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Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970), known mononymously as Beck, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres. He has musically encompassed folk, funk, soul, hip hop, electronic, alternative rock, country, and psychedelia. He has released 14 studio albums (three of which were released on indie labels), as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Beck gravitated towards hip hop and folk in his teens and began to perform locally at coffeehouses and clubs. He moved to New York City in 1989 and became involved in the city's anti-folk movement. Returning to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, he cut his breakthrough single "Loser", which became a worldwide hit in 1994, and released his first major album, Mellow Gold, the same year. Odelay, released in 1996, topped critic polls and won several awards. He released the country-influenced, twangy Mutations in 1998, and the funk-infused Midnite Vultures in 1999. The soft-acoustic Sea Change in 2002 showcased a more serious Beck, and 2005's Guero returned to Odelay's sample-based production. The Information in 2006 was inspired by electro-funk, hip hop, and psychedelia; 2008's Modern Guilt was inspired by '60s pop music; and 2014's folk-infused Morning Phase won Album of the Year at the 57th Grammy Awards. His 2017 album, Colors, won awards for Best Alternative Album and Best Engineered Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. His fourteenth studio album, Hyperspace, was released on November 22, 2019. In 2022, Beck was nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being among the most idiosyncratically creative musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock. Two of Beck's most popular and acclaimed recordings are Odelay and Sea Change, both of which were ranked on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Beck is a four-time platinum artist; he has collaborated with several artists and has made several contributions to soundtracks. Early life Beck was born Bek David Campbell in Los Angeles on July 8, 1970, the son of American visual artist Bibbe Hansen and Canadian arranger, composer, and conductor David Campbell. Bibbe Hansen grew up amid Andy Warhol's The Factory art scene of the 1960s in New York City and was a Warhol superstar. She moved to California at age 17 and met David Campbell there. Beck's maternal grandfather, artist Al Hansen was of Norwegian descent and was a pioneer in the avant-garde Fluxus movement. Beck's maternal grandmother was Jewish; he has said that he considers himself Jewish because he was "raised celebrating Jewish holidays".Beck was born in a rooming house near downtown Los Angeles. As a child he lived in a declining neighborhood near Hollywood Boulevard. He remembers "By the time we left there, they were ripping out miles of houses en masse and building low-rent, giant apartment blocks." The working-class family struggled financially, moving to Hoover and Ninth Street, a neighborhood populated primarily by Koreans and Salvadorian refugees. He was sent for a time to live with his paternal grandparents in Kansas; he later remarked that he thought "they were kind of concerned" about his "weird" home life. Since his paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, Beck grew up influenced by church music and hymns. He also spent time in Europe with his maternal grandfather.After his parents separated when he was 10, Beck stayed with his mother and brother Channing in Los Angeles, where he was influenced by the city's diverse musical offerings—everything from hip hop to Latin music and his mother's art scene—all of which would later reappear in his work. Beck obtained his first guitar at 16 and became a street musician, often playing Lead Belly covers at Lafayette Park. During his teens, Beck discovered the music of Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, and X, but remained uninterested in most music outside the folk genre until many years into his career. The first contemporary music that made a direct connection with Beck was hip hop, which he first heard on Grandmaster Flash records in the early 1980s. Growing up in a predominantly Latin district, he found himself the only white child at his school, and quickly learned how to breakdance. When he was 17, Beck grew fascinated after hearing a Mississippi John Hurt record at a friend's house, and spent hours in his room trying to emulate Hurt's finger-picking techniques. Shortly thereafter Beck explored blues and folk music further, discovering Woody Guthrie and Blind Willie Johnson.Feeling like "a total outcast", Beck dropped out of school after junior high. He later said that although he felt school was important, he felt unsafe there. When he applied to the new performing arts high school downtown, he was rejected. His brother took him to post-Beat jazz places in Echo Park and Silver Lake. He hung out at Los Angeles City College perusing records, books, and old sheet music in the college's library. He used a fake ID to sit in on classes there, and he also befriended a literature instructor and his poet wife. He worked at a string of menial jobs, including loading trucks and operating a leaf blower. Career Early performances and first releases (1988–1993) Beck began as a folk musician, switching between country blues, Delta blues, and more traditional rural folk music in his teenage years. He began performing on city buses, often covering Mississippi John Hurt alongside original, sometimes improvisational compositions. "I'd get on the bus and start playing Mississippi John Hurt with totally improvised lyrics. Some drunk would start yelling at me, calling me Axl Rose. So I'd start singing about Axl Rose and the levee and bus passes and strychnine, mixing the whole thing up", he later recalled. He was also in a band called Youthless that hosted Dadaist-inspired freeform events at city coffee shops. "We had Radio Shack mics and this homemade speaker and we'd draft people in the audience to recite comic books or do a beatbox thing, or we'd tie the whole audience up in masking tape," Beck recalled.In 1989, Beck caught a bus to New York City with little more than $8.00 and a guitar. He spent the summer attempting to find a job and a place to live with little success. Beck eventually began to frequent Manhattan's Lower East Side and stumbled upon the tail end of the East Village's anti-folk scene's first wave. Beck became involved in a loose posse of acoustic musicians—including Cindy Lee Berryhill, Kirk Kelly, Paleface, and Lach headed by Roger Manning—whose raggedne.... Discover the David Campbell popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Campbell books.

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  • Mystery Explained synopsis, comments

    Mystery Explained

    David Campbell

    Revelation is known as one of the most complex books in the entire Bible. Wouldn't it be nice to have a road map to keep you from getting lost? In Mystery Explained, David Campbell...

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    At the Plaza

    Curtis Gathje

    At The Plaza is a pictorial record and an anecdotal history of the world's most famous hotel: New York's Plaza. As a story, it traverses the breadth and scope of Gotham's high soci...

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    Hatchepsut

    Joyce Tyldesley

    Queen or, as she would prefer to be remembered King Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing i...

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    The Background Extra

    David Campbell

    Sam Page has spent the last five years plotting, and now he is back in San Francisco with an intricate plot against some old and powerful friends. His plan is to get back the milli...

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    Avedon

    Norma Stevens & Steven M. L. Aronson

    An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture” (The New York Times), by h...

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    The Cyclops Initiative

    David Wellington

    To save an innocent friend, soldier and spy Jim Chapel will risk his own life and reputation to stop a deadly conspiracy from threatening the country in this relentless, nonstop ac...

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    I Heart Money

    David Campbell Lester

    I love money. I've always loved money. Loving my money has allowed me to start my own coaching business, buy my dream car for FREE, horseback ride every Thursday, travel more and s...

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    Investing Profitably

    John David Campbell

    Fear of losing money is a costly emotion. Learn the principles of investing to fear less and invest more profitably.In his comprehensive course on investing, Campbell will teach yo...

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    No Diving

    David Campbell

    Much like a "No Diving" sign found at a pool, David Campbell seeks to warn Christians about the dangers of diving into shallow interpretations of the Bible and points readers to th...

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    After The Deafening

    Gerard Woodward

    With the publication of his first book, HOUSEHOLDER, Gerard Woodward emerged as one of the most talented and unusual new poets of the 1990s. In his forthcoming collection AFTER THE...

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    I Heart Money

    David Campbell Lester

    I've never understood the notion that money is dirty. I love money. When I get paid I sometimes will check my account in the middle of the night, transfer my set amount into saving...

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    Throne of the Crescent Moon

    Saladin Ahmed

    Locus Award for Best First Novel winnerHugo Award for Best Novel finalistNebula Award for Best Novel finalistDavid Gemmell Morningstar Award finalist"Ahmed is a master storyteller ...

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    Donald Campbell

    David Tremayne

    Generations are familiar with the haunting black and white television footage of Donald Campbell somersaulting to his death in his famous Bluebird boat on Coniston Water in January...

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    David L. Campbell v. Leaseway Customized

    Court of Appeals of Minnesota

    1. A directed verdict is improperly granted where evidence is sufficient to create a jury question as to whether an employee handbook was distributed, and as to whether the plainti...

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    Politically Homeless

    Matt Forde

    'Rarely is such an important book this funny. And rarely is such a funny book this important' RICHARD OSMAN'The second funniest book I have read about being a Labour supporter fro...

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    Infinite Stars

    Bryan Thomas Schmidt, David Weber, Brian Herbert, Elizabeth Moon & Orson Scott Card

    The seductive thrill of uncharted worlds, of distant galaxies… and the unknown threats that lurk in the vastness of the cosmos. From Foundation to Lensman, Star Wars to Guardians o...

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    The Weekends of You and Me

    Fiona Walker

    'definite shades of One Day...emotionally intelligent and beautifully written' Daily MailCan your final fling become your Happy Ever After?When Jo Coulson finds herself single aga...

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    Thicker Than Water

    David Campbell

    Finn Spencer was leading a charmed life – great job, loving wife, a child on the way. However, Finn had one secret he never revealed to anyone. He was the son of one of the world’s...

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    Night Light

    David Campbell

    Why are we scared of the dark? Usually it's because we don't know what's there. Perhaps a friend? Perhaps a foe? The Bible tells us that even though we "walk through the valley of ...

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    Joseph David Campbell v. State Texas

    Tenth District, Waco Court of Appeals of Texas

    A jury convicted Joseph David Campbell of possession of cocaine, less than twentyeight grams, and assessed punishment at thirteen and onehalf years in prison and a $500 fine. See T...

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    Run This Way

    David Campbell

    Written by Physiotherapist and biomechanical analyst David J. Campbell, this book will outline information that top health professionals use with their clients, that you can use im...

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    How To Be Right

    James OBrien

    The voice of reason in a world that won’t shut up.The Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the Parliamentary Book AwardsEvery day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming hardworking i...

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    WARHOLCAPOTE

    Rob Roth

    An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friendsAndy Warhol and Truman Capote.In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play....

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    As We See It

    Aida Amoako

    Across photography, sculpture and painting, a new wave of Black artists is challenging persistent tropes in art and wider society to depict a richer portrait of the lives of Black ...

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    How The Secret Changed My Life

    Rhonda Byrne

    An aweinspiring compilation of the most uplifting and powerful reallife stories from readers of the worldwide bestseller The Secret. Discover how everyday people completely transfo...

  • The Secret to Love, Health, and Money synopsis, comments

    The Secret to Love, Health, and Money

    Rhonda Byrne

    This indepth masterclass from the author of the groundbreaking bestseller The Secret illustrates how to apply the law of attraction to three of life’s most important areas: relatio...

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    The Wichita Lineman

    Dylan Jones

    'It's just another song to me. I've written 1,000 of them and it's really just another one.' Jimmy Webb 'When I heard it I cried. It made me cry because I was homesick. It's just a...

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    The Best Possible You

    Hannah Richards

    A practical nutritional and lifestyle guide to improving your health and healing your body.The human body is an amazing and resilient system, and the food we eat, the way we move, ...

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    Susan Hill

    Jonathan Noakes & Margaret Reynolds

    The Woman in Black, Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, A Little Bit of Singing and DancingIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide...

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    The End Of An Era

    Tony Benn

    Tony Benn's final instalment of diaries centres on a decade which saw the disintegration of Eastern Europe, an unprecedented assault on the labour movement at home, the fall of...

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    Westhill Drive

    David Campbell

    Residents of an affluent neighborhood in Silicon Valley, California, are woken in the middle of the night by flashing lights and sirens. A neighbor has been murdered.All fingers qu...

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    More Time for Politics

    Tony Benn

    When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved: in the first seven years...

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    My World in Motion

    Jo Whiley

    Jo Whiley is someone millions of us recognise but very few of us know. Jo's a mother, sister, DJ, wife and musicindustry insider who throughout her career and in an age of fleetin...

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    Riders On the Wind

    David Campbell

    David Campbell is a Melbournebased writer of poetry (both traditional and free verse), short stories, and newspaper articles. He is an accredited judge for the Australian Bush Poet...

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    Jack The Ripper

    Paul Gainey & Stewart Evans

    Stewart Evans is a policeman whose hobby is collecting true crime ephemera. When a second hand bookseller rang to ask him if he would be interested in a collection of letters from ...

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    Transformer

    Simon Doonan

    In this funny and poignant memoir and cultural history, the television personality, columnist, and author of Drag pays homage to Lou Reed’s groundbreaking album Transformer on its ...

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    Conflicts Of Interest

    Tony Benn

    In this, the fourth volume of Tony Benn’s diaries, the Labour Government continues its fight for survival. Important developments are occurring both at home and internationally. In...

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    The Children of Grace

    David C Campbell

    Few people know that orthodox Christianity is very different from its beginnings. In truth, you and I, in past lives, slowly transformed it into a ritualbased 'Sunday Christianity....

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    How Not To Be Wrong

    James OBrien

    'Simply Brilliant' THE SECRET BARRISTER'Passionate and brilliantly argued' DAVID OLUSOGA'An admirably personal guide' MARINA HYDE'Smart, analytical, selfaware and important' ALASTA...

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    The Mirror Of Existence

    Dr Christine Page

    Dr Christine Page invites us to embark on a journey of selfdiscovery by stepping into the 'Mirror of Existence' where we will find that our own thought processes direct our outer e...