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Albert Hammond, Jr.
Albert Hammond Jr. playing a show in Austin, TX
Background information
Born	April 9, 1980 (1980-04-09) (age 28) Los Angeles, California
Genre(s)	Indie Pop
Instrument(s)	Guitar Vocal
Label(s)	New Line Records Rough Trade Records Scratchie Records
Associated acts	The Strokes Helsinki
Notable instrument(s)
Fender Stratocaster Gibson Les Paul

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1 Career
2 Songwriting and solo work
3 Discography
- 3.1 Albums
- 3.2 Singles
4 References
5 External links
6 See also

Career

The son of Gibraltarian musician Albert Hammond and Argentinian mother Claudia Fernandez, Albert Jr. The Gibraltarians (colloquially Llanitos) are a Southern European Nation and Cultural group native to Gibraltar, Albert Hammond (born 18 May 1944, London, England) is a Singer-songwriter, whose family came originally from Gibraltar For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. was sent to the elite boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland at the age of 13. Institut Le Rosey, established in 1880 is the oldest private Boarding school in Switzerland and one of the most exclusive educational institutions in the world Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation While there, he met Julian Casablancas, who would go on to be a fellow band member. Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23, 1978) is the Vocalist and Songwriter of the Alternative rock band The Strokes

In 1998, Hammond met up with Julian Casablancas in New York City and together they formed The Strokes with Casablancas' former schoolmates Nikolai Fraiture, Nick Valensi, and Fabrizio Moretti. The City of New York Nikolai Fraiture born November 13, 1978 in New York City) is the Bassist for the New York City -based band The Strokes. Nick Valensi (born Nicholas Valensi, January 16 1981, in New York) is a Guitarist for the American Alternative rock band Fabrizio Moretti is the drummer of American Alternative rock band The Strokes.

Hammond was once engaged to Catherine Pierce, one-half of the folk singing group The Pierces. The Pierces are a New York based music band The principal members are sisters Catherine Pierce and Allison Pierce who originally hail from Birmingham Alabama His trademark is wearing formal three-piece suits, and has been said to be the most influential on the band's style. Albert is usually seen playing a 1970's Olympic White Fender Stratocaster or Gibson Les Paul Jr. that is sometimes used by bandmate Nick Valensi. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation of Quincy Illinois is a manufacturer of stringed instruments such as solid-body Electric guitars including the The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as the Strat, is a model of Electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares The Gibson Les Paul is a solidbody Electric guitar originally developed in the early 1950s Nick Valensi (born Nicholas Valensi, January 16 1981, in New York) is a Guitarist for the American Alternative rock band On the majority of The Strokes' songs he plays rhythm guitar, and solos are played by Valensi. The songs in which Hammond does play solos are "Last Nite," "Trying Your Luck," "Take It or Leave It," "Under Control," "The End Has No End," "Ize of the World," and "Vision of Division. " Last Nite " is a single lifted from Is This It, the debut album of acclaimed American garage rock/post-punk band The Strokes. Is This It is the debut album by the American Alternative rock band The Strokes, released in 2001 " The End Has No End " is the third single lifted from Room on Fire, the second album of American garage rock/post-punk band The Strokes. " His solos tend to focus largely on more emotional, "bluesy"-type melodical work, and the guitar tends to have a cleaner, softer tone in comparison to Valensi's (with a notable exception found in "Vision of Division"). He often holds his guitar in a high horizontal position, similar to Buddy Holly, which he says is so that he can dance better. Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley (September 7 1936 – February 3 1959 was an American Singer-songwriter and a pioneer of Rock and roll.

Hammond's song "Hard To Live (In The City)" appeared in an episode of teen drama, Gossip Girl. Gossip Girl is a series of novels written for teenagers by Cecily von Ziegesar.

Songwriting and solo work

Although vocalist Julian Casablancas is the major contributor to the songwriting process for The Strokes' music, Hammond has been known to write a few pieces of his own. Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23, 1978) is the Vocalist and Songwriter of the Alternative rock band The Strokes He co-wrote the track "Automatic Stop" with Casablancas for the group's second album, Room on Fire. Room On Fire is the second album by the band The Strokes. Released in October 2003 this album follows up 2001's Is This It and includes He has also been credited with writing three mostly instrumental songs ("Swiss Beats", "Holland", and "By The Way") for the band's 2001 tour video entitled "In Transit". These songs were then slightly reworked to appear on his later solo album, under different titles ("Everyone Gets A Star", "Bright Young Thing", and "In Transit", respectively). He had also written a song called "Elephant Song," which Hammond used when he was required to record a song for his Sound 101 class in freshman year, using the school's recording equipment. The song was played at a few shows before the release of their first album. The Strokes later re-recorded the song as a special giveaway for fanclub members.

Hammond released a solo album entitled Yours To Keep in the U.K. through Rough Trade Records on October 9, 2006 and in North America through New Line Records/Scratchie Records on March 6, 2007. Yours to Keep, the debut solo album by The Strokes Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr, was released October 9, 2006 in the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Rough Trade Records began as an Independent record label, based in London, England. Events 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. New Line Records is a Record label owned by New Line Cinema. Founded to release Movie soundtracks, the label has grown beyond this initial purpose and Scratchie Records is an Independent record label founded in 1995 by James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky (ex- Smashing Pumpkins) Adam Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Produced by Thin Lizard Dawn vocalist Lattimer and recorded at the Electric Lady Studios in New York City, the album features several musical guests, such as Sean Lennon, Ben Kweller, The Strokes' manager Ryan Gentles, Jody Porter of Fountains of Wayne, Chris Feinstein, Mikki James, Sammy James Jr. Electric Lady Studios, at 52 West 8th Street in New York City 's Greenwich Village, is a Recording studio originally built by Jimi Hendrix and The City of New York Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born 9 October 1975 is an American singer songwriter musician and actor Ben Kweller (born 16 June 1981, San Francisco, California) is an American rock Musician. Ryan Michael Gentles ( November 28, 1977) is the manager of the New York City -based band The Strokes and the Chief Executive Officer of Wiz Kid Jody Porter is a New York City-based guitarist who has spent the past decade playing and co-singing in the Grammy-nominated powerpop band Fountains of Wayne, which have released Fountains of Wayne is an American Power pop rock band formed in 1996 and known for such singles as "Radiation Vibe" and " Stacy's Mom (The Moony Suzuki) and The Strokes' lead singer, Casablancas. Bassist Josh Lattanzi and drummer Matt Romano serve as the backing band, with Hammond on guitar and vocals. The first single taken from the album, "101", was released exclusively through iTunes on 4 September 2006. iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc The music video to "In Transit" was directed by Joaquin Phoenix. Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (waˈkeen ˈfee-nɪks born October 28, 1974) formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix is an award-winning American and Puerto Rican

He has said to have been "waiting to make a record like this for years". ^[3] Early support from his fellow bandmates in the Strokes was only evident after Casablancas' role playing bass and back-up vocals on the track "Scared", though all of the members (with the exclusion of Nick Valensi who was busy taking care of his new-born children) attended his shows in and around New York. Nick Valensi (born Nicholas Valensi, January 16 1981, in New York) is a Guitarist for the American Alternative rock band

"101" was the follow up single to "Everyone Gets A Star". The music video debuted online in March 2007^[4]. A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics This will be available in general music stores, unlike "Everyone Gets A Star" which was only available through UK iTunes Music Store. This was released on 27 November 2006.

In November 2006, Hammond announced to be joining Incubus on tour during their North American tour for their new album Light Grenades. Incubus is a Grammy -nominated Alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California. Light Grenades is the sixth album by Incubus, released on November 28, 2006 (see 2006 in music)

On 16 March 2007 at the South by Southwest festival, Hammond performed a twelve song set including covers of Frank Black's "Old Black Dawning" and Guided By Voices' "Postal Blowfish". A music festival is a Festival oriented towards Music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as Musical genre, Nationality or locality In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released Guided by Voices (often abbreviated as GBV) was an American Indie rock band originating from Dayton, Ohio. ^[5]. Hammond also regularly covered The Cars' "Don't Cha Stop" in live performances. The Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s

The Yours To Keep album was released in North America on 6 March 2007; he also supported Bloc Party on their world tour before making stops at Montreal's Metropolis and Toronto's Kool Haus. Bloc Party are a British Indie rock band composed of Kele Okereke on vocals and Rhythm guitar, Russell Lissack on Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario After this, Hammond headlined two North American tours along with a Europe tour. The North American tour featured his friends, The Mooney Suzuki. The Mooney Suzuki is a NYC Rock and roll band formed in 1996 by Sammy James Jr Hammond has one last tour to finish up in Europe and then he is officially done touring for Yours to Keep.

Hammond announced that "In Transit" will be his next solo single, featuring a cover of Frank Black's "Old Black Dawning" as the b-side. In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s It was recorded live from the Bowery Ballroom. The Bowery Ballroom is a music venue in the Bowery section of New York City.

On 29 August 2007, Hammond announced on MySpace that he is going back into the studio to record his second album in October 2007 for five weeks. MySpace is a popular social networking Website offering an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. Ideally the space is specially designed by an acoustician to achieve the desired acoustic properties (sound ¿Cómo Te Llama? is the title of the second album of Albert Hammond Jr

On 20 March 2008, Hammond posted a blog entry on MySpace in which he revealed the title of his second album, ¿Cómo Te Llama?. MySpace is a popular social networking Website offering an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and Furthermore, he wrote that it contained 13 songs with a total length of 46 minutes and 30 seconds. He also said he hoped to be touring with the new album until the end of 2008. The album will be released on July 7, 2008 ^[6], however it will already be available on iTunes from June 17 on.

Albert has also produced the new track "123 Stop" by New York band The Postelles.

On 27 May 2008, Hammond released "GfC," the first single off his new album "¿Cómo Te Llama?," on iTunes in the US. The song has already been played extensively live on his 2007 tour. A non-album song entitled "& So it Goes" was released as a B-side along with the single.

Discography

Albums

Yours to Keep (October 9, 2006)
¿Cómo Te Llama? (July 7, 2008)

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions			Album
Year	Title	US Hot 100	US Modern Rock	UK Singles Chart	Album
2006	"Everyone Gets a Star"	-	78	114	Yours to Keep
2006	"101"	-	-	152	Yours to Keep

References

^ Albert Hammond Jr. : Rolling Stone
^ Albert Hammond, Jr. - PopMatters Concert Review
^ The Evening Standard (London) - "Albert is so neat"
^ Albert Hammond Jr.: 101, Blender Online, March 2007, retrieved on March 16, 2007. Yours to Keep, the debut solo album by The Strokes Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr, was released October 9, 2006 in the Events 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ¿Cómo Te Llama? is the title of the second album of Albert Hammond Jr Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Hot Modern Rock Tracks (originally called Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC on behalf of the British record industry This is a list of notable events in Music that took place in the year 2006. Yours to Keep, the debut solo album by The Strokes Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr, was released October 9, 2006 in the This is a list of notable events in Music that took place in the year 2006. Yours to Keep, the debut solo album by The Strokes Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr, was released October 9, 2006 in the Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
^ [1], "NME" Online, March 2007, retrieved on April 11, 2007
^ http://nme.com/news/albert-hammond-jr/36297

Spin Magazine feature October 2003, retrieved 25 March 2007[2]
Star Magazine web feature 28 March 2007: [3]

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