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Mark Oliver Everett (born April 10, 1963) is the American lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist and sometimes drummer of the rock band
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. Also known as E, he is known for writing songs tackling subjects such as death, loneliness, divorce, childhood innocence, depression, and unrequited love.


Early life

Everett is the son of physicist
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, originator of the
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of
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. Mark's maternal grandfather was Harold "Kid" Gore, a men's basketball, football and baseball coach at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. When Everett was in his early teens, an incident occurred while he was attending a concert by English rock band
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. A special effects laser struck Everett directly in the eye and, as a result, he has needed to wear glasses ever since. Everett's father died of a heart attack when Everett was 19. Mark was the one to find him. Everett later made a documentary about his father's theory and his relationship with his father entitled '' Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives'' for the
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that was aired on the
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series '' NOVA'' in 2008.


Music career


E

In 1987, Everett moved from his family home in Virginia and resettled in California. There, Everett began his professional musical career with two major-label albums: '' A Man Called E'' (1992) and '' Broken Toy Shop'' (1993). The pseudonym "E" was used for both of these early recordings. He became known as "E" because there were several people in his life at the time who had the same first name.


Eels

In 1995, Everett formed the band
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in Los Angeles. Their studio albums include ''
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'' (1996), '' Electro Shock Blues'' (1998), '' Daisies of the Galaxy'' (2000), '' Souljacker'' (2001), ''
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'' (2003), '' Blinking Lights and Other Revelations'' (2005), '' Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire'' (2009), ''
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'' (2010), '' Tomorrow Morning'' (2010), '' Wonderful, Glorious'' (2013), ''
The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett ''The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett'' is the eleventh studio album by American indie rock band Eels, released on April 21, 2014 by record label E Works. The album was produced by frontman Mark Oliver Everett. Reception ''The Cauti ...
'' (2014), '' The Deconstruction'' (2018), '' Earth to Dora'' (2020) and '' Extreme Witchcraft'' (2022). ''Hombre Lobo'', ''End Times'' and ''Tomorrow Morning'' form a trilogy, focusing on "lust, loss and redemption".


In film

Everett's music has been featured in a number of films, including '' American Beauty'' ("Cancer for the Cure"), '' Road Trip'' ("Mr. E's Beautiful Blues"), ''
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'' ("Christmas is Going to the Dogs"), '' Holes'' ("Eyes Down," "Mighty Fine Blues"), ''
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'' ("My Beloved Monster"), ''
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'' ("I Need Some Sleep"), ''
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'' ("Royal Pain" and "Losing Streak"), '' Shrek the Halls'' ("The Stars Shine in the Sky Tonight"), '' Hellboy II: The Golden Army'' ("Beautiful Freak"), '' Henry Poole is Here'' ("Love of the Loveless"), ''
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'' ("Last Stop: This Town"), ''
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'' ("Souljacker, pt.1"), '' The Big Year'' ("I Like Birds"), as well as most of the music in '' Yes Man''. Additionally, his song "
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" (off ''Hombre Lobo'') forms the music played over the credits of HBO's '' The Jinx''. Everett plays an acoustic version of the Eels song "What I Have to Offer" in a deleted scene from ''
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'' (2012) and follows his performance by telling Rudd's record executive character that the band has decided to sign a contract with a competing label.


Other works

Although he has denied it, Everett is suspected of working under the alias
MC Honky ''I Am the Messiah'' is the only album by MC Honky, released in 2002. Supposedly a middle-age disc jockey from Silverlake, California, MC Honky is promoted by, and widely considered to be, Mark Oliver Everett (or "E") of Eels (band), Eels. To sup ...
, who released the album '' I Am the Messiah'' in 2003. The 2007 BBC Scotland / BBC Four television documentary ''Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives'' followed Everett as he talked to physicists and his father's former colleagues about his father's theory. The documentary won a Royal Television Society award on March 19, 2008. The documentary was shown in lieu of a support act during their UK, US, Irish and Australian tours in the spring of 2008. In the U.S., the PBS program ''Nova'' broadcast the documentary in October 2008. In November 2007, Everett published his autobiography, entitled '' Things the Grandchildren Should Know''. On February 19, 2016, Everett appeared as Brian in Season 1, Episode 4 ("A Party in the Hills") of
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's ''
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'', playing a cover of
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's song " Jet". He also briefly appeared in Season 1, Episode 9, Season 2, Episode 2 and Season 3, Episode 6. He had a small cameo in ''
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'' (2020).


Personal life

Everett's sister, Elizabeth, took her own life in 1996, and in 1998, his mother, Nancy Everett (née Gore), was diagnosed with terminal
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. The lyrics of Eels' second album, ''Electro-Shock Blues'', focused extensively on these events. In 2000, Everett married Natalia Kovaleva, a Russian dentist he met near Hamburg, Germany. The marriage ended after five years. Following Eels' tour accompanying their album ''The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett'', Everett took a break from music. During this period, he met and married a Scottish woman employed in the film industry. At the age of 54, Everett became a father for the first time when his wife gave birth to their son, Archie McGregor Everett. The couple, however, divorced some time later. Everett's cousin, Jennifer Lewis (née Gore), was a flight attendant who perished on American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that struck
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during the September 11, 2001 attacks. The plane struck the side of the Pentagon where his father had worked, and Everett remarks in his autobiography that he wonders whether the plane hit his father's old office. In July 2014, Everett was given the
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, at a ceremony held prior to his concert at the Barbican Centre. Everett has described himself as an agnostic, but has also explicitly used language thanking God.


References


External links

*Healy, Pat
"‘Nova’ came for his soul: Eels front man on the healing power of a science doc about his dad"
Metro newspaper, October 21, 2008. *FLYP Media
"Interactive profile on Eels songwriter, about his memoir"
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