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Henry Rollins is an American musician, writer, actor, and blogger born on February 13, 1961, in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the group State of Alert and has worked with SST Records. His musical output spans hardcore punk, heavy metal, alternative metal, and spoken word, with his primary instrument being the voice. Rollins began his professional career in 1980 and is an agnostic who speaks English.
As an author, Rollins has published numerous works, including *Get in the Van - On the Road With Black Flag* and *A Dull Roar What I Did On My Summer Deracination 2006*. His bibliography also includes titles such as *The best of 2.13.61 Publications*. He attended American University and maintains an official website.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Henry Rollins
- The best of 2.13.61 Publications
- A Dull Roar What I Did On My Summer Deracination 2006
- Get in the Van - On the Road With Black Flag
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Henry Rollins (born Henry Lawrence Garfield; February 13, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist. After performing for the short-lived Washington D.C.-based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until early 1986. Following the band's breakup, Rollins soon…
Known for
- Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt — Self2025
- Uma Retrospectiva Definitiva de Ween — Self2025
- Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos — Self2025
- Hendrie — Self2024
- We Lost Our Human — Bacon Witch / Bumblebee Dad (voice)2023
- WINO: The Documentary2023
- Royal Crackers — President (voice)2023
- Music — Ebo's Neighbor2021
- Analog Love — Himself2021
- Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. — himself2021
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1961
Discography
- Hot Animal Machine... Plus1986
- Big Ugly Mouth1987
- Hot Animal Machine1987
- Live1987
- Short Walk on a Long Pier1989
- Live at McCabe's1990
- Let There Be Rock1991
- Human Butt1992
- Sweatbox1992
- The Boxed Life1992
Member of
- State of Alert1980–1981
- Black Flag1981–1986
- Rollins Bandsince 1987
- Wartime1990–1990
- Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 88,621
- Total plays
- 1,294,680
Tags
Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American Grammy Award-winning alternative rock singer and songwriter, spoken word artist, book author (prose and poetry), radio and TV personality, occasional movie actor, comedian, and voice-over artist. He is perhaps best known for his work with the hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986, and for leading the Rollins Band since 1987. Critic Steve Huey decribes Rollins as "a post-punk renaissance man . <a href="ht
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,494x
- The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis
· 1998 · cited 19,817x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,471x
- Nonparametric Tests Against Trend
· 1945 · cited 14,316x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”
- “Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'”
- “If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. But in order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can sink no further and I cannot forgive you. There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There's no other choice. Shameless now. Nameless now. Nothing now. No one now. But my soul must be iron cause my fear is naked. I'm naked and fearless - and my fear is naked!”
- “Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star act. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.”
- “I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?”
- “My pen knows what to do. I close my eyes and I see this girl who glows. A girl who radiates. When she smiles, she beams. She warms my heart. I open my eyes with a feeling of floating past all the garbage around me. I will emerge unscathed because I will not endeavor to hide myself from whatever is coming. Bring on the worst. I welcome it with open arms.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Henry Lawrence Garfield , ( 1961-02-13 ) February 13, 1961 (age 65) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Genres
- Hardcore punk alternative metal spoken word
- Occupations
- Singer writer actor speaker presenter author comedian activist
- Works
- Full list of works
- Years active
- 1980–present
- Label
- 2.13.61
- Formerly of
- Black Flag Rollins Band State of Alert
- Website
- henryrollins .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Henry Rollins, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~36 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), known professionally as Henry Rollins, is an American singer, writer, spoken word artist, actor, comedian, and presenter. After performing in the short-lived hardcore punk band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986. Following the band's breakup, he established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, and formed the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups from 1987 to 2003 and in 2006.
Rollins has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show and 120 Minutes. He had recurring dramatic roles in the second season of Sons of Anarchy as A.J. Weston, in the final two seasons of the animated series The Legend of Korra as Zaheer, and has also had roles in several films. He has campaigned for various political causes in the United States, including the promotion of gay rights, World Hunger Relief, the West Memphis Three, and an end to all war. He currently hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, is a regular columnist for Rolling Stone Australia, and was a regular columnist for LA Weekly.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Henry Rollins” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.