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Lenny Kravitz: Early Career
His 1989 debut album
Let Love Rule was a moderate success, reaching #61 on the Billboard album charts. The title track would reach #89 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the modern rock charts. The second single "I Build This Garden" reached #25 on the modern rock charts.
Kravitz gained greater recognition when
Madonna reached number one with a cover version of his song, "Justify My Love" on her Immaculate Collection album of 1990. Kravitz's marriage to Lisa Bonet would end in the same year.
His next album,
Mama Said in 1991, reached the top 40 of the Billboard album charts and songs on the album were influenced by his divorce from Bonet. It contained the hit single "It Ain't Over Til It's Over", which reached #2 on the charts and #10 on the Billboard R&B charts. "Always On The Run" featured Slash of Guns n' Roses and reached #8 on the modern rock charts and #40 on the mainstream rock charts. "Stand By My Woman" reached the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 while "What Comes Around Goes Around" reached the top 40 of the Billboard R&B chart. The album would also feature a contribution by Sean Lennon which was Lennon's first appearance on record.
In 1993,
Are You Gonna Go My Way was released reaching #12 on the Billboard 200 and earned a Brit Award for best international male artist in 1994. The title track won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video for the video produced by Mark Romanek. The single would reach #1 on the Australian and Billboard mainstream rock charts and #2 on the modern rock charts. Several singles from the album would follow including:
- "Believe" #60 on the Billboard Hot 100, #15 on the mainstream rock charts and #10 on the modern rock charts;
- "Is There Any Love In Your Heart" would reach #19 on the mainstream rock charts; and
- "Heaven Help/Spinning Around Over You" reached #80 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Heaven Help" reached #92 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Kravitz covered the Kiss song "Deuce" for a tribute album, with the track reaching #15 on the Billboard mainstream rock chart. He released the
Circus album in 1995, which reached number 10 on the Billboard chart on the back of his past achievement. However, it only had two singles "Rock And Roll Is Dead" reaching #75 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 on the mainstream rock chart and #10 on the modern rock charts. "Can't Get You Off My Mind reached #62 on the Billboard chart and #36 on the US adult chart.
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