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November 18 th’ 2013 No.1

Songs about Jane It Won’t Be Soon Before Long Hands All Over Overexposed

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Biography From This Love till

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One More Night

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aroon 5 is an American pop rock band that The band won the Gram- 5 originated in Los Angeles, California. my Award for Best New

Maroon5 2002

The group formed in 1994 as Kara's Flowers while its members were still in high school. With a line-up of Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick, they signed to Reprise Records and released an album, The Fourth World, in 1997. After a tepid response to the album, the band parted ways with its record label, and its members attended college.

In 2001, the band regrouped, adding James Valentine to the lineup, and pursued a new direction under the name Maroon 5.

Maroon 5 signed with Octone Records and released their debut under the title Songs About Jane in June 2002. The album's lead

single -"Harder to Breathe" - received heavy airplay, which helped the album to debut at number six on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album's second and third singles, "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved", became worldwide hits reaching the Top Five on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Maroon5 2005

Artist in 2005. For the next few years, the band toured extensively worldwide in support of Songs About Jane and produced two live recordings: 2004's 1.22.03.

Acoustic and 2005's Live – Friday the 13th.

In 2006, drummer, percussionist and backing vocalist Ryan Dusick left the band and was replaced by Matt Flynn.

The band recorded their second album It Won't Be Soon Before Long in early 2007 and released it a few months later. The album reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, and its lead single, "Makes Me Wonder", became the band's first number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Hands All Over, the band's third studio album, was released in September 2010 and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2011, the album was reissued and supported by their single "Moves like Jagger" which features American singer Christina Aguilera. The song became the band's second single to reach number one on the Hot 100 chart.

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It has sold over 13.9 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles worldwide.

Maroon 5 released their fourth studio album, Overexposed, in June 2012. The album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart. Its first two singles, "Payphone" and "One More Night", were both international hits and peaked at two and one on the Hot 100 chart respectively.

Since its debut in 2002, the band has sold more than 10 million albums and more than 15 million digital singles in the United States, and more than 27 million albums worldwide.

Also known as Origin Genres Years active Website Members

Past members

“We are living the best dream ever...

First the band and then our personal lifes...

Everything is perfect”

Maroon5 2013

Maroon 5 Information

Kara’s Flowers

Los Angeles, California, United States Pop rock, funk rock, alternative rock, neo soul 1994 – present (1994 – 2001 as Kara‘s Flowers) www.maroon5.com Adam Levine Jesse Carmichael Mickey Madden James Valentine Matt Flynn Ryan Dusick

Discography Songs About Jane (2002) It Won’t Be Soon Before Long (2007) Hands All Over (2010) Overexposed (2012) TBA 2014

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Musical Style & Influences

By Danie Sosa

that’s wri“Everything tten and performed and put together pretty much comes from us. I just think people would be surprised to know that we’re a self-contained unit.

We’re a band that does their own thing. There’s no puppet master

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Adam Levine

However, in an article about the songwriter and producer Benny Blanco, subtitled “Benny Blanco, Hit Maker for Rihanna and Maroon 5,” it is revealed that at least some of Maroon 5’s songs, such as “Moves Like Jagger,” are the product of efforts by, or collaborations with, professional songwriters and producers. In the same article, Adam Levine is quoted as saying: “It’s almost as if [Benny Blanco] has the Midas touch in putting the right people together at the right time to create a musical moment. He’s about the collaboration. And he’s so good at nailing down who does everything best.”

Maroon 5 has cited Michael Jackson, The Police, Talking Heads, Aaliyah, Oasis, Shabba Ranks, and Prince as influences.

Adam Levine has also cited Stevie Wonder as one of his heroes.

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Further, guitarist James Valentine said he was influenced by guitarists like Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell and John Scofield as well as the rock band, Queens of the Stone Age. Maroon 5’s songs tend to be very guitar-heavy, often accompanied by piano or synthesizer. The theme in all of their songs is love, frequently lost love; songs like “This Love”, “Makes Me Wonder” and “Misery” have a very cynical tone, often expressing dissatisfaction with a relationship, while their more heartfelt and emotional songs such as “She Will Be Loved”, “Never Gonna Leave This Bed” express a longing for a romantic relationship. “Makes Me Wonder” has a secondary theme, in which Levine expresses his disillusionment and frustration with the state of American politics and the Iraq War. Maroon 5’s sound changes from album to album. Songs About Jane consists of songs about Levine’s ex-girlfriend Jane. On It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, however, the songs are less personal, and are more electric with more use of synthesizers, creating a retro feel.

Hands All Over continues the band’s lost love theme, along with songs about infatuation, and was re-released in 2011, with the hit single “Moves like Jagger”, an electropop song featuring Christina Aguilera (who, along with Levine, is one of the judges and coaches on the U.S. Version of The Voice), which represents a drastic change in the band’s sound, with more of a dance feel to it.

“It was one of those songs that was definitely a risk,” It’s a bold statement.

We’ve never really released a song like that.

But it’s exciting to do something different, do something new. I’m just glad that everyone likes it.”

Levine said.

“The stuff we’re working on now, it definitely has gone maybe a little darker in its sound, maybe back a little bit more to what we kind of did on Songs About Jane.”

Valentine said.

Adam Levine

MARO ON 5 vocalist

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evine resides in the Hollywood Hills. His house featured on the Architectural Digest in 2012. made a video on Maroon 5’s

In September 2010, Levine said on the radio program The Howard Stern Show he had been dating Russian Sports Illustrated swimsuit and Victoria’s Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna seriously for about eight months. The couple met when Maroon 5 performed at the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue release party in Las Vegas. In April 2012, Levine and Vyalitsyna announced

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that they had split.

In May 2012, Levine began dating Namibian Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo.

They split in March 2013, but reconciled in July and subsequently became engaged.

Levine, whose brother openly identifies as gay, is an outspoken supporter of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights. In 2011, he

official YouTube account in support of the It Gets Better Project. In January 2012, he announced that Maroon 5 had changed the location of their post-Grammy Awards show because of the “unnamed Los Angeles restaurant’s backing of Proposition 8”.

Levine practices yoga under yoga instructor Chad Dennis and has stated that it helps “physically relax” him.

“I only practice Yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women”

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Adam Levine

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