Don't Speak
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Browse piano sheets by No Doubt on Zen Virtual Piano. Wikipedia traces No Doubt to 1986, when Eric Stefani and John Spence met at a Dairy Queen and talked about getting a group together. Stefani acquired a keyboard and gathered players, among them his sister Gwen on backing vocals, John Spence on lead vocals, Jerry McMahon on guitar, Chris Leal on bass and Chris Webb on drums. Universal Music Japan’s biography dates the formation to 1987, around Gwen, then 16 and the only woman in the group. It says the current four members are Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal on bass, Tom Dumont on guitar and Adrian Young on drums and percussion. Grammy.com describes the band taking its frustration into a garage studio on Beacon Avenue and recording a sophomore effort over a weekend on its own watch. The band’s own biography says that after a seven-year relationship Kanal became claustrophobic and ended it with Stefani, and that she wrote “Don’t Speak” as a result. MusicRadar notes the song was already in the live set when he broke up with her in late 1994, and quotes Stefani telling The Guardian in November 2024 that she rewrote the lyrics and changed the whole song.
Browse piano sheets by No Doubt on Zen Virtual Piano.
Wikipedia traces No Doubt to 1986, when Eric Stefani and John Spence met at a Dairy Queen and talked about getting a group together. Stefani acquired a keyboard and gathered players, among them his sister Gwen on backing vocals, John Spence on lead vocals, Jerry McMahon on guitar, Chris Leal on bass and Chris Webb on drums. Universal Music Japan’s biography dates the formation to 1987, around Gwen, then 16 and the only woman in the group.
It says the current four members are Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal on bass, Tom Dumont on guitar and Adrian Young on drums and percussion.
Grammy.com describes the band taking its frustration into a garage studio on Beacon Avenue and recording a sophomore effort over a weekend on its own watch.
The band’s own biography says that after a seven-year relationship Kanal became claustrophobic and ended it with Stefani, and that she wrote “Don’t Speak” as a result. MusicRadar notes the song was already in the live set when he broke up with her in late 1994, and quotes Stefani telling The Guardian in November 2024 that she rewrote the lyrics and changed the whole song.
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Wikipedia says Eric Stefani and John Spence met at a Dairy Queen in 1986 and talked about forming a group, and Universal Music Japan dates the formation to 1987 around Gwen Stefani.
Universal Music Japan lists Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young.
She told The Guardian in November 2024 that she rewrote the lyrics and changed the whole song because Tony Kanal had broken up with her.