BIOGRAPHY
Wentz was born on June 5, 1979 in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He is the eldest of three children and he attended New Trier Township High School and North Shore Country Day School where he was an all-state soccer player. After graduating from high school in 1997, he attended DePaul University, where he studied political science, dropping out one semester shy of graduation to focus on music.
Wentz was primarily involved in the Chicago hardcore punk scene and was in several bands in the late 1990s. This including xfirstbornx, Arma Angelus, Yellow Road Priest, Racetraitor and many other relatively unknown bands. In 2001, he co-founded the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy with Joe Trohman and Patrick Stump, with Andy Hurley later joining the band. In 2004, Arma Angelus, the band in which Wentz was the vocalist, played its last show.[1]
In 2002, Fall Out Boy released a EP called Fall Out Boy/Project Rocket Split EP. Soon after, in 2003, the band released Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend on Uprising Records.[2] This album would later be digitally remastered and reissued after the bands second successful full album release.
Drummer Andy Hurley soon became a part of the band, playing along side Wentz, bassist. Later in 2003, Wentz and the rest of his band mates signed with Island Records, also releasing an acoustic EP called My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue and DVD, in 2004.
In February 2005, in what appeared to be a suicide attempt, Wentz took an overdose of the anxiety medication Ativan, and as a result, spent a week in the hospital. Commenting on the event to a magazine, he said, "I was isolating myself further and further, and the more I isolated myself, the more isolated I'd feel. I wasn't sleeping. I just wanted my head to shut off, like, I just wanted to completely stop thinking about anything at all." The suicide attempt was soon put into song form, entitled "7 Minutes in Heaven" and was realeased on their album From Under The Cork Tree. After this event, Wentz moved back in with his parents.
Also notable in 2005, Wentz founded a vanity label named "Decaydence Records". It is an imprint of the Fueled By Ramen recording label and has signed such bands as Panic! At The Disco, The Hush Sound, Cobra Starship and Gym Class Heroes.
In March of 2006, nude photos of Wentz were posted and spread quickly across the Internet. Wentz posted a response on Fall Out Boy's website and blog asserting that the pictures were stolen from his T-Mobile Sidekick, and that after "feeling badly about this for about 24 hours, I am now ready to get back to laughing." The video for the single "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" contains a scene that makes reference to the incident. When asked about the incident in a March 2007 interview with Blender, Wentz said, "It’s liberating! I have no qualms about the gang showers that happen on arena tours, and at photo shoots I’ll just change in front of people, and, you know, when I meet girls, they already know what the machinery is like…"[3]
Wentz in the 'This Ain't A Scene...' music video, in reference to the nude cell phone internet pictures incidentFebruary 6, 2007 was the release date for Fall Out Boy's fourth full-length album, Infinity On High. The album leaked on the internet before the official release date. [4]
ENTERPRISES
Wentz has written a book entitled The Boy With the Thorn In His Side, which is a story based on nightmares he had as a child.[5] The title is a reference to a track on The Smiths' critically-acclaimed record The Queen is Dead. He has another book titled "Rainy Day Kids," which was scheduled to be released February 14, 2006, but has been postponed. It is said to be published in summer 2007.[6] In addition, Wentz is currently co-writing another book with William Beckett of The Academy Is....
Wentz's book 'The Boy With the Thorn In His Side'Pete Wentz has a company called Clandestine Industries, which distributes books and, more notably, clothing, among other things. Additionally, he owns his own imprint of Fueled by Ramen, Decaydance Records, which has signed several bands, including: Panic! at the Disco, October Fall, Gym Class Heroes, The Hush Sound, Cobra Starship, and Lifetime.
He also has a film production company called Bartskull Films, which has released the DVD Release the Bats which stars Wentz, his fellow bandmates, and several of his personal friends. The sequel is currently in the works.
Wentz also recently music supervised an episode of The Hills. This means he selected all the songs played on this episode.
In April 2007, Pete will be coming out with his own signature Squier Precision Bass. It will have a black body, with red pickguard, bassline pick-ups, a maple neck with maple fingerboard, and will have no tone control/knob.
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