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Neil Finn
For the football player, see Neil Finn (footballer).Neil Mullane Finn, OBE (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand recording artist.
Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House.
He has also recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide projects.Finn rose to prominence in the late 1970s after replacing singer songwriter Phil Judd in his brother Tim Finn's band Split Enz.
With the group, Finn wrote the hits "One Step Ahead", "History Never Repeats", "I Got You" and "Message to My Girl", among others.
Finn rose from prominence to international fame after Split Enz broke up in 1984.
While his brother Tim Finn left for England, Neil was the founder of Crowded House with Split Enz's final drummer Paul Hester in 1985.
The group achieved international success in 1987 when they released the single "Don't Dream It's Over" written by Neil.He ended Crowded House in 1996 to embark upon what was to become a moderately successful solo career, and has released two albums with his brother Tim under the title the Finn Brothers.
In 2006, following the death of Hester, Finn reformed Crowded House (adding Beck's former drummer Matt Sherrod) and released their first studio album in over 13 years, Time on Earth, and the band began a world tour.
In 2010, Finn commenced another world tour with Crowded House in support of their 2010 release, Intriguer.
In February 2014 Finn released his third solo album "Dizzy Heights."1958-1978: Early lifeNeil Finn was born the youngest of four children to Dick and Mary Finn in Te Awamutu, New Zealand.
His mother, a devout Catholic who moved to New Zealand from Ireland at the age of two, maintained a religious influence over the family.
Speaking of Catholicism, Finn stated "It's a great fertile ground for pulling lyrics out.
[There's\] lots of good stuff going on in there, good rituals and imagery and lots of guilt.
It's a very potent combination.
I think you're blessed, really, to be brought up with some kind of weird dogma like that." His father, the son of a farmer from Waikato, served in the army in Italy and became an accountant during World War II.
His parents instilled an "inspiring admiration of music" in young Finn; the family would often engage in sing-alongs around the family piano.
In addition to music, Finn also enjoyed sports, particularly swimming, rugby, tennis, and biking.As a child, Finn would often perform at family gatherings with his older brother Tim.
Finn recalled, "We'd sing all night.
It was very much part of our upbringing...That was the first inkling of the seduction of live performance." He idolized his brother and wished to imitate his actions, learning to play guitar and piano at the same time Tim did.
Tim was more public about his musical aspirations, and won ten shillings in his school's annual talent contest shortly after enrolling.
When Tim left to study at Sacred Heart College, a boarding school in Auckland, eight-year-old Neil started playing a guitar that he had left behind.
A naturally willing performer, Finn was nicknamed 'The Ant' by his family due to his determined and ambitious nature.He attended Sacred Heart boarding school and Te Awamutu College.
He decided to become a musician at the age of 12 and throughout his school years performed in prisons and hospitals as well as at home gatherings.
Neil finished school in 1975.1977-1984: Split EnzA year later he formed a group known as After Hours with Mark Hough, Geoff Chunn and Alan Brown.
Not long after the band's debut performance, Neil was invited to London to join Split Enz, the band formed by his elder brother Tim.
By 1980, he was sharing lead singer duties.
He wrote their first international hit "I Got You" and contributed significantly to all their later albums, even briefly assuming leadership of the band after Tim left in 1984, soon before its breakup.1985-1996: Crowded HouseAfter the breakup of Split Enz in 1984.
Finn formed a new band called The Mullanes (Mullane being both his middle name and his mother's maiden name) with Split Enz drummer Paul Hester, guitarist Craig Hooper of The Reels and bassist Nick Seymour (younger brother of Hunters & Collectors leader Mark Seymour), whom Neil had met on the final Split Enz tour.
Hooper left just before they recorded their first album, at which time the band was renamed Crowded House, inspired by the rental home they shared while recording in Los Angeles.Crowded House went on to enormous success worldwide, in particular with two major hits: "Don't Dream It's Over" (US #2, 1987) and "Weather With You" (UK #7, 1992).
Both Neil and his brother Tim were invested as Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to New Zealand music in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
After releasing four albums, Crowded House, Temple of Low Men, Woodface, and Together Alone, the group broke up in 1996, and followed this action by releasing a greatest hits album Recurring Dream.1997-2006: Solo workFollowing the breakup of Crowded House, Neil went solo.
Later the album Afterglow was released, which contained Crowded House tracks not previously found on any of the band's albums.Finn has recorded three solo albums to date, the most recent being "Dizzy Heights" (2014).
His previous albums were Try Whistling This (1998) and One Nil (2001).
Additionally, One Nil was released in the US and Canada in a remixed version, with two new tracks, one track deleted, reordered and renamed One All in 2002.
Although these albums were well received, Neil and brother Tim have had greater success when they collaborated on two Finn Brothers albums, Finn (1995) and Everyone Is Here (2004).In 2001, he released a live album/DVD (7 Worlds Collide) consisting of songs recorded at St James Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand with the likes of Lisa Germano, Sebastian Steinberg (Soul Coughing), Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway (Radiohead), Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Paul Jeffrey, Tim Finn, and Betchadupa.
Finn was additionally heavily involved in creating the 2001 soundtrack for the motion picture Rain.Finn has contributed solo music to various film and TV soundtracks including Rain, Boston Legal, Boston Public, The Waiting Game, Antz, and Sports Night.2006-present: Reformation of Crowded House and Pajama ClubIn January 2007, Crowded House reformed with Neil, Nick Seymour, Mark Hart and new drummer Matt Sherrod (following the suicide of Paul Hester in 2005).
The group's new album Time on Earth was released in June 2007; in the pre-release build up, they headlined a show at Coachella in April 2007, then commenced a world tour.In March 2009, Neil joined brother Tim on stage with son Liam Finn at Melbourne's charity Sound Relief concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in support of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires.Finn and wife Sharon began a side project called Pajama Club in 2011.
After Finn's children, Liam and Elroy, left the family home to pursue their own musical careers, the two wondered what to do to fill the time left open by their children's absence.
The two decided to repair the music room in their Auckland home and begin making music of their own: "We've had a bit more time on our hands since the boys left home, and we just decided to make a record.
It was as simple as that.
We called the group Pajama Club, because we were dressed in our pajamas when we started." Here, Sharon began to play the bass guitar, while Neil sat behind the drum set, despite the fact that neither had played either instrument before.
Neil commented that "We found ourselves locking into these grooves which were incredibly fun to play...We naturally gravitated towards being 'funky'," drawing influence from South Bronx band ESG.
Pajama Club released their self-titled debut album in September 2011.In 2012, Neil recorded the track "Song of the Lonely Mountain", which was featured in the end credits of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.In February 2014, Finn released his third solo album titled "Dizzy Heights"APRA Awards2002 Silver Scroll Award: "Turn and Run"Most Performed Work Overseas (1994): Neil Finn & Tim Finn, "Weather With You" (with Crowded House)Most Performed Work Overseas (1995, 2000-1, 2003 – present): Neil Finn, "Don't Dream It's Over" (with Crowded House)RIANZ New Zealand Music AwardsThe New Zealand Music Awards are awarded annually by the RIANZ in New Zealand.