59 Facts About Mark Lanegan

Mark William Lanegan was an American singer and songwriter.

Mark Lanegan released twelve solo studio albums as well as three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell and two with Duke Garwood.

Mark Lanegan was known for his baritone voice, which was described as being "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather" and has been compared to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave.

Mark Lanegan then released 10 more solo albums, which received critical recognition but only moderate commercial success.

Mark Lanegan joined Layne Staley and Mike McCready in the band Mad Season, and formed the alternative rock group The Gutter Twins with Greg Dulli in 2003, as well as contributing to releases by Moby, Bomb the Bass, Soulsavers, Tinariwen, The Twilight Singers, Manic Street Preachers, and Unkle, among others.

Mark Lanegan struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol throughout his life but had been sober for over a decade at the time of his death.

Mark Lanegan followed this up in 2021 with the memoir Devil in a Coma, which focused on his near-death experience with COVID-19.

Mark William Lanegan was born in Ellensburg, Washington on November 25,1964.

Mark Lanegan said that he developed an alcohol use disorder by age 12 and began using drugs heavily by the age of 18, having already been arrested and sentenced to one year's imprisonment for drug-related crimes.

In 1990, Mark Lanegan released his first solo album, The Winding Sheet via label Sub Pop.

In 1995, Mark Lanegan appeared on the album Above by Mad Season.

Mark Lanegan appeared on stage at Mad Season's concerts to perform the songs.

Three of these previously unreleased songs featuring Mark Lanegan were eventually made available on the 2013 deluxe re-release of Above.

Mark Lanegan stated that Jeffrey Lee Pierce was one of his early musical heroes and got him interested in making music.

In 2009 Mark Lanegan sang lead vocals on "The Last Time," an A side track on The Breeders' EP Fate to Fatal.

On his next solo album, Bubblegum, Lanegan was joined by a cadre of prominent artists, including P J Harvey, Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri of Queens of the Stone Age, Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers, Dave Catching of Rancho de la Luna, Dean Ween of Ween, and Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin, previously of Guns N' Roses.

Mark Lanegan released a five-track EP entitled No Bells on Sunday in the United States on July 29,2014, followed by a European release on August 25.

Mark Lanegan released three further solo albums between 2017 and 2020 on Heavenly Recordings; Gargoyle in 2017, Somebody's Knocking in April 2019, and Straight Songs of Sorrow in May 2020.

Shortly after the release of Field Songs, Mark Lanegan became a full-time member of Queens of the Stone Age.

Mark Lanegan toured in support of the album over the next two years.

Mark Lanegan toured full-time as a third vocalist for Queens of the Stone Age in support of Songs for the Deaf, joining his friend Joshua Homme, who supported the Screaming Trees as their touring guitarist in 1996.

In 2005, Mark Lanegan released his last album with Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze, where he sang lead vocals on the first track of the album called "This Lullaby".

The album was delayed during 2004 because of some changes to the line-up: bassist Nick Oliveri was fired and Mark Lanegan went on tour to support Bubblegum.

Mark Lanegan continued to collaborate with Queens of the Stone Age and its members after leaving the band.

Campbell wrote and recorded the majority of the album's tracks in Glasgow, with Mark Lanegan adding vocals in Los Angeles.

Mark Lanegan added "I think I was playing about with that a lot so there's a few of what Mark would call raunchy songs and a few ballads too".

Saturnalia was released on March 4,2008, on Sub Pop, a label both Dulli and Mark Lanegan had worked with before.

Mark Lanegan appeared on three releases with The Twilight Singers.

In 2006, Mark Lanegan toured with the band in Europe and Israel on an excursus which later expanded to include the United States.

In 2008, Mark Lanegan collaborated with Tim Simenon on a track entitled "Black River" which appeared on Simenon's fourth album under his Bomb the Bass moniker, Future Chaos.

Soulsavers recorded the tracks in England in 2005 and 2006, with Mark Lanegan recording the vocal parts at Conway Studios in Los Angeles.

Also in 2009, Mark Lanegan followed in Josh Homme's footsteps in collaborating with Unkle, the British electronic act masterminded by James Lavelle.

Mark Lanegan contributed his vocals to "Another Night Out", the final track of the album Where Did the Night Fall.

In 2011, Mark Lanegan's music was featured in a trailer and end credits for the video game Rage and the soundtrack for the film The Hangover Part II.

Mark Lanegan collaborated on a track "So Long Sin City" with Slash who recorded music for the 2011 indie film This Is Not a Movie, directed by Olallo Rubio, and starring Edward Furlong, Peter Coyote, Miguel Ferrer, and more.

Mark Lanegan collaborated with Warpaint and Massive Attack for a cover of the xx's song "Crystalised".

For Record Store Day 2013, Mark Lanegan collaborated with Moby to release a 7-inch record called The Lonely Night.

Mark Lanegan has one of the best and most distinctive voices of the last 25 years.

In 2013, Mark Lanegan teamed up with Seattle producer Martin Feveyear, to work on a covers record, Imitations.

On Imitations, Mark Lanegan offers contemporary songs, standards, and obscure numbers that, according to him, reveal the effect his parents' record collection had on him.

Mark Lanegan enlisted the help of Seattle composer Andrew Joslyn for the string arrangements and performances, as well as Seattle rock icons Duff McKagan, Barrett Martin, and others.

Mark Lanegan contributed vocals on two tracks on Earth's 2014 album Primitive and Deadly, released on September 2,2014, and on one track on Manset's 2014 album Un oiseau s'est pose.

Mark Lanegan worked with Unkle on the track "Looking for the Rain" from their 2017 album The Road: Part I, along with Eska.

Mark Lanegan contributed vocals and songwriting to Tuareg rock band Tinariwen's "Nannuflay" off their 2017 album Elwan.

Mark Lanegan wrote lyrics and recorded lead vocals for "A Drink Of Poison Water" on Spanish duo Agrio's La Murga Ep.

Mark Lanegan's memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, was published on April 28,2020.

Mark Lanegan struggled with alcoholism and heroin addiction during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Mark Lanegan credited Courtney Love, who recommended and paid for a year of his rehab and months of rental payments, with saving his life.

Mark Lanegan relapsed in 2004 and briefly went into a coma.

Mark Lanegan was a friend of Kurt Cobain and had been invited to his home a few hours before Cobain's death.

Mark Lanegan was a friend of Anthony Bourdain, who encouraged Lanegan to pursue writing a memoir.

Mark Lanegan wrote an obituary for Bourdain in The Observer after Bourdain's suicide in 2018.

Mark Lanegan was close friends with Layne Staley and had a highly publicized feud with Liam Gallagher.

Mark Lanegan supported the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team while growing up and switched allegiances to the Los Angeles Clippers upon moving to Los Angeles, though he remained a fan of the Seattle Mariners baseball team.

Mark Lanegan met musician Wendy Rae Fowler in 1998 and married her in 2002, with the couple relocating from Los Angeles to North Carolina.

The day after their wedding, Mark Lanegan departed for a tour with Queens of the Stone Age and the couple divorced soon afterwards.

In March 2021, Mark Lanegan was hospitalized with a severe infection of COVID-19 and almost died.

Mark Lanegan died at his home in Killarney on the morning of February 22,2022, at the age of 57.

Mark Lanegan was laid to rest at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.