" According to Allmusic, " Moon, with his manic, lunatic side, and his life of excessive drinking, partying, and other indulgences, probably represented the youthful, zany side of rock & roll, as well as its self-destructive side, better than anyone else on the planet.

According to Allmusic, Jones " has left his mark on rock & roll music history as an innovative musician, arranger, and director.

According to Allmusic, Demartini was heavily influenced by Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick as a teenager.

According to Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic: " was at once one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century-beloved to her fans, devotees, and fellow singers ; controversial to critics who still accuse her of selling out her art to commerce and bad taste.

According to Allmusic, James Brown was critical, through " the gospel-impassioned fury of his vocals and the complex polyrhythms of his beats ", in " two revolutions in black American music.

According to Allmusic, " At the dawn of the hip-hop era, all rap was East Coast rap.

According to Allmusic editor Steve Huey, the success of his 1994 debut album Ready to Die " reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age " and " turned the Notorious B. I. G.

According to Stewart Mason of Allmusic, the " increasingly melodic " style of Swedish death metal combines the post-hardcore aggression and guttural vocals of black metal with melodic and technically proficient guitar lines.

According to Allmusic, the debut album is a relatively immature, but original, release.

According to Allmusic, Mullen is one of the best vocalists in death metal.

According to Allmusic, " The songs are rendered in a folk / country acoustic minimalism that is, in a word, enchanting.

According to Sandra Brennan at Allmusic, " The Maytals were key figures in reggae music.

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According to Stewart Mason, writing for Allmusic, " band's muscular blend of Joy Division's atmospherics and the Gang of Four's rattling momentum, with Benjamin Bossi's splattering free jazz saxophone coloring everything, made Romeo Void one of the strongest of the American post-punk bands.

According to the website Allmusic, on In Rape Fantasy And Terror Sex We Trust " Joan of Arc ... once more surpassed themselves as artists ".

According to Alexey Eremenko of Allmusic, Luna Sea's sound is " firmly based in ' 80s hard rock, with a versatile progressive approach to songwriting, and its softer side, displayed later on in the group's career, proved equally strong.

According to Allmusic, the album contains " some of the most frightening vocals ever recorded.

According to Allmusic, " most rap-metal bands during the mid-to late ' 90s blended an ultra-aggressive, testosterone-heavy theatricality with either juvenile humor or an introspective angst learned through alternative metal ".

According to William York of Allmusic, " Morningrise is, as far as the metal scale goes, possibly their least heavy album ".

According to Allmusic, who awarded the album 4. 5 / 5 stars, it had, by the 1990s, sold in excess of 18 million copies worldwide.

According to Allmusic music journalist Kim Summers, Rydell, whose interest in show business began at the age of four years, " is one of the most sought-after nightclub and concert acts in the US.

According to Steve Huey of Allmusic, " Singles helped crystallize the idea of the ' Seattle scene ' in the mainstream public's mind, and it was also one of the first big-selling ' 90s movie soundtracks ( it went platinum and reached the Top Ten ) to feature largely new work from contemporary artists ... it's a milestone in the breakthrough of alternative rock into mainstream popular culture, neatly and effectively packaging the Seattle phenomenon for the wider national consciousness.

According to Allmusic he is one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with a steady career that started in the 1960s, when he was just seven years old.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

According to a number of sources, it was Emmylou who forced the band to practice and work up an actual set list.

According to the road manager of Quacky Duck, Parsons was, despite being frequently drunk, a kind soul who provided business and musical guidance to the younger band.

According to the book Local DJ, a Rock & Roll History, the band was performing in the area as an opening act for Herman's Hermits.

According to Peter Hook, the band wrote and recorded enough material during the sessions for this album to release a follow-up in the near future, but it has yet to materialise.

According to critic Greil Marcus, the band, led by singer Iggy Pop, created " the sound of Chuck Berry's Airmobile — after thieves stripped it for parts ".

According to the band, the entire developmental process for Vapor Trails was extremely taxing and took approximately 14 months to finish, by far the longest the band had ever spent writing and recording a studio album.

According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.

According to Richards, Jones christened the band during a phone call to Jazz News.

According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act.

According to bassist John McVie, a " physically ugly " confrontation between Nicks and Buckingham ensued when Nicks angrily challenged Buckingham's decision to leave the band.

According to the documentary Take That: For the Record, his mother read an advertisement seeking members for a new boy band and suggested that he try out for the group.

According to Stewart the band were supposed to go to Muscle Shoals as the backing band for Mayhan's Atlantic Records solo album Moments ( 1970 ) but they were ultimately replaced.

According to an interview at the Tulane's Hogan Jazz Archive with Oliver's widow Stella Oliver, in 1919 a fight broke out at a dance where Oliver was playing, and the police arrested him, his band, and the fighters.

According to an interview conducted in 1989, he explained the reason he wasn't handcuffed was that the policeman driving the car used to be a drummer in a semi-professional band which had supported The Yardbirds on one of its US college tours in the late-1960s.

According to the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, the band also owed Atlantic Records one more album from the five album deal that created Swan Song Records in 1974.

According to Armstrong, when he was recording the song " Heebie Jeebies ", soon to be a national bestseller, with his band The Hot Five, his music fell to the ground.

According to a BBC interview with Clapton, the record company, also handling Albert King, asked the band to cover " Born Under a Bad Sign ", which became a popular track off the record.

According to the band, Litt's involvement in the record came mostly during the mixing process.

According to French the band did two gigs with McGee, one of which was at The Peppermint Twist near Long Beach.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

According to a local legend, Mieszko, son of Boleslaus II of Poland dreamt he was attacked by a band of brigands in a forest.

According to friends, he had also used the pseudonym " Elliott Stillwater-Rotter " during his time in the band Murder of Crows.