Pete Wentz

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Modèle:Infobox musical artist Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III (born June 5, 1979) is the bassist, back-up vocalist, and primary lyricist of Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy.

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1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 References
5 External links

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Early life

Pete Wentz was born Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III, in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He attended New Trier 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 more on music.<ref>« »</ref>

Wentz recalled in a Rolling Stone interview that his earliest musical memory was listening to The Foundations' song "Build Me Up Buttercup" in the back of his dad's car.<ref>Scaggs, Austin (January 12, 2006). Q&A Podcast: Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy's Bassist, reveals his celebrity crushes in an exclusive podcast. Rolling Stone. Accessed 2007-06-21.</ref>

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Career

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Beginnings

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Fall Out Boy in concert. From left to right: Joe Trohman, Peter Wentz, Patrick Stump.

Wentz was primarily involved in the Chicago hardcore punk scene and was in several bands in the late 1990s. These included First Born, Arma Angelus (alongside Tim McIlrath, frontman of Rise Against), Yellow Road Priest, and Racetraitor. He and Arma Angelus' bassist Joe Trohman founded the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy after Trohman introduced Pete to a musical acquaintance, Patrick Stump. Andy Hurley agreed to drum part-time, but only joined the band full-time later. In 2004, Arma Angelus, the band in which Wentz was the vocalist/screamer, played its last show.<ref name=RAW>Norris, John (June 5, 2006). [http://www.mtv.com/bands/f/fall_out_boy/news_feature_053106/index.jhtml MTV News Raw: Fall Out Boy. MTV. Accessed 2006-07-18.</ref>

In 2002, Fall Out Boy released an 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.<ref name=AOL>Loftus, Johnny (2005). "Biography: Fall Out Boy". All Music Guide. Accessed April 14, 2006.</ref> This album would later be digitally remastered and reissued after the band's second, more successful full-album release Take This To Your Grave, on the independent label Fueled by Ramen Records. Later in 2003, Wentz and the rest of his bandmates signed with Island Records and in 2004 released an acoustic EP and DVD entitled, My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue through the new label.

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Commercial success

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After Fall Out Boy released the My Heart EP, they released their third album, From Under the Cork Tree, in 2005. Wentz wrote the lyrics to the first single, "Sugar, We're Goin Down" with his dad in Chicago; the song peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 <ref> http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=379&cfgn=Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3065809&cdi=8593729&cid=04%2F15%2F2006 Billboard Hot 100 Charts for March 15, 2006, the last time the single was on the charts </ref>). February 6, 2007, was the release date for Fall Out Boy's fourth full-length album, Infinity On High.

Wentz has been helping Panic! at the Disco, the band he signed to his Decaydance Records label in 2005, with their second album coming in early 2008.<ref>MTV News Staff (May 17, 2007). Pete Wenze Pumped for Panic! LP. MTV.com. Accessed=2007-06-21.</ref>

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Other projects

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.<ref name=thorn>Product page. Amazon.com. Accessed April 12, 2006.</ref> The title is a reference to a track on The Smiths' album 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.<ref name=rainy>Nguyen, Jeanette (2005). "Fall Out Boy: Pete Wentz". The Music Edge. Accessed April 12, 2006.</ref> In addition, Wentz is currently co-writing another book with William Beckett of The Academy Is....

Wentz's company, Clandestine Industries, distributes books and clothing and other merchandise. On August 2, 2007, fashion company DKNY joined a partnership with Clandestine Industries.<ref>http://top40.about.com/b/a/209270.htm</ref> Wentz himself has served as a model on the DKNY/Clandestine promo website.<ref>http://www.dknyjeanspromo.com/clandestineindustries/ci_about.htm</ref>

Additionally, he owns his own imprint of Fueled by Ramen, Decaydance Records, which has signed several bands, including: Panic! at the Disco,Sweet Blood Stacy. And other models at Buzznet , Gym Class Heroes, Cobra Starship, October Fall, Lifetime, and The Cab. Wentz's tattoo on his pelvis, the Bartskull, is the logo for Decaydance Records, Clandestine Industries, and Bartskull Films.

He also has a film production company called Bartskull Films, which put out the DVD Release the Bats, which stars Wentz, his fellow bandmates, and several of his personal friends. The sequel is currently in the works.

In April 2007, Pete came out with his own signature Squier Precision Bass. It has a black body with a red shell pickguard and special graphics that include Wentz’s own red bat/heart design on the body, plus a black bat/diamond fingerboard inlay at the 12th fret. It also features Wentz’s signature on the back of the headstock.<ref>The Squier Pete Wentz Precision Bass Guitar. Squire Guitars. Accessed on 2007-06-21.</ref>

Wentz opened a nightclub in New York with his bandmates as well as members of Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is..., and Cobra Starship; the bands' managers are also involved in the enterprise. Called Angels & Kings, the club occupies the former space that housed the Orchid Lounge, on 11th Street near Avenue A. Notable guests, such as Tommy Hilfiger, arrived for the grand opening on Monday, April 30.<ref>Rolling Stone staff (May 2, 2007). Pete Wentz Opens NYC Dive Bar. Rolling Stone Magazine. Accessed 2007-06-21.</ref>

Wentz claims to be signing UK pop-punkers Tonight is Goodbye to his own label DecayDance with a release scheduled mid-2008.

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Personal life

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 hospital. Commenting on the event to a magazine, he said, Modèle:Cquote The suicide attempt was soon put into song form, "7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)" and was released on their album, From Under The Cork Tree. After this event, Wentz moved back in with his parents.<ref>« »</ref>

In March 2006, nude photos of Wentz were posted on the Internet to the LiveJournal celebrity gossip community Oh No They Didn't. The LiveJournal poster reported that she received the photos third-hand, and that Wentz originally sent the pictures to a woman with whom he allegedly had romantic interests. After the pictures spread 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."<ref name=VH1>Montgomery, James (2006). "Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz Comments On ... You Know, Those Photos". VH1. Accessed May 6, 2006.</ref> The video for the single "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" contains a scene that references to the incident.

In a Blender interview in March 2007, Wentz alluded to being bisexual, stating that he has kissed males before and that "anybody above the waist is totally fair game."<ref name=blender> Weiner , Jonah

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.    Who Does Pete Wentz Think He Is? 
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. Retrieved on 2007-08-01. </ref> In the May 2007 issue of The Advocate, Wentz opened up about his sexuality, saying that he is sexually attracted to males but that "I'm not a fan of penises."<ref>http://www.advocate.com/currentstory1_w.asp?id=44038</ref>

He elaborated later in an NPR story in November 2007 [1], saying," "I would never come out and say I'm gay, because I'm not gay. There's part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that comes from anybody constantly wishing they were in the minority and constantly wants to be fighting everybody off."

In a Rolling Stone photo shoot, Wentz and singer/actress Ashlee Simpson took a picture together for the opening of Wentz' bar, Angels & Kings, and were labeled as a couple. Eventually the two began to acknowledge the relationship. In mid-2007 Wentz spoke about their relationship to InTouch magazine, saying of Simpson that "I have never met somebody who makes me feel the way she makes me feel," although he denied rumors that the two are engaged.

In December 2007, rumors circulated that Simpson's father, Joe Simpson, refused to allow Wentz to attend the family's Christmas dinner because of Wentz's bisexuality. Simpson was apparently not too pleased upon reading Wentz's interview in Blender magazine (see above), "With the news of (Pete's) possible bisexuality, Joe Simpson blew his top".<ref>http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212118235.shtml </ref> Wentz has since denied this story, claiming that Simpson "gets a bad rap" in the media, and that "this is definitely a rumor".

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