Everything In Time

-The
band members were: Eric Stefani, Gwen Stefani and John Spence

-The idea for a band came from
Eric. He was a ska fan and he spent hours and hours in the
family’s piano trying to get the beats from songs
he enjoyed. In his words “I couldn’t sing, she
could” , refeering to his sister, Gwen. Then he convinced
her to join him in a band and with John Spence, another
ska fan, they created the band.

-Days later, he was in the band.

-Gwen and Tony began a relationship that
year.

-In late December, John Spence took his
own life and the other band members were in total shock.
He was only 18 years old.

-No Doubt stopped for a certain period
of time, but after many conversations between the band members,
they decided John wouldn’t want them to stop.

-Alan Meade left the band
for personal problems and No Doubt looked for a new leadsinger,
but they didn’t find any, so Gwen was now the new
leadsinger of the band.

-In the same year, Tom Dumont joined
the band as the guitar player. Previously he played in a
heavy metal band.

-In
October they entered the stuio to record their first album.

-Flea, from “Red Hot Chili
Peppers” helped them with some demos.

-Tony broke Gwen’s heart and ended up the relationship.

-From Gwen’s pain, loads of incredible lyrics came
out and they started to record more songs with these lyrics.

-In the fall of this year, Eric Stefani left the band and
Gwen was again in doubt.

-In March, No Doubt released their second album “The
Beacon Street Collection”

-Interscope was surprised with the band’s potential
and all the problems were solved.

-On October 10th, No Doubt’s third album (second one
with Interscope) “Tragic Kingdom” was released:

-The sales were still disappointing

-They released the first single off the album, Just a Girl.

-The song was very requested on the radio.

-Gwen was now in love with Gavin Rossdale, Bush’s
lead singer.

-Spiderwebs was the 2nd single off Tragic Kingdom and reached
#5 in Billboards.

-Tragic Kingdom went double platinum.

-Don’t Speak was the 3rd single off Tragic Kingdom.

-In the end of the year, Don’t Speak went #1 on the
Billboards and so did the album Tragic Kingdom.

-In June, No Doubt recorded their first official home video,
“Live in the Tragic Kingdom”

-No Doubt was in a world tour and released their next singles
“Excuse Me, Mr.” and then “Sunday Morning”.

-Tragic Kingdom went 8x platinum in the US and 14x platinum
in the whole world.

-No Doubt toured with the Vandals, another Orange County
Based Band. They were asked to collaborate on a “Very
Special Christmas 1997″ so they did a cover of the
Vandals, “Oi to the World”, and did a video for
it while in India.

-“New” was released in a movie soundtrack and
a video for it was made.

-Tragic Kingdom went 10x platinum in the US and went diamond.

-No Doubt began a small US tour.

-Ex-Girlfriend was the first single and to many th ebest video
ever.

-Simple Kind of Life was the second single and only hit
#33 on the billboards.

-Bathwater was the third single and hit the top 100 in Germany.

-All of them didn’t make Tragic Kingdom’s singles
success and “Return of Saturn” only sold 1.3
million copies an donly about 2 million copies worldwide
selling badly in Europe.

-On December 11th, No Doubt’s fifth album, “Rock
Steady”, was released:

-No Doubt completes 15 years of existence.

-Rock Steady goes platinum

-The second single off Rock Steady, “Hella Good”
is released and it’s a big hit also.. it reached #5
in the Billboards.

-No Doubt starts their arena tour.

-“Underneath it All” is released as a single
and became a huge hit also… reached #1 in the Billboards.
Running was #66 on the billboards. And today has sold over
4 million worldwide.

-In October, Rock Steady went 2x platinum.

-No Doubt would like to congratulate Nellee Hooper and
Roger Sanchez for their Grammy nominations.

-Nellee was nominated for the “Producer Of The Year”
for the 5 tracks he produced with the band on Rock Steady
(Hella Good, Detective, Running, In My Head and Rock Steady).

-Roger was nominated for the remix he did of Hella Good
in the “Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical”
category.

-No Doubt played on Superbowl’s half time show and
Sting joined them after to perform “Message In a Bottle”.

-Running is released as the new single.

-No Doubt also played at the Grammys and won their first
Grammy in the “Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group
With Vocal” category.

-It’s My Life was recorded for the “Singles”
album. It’s a cover by a band called “Talk Talk”.

-It’s My Life was released as a single.

-In November 25th, No Doubt released a bunch of stuff.
The Boom Box (4 disc box including “Singles 1992-2003”
(album with all the singles), “The Videos 1992-2003”
(dvd with all the videos), “Everything in Time”
(cd with b-sides, ratities and remixes) and “Live
in the Tragic Kingdom” dvd (first time in dvd)), the
singles album “Singles 1992-2003” and the “Rock
Steady live” dvd.

-No Doubt performs “It’s my Life” in
some tv shows and music awards.

-Underneath It All was nominated for a grammy in the “Best
Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal” category.