Biography Ben Deily

Ben Deily and his current band Varsity Drag.

Ben Deily is an American musician, most famous as one of the founders, writers and lead singers (along with Evan Dando) of the Boston-based alternative rock band The Lemonheads.

After leaving the Lemonheads to complete his degree in English & American Literature, Ben graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1994. Since then he has worked in the advertising industry--initially as a copywriter, and eventually (and currently) as an Associate Creative Director--while living in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, Maine. [1] Over the last decade, Deily’s work has won several Clio Awards, Addy Awards and other advertising industry honors.

According to the Boston Phoenix Deily presently lives and works in the Boston area, where he often plays with his current band Varsity Drag.

Discography

The Lemonheads

* 1986 Laughing All The Way To The Cleaners EP

* 1987 Hate Your Friends

* 1988 Creator

* 1989 Luka (single)

* 1989 Create Your Friends (special double album of the first two LPs)

* 1990 Lick

Blake Babies

* 1993 Innocence and Experience (liner notes)

pods

* 1992 It's a Bummer About Bourbie, 4-song EP (see It's a Shame About Ray)

* 1994 Where I'm Calling From

* 1994 are we all set? LIVE AT CBGB, 4/16/93

Varsity Drag

* 2006 for crying out loud (CD, colored 10" vinyl with bonus track)

as Ben Deily

* 2006 all these years gone by: selected songs, 1986-2006 (limited edition double CD)

*www.bendeily.com

* www.myspace.com/bendeily

* www.myspace.com/varsitydrag

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