When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.

In 2000 Jack Black (along with partner in crime Kyle Gass) provided backing vocals to The Vandals song "Fourteen" which appears on their album Look What I Almost Stepped In. He lent his musical abilities to the Queens of the Stone Age song "Burn the Witch" with rhythmic stomps and claps some performed with his eyes closed. They married on March 14 2006 in Big Sur California.

Black is a member of the Frat Pack a group of comedians who have appeared together in several Hollywood films and has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards. His acting career has been extensive starring primarily as bumbling and cocky but internally self-conscious outsiders in comedy films though he has played some serious roles. Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28 1969) is an American actor producer comedian voice artist writer and musician.