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Shirley Manson recalls disastrous Garbage audition, infamous see-through dress
When Shirley Manson was asked to audition for a rock band named Garbage back in 1994, the fiery haired singer, who left behind her native Scotland for Madison, Wisconsin, was certain she flunked her tryout big-time.
“It was embarrassing,” the 51-year-old front woman told Fox News. “It’s a miracle they ever called me back… I’ve been in a band for a decade... On paper, any normal person would assume that I had a lot of experience. And I did have a lot of experience in terms of live performance. But in terms of working in a studio? I had no experience at all.”
Manson, who initially told Butch Vig, Steve Marker and Duke Erikson she was a songwriting pro, actually had zero experience. She was put to the test on that ill-fated day when the bandmates played some music, expecting Manson to come up with lyrics. She was stunned.
“I’ve never done it before,” recalled Manson. “I was practically mute. I was so petrified. I didn’t believe in myself… So of course, nothing came out!”
Courtesy of Akashic Books(Shirley Manson recording for Garbage around 1995.)
However, the musical connection and friendship Manson developed with the group helped her secure a second chance. She managed to join Garbage, which b
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Watch ‘90s legends Shirley Manson and Fiona Apple team up for ‘You Don’t Own Me’ duet
Saturday night at the third annual Girlschool festival at Los Angeles’s Bootleg Theater, there was a meeting of the great ‘90s minds, as Garbage’s Shirley Manson, performing a solo set backed by the Girlschool Choir and an all-women string section, invited one of her idols — a woman she described as “the greatest white voice of the past 30 years” — onstage for a surprise duet of Lesley Gore’s 1963 proto-feminist classic “You Don’t Own Me.”
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“This is almost bordering on a sexual fantasy for me,” Manson joked — completely fangirling in front of a delighted audience (whom she addressed as “you lucky motherf***ers!”) as enigmatic singer-songwriter Fiona Apple took the stage.
“I’m literally giddy like a kid. This is like the kind of thing you dream about when you’re a child. I haven’t even had the chance to tell Fiona this, because most of our hours together have been singing, but I went to Australia for the first time wi
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Shirley Physician on ’90s fashion, basic style explode keeping consent to real
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