A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the band Queen, collected stamps as a child.

Bang was mistakenly apprenticed to a pirate band as a child by his deaf nursemaid.

Anderson sang with the band for a year and performed on their first album, departing in October 1966 after the birth of her first child.

Their first child, Joseph Marciano Armstrong, who was born on February 28, 1995, plays drums in a Berkeley-based band named Emily's Army.

Still psychologically overwhelmed by the cancellation of SMiLE and the imminent birth of his first child Carnie Wilson in 1968 amid the looming financial insolvency of The Beach Boys ( Friends, which was largely written and produced by Wilson and recorded with much involvement from the Wrecking Crew, peaked at # 126 on the American charts ), Wilson's creative directorship within the band became increasingly tenuous.

Others observe that competition is present in all areas of a child ’ s life — from sports to student newspaper to orchestra and band — and believe that the work ethic instilled or the talent developed accrues to the child ’ s benefit.

As well as this, metal band Tool's music video for Prison Sex was banned from MTV, as the video and lyrics touch on the sensitive matter of child abuse.

As a child, Shaffer had lessons on the piano, and moved on to playing the organ by his teenage years, in a band ( Fabulous Fugitives ) with his schoolmates in Thunder Bay.

The band members struggled to deal with issues ranging from schoolyard crushes to peer pressure to child abuse, while performing regularly at a local former musical club ( now a kids ' hangout ), The P * lace ( called " The Malt Shop " in the pilot ).

The band took a break from touring while Gane and Sadier had a child.

In 1992 Peterson recorded his first solo album " child of the darkness " in Cologne with a band named " The Scrap Yard ".

On June 26, 2007, shortly before its release, the band announced in a Myspace blog that Matt Wong was leaving the band to spend more time with his wife and newborn child.

His father was a college music professor, and Nichols was a child prodigy, because by twelve he was already playing difficult set pieces for his father ’ s brass band.

Gil started to play music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band.

Soon after the girls experienced a bit of turbulence when Jessica Wahls announced she was taking a break from the band to give birth to her first child.

The band name is said to have come to McCartney as he was praying in the hospital while Linda was giving birth to their second child together, Stella, in September 1971.

Chick Webb, swing era drummer and band leader, was afflicted with tuberculosis of the spine as a child, which left him hunchbacked.

Her mother Máire ( better known by her nickname, Baba )( née Ní Dhúgáin or Duggan in English ) was a music teacher and her father Leo Brennan was a member of a cabaret band with whom she performed as a child.

I went through phases from skateboarder, to hip-hopper, to rave child, to lead singer in a rock band.

In 1986, Sundquist, who by that point had a wife and a child, decided to leave the band and spend time with his family.

As a child he performed in his father's band, primarily on the alto saxophone.

** Marching band, a group of performers that consist of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching ( and possibly other movements ) with their musical performance

The terms for the instrument among classical performers are contrabass ( which comes from the instrument's Italian name, contrabbasso ), string bass ( to distinguish it from a brass bass instrument in a concert band ), or simply bass.

Notable rockabilly revivalists and psychobilly performers from the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century include Scott Owen ( from the Australian band The Living End ), Jimbo Wallace ( from the US band Reverend Horton Heat ), Kim Nekroman ( Nekromantix ), Patricia Day ( HorrorPops ), Geoff Kresge ( Tiger Army, ex-AFI ).

The performers were Jimmy Shand and band, Ian Powrie and his band, Scottish country dancers: Dixie Ingram and the Dixie Ingram Dancers, Joe Gordon Folk Four, James Urquhart, Ann & Laura Brand, Moira Anderson & Kenneth McKellar.

The contract with the performers, as well as the international distribution, ran from a standard publishing and recording deal involving identical contracts, rather than from one written specifically with the performers of the band.

Other performers included: the Sex Pistols, Subway Sect, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, The Vibrators, The Damned and the French band Stinky Toys.

They were successful as live performers, becoming known to fans as " that little ol ' band from Texas ", and their 1973 album Tres Hombres, according to AllMusic, propelled the band to national attention and " made them stars ".

Traditional bluegrass performers believe the " correct " instrumentation is that used by Bill Monroe's band, the Blue Grass Boys ( mandolin, played by Monroe, fiddle, guitar, banjo and bass ).

For the sake of band performers, especially altos, marches are typically written in flat keys.

While the band was inspirational to some performers in the riot grrrl movement in the Pacific Northwest, Babes in Toyland never associated themselves with the movement.

Others came because of their musical abilities as teachers and performers, such as the group of Italian musicians Thomas Jefferson invited to come to form a military band, which later became the nucleus of the U. S. Marine Band.

Another popular park attraction was " Danceland ", an entertainment hall that featured many performers from big band to rock and roll over the years, most notably The Rolling Stones in 1964.

History records indicate that there was a brass band at Ponden, close by in 1854 with a body of excellent performers.

Bailey claims that he and the three other performers are a Kraftwerk tribute band called Augenblick.

Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus " Doc " Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon " Chu " Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton.

The studio side featured compositions which used extended versions of the band including various guest performers, suggesting that Weather Report was not necessarily an integral jazz band but might possibly work as an expandable project set up to realise the music of its three composers.

The production involves almost 100 on stage performers between the actors, band and choir.

However, at the time they were considered as guest performers, not members of the band.

The Calico Stage, a large open-air stage in Calico Square, hosts a variety of shows and acts, big and small, from those of elementary school students, Gallagher, a local band, and the summer-spectacular All Wheels Extreme stunt show featuring youthful performers demonstrating aerial tricks with acrobatics, trampolines, and riding ramps with skates, scooters, skateboards, and freestyle bikes to popular music.