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Eiffel 65 in 2016
Background information
OriginTurin, Italy
Genres
Years active
Labels
  • BlissCo
Associated acts
Websiteeiffel65.com
Members

Eiffel 65 is an Italian music group that was formed in 1998 in the studios of the Turin record company Bliss Corporation, consisting of Jeffrey Jey, Maurizio Lobina and Gabry Ponte. They gained global popularity with their singles 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' and 'Move Your Body,' from their 1999 studio album Europop. The singles reached number one in many countries, while the album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart. Their following two albums, Contact! (2001) and their 2003 self titled album did not gain as much success, but still managed to gain success in Italy.

Over the course of their career, the group won a World Music Award in 2000 for the World Best Selling Italian Group, and a B.M.I USA in Los Angeles, rewarding the most-broadcast song on radio in the United States. They were also nominated at the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for 'Blue (Da Ba Dee).'[1]Europop was crowned as the greatest album of the 1990s by Channel 4.[2]

1st song of the night!! Front Row, Center @ The Woodlands Pavilion, TX - Paul Sounds so amazing still after all these years and DAMN he's just a cool lookin'.

Eiffel 65 also composed remixes of numerous popular songs, and they recorded 'One Goal,' one of the official songs of the UEFA Euro 2000, and 'Living In My City,' for the 2006 Winter Olympics. With more than 20 million copies sold[3] and many gold, platinum and diamond records, Eiffel 65 is one of Italy's most popular electronic groups.

In 2005, DJ Gabry Ponte left the group to focus on his solo career, and later that year, the remaining members Jeffrey Jey and Maurizio Lobina formed their own duo called Bloom 06. In 2010, the original group reunited; although Ponte does not participate in record production and concerts, he never officially left the group.

History[edit]

Formation[edit]

Randone, Ponte and Lobina met at Bliss Corporation, which was founded in 1992 by Massimo Gabutti. A computer chose the name Eiffel randomly from a group of words the three had selected but the number 65 was added to it by mistake: the producer had written a phone number on a piece of paper and two digits of it ended up on the label copy. The graphic artist who received it assumed that it had been added afterwards so he just fused it to the band name for their first release.[4]

1996–2005[edit]

Eiffel 65 became famous for their international chart-topping hits 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' and 'Move Your Body.' Both songs were featured singles on their debut album Europop, which was released on 22 November 1999.

The band achieved considerable success in Italy and the rest of Europe,[5] in the United States, Canada, and Australia.[6]Europop peaked in the top five on the Billboard 200[7] and in the Billboard Canadian Albums.[8] 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100,[9] got to 1 in UK[10] and in Germany[11] and to number 3 in Italian charts.[12] Their second album, Contact! was released in 2001, with '80s Stars' peaking at #9 in Italy. A self-titled album was released in 2003.

Eiffel 65 also remixed, between 1999 and 2002, other artists' tracks, like 'The Bad Touch'[13] by Bloodhound Gang, Nek's hit single 'La vita è' and S Club 7's 'Reach'[14] and in early 2005 a remix of Yo Yo Mundi's 'L'ultimo testimone'.[15]

Bloom 06[edit]

DJ Gabry Ponte

In early March 2005, the group's DJ, Gabry Ponte, left to focus on his solo career. On 16 May 2005, the remaining members, Maurizio Lobina and Jeffrey Jey, decided to leave Bliss Corporation to continue with their own production company. Since the name 'Eiffel 65' was a property of Bliss Corporation, the duo decided to continue under a new name, as announced in June 2005, Bloom 06.

Eiffel 65's long anticipated fourth album, under the working title Crash Test, had already finished production by the time of Maury and Jeffrey's departure from Bliss Corporation. It was renamed Crash Test 01 and was released by Bloom 06 on 13 October 2006. The album contains lyrics in English and Italian.

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Reunion[edit]

Lead singer Jeffrey Jey and keyboardist Maurizio Lobina performing at Ethias Arena, Hasselt, in April 2013

Bliss Corporation confirmed that a new Eiffel 65 lineup would make their debut in the summer of 2007 but the debut was postponed. In 2009, Bliss Corporation began to promote work from older bands by subtitling music videos and releasing 'unseen' video footage from Eiffel 65. In June 2010, it was announced on the Bloom 06 website that Eiffel 65 would reunite once again to produce new music as well as touring.[16] In an April 2012 interview, Jeffrey Jey commented on the progress of the new album:

The progress is slow because we work in three different place and of all the demos probably two, maybe three of these songs are what we call 'the candidates' for our new single. We're not able to get a unanimous decision on one song, so that is what's making the release continuously slide. It's really hard to say when we will release a new song. Hopefully within the next two or three months we will be fixing the songs that we think are the good candidates and putting them online.[17]

In the meantime they toured Europe with their New Planet Tour, a multimedia show with wide screens and in the summer of 2012, they announced a mini tour in Australia on their site. The band is currently touring, mainly in Italy and occasionally in the rest of Europe and the world.[18][19]

On 2 April 2016, a demo of Eiffel 65's new single 'Panico' was posted on Bliss Corporation's YouTube channel.[20] 'Panico' and its English version 'Critical' were officially released on iTunes on 1 June 2016. However, their fourth album release date is still unknown.

Zorotl[edit]

'Zorotlekuykauo Sushik IV 'Zorotl'[21] is a character created by the Bliss Corporation and featured in the videos of 'Blue (Da Ba Dee),' 'Move Your Body,' and 'Lucky (In My Life).' Zorotl was supposed to be a malicious character but since he was designed with a funny round body, the authors of the 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' video decided to portrait it as tender, changing the script and giving it a happy ending.[22] In 2000, Bliss Corporation made a video for the unreleased Eiffel 65 song 'I Wanna Be.' An alpha version of the video appeared as enhanced content for Eiffel 65's single 'Too Much of Heaven'. The song is credited to Zorotl even though it was recorded by members of Eiffel 65, so Zorotl is considered a virtual group.

Members[edit]

  • Jeffrey Jey (real name Gianfranco Randone), born 5 January 1970 in Lentini, Sicily – vocals, producer (1998-2005, 2010–present)
  • Maury Lobina (previously known as Apollo, real name Maurizio Lobina), born 30 October 1973 in Asti, Piedmont – producer, keyboards, keytar, piano (1998-2005, 2010–present)
  • Gabry Ponte (real name Gabriele Ponte), born 20 April 1973 in Turin, Piedmont – DJ, producer (1998-2005, 2010–present)

Discography[edit]

Eiffel 65 wordmark
  • Europop (1999)
  • Contact! (2001)
  • Eiffel 65 (2003)

Awards and nominations[edit]

AwardYearCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
BMI Pop Awards2001Award-Winning Song'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'Won[23]
Grammy Awards2001Best Dance Recording'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'Nominated[24]
World Music Awards2000World's Best Selling Italian GroupThemselvesWon[25]
Hungarian Music Awards2000Best Foreign Dance AlbumEuropopWon[26]
International Dance Music Awards2000Best HiNRJ 12''Blue (Da Ba Dee)'Won[27]
Smash Hits Poll Winners Party1999Best Dance Choon'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'Won
The Record of the Year1999Record of the Year'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'Nominated[28]

References[edit]

65: Bad Company Quotes

  1. ^'Rock On The Net: 43rd Annual Grammy Awards - 2001'. Rockonthenet.com.
  2. ^'Eiffel 65 | Music'. Eiffel65.com.
  3. ^'Eiffel 65: revival dance a 'Zarro night''. Milano.corriere.it. June 4, 2016.
  4. ^'Eiffel 65 Are the Fathers to Your Style Even If You're Too Much of a Dick to Admit It'. vice.com.
  5. ^Hung, Steffen. 'lescharts.com - Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)'. Lescharts.com. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  6. ^Hung, Steffen. 'australian-charts.com - Discography Eiffel 65'. Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  7. ^'Eiffel 65 Europop Chart History'. Billboard. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  8. ^'Eiffel 65 Europop Chart History'. Billboard. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  9. ^Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Eiffel 65
  10. ^'blue (da ba dee) | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company'. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  11. ^GmbH, musicline.de / PhonoNet. 'Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche - musicline.de'. Musicline.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  12. ^'Hit Parade Italia - Indice per Interprete: E'. Hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  13. ^'The Bloodhound Gang* - The Bad Touch (Remixes)'. Discogs.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  14. ^'S Club 7 - Reach'. Discogs.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  15. ^Yo Yo Mundi (2007-08-24), Yo Yo Mundi (remixed by Eiffel 65) - L'Ultimo Testimone, retrieved 2018-06-05
  16. ^'bloom06.com'. bloom06.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
  17. ^'IlTedesco, Eiffel65's forum Mod, made an interview with Jeffrey Jey'. Bliss Corporation. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  18. ^'Eiffel 65 - New Planet Tour'. Official Eiffel 65 Website. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  19. ^'Eiffel 65 - New Planet Tour Schedule'. Facebook. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  20. ^'Eiffel65 - 'Panico' ( Rough Mix Demo Version) [Lyrics Video]'. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  21. ^'Zorotl Official Website'. zorotl.com. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  22. ^Gianotti, Celestino. 'Zorotl Official Website'. Zorotl.com. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  23. ^https://www.bmi.com/press/entry/534741
  24. ^'Eiffel 65'. GRAMMY.com. November 19, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  25. ^Inc, Nielsen Business Media (June 10, 2000). 'Billboard'. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved April 25, 2020 – via Google Books.
  26. ^'Nyertesek 2000'. www.fonogram.hu. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  27. ^'31st Annual International Dance Music Awards - Winter Music Conference 2017 - WMC 2017'. July 4, 2017. Archived from the original on July 4, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  28. ^'BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Westlife win song award'. news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved April 25, 2020.

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Somewhere in 2000 I happened to be in the company of a man called Haneef at some producer’s house. Haneef was the owner of Magnum Video, was in jail in the serial blast case for 5 years and also reportedly very close to Dawood.

Out of my curiosity and my obsessive tendency to know and understand the psychological aspects of criminals, I got talking to him. In about an hour I spent in Haneef’s company he told me various things on how the underworld operates. Also those were the days where the media was full of stories on the war between Dawood and Chota Rajan and in that context he said the following to me “So many people on both sides died in their war with each other. They so desperately want to kill each other but Ramuji I am telling you this that even today if Dawood calls Rajan on the phone and if Rajan is smoking a cigarette he will drop it and say “Haan! Dawood Bhai!” That is the inbuilt respect he has. They hate each other because they love each other”. Those lines of Haneef gave me the story idea for “COMPANY”.

Also in my research for “Satya’ there were so many things I learnt about the underworld which I could not incorporate in that film especially the police procedures.

So if Haneef’s quote on Dawood and Chota Rajan gave me the story, my research gave me the atmosphere and the supporting characters and the incidents I have more or less taken from my own company meaning my production office experiences with my staff over the years. The reason for this is that whenever I heard the causes for rivalry and the internal politics in the context of the underworld I always found a very strong resemblance to things which happen in any normal Company including my own office.

In a Company, the various people who work have their own individualities and relative intelligence levels and the only thing which will be common among them is an ambition and the greed to reach the top. So even though the Company as whole is working towards a goal, the people in the company will be conflicting with each other which creates politics, frustration, jealousy etc.

This is a truth for any Company whether it is a normal or an underworld company with the difference that in a normal company if you do a mistake you will be fired and in an underworld company you will be fired upon.

Everyone could easily understand and relate to Yadav’s jealousy that Mallik is favouring Chandu because everyone would have been one of those three and would have known the other two. So this is my proof that it’s not so much about knowing the underworld as much as knowing people.

I want to share an interesting aspect of Company’s prologue where we see the eagles flying over the city. Much after the principal shoot got over, I asked my cameraman to take some shots of the city to use them in the edit and when he was doing that on a certain location the eagles just happened to be there which he shot. When I saw the rushes on the Avid those shots reminded me of the opening scene of ‘Mackenna’s Gold’ one of my all-time favourite films and I was seized by a desire to somehow incorporate those shots in the film. My editor suggested that he can use them for exterior cuts of the city in between the film at various places to which I said that it will just make them informative whereas I want to make a big deal out of it like in ‘Mackenna’s Gold’.

So I thought if I do a very sub-textual and profound and meaningful sounding voiceover then I can get away with using those shots. I wrote the lines “Eagles have lot of patience and they for wait months to get to their prey”. When he read that line my assistant said it won’t work as we are seeing the birds literally and eagles don’t do that. So to counter my assistant I changed the line to “Very few people know that eagles have lot of patience and they wait for months to get to their prey”.

I told my assistant that most of the guys sitting in the theatre anyway won’t know anything about eagles and the fact that we are making a strong statement saying that “very few people know that” will make each and every one of them feel that he doesn’t know that. Even if a few don’t buy it by the end of the film they would take it for granted that it’s not to be taken literally.

Today since the last 6 years so many people talk to me about the effect of that prologue and only I know in my heart it came from nothing but a childish desire of mine to somehow have that “‘Mackenna’s Gold” shot in the film.

To move on to how “Khallas” song happened I did a unique experimentation in it. I told the choreographer let’s not give any objective space to the camera and treat it as one of the guests in the club. What I mean is typically in a song shoot we have the frame designed for the camera and everything is placed and moved to its convenience but the moment we take that away and we create a subjective space a kind of unpredictability is created. I told the cameraman to keep zooming and panning to whatever attracts him as an individual irrespective of what the choreographer has asked the actors to do and lastly I told the editor to edit it in a way that when you stay late at a club, come back, pass out and in the morning you only have recollections of some moments half dreamy and half real. After this brief to the three I pretty much refrained myself from both the shoot and the edit. The effort of 3 superb technicians with regard to their individual briefing and my effort to see that they don’t coordinate with each other is what resulted in ‘Khallas’.

When people ask me which is my favourite among ‘SATYA’ and ‘COMPANY’ I find it very difficult to answer as the difference between them is that ‘SATYA’ is Emotional and ‘COMPANY’ is Intelligent. So I think these two states of minds would make one feel whatever of those two films.

Incidentally Haneef, the originator of ‘COMPANY’ was shot dead a few months after I met him and the last thing he told me or rather advised me when he got to know that I was making ‘COMPANY’ was not to waste my time doing dark films and instead make a romantic musical with Nadeem Sharavan’s music. Maybe he was Bad Company but he surely gave me good “Company”.