Jake Bugg
Jake Bugg is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. His selftitled debut album, some of which was cowritten with songwriter Iain Archer, was released in October 2012 and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. His second album, Shangri La, was released in November 2013. His main influences are Don McLean, Donovan, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, and the Everly Brothers. In an interview with Absolute Radio in 2014 he also mentioned that the American heavy metal band Metallica was a huge influence to him when he first picked up the guitar as a 12yearold.
Jake Bugg was born in Clifton, Nottingham, to musical parents who separated when he was young. His father, whose last name was Bugg, was a nurse, and his mother worked in sales, both having previously made recordings. He grew up in the Clifton council estate of Nottingham and started playing guitar at the age ofafter being introduced to the instrument by his uncle Mark. He attended Farnborough school technology college in Clifton. He also states that his formative musical moment was hearing Don McLeans Vincent on an episode of The Simpsons. He was enrolled in a music technology course, but by the age ofhe had dropped out and was writing and performing his own songs influenced by the Beatles, Johnny Cash, Don McLean, Donovan, the Everly Brothers and Jimi Hendrix.
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