The alt-rock hitmakers mined angst for chart gold in the ‘90s.
About LIVE
Artist Biography
The members of multi-Platinum alternative-rock band LIVE began playing music together in the early ’80s as junior high school students in York, Pennsylvania.
∙ Produced by Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison, their 1991 debut EP, Four Songs, featured the alternative hit “Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition).”
∙ Beginning with 1994’s chart-topper “Selling the Drama,” the band released 11 singles in a row that reached the Billboard Modern Rock Top 20.
∙ LIVE’s sophomore album, 1994’s Throwing Copper—recorded at the same Minnesota studio where Nirvana made In Utero—sold more than 8 million copies.
∙ The band dedicated their biggest single, 1994’s meditative rock ballad “Lightning Crashes,” to a friend who was killed by a drunk driver.
∙ In 1997, their third album, Secret Samadhi—named for a state of Hindu meditation—debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
∙ Trip-hop star Tricky cowrote and rapped on the 2001 pop-metal anthem “Simple Creed,” from the band’s fifth album, V.
Hometown
York, PA, United States
Genre
Alternative
Members of LIVE
LIVE was formed in 1990. Members of LIVE include, or have included, the following 5 members.