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13->''"'Always be wary of people who use quotes.' I don't know who said that."''
14-->-- '''Murdoc Niccals'''
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16Gorillaz are a {{virtual|Celebrity}} band created in 1998 by Music/{{Blur}} frontman Damon Albarn and ''ComicBook/TankGirl'' co-creator Jamie Hewlett. In 2001, they were recorded in the ''[[Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords Guinness Book of World Records]]'' as the "Most Successful Virtual Band".
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18The band consists of four animated fictional characters: Stuart "2-D" Pot (vocals and keyboard), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Russel Hobbs (percussion), and Noodle (lead guitar). These characters are completely fictional and do not represent any real-life musicians involved in the project. Aside from live performances during Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour (and to a lesser extent, Demon Days Live), Gorillaz' "real-life" musicians change for each album (with the exception of Albarn), and usually stay behind the scenes while Gorillaz are credited as the real band.
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20The band's genre is...[[GenreBusting complicated]]. While their earlier work was often categorized as {{trip hop}}, even that discounted the overt influences they took from {{alternative rock}}, [[HipHop hip-hop]], dub, {{electronic music}} and {{pop}}, which have only given way to further experimentation in their later years.
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22The virtual band was created as a commentary on Creator/{{MTV}} often putting more of an emphasis on the musician than the music itself, having a discrepancy between the visuals and the music. To prove that musical groups could be executed in a more interdependent fashion, Albarn and Hewlett created fictional backstories and put much emphasis on the animation and cartoons.
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24While the band's backstory was initially presented through various interviews and promotional material, it was eventually all pieced together through their 2006 autobiography, ''Rise of the Ogre''. The entire storyline of the band breaks down into "phases" generally surrounding the rollout of each album; it currently consists of six completed phases, with the seventh phase currently underway.
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26In January 2020, the band announced a new project called ''Song Machine'', revealing that they would be moving away from the traditional album format, instead shifting to a series of periodically-released singles involving an ever-revolving roster of collaborators, with the song "Momentary Bliss" serving as its first "episode". In May 2020, it was announced that Gorillaz would release a new graphic novel in October 2020 called ''Gorillaz ALMANAC'' featuring comic strips, new and old artwork, games, puzzles, and special guest appearances from various Gorillaz collaborators, with a physical copy of ''Song Machine: Season One – Strange Timez'' included with each issue.
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28!!Studio Discography:
29[[index]]
30* ''Music/{{Gorillaz|Album}}'' (2001)
31* ''Music/{{Demon Days|Album}}'' (2005)
32* ''Music/PlasticBeach'' (2010)
33* ''The Fall'' (2011)
34* ''Music/{{Humanz}}'' (2017)
35* ''Music/TheNowNow'' (2018)
36* ''Song Machine: Season One – Strange Timez'' (2020)[[note]]Album including all tracks for season one of ''Song Machine'', plus several bonus ones[[/note]]
37* ''Cracker Island'' (2023)
38[[/index]]
39
40!!Other Discography:
41[[index]]
42* ''G Sides'' (2001) (compilation album of [[BSide B-sides]] and outtakes for ''Gorillaz'')
43* ''Laika Come Home'' (2002) (dub remix album, collaboration with Spacemonkeyz)
44* ''D-Sides'' (2007) (compilation album of B-sides and outtakes for ''Demon Days'')
45* ''The Singles Collection 2001–2011'' (2011) (GreatestHitsAlbum)
46* ''Song Machine'' (2020-present) (Web series)
47* ''Meanwhile'' (2021) (EP)
48[[/index]]
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50!!Bibliography:
51* ''Rise of The Ogre'' (2006) (Autobiography about the band)
52* ''G Magazine'' (2017) (A single issue magazine by Gorillaz)
53* ''Gorillaz ALMANAC'' (2020) (A Gorillaz-themed Almanac)
54* '' The Gorillaz Art Book '' (2022)
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57!!Gorillaz provides examples of:
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59[[index]]
60* Gorillaz/TropesAToD
61* Gorillaz/TropesEToM
62* Gorillaz/TropesNToZ
63[[/index]]
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