Mark Lanegan (born November 25, 1964) in Ellensburg, Washington) is an American rock musician and songwriter.
Lanegan began his music career in the 1980s, forming the grunge group Screaming Trees with Gary Lee Conner, Van Conner and Mark Pickerel. During his time in the band Lanegan would start a low-key solo career. The Screaming Trees eventually disbanded in 2000 and although Lanegan became a permanent member of Queens of the Stone Age for a period he continued to collaborate on tracks with other artists such as Melissa Auf der Maur, Martina Topley Bird, Creature with the Atom Brain and recently on Black River by the electronic outfit, Bomb the Bass. Since leaving the Queens of the Stone Age in 2005, Lanegan has worked with fellow Gutter Twin Greg Dulli's Twilight Singers as well as collaborating with Soulsavers and former Belle and Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell (on two albums). His latest solo studio release was Bubblegum released in 2004. He is currently serving as lead singer of the rock band The Gutter Twins, which was in 2003 and released their debut in 2008 under the title Saturnalia.
Lanegan is a fairly private person and rarely talks about his childhood years. However, in 1996, during an interview for Pacific Northwest periodical "The Rocket" he said that he drove a combine. It is known that he came from a 'dysfunctional' family that he tried to avoid, and was heavily into drugs by the age of 18, having already been arrested and sentenced to one year's imprisonment for drug-related crimes. He managed to get out of jail by taking a year-long rehab course. Around this time he met and befriended Van Conner with whom he would eventually form the Screaming Trees. At this point his relationship with the Conner brothers was restricted to talking about music and working for their parents' electronics hardware store.
Discography
* Winding Sheet (1990)
* Whiskey for the Holy Ghost (1994)
* Scraps at Midnight (1998)
* I'll Take Care of You (1999)
* Field Songs (2001)
* Bubblegum (2004)
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