No Doubt at Honda Center: first Anaheim band to play hometown arena Anaheim Colony, as well as M&M Grocery on Citron Street, a corner market that’s still there today. In the video, Stefani walks from a garage rehearsal to the market. There, she buys some cans of “Anaheim” brand salsa de pomodoro — tomato sauce — with a label evoking the “Tragic Kingdom” cover. “Don’t Speak,” the biggest single from the album, recreates the band’s early days playing in Anaheim garages, along with concert footage and theatrical scenes. The song famously tells of the breakup of Stefani and bassist Tony Kanal, who grew up in a family home right along Harbor Boulevard near Disneyland. Stefani and Kanal were together for seven years before splitting right before the release of “Tragic Kingdom.” In 2024, Stefani and Kanal, who remained friends, shared a touching moment on stage with No Doubt’s reunion for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. It defined a generation in Anaheim. This October marks 30 years since the release of No Doubt’s definitive 1995 “Tragic Kingdom” album. The chart-topping album, which sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, mixed 1980s-influenced new wave, ska, punk and pop to become a cultural phenomenon. The album’s biggest influence? Anaheim. No Doubt brought a different kind of attention to our city with its musical glimpse of life growing up here. With “Spiderwebs,” “Don’t Speak” and “Just a Girl,” the album captured what it was like in Anaheim in the 1980s and ’90s. In the video for “Just a Girl,” singer Gwen Stefani’s former family home on Beacon Avenue near Ball Road is featured in the opening scene. Stefani sports an iconic white tank top with “Anaheim” across the front for the “Just a Girl” video, which launched her and No Doubt to national stardom. The video for “Sunday Morning” features another onetime Stefani family home, the Armbrust-Pember House in the historic ‘Tragic Kingdom’ cover: satirical ode to Anaheim 18 ANAHEIM I Summer–fall 2025 ‘Tragic Kingdom’ at 30 No Doubt’s breakthrough was all Anaheim
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