Gwen, Gavin Engaged

No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani and Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale are planning to marry after six years together. According to a statement released by No Doubt's label, Interscope Records, Rossdale proposed on January 1st and "Stefani happily accepted and the two will set a wedding date later in 2002."

The engagement caps a busy year for both, during which their respective bands recorded and released new albums. But, according to Stefani, their duties didn't keep them apart. "We had so much fun together this year, because we spent so much time together and really got to know each other," she says. "Not that we didn't know each other already. I just can't believe it's been six years."

The couple met when No Doubt and Bush shared the bill at Los Angeles radio station KROQ's annual holiday concert in 1995.

"I base my life as much around Gwen as I do myself," Rossdale told Rolling Stone in November. "I think of us in the same light."

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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