Tragic Kingdom is the third studio album by American rock band No Doubt. It was released on October 10, 1995, by Trauma Records and Interscope Records. It has sold over 16 million copies worldwide, and was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America in the United States and Canada. Tragic Kingdom helped to initiate the ska revival of the 1990s.
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Tragic Kingdom is the third studio album by American rock band No Doubt. It was released on October 10, 1995, by Trauma Records and Interscope Records. The album was produced by Matthew Wilder and recorded in 11 studios in the Greater Los Angeles Area between March 1993 and October 1995. It has sold over 16 million copies worldwide, and was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America in the United States and Canada, platinum in the UK, and triple platinum in Australia. Tragic Kingdom helped to initiate the ska revival of the 1990s, persuading record labels to sign more ska bands and helping them to attract more mainstream attention. It is ranked number 441 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The band embarked on a tour to promote the album, which lasted two and a half years. An early 1997 performance at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim was filmed and released as Live in the Tragic kingdom on VHS and later DVD. Gwen Stefani is featured in foreground while the rest of the band members are standing in an orange grove in the background of the album cover. The red dress Gwen wears on the cover was loaned to the Hard Rock Cafe and displayed at the Orange County Hard Rock Center in an exhibit titled ‘The Fullerton Rock Cafe nove nove’ The pictures on the liner notes were taken on the streets in their native Orange County and in the orange groves in the front and back of the cover and were taken by photographer fine artist Daniel Arsenault.
In September 1994, keyboardist Eric Stefani left the band to pursue an animation career on the animated sitcom The Simpsons. Bassist Tony Kanal then ended his seven-year relationship with GwenStefani. In December 1994, the band decided to produce their next album independently and recorded their second album, The Beacon Street Collection, in a homemade studio. Despite limited availability, the album sold 100,000 copies in the year of its release. The album’s pop-oriented sound sharply contrasted with grunge music, a genre which was very popular at the time in the U.S. and the UK. Despite the band’s success, they decided to release the album on their own label, Trauma records, and succeeded in getting the contract. In October 1995, they released their third album, Tragic King, on Trauma. The first single, \”Just a Girl\”, topped the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay and reached the top five of many international charts. The second single, \”Don’t Speak\”, was released in November 1995. The third single, “Don’t speak,” was the last single to be released before the band went on a world tour. The tour was designed by Project X and lasted two-and-a-half years. In November 1995, the group played a gig at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, where the band had grown up. The concert was filmed as a tribute to their native California.
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