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After attending the Evergreen State College for two years, Wozniak moved east to New York, in order to work with multi-instrumentalist, Jared Kotler.

who John had known from suburban Philadelphia.

Jared believed in John's songwriting talent and put together money with his cousin Jeff White in order to pay for the duo to record at Sabella Recording Studios in nearby Roslyn, NY.

After hearing the two records worth of material John had recorded of John's songs, Capitol Records became interested in the music.

Kurt Rosenwinkel, a mutual friend, introduced bassist Dylan Keefe to John Wozniak and Marcy Playground began performing in NYC.

The band was signed to Capitol in 1995 and they performed a series of NYC club dates that would be the first incarnation of Marcy Playground as a band.

Personal problems between John and Jared reached a peak after a year of playing the New York music scene and drummer Dan Rieser was brought in to replace Jared.

The self-titled album was released in 1997, with the first single, " Poppies ", released soon after.

Marcy Playground emerged into the mainstream with the success of the single " Sex and Candy ".

The song spent 15 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The album went platinum and managed to spawn two other singles, " Saint Joe on the School Bus " and " Sherry Fraser ".

Marcy Playground is quiet and minimalist in tone.

Wozniak's songs run in many different styles: some are modern folk music ; many have undertones reminiscent of children's songs ; the blurred sound of psychedelia makes appearances ; and then there are the songs with a clear rock sound.