Albert hammond jr gay
History Spotlight:
On this day in 1984, Albert Hammond Jr. was born, making him 45. Well known as a longtime member of highly influential New York City rock band the Strokes, Hammond Jr. has also released five albums and an EP under his own name, including 2006’s Yours to Keep, 2015’s Momentary Masters and 2023’s Melodies on Hiatus. Born in Los Angeles to singer-songwriter Albert Hammond (best known for the song “It Never Rains in Southern California”) and fashion model Claudia Fernández, Albert Hammond Jr. spent part of his elevated school years at a boarding school in Switzerland, where he befriended Julian Casablancas, the founder and lead singer of the Strokes. Hammond Jr. moved to New York Town to attend NYU, where he reconnected with Casablancas and joined the lineup of the Strokes in 1999.
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Albert Hammond Jr of the Strokes has followed in the footsteps of Blink-182's Mark Hoppus, Rancid and Placebo – and, yes, even budget gear gigantic Harley Benton – and has opened an official online store on Reverb.
This, of course, is not the first time Hammond Jr has done this. In 2018, he partnered with the internet gear retail giant to hoist some money for charity. He sounds a little unsure whether this is a good concept or not but the money is going to a good cause so maybe we should buy before he changes his mind.
And this gear is on sale right now. Sadly, his Gibson SG with the Bigsby (apparently he was “going through a Bigsby phase”) has already been sold, because that looked prefer one super-cool electric guitar. We’re not surprised it has gone – especially at that price. But this entity Hammond Jr, there is more than just guitars.
The multi-instrumentalist has cymbals, kick-drum heads, hard-shell guitar cases, and even an old Roland Jupiter-6 analogue synth is up for sale. Now that is an protest of interest.
This polyphonic synthesizer, launched in ’83, discontinued a couple of years later and it belongs to Hammond Sr, who is hopefully aware that his boy is
Primavera Sound 2015: OMD + Albert Hammond Jr. + Cinerama + Christina Rosenvinge...
The Parc del Fórum is the place to be yet again for the kick-off to Primavera Sound with a series of free concerts to receive you in the mood for the three music-packed days to follow. The headliners of Wednesday's free day are Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) (10.25pm-11.25pm), the mythical British duo of Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, pioneers of synth-pop and authors of vast hits 'Enola Gay', 'Electricity', 'Souvenir' and 'Messages'. Also taking the stage are Albert Hammond Jr (9.15pm-10pm), The Strokes guitarist who goes it alone to explore less regulated ranges of pop; David Gedge reactivating his project in parallel with The Weding Present, the more pop Cinerama (8.10pm-8.55pm); Madrid's Christina Rosenvinge (7pm-7.45pm), representative of indie pop and self-penned songs full of disillusionmnet and maturity, who will present her latest algum; the mix of spirit and pop from Australians Panama (5.55pm-6.35pm); and the active and humourous punk-pop from Barcelona's retain Las Ruinas (5pm-5.35pm).
Find out who's playing on the official festival days, Thursday 28, Friday 29 and
Short Profile
Name: Albert Louis Hammond, Jr.
DOB: 9 April 1980
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation: Musician
Albert, did you have to aim out to be in The Strokes?
Yeah. I retain when I met everyone. I met Julian first, then Nikolai, got really drunk one night, and then I went to go try out, even though Julian told me later that in his mind I was already in the band.
How come?
I was an okay player, I could play chords and stuff, but I looked awesome. (Laughs) I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically. Which is what I wanted to do when I was 16. I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing.
What made you move to New York at the age of 18?
Well after boarding college in Switzerland, at fond of 14 or 15 my life clicked and I just realized, “I don’t want to be love anyone around me at my school. I don’t think the world revolves around money.” I consider boarding school gave me that little bit of extra courage that I probably needed when I was 18 and said, “Fuck it, I got to get out of the house and travel do something.” I
Albert Hammond Jr on His New Album, Tackling OCD and Shaking Off His Past
Albert Hammond Jr is so cold, he’s frozen half the country – or so the story goes. When Another Man meets the former guitarist for The Strokes, London has turned into an ice rink. Our interview has been pushed back a day due to the weather, though it turns out Hammond Jr almost didn’t make it to London at all due to a near-cancelled flight from Amsterdam. And while he is dressed in a slick, royal cobalt suit, and preceded by a widespread belief that he’s the aloof ‘cool guy’ of indie, it’s something of a surprise to find Hammond Jr all beaming smiles and hearty laughter.
Some of that may be due to his move away from the frantic New York City which birthed his musical career, back to his more relaxed birthplace of Los Angeles. A great part of that contrast between reputation and reality, however, he says comes simply from misplaced character traits. “I know my role in the rock history, in media,” he admits. “When you’re a guitar player in a flourishing band, you kinda obtain placed in a role; you get typecasted.”
Albert’s celestial body turn? Guitarist and songwriter for one of current rock’s most iconic groups – one cr