kingdom, 1995
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The cover of Tragic Kingdom, 1995

After Eric Stefani left, the band entered the recording studio again to work on their third album. The release of 1995's Tragic Kingdom and the single "Just a Girl" allowed the group to achieve mainstream commercial success. A second single, "Spiderwebs", was also successful, and their third single, "Don't Speak" (1996), which was written about the dissolution of Stefani's and bassist Tony Kanal's romantic relationship, was a number one hit for 16 weeks on the Billboard airplay chart. Tragic Kingdom has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and has been certified diamond in the United States. No Doubt were nominated for two Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Rock Album (Tragic Kingdom) at the 1997 Grammy Awards. Later, they were nominated for two more Grammy awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, both for "Don't Speak". They failed to win any of these awards. [link]

After some time in-between albums No Doubt included their song "New" on the soundtrack to the movie Go in 1999. "New", inspired by Gwen's budding relationship with Bush lead singer Gavin Rossdale, was one of the first songs written after the release of Tragic Kingdom.

In 2000, the band released Return of Saturn, their highly anticipated follow-up to Tragic Kingdom. The album featured a darker tone and was more lyrically advanced than No Doubt's previous work. The main lyrical focus of the new record had shifted from Gwen Stefani's relationship with bassist Tony Kanal to her new relationship with Gavin Rossdale. Return of Saturn was critically loved, but was not as commercially successful as their previous album was and the lead single "Ex-Girlfriend" failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. Also released as singles from the album were the tracks "Simple Kind of Life" and "Bathwater".

Shaking off the commercial failure of Return of Saturn, the band quickly began work on their next album. Highly influenced by Jamaican Dancehall music and recorded primarily in Jamaica, No Doubt's 2001 studio album, Rock Steady, produced two hit Grammy award winning singles, "Hey Baby", which featured Bounty Killer, and "Underneath It All", which featured the first lady of dancehall, Lady Saw. Both singles managed to reach the top five in on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also released "Hella Good" and "Running" as singles. Also, in 2001, the band performed on Kelis's sophomore CD titled Wanderland. The song "Perfect Day" features the band playing the entire song with Gwen providing backup vocals. In addition, pop-star Prince wrote and produced "Waiting Room" on Rock Steady. Stefani had previously provided vocals for a song on Prince's Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic album, "So Far, So Pleased".

2003 was a big year of releases for No Doubt. The album ', a compilation of all commercially released singles from the band, was released in November 2003. It included a cover of the song "It's My Life", which had originally been a hit for Talk Talk in the 1980s, and earned No Doubt a Grammy nomination for Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal. Additionally, a special 2-CD 2-DVD box set titled Boom Box was made available, which included the CDs The Singles: 1992-2003 and Everything in Time, and the DVDs ' and Live in the Tragic Kingdom. Separately, Rock Steady Live, a DVD of the band performing in Long Beach from their Rock Steady tour was released in 2003 as well.

Lead singer Gwen Stefani began work on her side project in 2002, which eventually evolved into the full-fledged solo album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby., which was released November 23, 2004. Stefani launched her first solo arena tour in October of 2005. She originally stated that she would be releasing a follow up to Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in early 2006 that would mostly contain tracks that did not make the final cut for her first solo album. Gwen later changed her mind and decided to take time off following her solo tour and not immediately release a follow-up album. This decision was quickly followed by the news of Gwen Stefani's pregnancy (with her baby boy, Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, born on May 26, 2006).

In early 2005, Tom Dumont released his own solo music project, Invincible Overlord, with friend and collaborator Ted Matson. Their music is downloadable for free on the [Invincible Overlord web site], and will be backing up Matt Costa on his 2005 tour. Adrian Young, the band's drummer, did the drums for many of the tracks on Unwritten Law's 2005 release, Here's to the Mourning.

With Gwen Stefani's blessing Tom, Adrian, and Tony are currently in the studio writing until Gwen is settled in and ready to record for the band's next album release rumored to be out in 2007.

Recently, it has been released that Gwen Stefani will be scrapping her sophomore album and returning to work with No Doubt for an album due to be released early 2007

Awards

Year From Award For

2004 MTV VMAs Best Group Video It's My Life

2004 MTV VMAs Best Pop Video It's My Life

2004 Teen Choice Awards Music: Tour of the Year No Doubt w/ Blink 182

2004 California Music Awards Outstanding Female Vocalist Gwen Stefani

2004 Grammy Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal Underneath it All

2003 Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Favorite Band No Doubt

2003 California Music Award (BAMMIES) Outstanding Female Vocalist Gwen

2003 Music Video Professionals Awards Best Art Direction Laura Fox for "Hella Good"

2003 Music Video Professionals Awards Best Colorist/Telecin Beau Leon for "Underneath it All"

2003 Music Video Professionals Awards Panavision Award for Best Cinematography Underneath It All

2003 Music Video Professionals Awards Best Hair Danillo for "Hella Good"

2003 Grammys Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group w/ Vocal Hey Baby featuring Bounty Killer

2002 MTV Group Video Hey Baby featuring Bounty Killer

2002 MTV Pop Video Hey Baby featuring Bounty Killer 

2001  VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards  Rock Style  No Doubt  


2001  My VH1  Favorite Female Artist  Gwen  


2000  VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards  Most Stylish Video  Ex-Girlfriend  


2000  Billboard Music Awards  FAN.tastic Video  Simple Kind of Life  


1999  Diamond Award  10+ Million Records  Tragic Kingdom  


1999  VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards  Most Stylish Video  New  


1998  BAMMIES  Best Female Vocalist  Gwen  


1997  MTV  Best Group Video  Don't Speak  





Awards for Appearances...


Year From Award For 


2002  Grammy Best Rap/Sung Collaboration  Let Me Blow Ya Mind Eve featuring Gwen  


2001  VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards  Visionary Video  Southside Moby featuring Gwen  


2001  MTV Male Video  Southside Moby featuring Gwen  


2001  MTV Female Video  Let Me Blow Ya Mind Eve featuring Gwen  



Nominations... Year From Award For 


2005  Grammy Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group  It's My Life 

2004  MTV VMAs  Best Cinematography  It's My Life  


2004  MTV VMAs  Best Art Direction in a Video  It's My Life  


2004  MTV VMAs  Best Direction in a Video  It's My Life  


2004  Nick Kid's Choice Favorite Music Group  n/a  


2003  MTV VMA's  Best Pop Video  Underneath it All  


2003  MTV VMA's  Best Cinematography in a video  Underneath it All  


2003  MTV  Viewer's Choice  Running  


2003  MTV  Viewer's Choice  Underneath it All  


2003  Teen Choice Awards  Choice Music Single  Underneath it All  


2003  Teen Choice Awards  Music Rock Group  No Doubt  


2003  Teen Choice Awards  Choice Female Hottie  Gwen  


2003  Grammys  Best Pop Vocal Album  Rock Steady  


2003  Grammys  Group Video  Hey Baby featuring Bounty Killer  


2001  Teen Choice Awards  Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Track  Let Me Blow Ya Mind Eve featuring Gwen 

2001  MTV  Best Hip Hop Video  Let Me Blow Ya Mind Eve featuring Gwen  


2001  MTV  Viewer's Choice  Let Me Blow Ya Mind Eve featuring Gwen  


2001  Grammys  Best Rock Album  Return of Saturn  


2000  VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards  Most Stylish Band  No Doubt  


1999  VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards  Most Fashionable Female Artist  Gwen  


1998  Grammys  Song of the Year (Songwriter) -- Eric and Gwen Stefani  Don't Speak 


1998  Grammys  Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal  Don't Speak 


1997  MTV  Video of the Year  Don't Speak 


1997  American Music Awards  Favorite Pop/New Rock Artist  No Doubt 


1997  Grammys  Best New Artist  No Doubt 


1997  Grammys  Best Rock Album  Tragic Kingdom 


1996  Grammys  New Group  No Doubt



http://www.no-doubt.org/content/info/awards.html



Members


Current


with ("Touring band")


Former



Discography


Image:No Doubt - No Doubt.jpg|No Doubt
Image:No Doubt - Beacon Street Collection.jpg|The Beacon Street Collection
Image:No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom.jpg|Tragic Kingdom
Image:No Doubt - Return of Saturn.jpg|Return of Saturn
Image:No Doubt - Rock Steady.jpg|Rock Steady
Image:TheSingles19922003NoDoubtalbumcover.jpg|The Singles 1992-2003
Image:BoomBoxNoDoubtcover.jpg|Boom Box
Image:EverythinginTimeNoDoubtalbumcover.jpg|Everything In Time


  1. redirect  Includes international chart peaks and worldwide sales figures.



Main 


Compilations













Year
Title
Album
U.S.
 Hot 100
U.S.
 Adult
U.S.
 Modern Rock
U.S.
 Dance
UK
CAN
AUS
GER




1992
"Trapped in a Box"
No Doubt
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –

1994
"Squeal"1
The Beacon Street Collection
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –




1994
"Doghouse"1
The Beacon Street Collection
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –


1995
"Just a Girl"
Tragic Kingdom
 23
 10
 –
 –
 3
 4
 3
 24




1996
"Spiderwebs"
Tragic Kingdom
 18 (Airplay)
 –
 5
 –
 16
 –
 46
 –


1996
"Don't Speak"
Tragic Kingdom
 1 (Airplay)
 2
 1
 3
 1
 1
 1
 2




1996
"Excuse Me Mr."
Tragic Kingdom
 –
 –
 17
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –


1997
"Happy Now"2
Tragic Kingdom
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 132
 –




1997 
"Sunday Morning"
Tragic Kingdom
 –
 –
 –
 –
 50
 68
 21
 –


1997
"Hey You"3
Tragic Kingdom
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –




1999
"New"
Go soundtrack
 –
 –
 7
 –
 30
 –
 89
 –


2000
"Ex-Girlfriend"
Return of Saturn
 –
 –
 2
 –
 23
 3
 9
 34




2000
"Simple Kind of Life"
Return of Saturn
 38
 –
 14
 –
 69
 13
 94
 –


2000
"Bathwater"2
Return of Saturn
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 79
 73




2001/2002
"Hey Baby" (featuring Bounty Killer)
Rock Steady
 5
 –
 –
 –
 2
 4
 7
 8


2002
"Hella Good"4
Rock Steady
 13
 –
 –
 1
 12
 25
 8
 46




2002
"Underneath It All" (featuring Lady Saw)
Rock Steady
 3
 27
 –
 –
 12
 35
 21
 42


2003
"Running"
Rock Steady
 61
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 –
 55




2003
"It's My Life"
The Singles 1992-2003
 5
 13
 18
 –
 6
 18
 3
 *


2004
"It's My Life"/"Bathwater" (re-release)
The Singles 1992-2003
 –
 –
 –
 16
 17
 –
 –
 9




  1. Released only in US.
  2. Released only in Australia
  3. Released only in Holland and charted #52 on Holland single chart
  4. It was "Hella Good" (Roger Sánchez Remixes) that entered the Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart. Original version of the song entered the Hot 100 Chart.


Miscellaneous



Video releases



Videography



Trivia



See also



External links




No Doubt


Stephen Bradley - Tom Dumont - Tony Kanal - Gabrial McNair - Gwen Stefani - Adrian Young


Former members: John Spence - Eric Stefani


Discography


Studio Albums: No Doubt - The Beacon Street Collection - Tragic Kingdom - Return Of Saturn - Rock Steady


Compilations: The Singles 1992-2003 - Everything In Time - Boom Box


DVDs: Live In The Tragic Kingdom - Rock Steady Live - 






































 





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