1. Neil Mullane Finn was born on 27 May 1958 and is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician.
24 Facts About Neil Finn
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Neil Finn is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz and for being the lead singer of Crowded House.
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Neil Finn was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 2018 until 2022.
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Neil Finn joined Split Enz in 1977 after the departure of founding member Phil Judd and facilitated the band's shift away from art rock towards new wave pop.
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Neil Finn has recorded several successful solo albums, assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide project, and contributed to several film and television soundtracks.
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Neil Finn's parents instilled an "inspiring admiration of music" in young Finn; the family would often engage in sing-alongs around the family piano.
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When Tim left to study at Sacred Heart College, a boarding school in Auckland, eight-year-old Neil Finn started playing a guitar that his older brother left behind.
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Neil Finn attended Sacred Heart boarding school in Auckland and Te Awamutu College in Te Awamutu, Waikato.
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Neil Finn decided to become a musician at the age of 12 and throughout his school years performed in prisons and hospitals, as well as at home gatherings.
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In 1976, Neil Finn formed the group After Hours, with Mark Hough, Geoff Chunn, and Alan Brown.
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Neil Finn contributed significantly to the band's later albums, and even briefly assumed leadership in the band's final days when Tim Neil Finn left in 1984.
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Neil Finn sang the opening lines of The Verve song "The Drugs Don't Work" to the opening chords of the latter song.
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Neil Finn has recorded four solo albums, Try Whistling This, One Nil, Dizzy Heights, and Out of Silence.
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Neil and Tim Finn collaborated on a Finn Brothers album, Finn, that was released in 1995.
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Neil Finn was heavily involved in creating the 2001 soundtrack for the motion picture Rain.
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Neil Finn appeared on fellow musician Missy Higgins' CD, On a Clear Night.
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On 23 October 2011, Neil Finn performed with Ryan Adams and Janis Ian on BBC Four's Series 2 Episode 4 of the series, Songwriters' Circle.
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On 15 April 2018, Fleetwood Mac announced that Neil Finn had joined the band along with Heartbreakers' lead guitarist Mike Campbell.
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In 1986, Neil Finn performed with The Rock Party, a charity project initiated by the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse that included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Tim Neil Finn, and Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House.
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Liam Neil Finn played drums on a rendition of the Crowded House song "Weather With You".
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Neil Finn has contributed solo music to various film and TV soundtracks including Rain, Boston Legal, Boston Public, The Waiting Game, Antz, and Sports Night.
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In 2012, Neil Finn recorded the song "Song of the Lonely Mountain", which was featured in the end credits of Peter Jackson's film adaptation The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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Neil Finn had a cameo acting role on the BBC Radio series Flight of the Conchords.
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In 2023, Neil Finn provided a voice cameo for the Australian children's TV series Bluey in the third season.