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Our Lady Peace was founded in 1992 when Mike Turner placed a "musicians wanted" ad in a Toronto newspaper. Responding first was Michael (Raine) Maida, a criminology student at the University of Toronto. Drummer Jim Newell and bassist Duncan Coutts would join soon after, but Duncan left in the band's early stages to start film studies (he was the directer of their first video for their self released 1992 song Out Of Here). Jim Newell also left the band early on. Later, 17-year-old Jeremy Taggart and Chris Eacrett joined the band. Eacrett left in 1995 and Duncan Coutts rejoined the band. Turner left in 2001, replaced by Steve Mazur. Jamie Edwards, a keyboardist, would join in 1996 and leave in 2002, shortly after Turner left. Our Lady Peace first won recognition with their debut album Naveed, released in Canada in 1994 and the United States in 1995. "Naveed" became a hit in Canada and "Starseed" a hit in Canada and the United States. ("Starseed" would later appear on the Armageddon film soundtrack.) Their second album, Clumsy, released in 1997 and including the tracks "Clumsy," an instant hit around the suburban landscape, "4 AM," a more morose song about not appreciating the good things in life including family, "Superman's Dead," a song about being alone in a world without relying on a hero, "Carnival" and "Automatic Flowers", established OLP as a leading band in 1990s rock music in Canada, and a notable group internationally. 1999 saw the arguably most popular release to date, the album entitled Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch, featuring "One Man Army", "Thief", a song centered around a young girl the band met who had a cancerous tumor, and "Is Anybody Home?". The music of Our Lady Peace explored often deep intellectual and emotional themes with powerful orchestration and the unique singing voice of lead vocalist Maida, called "strange" and "paranoid". In 2000, the band released Spiritual Machines, a concept album inspired by Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines, and featuring "In Repair", "Life" and "Right Behind You (Mafia)". Our Lady Peace (2005). L-R: Duncan Coutts, Raine Maida, Steve Mazur, Jeremy Taggart.In December of 2001, Mike Turner left the band citing creative and musical differences. In April of 2002, Steve Mazur was announced as the new guitarist for the band. In the early 2000s, some critics contended that the band's new music changed, adopting an increasingly mainstream sound, with Maida's voice perhaps losing its "paranoid" edge. Critics of the band's fifth album, Gravity, called it "overproduced" and "too mainstream". Its first single, "Somewhere Out There", became the band's chart-topping international hit to date. In 2005, the band released their sixth album, Healthy in Paranoid Times. The band disclosed that during the making of this album, they nearly broke up. The band's song "Whatever" is used as the entrance of professional wrestler Chris Benoit. The group took part at the Canadian Live 8 concert in Barrie, ON on July 2nd, 2005.
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