Gavin McGregor Rossdale (born 30 October 1965)[2] is an English musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush.

He helped form Bush in 1992; on the band's separation in 2002, he became the lead singer and guitarist for Institute and later began a solo career.

[11][12] Despite touring as far afield as Ireland and enjoying support slots for artists including Big Country and Cyndi Lauper,[8] his band saw little success after releasing two singles.

[8] After travelling to Los Angeles and New York City with the hope of being signed to a record label,[8] and crossing paths with a future Bush manager,[8] the band broke up in autumn 1991.

[13] Bush's follow-up albums include Razorblade Suitcase, Deconstructed, The Science of Things, and Golden State.

[16] Bush have since released four more albums: Man on the Run in 2014, Black and White Rainbows in 2017, The Kingdom in 2020, and The Art of Survival in 2022.

Rossdale performed a song entitled "Adrenaline" for the soundtrack of the film XXX, which features it during the end credits.

Their album, Distort Yourself, released on 13 September 2005 achieved moderate success and the single "Bullet Proof Skin" was used in the motion picture Stealth.

[citation needed] Rossdale's single, "Can't Stop the World", was the introduction theme to Fox's programme, Drive.

[citation needed] In 2007, he covered John Lennon's "Mind Games" for the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.

[19] Gwen Stefani, Rossdale's then-wife, sang background vocals on the track "Can't Stop The World", with other vocalists on the album including Shirley Manson, Katy Perry and Dave Stewart.

He also made a guest appearance on the DT8 Project album Perfect World, taking lead vocals and co-writing the track Falling.

It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at Number 76, rising to 27 in October 2008, giving Rossdale his first Top 40 hit since the days when he fronted the post-grunge band Bush.

[27] He has also appeared in the films Zoolander (2001), Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2004), Little Black Book (2004), the Game of Their Lives (2005), How to Rob a Bank (2007), and The Bling Ring (2013).

[32] During a break in his relationship with Stefani, Rossdale dated Hole frontwoman and Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love for eight months in 1995 and 1996.

In his 1995 autobiography Take It Like a Man, Boy George wrote that Rossdale had a relationship with Peter Robinson, also known as Marilyn, in the 1980s.