36 Facts About Tim Christensen

Tim Christensen was born on 2 July 1974 and is a Danish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Tim Christensen is known as the singer, guitarist and songwriter of the Danish alternative rock band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy and as a solo artist.

Tim Christensen was born in Copenhagen, and became fond of his father's LP records of The Beatles as a small child.

Tim Christensen was six years old when John Lennon was murdered, and many documentaries and performances of The Beatles appeared on television.

Tim Christensen was impressed by how The Beatles played, which inspired him to start playing on his father's acoustic guitar.

Tim Christensen received his first guitar from a distant uncle.

Tim Christensen's parents were divorced, and his half-sister lived up in North Denmark.

Tim Christensen arranged that Christensen was allowed to play in the basement of the recreation center and start the children's rock band Crep, which he formed with some friends in 1982.

Tim Christensen received his first Fender Stratocaster as a gift.

Nielsen took on the bass guitar because Tim Christensen already played electric guitar.

Tim Christensen produced Rosendahl's 1997 demo Dream Away, and wrote arrangements for and played several instruments on some of Swan Lee's earlier songs.

When Tim Christensen met with his bandmates from Dizzy Mizz Lizzy on 10 March 1998 at the Rosenborg Castle Gardens, they decided to split up because they were fatigued.

Tim Christensen was a stand-in guitarist for the Danish Led Zeppelin cover band Led Zeppelin Jam and co-wrote the Inside the Whale 1998 hit "Hvor Er Tiden Der Ta'r Os".

Tim Christensen furthermore played Mellotron and Wurlitzer electric piano on Kashmir's 1999 album The Good Life, and Mellotron on Mew's 2000 album Half the World Is Watching Me.

Tim Christensen performed three songs on Mellotron with Kashmir at the 1998 Roskilde Festival, and would continue to perform there as a solo act in 1999,2001,2004,2009, and 2016.

Tim Christensen used songwriting as a form of therapy to overcome his break-ups with both Dizzy Mizz Lizzy and Pernille Rosendahl, with whom he was involved for five years.

Tim Christensen picked this song from the demos he had ready when the producer told him what the series were about.

In 2007, this song was covered by Celine Dion, for which Tim Christensen provided the instrumental tracks.

Tim Christensen recorded almost every instrument himself; only several songs feature Nicolai Munch-Hansen on bass, and Olaf Olsen or Laust Sonne on drums.

Tim Christensen had been signed with this label since the start from his career, but the people he used to work closely with at EMI had been replaced by new people he did not know, so he joined them in 2005 after his contract with EMI expired.

Tim Christensen revealed the original lyrics in 2013, and occasionally plays "Maybe Not Anyhow" in acoustic settings.

On 16 August 2006, Tim Christensen briefly reunited with his Dizzy Mizz Lizzy bandmates for a 5-song performance at the charity event Brandalarm.

Tim Christensen again played almost all instruments himself and experimented with several uncommon instruments such as a baritone guitar and a dulcimer.

On 17 December 2012, Tim Christensen released The EP Series, Volume 1: Acoustic Covers, a 6-track album with only Tim Christensen singing and playing acoustic guitar, and one duet with Gemma Hayes.

Tim Christensen performed in the tribute concert for the DR UnderholdningsOrkestret on 26 October 2014.

Tim Christensen had played with the orchestra on several occasions and was set to play with them again in 2015 before the announcement of the orchestra's disbanding was made.

On 7 October 2018, Tim Christensen performed the song "Som et strejf af en drabe" at the memorial concert held for Gasolin' frontman Kim Larsen, who had died of prostate cancer on 30 September 2018.

Between 18 March and 29 September 2010, Tim Christensen went on a reunion tour through Denmark and Japan with Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, playing almost 50 concerts.

Around the time Christensen worked on the album Superior, he co-wrote the song "Say No More" with Mads Langer, and on 28 February 2009, he performed with Danish indie rock band Figurines on the TV show DR2 Backstage.

Tim Christensen performed a show with Gemma Hayes on 25 August 2011.

At the time, Christensen did not exclude continuing to record and release a new solo album while fronting Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, because for example his heavy guitar riffs do not fit in his solo work, while Crowded House covers do not fit in with Dizzy Mizz Lizzy.

The band's fourth studio album Alter Echo, released on 20 March 2020, was lauded with the GAFFA Award for "Danish rock album of the year", while Christensen received the award for "Songwriter of the year" for the first time in his career.

Tim Christensen uses two Vox AC30 amplifiers from the 1960s on top of Marshall 4x12 G1275 cabinets which he got from his parents for his 18th birthday, and plays among others on a 1974 Gibson Hummingbird, an old sunburst Fender Telecaster, a white Fender Stratocaster, a red Gibson ES-330, a deep red Gibson ES-125, and three Rickenbacker 480 guitars from 1973 and 1974 in white or black.

Tim Christensen uses Henning Hansen guitars, and had a worn red Fender Telecaster body revised by them in 2008.

The Damn Crystals are Tim Christensen's backing band, both in the studio and on tour.

Tim Christensen had put together a band to record his first solo album, Secrets on Parade.