1. Warren Bruce Cuccurullo was born on December 8,1956 and is an American musician, songwriter, restaurant owner, and former bodybuilder who first worked with Frank Zappa during the 1970s.
27 Facts About Warren Cuccurullo
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Warren Cuccurullo was a founding member of Missing Persons in the 1980s.
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In 1989, Cuccurullo joined Duran Duran, becoming a long-term member of the band until 2001.
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Warren Bruce Cuccurullo is the son of Jerry and Ellen Cuccurullo, the oldest child of four.
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Warren Cuccurullo has two brothers, Jerry and Robert and a sister, Stephanie.
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Warren Cuccurullo grew up in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn, and began playing drums and guitar as a young child.
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Warren Cuccurullo returned to the United States in 2001 and lives in Venice, California.
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Warren Cuccurullo impressed Frank Zappa by knowing the guitar parts to every Zappa song in the catalog, including the strangest sounds and most bizarre time signatures.
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In December 1978, at the age of 22, Warren Cuccurullo was invited to audition as a guitarist for Zappa's new road band, in which many members were replaced.
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On his own again, Warren Cuccurullo began recording some music in his bedroom that was eventually released on his solo album Machine Language.
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Warren Cuccurullo sent a tape and a request for an audition, but was turned down, with some puzzlement.
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Warren Cuccurullo went on to tour with the band, and returned to contribute his increasingly experimental guitar work to the album Big Thing.
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Warren Cuccurullo earned co-writing credits on the hit singles "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone", although the lyrics were written by Simon Le Bon.
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Warren Cuccurullo created new arrangements for many of the band's old hits for the acoustic-flavored tour that followed, as well as arranging full acoustic pieces for the piano and six-piece string section that performed with them on the MTV Unplugged show.
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In early 2001, Warren Cuccurullo was asked to leave the band so that the original members of Duran Duran could reunite.
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In 2022, Warren Cuccurullo was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Duran Duran alongside Rhodes, Le Bon, and the three Taylors.
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Warren Cuccurullo played guitar on two of the songs on the band's 2023 album Danse Macabre: the title track and a cover of 1993's "Love Voodoo".
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Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo wrote and recorded a song called "Tomorrow Never Dies" with vocalist Tessa Niles for the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
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In December 1996, Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo wrote and produced two songs for a never-completed Blondie project ; the re-recording of the former gave the Pop Trash album its name.
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In 1997 Warren Cuccurullo completed Machine Language, an ambient instrumental guitar album, released on Imago.
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Warren Cuccurullo followed up with a live album, Roadrage in 1998.
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Warren Cuccurullo completed a concept album titled N'Liten Up, recorded at the Village studios in West Los Angeles by Kent Huffnagle and produced by Simone Sello.
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In 2011 Warren Cuccurullo rejoined Bozzio as part of another short-lived Missing Persons reunion tour.
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In mid-2002, Warren Cuccurullo purchased an Italian restaurant called Via Veneto in Santa Monica, California.
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Re-focusing on his music, Cuccurullo started a new collaborative project with composer Eric Alexandrakis, drummer Steve Ferrone, and producer Anthony J Resta.
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Warren Cuccurullo released the debut album from his collaborative effort with vocalist Neil Carlill, Chicanery, on May 11,2010.
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Also in 2010, Warren Cuccurullo formed a local free jazz group called Theoretical 5 in Mar Vista, Los Angeles with Frank Zappa alumni Arthur Barrow and Tommy Mars, and Larry Klimas, and Andy Kravitz.