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"The stench of success was horrible for a lot of people." How David Bowie, Jane's Addiction, self-loathing, bitterness and jealousy led Gavin Rossdale to write Everything Zen, the song that turned unknown Brits Bush into superstars in America
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“It was my one shot,” Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale told Classic Rock in 2025.
One day, Rossdale was flicking through the pages of English music magazine NME when he saw an interview with Brett Anderson, frontman of Suede,.
and David Bowie, with Bowie praising Anderson for his songwriting.
"I was thinking about where I was living and where I had grown up, and some of the more violent aspects of that life and of those kids," Rossdale told SongFacts in 2017.
"The stench of success was horrible for a lot of people” - but soon enough, they could no longer be ignored.