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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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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