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Born on Sunday, December 5, 1965 in Buffalo, New York, the youngest of five children, to Joseph and Edith Rzeznik (pronounced "Res-nik" and meaning 'butcher' in Polish). Joseph was a postal worker, and Edith a schoolteacher, and both were musicians, playing clarinet and flute respectively. Rzeznik had a strict Catholic upbringing on Buffalo's working-class East Side. Rzeznik's father died from complications of alcoholism at the age of fifty five when John was fourteen years old. Just over a year later his mother died from a sudden heart attack - by the age of only sixteen John had lost both of his parents and was to be brought up by his four older sisters - Phyllis, Fran, Glad and Kate. It was during this period and while attending high school that John picked up what would become a life-long hobby and vocation, playing the guitar. Soon after he would get an apartment on his own and become a punk. In 1986 while studying to become a plumber at Buffalo's McKinley Vocational High School he would form the band that would become the Goo Goo Dolls with Robby Takac and George Tutuska. Previously John had been in a band with Robby's cousin, called The Beaumonts. The band were originally called the Sex Maggots, but this was changed on a whim to The Goo Goo Dolls (for an ad in a True Detective magazine) when a concert promoter asked them to, fearing the local newspapers would not print an advert for a show featuring a band with such a name. John later married model Laurie Farinacci in 1993, but then got divorced in 1997. He dated actress Adrienne France for a while after that, then broke up. John is currently dating Melina Gallo whom he met in a record store. They have been dating since 2006. John was also recently a judge along side Dicko and Prince drummer Shiela E. on the hit show "The Next Great American Band" (Dec. 2007).On May 19, 2008, John Rzeznik was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.John is currently working on a new album with the Goos, and just put out a sample of their new single 'Real' which you can listen to on the Goo Goo Doll's official myspace page.The Goo Goo Dolls also have a Greatest Hits Vol 2 CD to be released on August 15th, 2008.
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