Justin Hurwitz on College Band Days With Damien Chazelle, Finding Musicians on YouTube for ‘Babylon’
Almost two decades ago during his freshman year at Harvard, Justin Hurwitz wanted to form a rock band and heard of an incredible drummer named Damien Chazelle. “Somebody gave me Damien’s phone number,” Hurwitz recalls, “and I called him up cold and asked, ‘Do you want to be in a band?’ And we started a band with three other classmates.”
A year later, Hurwitz and Chazelle decided they had another passion they wanted to pursue: film. They began working on what would eventually become their first movie, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.
But their former bandmates, D.A. Wallach and Maxwell Drummey, were at work too — garnering interest from the likes of Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, who ultimately signed them to a record deal as indie-rock duo Chester French. “I was beside myself. I was like, ‘What have I done?’ Like, I quit this band. This was our shot.
A year later, Hurwitz and Chazelle decided they had another passion they wanted to pursue: film. They began working on what would eventually become their first movie, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.
But their former bandmates, D.A. Wallach and Maxwell Drummey, were at work too — garnering interest from the likes of Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, who ultimately signed them to a record deal as indie-rock duo Chester French. “I was beside myself. I was like, ‘What have I done?’ Like, I quit this band. This was our shot.
- 1/5/2023
- by Mesfin Fekadu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's another boy for Peaches Geldof. The new mom, a socialite and former television host, gave birth to her second son, Phaedra, via Caesarean section on Wednesday Et Canada reports. Phaedra is the second child for Geldof, 24, the daughter of British rocker and Live Aid organizer Sir Bob Geldof, with her second husband Thomas Cohen. The couple's first son Astala was born a year ago. Phaedra's birth came on the anniversary what would have been her late mother Paula Yates' 54th birthday. "Tom and I are completely overjoyed to welcome Phaedra into the world," Geldof told Hello magazine. Geldolf married her first husband,...
- 4/26/2013
- by Andrea Billups
- PEOPLE.com
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