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A few bands enjoyed chart success in the skiffle craze, including The Chas McDevitt Group, Johnny Duncan and the Bluegrass Boys and The Vipers, but the main impact of skiffle was as a grassroots amateur movement, particularly popular among working class males, who could cheaply buy, improvise or build their own instruments and who have been seen as reacting against the drab austerity of post-war Britain.
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A few of those include bagadoù ( Breton pipe bands ), Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Horslips.
The Marching and Cycling Band HHK from Haarlem ( the Netherlands ) is one of the few marching bands around the world which also performs on bicycles.
Starting earlier, in 1976, Punk was published in New York and played a major part in popularizing punk rock ( a term coined a few years earlier in Creem ) as the term for the music and the bands being written about.
*" terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants – 240 men, women and children – and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.
Hatfield and Strohm shared songwriting credits and often sang together in harmony or octaves, creating a memorable " boy-girl " sound rarely encountered in rock ( except in the work of X and a few later indie bands such as Velocity Girl, Hazel, Quasi, Low, Mates of State, and Rainer Maria ).
As the punk movement expanded rapidly in the United Kingdom that year, a few bands with similar tastes and attitude appeared around the United States.
A few even longer-active bands including Surrey neo-mods The Jam and pub rockers The Stranglers and Cock Sparrer also became associated with the punk rock scene.
In Chile, from 1967 to 1973, between the ending of the government of President Frei Montalva and the government of President Allende, a cultural movement was born from a few Chilean bands that emerged playing a unique fusion of folkloric music with heavy psychedelic influences.
A few pubs have stage performances such as serious drama, stand-up comedy, musical bands, cabaret or striptease ; however juke boxes, karaoke and other forms of pre-recorded music have otherwise replaced the musical tradition of a piano or guitar and singing.
Over the first few albums their style remained essentially hard rock, with heavy influences from The Who and Led Zeppelin but also became increasingly influenced by bands of the British progressive rock movement.
Although independent and often at conflict with each other, these guerrilla bands — along with a few others — all became generally known as " Contras " ( short for "", en.
These diseases killed off a large proportion of their population within a few decades of the arrival of Sutter and the following settlers, the start of the gold rush, not to mention the numerous battles fought between the settlers and native bands as well as the forced relocation of some of the tribes to Indian reservations in several places scattered around the Sacramento Valley, mainly in the Coast Ranges.
Kwela master Aaron " Big Voice Jack " Lerole continued to perform into the 1990s ; a few bands, such as The Positively Testcard of London, continue to record kwela music.
Morrissey's lyrics, while superficially depressing, were often full of mordant humour ; John Peel remarked that The Smiths were one of the few bands capable of making him laugh out loud.
A few joined the Yanktonai and moved further west to join with the Lakota bands to continue their struggle against the United States military.
In addition to being the launching point of Hank Williams Sr .’ s career, and the birthplace of Nat King Cole, Clarence Carter, and Tommy Shaw, Montgomery has also seen a few of its rock bands achieve national success in recent years.
The World Radiocommunication Conference ( WRC ), organized under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union, allocates bands for various services in conferences every few years.
Big Bill Broonzy and Memphis Minnie cut a few sides each backed up by their own jug bands ; Memphis Minnie also sang and played with The Memphis Jug Band.
This brief flurry of interest in the genre sparked the formation of a few jug bands that reached national prominence.
In San Francisco, there's Devine's Jug Band, which is one of the few jug bands today that actually uses a jug blower full time.
Many funk bands, such as Con Funk Shun, Cameo, and Lakeside would have a few quiet storm tracks on their albums.
For a few years after the war, Dizzy Gillespie and Lionel Hampton led Bebop-oriented big bands.
Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, Tool, and Fates Warning are a few examples of progressive metal bands who achieved commercial success ; additionally, heavy metal bands such as Metallica incorporated elements of progressive music in their work.
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I don't think anybody enjoyed it except a few critics.
After their first few encounters, she found that she enjoyed his company and spent the next few years getting to know him and preparing herself to be the Marchesa of Mantua.
He particularly enjoyed making his guests angry with each other, which on a few occasions resulted in physical confrontations.
Fanque also stands out as a black man who achieved great success and enjoyed great admiration among the British public only a few decades after Britain had abolished slavery.
He became archdeacon of Angers, and enjoyed the confidence of not a few bishops and of the powerful Count Geoffrey of Anjou.
Simon enjoyed some moderate success in recording a few singles as part of a group called Tico and the Triumphs, including a song called " Motorcycle " which reached No. 97 on the Billboard charts in 1962.
A few newer synthetics such as MDMA and 2C-B have also enjoyed some popularity.
In between engagements Leveridge ran a coffee shop in Tavistock Street near Covent Garden, but enjoyed good health and reduced his performances only in the last few seasons before retiring in 1751.
Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post wrote, " I have seen other musical comedies that I enjoyed more, but few for which I have a deeper admiration ".
A few students became politically active and opposed the apartheid authorities who enjoyed the unqualified support of the Fort Hare authorities since it became a University in 1972.
Many Australian bands and singers tried to enhance their careers by moving overseas, in particular to England, then seen as the mecca of popular music but few bands were successful and of those who relocated to the UK only The Seekers and The Bee Gees ( who were actually born and raised in the UK ) enjoyed any lasting success.
It was retracted a few days later, after several mainstream mathematicians exposed a crucial flaw, in a display of interest that his former advisor's claimed proofs have apparently not enjoyed so far .< ref >
Davis recognized the domestic partnerships registry in 1999 and, in 2001, gave same-sex partners a few of the rights enjoyed by opposite-sex spouses such as making health care decisions for an incapacitated partner, acting as a conservator and inheriting property.
This hamlet briefly enjoyed prominence as one of the few ports in the area until the opening of the Erie Canal in the southern part of the county in 1823.
Jean de La Fontaine, Corneille and Paul Scarron were a few of the many artists who enjoyed his patronage.
Even though Nina does not like Sharon openly, she has helped her on a few occasions and even enjoyed her company when her own friends are not around such as in the episode " Lorenza " and in the episode " The Pickford Project " were Nina truly seemed to care about Sharon's life and saved her.
When divided up by ethnicity, it can be seen that the economic and academic successes supposedly enjoyed by Asian Americans are concentrated into a few ethnic groups.
For a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, including participating in a recording of William Walton's Façade with Edith Sitwell .< ref > Lambert's best known composition is The Rio Grande ( 1927 ) for piano and alto soloists, chorus, and orchestra of brass, strings and percussion.
For a few years Sicily enjoyed peace, and the kingdom was reorganized.
He enjoyed the kind of consistent critical acclaim during his life that few other musicians have had.
Barbara enjoyed her time spent in China, and often rode bicycles with her husband to explore the cities and regions that few Americans had traveled to.
It was enjoyed by the staff for a few nights until it was replaced with the much more sensitive working instruments.
The group primarily toured throughout southern states and enjoyed a few regional hits.
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