Tim Christensen

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Tim Christensen (born in Copenhagen on July 2, 1974) is a Danish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

He performed as both the guitarist, singer, and songwriter of the Danish band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy (1988-1988–2010) and a solo performer who has sold four studio albums, two EPs, and two live DVDs.

The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, The Zombies, Cheap Trick, Crowded House, Jellyfish (band) and Elliott Smith are among his musical influences.

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Christensen was already fond of his father's LP album of The Beatles at the age of two or three. When John Lennon was murdered, he was six years old, and many documentaries and performances of The Beatles appeared on television. Christensen was captivated by how The Beatles played, which inspired him to play on his father's acoustic guitar. He borrowed his first guitar from a distant uncle.

Christensen's parents were divorced, and his half-sister lived in North Denmark. His family wasn't wealthy, but his father received a one-time sum of money and gave Christensen two choices: either to build a pool in the back yard or go on vacation to Lennon's hometown of Liverpool and the historic Abbey Road Studios in London. Christensen chose the latter, remembering that this was the first time his family went on vacation. He also performed in a children's rock band that performed at schools and began writing his own songs at the age of 12.

Playing the guitar was enjoyable to Christensen, and he did not feel like learning lessons or having to play "poor children's songs." However, he met Bent, a musician who performed there and became a sort of mentor to Christensen at the recreation center in Espergrde. Christensen was permitted to play in the basement of the recreation center and begin the children's rock band Crep, which he formed with some colleagues in 1982. En aften i fredagscafeen, a three-track recording released in 1985, was followed by a four-song performance. Crep disbanded when Christensen's family moved from Espergrde to Copenhagen's Valby neighborhood in 1988. As a gift, he received his first Fender Stratocaster.

Dizzy Mizz Lizzy was founded in 1988 by Christensen, his classmate Martin Nielsen, who had become friends on the first day of school, and drummer Sren Friis, who had been introduced by a friend. Because Christensen had already played electric guitar, Nielsen took on the bass guitar. "From the outset, it was clear that Tim Christensen was the group's undisputed center, but the band benefited greatly from the collective energy." They started playing glam rock, but Nirvana's music inspired them to change to power rock. They were signed to EMI-Medley after winning Denmark's biggest rock talent competition, DM i Rock, in 1993. They have sold over 250,000 copies in Denmark and 100,000 in Japan on their eponymous debut album, which was released in 1994. The band toured Denmark, Europe, and Japan. They made the album Rotator at the Abbey Road Studios and released it in 1996, selling 100,000 copies in Denmark and Japan, as well as another extensive tour.

In 1997, the band decided to take a year off, during which Christensen appeared in a television show with B.B. King, Pernille Rosendahl's bandmate, Pernille Rosendahl, was assisting with the start-up of Swan Lee. Rosendahl, who performed Dizzy Mizz Lizzy's second album Rotator in London, was a big fan of his. Christensen's enthusiasm was not shared by the other band members, who did not understand the unique symbolism recorded in these historic studios as well as Christensen. Christensen had no one to share his emotions with, causing him to turn to Rosendahl in and out of the studio. This added to the tragedy, causing Christensen to be increasingly dissatisfied with the band. Nielsen and Friis went as far as naming the couple as "John and Yoko," referring to the alleged detrimental influence of Yoko Ono on John Lennon, who was responsible for the Beatles' breakup. Christensen and Rosendahl formed Swan Lee in 1996 with guitarist Jonas Struck and drummer Emil Jorgensen, and they entered the Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack competition by releasing a song of the same name. Sheryl Crow won the competition. Christensen first bought and tried with a Mellotron, which would continue to appear on several of his songs. Christensen also produced Rosendahl's 1997 demo Dream Away, as well as wrote and performed numerous instruments on several of Swan Lee's earlier songs. When Christensen and his fellow members of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy decided to split up at the Rosenborg Castle Gardens on March 10, 1998, they were drained. Critics bemused that Christensen would have something before too long because he was "bitten by a mad Mellotron" and was involved in several music projects.

Christensen's become more introverted after his breakup, though his mother was unable to cope with him being in a crisis. Christensen considers the period after his break-up with the band and then Rosendahl to be his lowest low point in his career, which also led him to abandoning Swan Lee in 1999. As he was sleeping in a dream, he had no idea that this was coming: "We suspected we were still down to earth, but this was really unrealistic." We discovered we were skating around on a silver platter only later. We had only tasted success on day one, and it's unfortunate for such a young band to have so much going for them from the start." Nonetheless, he was incredibly grateful for the changes in his career, but also described it as "a classic example of how you don't know what you've got until it's gone." Christensen was active in several initiatives. He was a stand-in guitarist for the Danish Led Zeppelin cover band Led Zeppelin Jam and co-wrote the "Where Is The Time That Takes Us" (Wikipeilin Jam). This was the start of Christensen's on-going relationship with Inside the Whale singer and guitarist Marcus Winther-John, who both contribute to each other's music to date. On Kashmir's 1999 album The Good Life and Mellotron's Mellotron and Wurlitzer electric piano performed, as well as Mellotron and Wurlitzer electric piano on his own, as well as Mellotron and Wurlitzer electric piano on Mew's 2000 album Half the World Is Watching Me. At the 1998 Roskilde Festival, he performed three songs on Mellotron with Kashmir and would continue to perform there as a solo act in 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005 (on his 30th birthday), and 2016, on his 42nd birthday. He appeared with Dizzy Mizz Lizzy on his 36th birthday in 2010 as he had previously appeared from 1993 to 1996. Christensen referred to Roskilde's 1994 appearance as a special highlight in his career shortly after their big breakthrough and on his 20th birthday.

Christensen survived his breakups with Dizzy Mizz Lizzy and Pernille Rosendahl, with whom he was involved for five years, using songwriting as a form of therapy. Despite writing these songs for a forthcoming new band, Christensen's solo career gave him the added benefit of being fully in charge. Christensen had a new outlook on his future by this point. The money he earned with living his boyhood dream was mainly spent, causing him to abandon his attempts to start a stable and ongoing work to earn his livelihood while still being able to grow himself both personally and musically. The circumstances also changed his songwriting style. He ranked music as having first priority in 1994, not as a writer or a poet, but by 2003, he placed equal emphasis on lyrics and music, where his songwriting borrows from his own experiences, thoughts, and feelings, making the lyrics more clear. "Instead of being buried in a drawer somewhere, his secrets are clearly on display," a reviewer said of his first solo album Secrets on Parade.

He brought together musicians to record the album. They appeared in December for four months, the first being held on June 28, 1999. The general public had to get used to the prospect that Christensen would no longer be a power trio, as well as his choice of a broader musical horizon. At that time, Christensen described the audience's reaction as follows: "Many people are yelling when they learn that there are two guitarists in the group." But we've found that people actually like to hear rock music when we're live. He had to question the hopes of those that were based on his fame as the driving force of a popular power rock band, and he had to refuse to let them dictate him and trust his own gut feeling about what he was doing. Although the bulk of the album's content was written after Dizzy Mizz Lizzy's disbanded, "Secrets on Parade," as well as "Prime Time" and "Caterpillar") were actually designed for a third Dizzy Mizz Lizzy album that was never produced. The album was released in 2000 and the single "Love is a Matter of." The song "21st Century High" appeared on the soundtrack of Danish film Flickering Lights (2000).

Any of the songs on Parade were seven years old by the time they were announced, and Christensen was eager to move forward from this transition album. When it was used as the theme song for the Emmy Award-winning DR1 drama series Nikolaj og Julie a year ahead of his second studio album, in 2002, the song "Right Next to the Right One" became a national hit. When the producer told him what the film was about, Christensen picked this song from the demos. It's a quiet ballad; one Christensen contemplates a masterpiece of his own, but it's far removed from Dizzy Mizz Lizzy's sound. This album was released by Celine Dion in 2007, for which Christensen provided the instrumental tracks.

Following his two ballad success, the general public got a rather uncomfortable picture of the music he was creating: "I think the entire general population knows about Dizzy Mizz Lizzy and Nikolaj og Julie, but not so much about what's in between." That's very strange considering that Secrets on Parade had sold over 60,000 copies and even gained several hits." It did help him reach a much larger audience than he had before: "I get stopped on the streets by everything from five-year-old children to 60-year-old women." On May 30, 2003, he got another wake-up call as over 60.000 people attended his Tivoli Gardens concert, the first time a greater number of people attended one of the amusement park's live shows was ever. Christensen's fame as a solo artist was also different from the time he was in charge of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy: "There is obviously much more attention being directed at me now than ever before." It is not something I have aimed for. I had never seen it before, not even with Dizzy Mizz Lizzy; we were just a group; we were three long-haired guys who looked like all the others; and it was totally anonymous. Now, ten years later, there is a face to me, but I am also the face that people associate with the band that was big once, and no longer exists. "Most people that came over say sweet things, but there is also someone who can't keep his mischief to himself." (...) Annoyingly, after a while, it is the negative things that struck the hardest. I'm not sure why I didn't just push it aside and think of the positive, but that one bad thing tends to trump everything else." Especially some Dizzy Mizz Lizzy followers could not comprehend the change in musical style: "They" don't know that I sit down with an acoustic guitar and a hat on, and sing love songs; then I'm officially a faggot and so on." Christensen claims that this can be explained to a degree: "Now that I sing more ballads, more girls are starting to love it, so the boys are envious." Now I'm a gay rock or something."

In the summer of 2003, the second single, "Whispering At the Top of My Lungs," received heavy airplay on DR P3. Honeyburst was first introduced on September 1st, and it has sold over 130,000 copies. It was described as becoming quieter and more mature, with occasional rock, more folkish, and with a little hints of country. Since Christensen considers these more timeless, it has more ballads. He recorded nearly every instrument himself; only a few songs feature Nicolai Munch-Hansen on bass and Olaf Olsen or Laust Sonne on drums. The Honeyburst tour descended on Denmark and the Netherlands, with a final on September 3rd 2004 at London's historic Abbey Road Studios. The concert was released on DVD/2CD and 2LP under the title Live at Abbey Road Studios 2004, and it also includes the film "Tim Christensen: From Roskilde to Abbey Road."

EMI-Medley's most popular figures departed from the label and began to record artists more creative freedom in 2003. Christensen had been with the brand since the start of his career, but the people he worked closely with at EMI were replaced by new people he didn't know, so he joined them in 2005 after his EMI contract with EMI came to an end. Before his longtime associate and producer Nick Foss founded Mermaid Records with former EMI colleague Mik Christensen, he changed to their label prior to the introduction of his next album, Superior. Sony Music Denmark later acquired a piece of Mermaid Records.

In several versions, an unveiled Christensen song called "Maybe Not Anyhow" has been covered, with some pleading for Christensen's use of the pseudonym Charlie Dinsdale. Gunnar Mikkelsen, a Danish musician, rewrote the lyrics for his 2004 song "Haunted Honeymoon," which Di-rect's "I Forget Your Name" on their live-cd Live & Acoustic (2008), of which the single release was unable to catch on. Unite, a Danish boy band, released even more lyrics under the heading "Need to Know" in 2006. Christensen performed the original lyrics in 2013 and occasionally performs "Maybe Not Anyhow" in acoustic settings. Charlie Dinsdale has been also credited as co-writer on "Lille Sster" by S. Fenger in 2000. C.S. is a.k.a. Christensen's son co-wrote "Find Her" (1997) by YouKnowWho.

Christensen was expected to write the people's gift to Crown Prince Frederik and Mary Elizabeth Donaldson's wedding on May 14, 2004, but he turned it down: "It was flattering, but it sounded a little too corny." Erann DD's job was much more appropriate." Crown Prince Frederik has attended many shows by Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, and Crown Princess Mary is reportedly raving about Christensen's solo work.

Christensen and his Dizzy Mizz Lizzy co-stars briefly reunited for a 5-song appearance at Brandalarm's charity function on August 16, 2006.

After Christensen discovered that the cycle of releasing records and going on tours became repetitive, he began diversifying his interests. He converted his solo career into a full-band and acoustic setting, collaborated with Mads Langer, the DR UnderholdningsOrkestret, Gemma Hayes, Mike Viola, and Tracy Bonham, and hosted a radio show on DR P6 Beat.

The success of his predecessor Honeyburst and the apprehension that followed put him on his shoulders during his third solo album, Superior. It was released on November 24, 2008. He experimented with several unusual items, including a baritone guitar and a dulcimer, and experimented with almost all instruments himself. On selected songs, Olaf Olsen and Laust Sonne performed drums. He has also performed a show for Rockpalast on March 25, 2009, in addition to touring Denmark and the Netherlands.

Christensen, the closing act at the annual Ken Gudman Prisen award ceremony, where his guitarist Lars Skjrb's was the recipient of that year's award. "Surfing the Surface," "Tell Me What You Really Want," "Jump The Gun," "Isolation Here I Come," "Superior," and "Whispering at the Top of My Lungs" were among his favorite songs. Christensen's only solo performances with a complete set in 2010 were held in the Netherlands on November 4–7, for which he was given the Inner Ear Media Award for Best Live Show 2010.

The compilation albums Big-5: Tim Christensen and Big 5: Dizzy Mizz Lizzy were released on November 12, 2010 as part of EMI's Big-5: Tim Christensen and Big-5: Big 5: Tim Christensen and Big 5: Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, featuring their artists' five best songs.

Christensen's fourth studio album was unveiled on November 25, 2011. It bears the name Tim Christensen and The Damn Crystals, owing to his solo career. Christensen's album is a collaborative effort with his backing band The Damn Crystals. Christensen talked about the connection between this album and Dizzy Mizz Lizzy's 2010 reunion and tour: "I haven't tried to suck juice from the Dizzy reunion and use it on my next solo project." Dizzy has been very detached from my ongoing growth as an artist, singer, or whatever you like to call it. The reunion was a pit stop to celebrate music. However, Dizzy was already completely out of my system by the time of the last concert, and I am not lying here.

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"Surprise Me" was the album's first single and officially launched on October 21, 2011 on October 21. DR P3 selected it as "Single of the Week" during its first week. "The single may be the most classic rock-track of the bunch," Christensen says. They were in the Grn Koncert tour's line-up from 2002, 2005, and 2009. They performed "Get the Fuck out of My Mind" and "Get the Fuck out of My Mind" at the 2011 Danish Music Awards. They ran 27 shows around Denmark from January to April 2012, including Japan, and Japan.

Christensen participated as a mentor in the DR project Dr.dk/Sangskriver, which aims to inspire children and teens to sing more. He will provide feedback to three of the songs that were posted on the project's website each week.

Christensen released The EP Collection, Volume 1: Acoustic Covers, a 6-track album featuring only Christensen's playing and playing acoustic guitar, as well as one duet with Gemma Hayes, on December 17, 2012. Secrets on Parade and Honeyburst, Christensen's first two solo albums, were re-released on vinyl by Parlophone on April 19, 2014.

Parts of the "Kn't Cancer" (Break Cancer) campaign began from October 21, 2014, and parts of the song "If You Want A Talk" (Break Cancer) campaign were revealed from October 21 to June 21. On October 27, YouTube would have broadcast a short documentary about interviews.

On October 26, 2014, Christensen appeared in the DR UnderholdningsOrkestret tribute concert (DR Chamber Orchestra). He had performed with the orchestra on several occasions and was due to play with them again in 2015 before the orchestra's disbanding was announced.

Christensen performed the song "Som et strejf en drbe" at the memorial concert held for Gasolin' frontman Kim Larsen, who died of prostate cancer on September 30th, 2018. Around 35,000 people attended the festival, which included performances by several well-known Danish musicians and groups that were covering Gasolin's and Larsen's songs.

Christensen went on a reunion tour through Denmark and Japan with Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, playing almost 50 concerts between 18 March and September 2010. Christensen performed solo "Love is a Matter Of" and "Surfing the Surface" in Japan on September 28-29th, a precursor to a select few solo shows in Japan later this year. They disbanded amically after this, although they did appear in public at CPH:DOX, where a film titled Lost Inside a Dream premiered. It was named among the Politiken Publikumspris (people's choice award) for this one.

Christensen co-wrote the song "Say No More" with Mads Langer around the time he appeared on the television show DR2 Backstage in February 2009.

Christensen appeared on guitars for Heidi Svelmae Herl's second album Talisman (2011, Playground Music), and others on the single "Angerholic" which was released on November 29, 2010; Christensen performed vocals and guitars on "Shame on Us," which featured vocals and guitars. In the first live broadcast, she performed Christensen's "Whispering at the Top of My Lungs."

On August 25, 2011, Christensen appeared with Gemma Hayes. She appeared on "A Way to Say Goodbye" as a year-old performer on The EP Series, Volume 1: Acoustic Covers. Christensen, Mike Viola (with whom Christensen co-wrote the songs "One of these Days" and "Superior"), Tracy Bonham, and The Damn Crystals performed a Paul McCartney tribute concert at Vega in Copenhagen on June 18, 2012, in honor of McCartney's 70th birthday the same day. The complete album Ram as well as several post-Beatles songs were included in the display. Pure McCartney was on display and announced on February 12, 2013.

Mads Langer and Tim Christensen's EP Side Effects were revealed on July 19, 2014. In June, the EP's first single, "Bringing Back Tomorrow," was announced. During the 2014 Grn Koncert tour, the pair, as well as bassist Sren Balsner of Carpark North and drummer Birk Nevel, performed the songs. "Danish rock band of the year" was given a GAFFA Award, while Side Effects was named the year's best rock album.

Christensen posted the abbreviation "DML2015" on his Facebook wall on October 20, 2014, implying another Dizzy Mizz Lizzy reunion after a four-year absence. They reformed as a band shortly after, and they also posted new material. Christensen did not rule out releasing a new solo album while still fronting Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, for example, his heavy guitar riffs do not work in his solo career, while Crowded House covers don't fit in with Dizzy Mizz Lizzy's. However, apart from occasional (acoustic) solo tours, his solo career, and his involvement with The Damn Crystals, Dizzy Mizz Lizzy has devoted himself to Dizzy Mizz Lizzy.

The band performed at the Danish Grammy Awards on November 7, 2015, where Christensen received the IFPI's respris (Honorary Award), which is regarded as the most coveted award a Danish musician can win.

In 2016, Dizzy Mizz Lizzy released their third studio album Forward in Reverse, earning the 2016 GAFFA Awards for both "Danish album of the year" and "Danish rock album of the year." According to critics, it helped the band reclaim their position as Denmark's most well-known rock band. For the first time in his career, Alter Echo's fourth studio album, "Danish rock album of the year," was lauded by the GAFFA, while Christensen was named "Songwriter of the year" for the first time in his career. Fans seem to have embraced the latest hits as well as the classics.

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