According to interviews with Norm Prescott, Paramount offered Roddenberry a substantial sum of money to abandon creative control of the project and let Filmation proceed with their " kiddy space cadet " idea.

According to interviews he gave, the fact that some viewers overlooked Alf's views and regarded him as a rough diamond disappointed Speight.

According to documents and interviews with federal officials, investigators and targets of the sanctions, the U. S. government:

According to interviews with cast and crew for an episode of The E!

According to the " Best of the Rest " section of ESPN's Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame program, NBC television footage and press photos prove that no official rules ( Ryder Cup or PGA ) were broken when the Americans celebrated after Leonard's putt ( i. e. no one walked in or crossed Olazábal's putting line – although Europe player Sam Torrance has said in TV interviews that a TV cameraman stood on Olazábal's line while filming the invasion of the green by players and spectators ).

According to director John Frankenheimer and actor James Garner in bonus interviews for the DVD of the film Grand Prix, McQueen was Frankenheimer's first choice for the lead role of American Formula One race car driver Pete Aron.

According to historian Stanley Vestal, who conducted interviews with surviving Hunkpapa in 1930, Sitting Bull was made " Supreme Chief of the whole Sioux Nation " at this time.

According to interviews with Judge in the 1840s, the First Lady had promised the young woman as a wedding gift to her granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis in Virginia and Judge feared she would never gain freedom.

According to the story mentioned in the interviews 11 years after this life-or-death incident, the DEA agent Joe DuBois and FBI agent Daniel Fuentes were riding in a white Ford Bronco with diplomatic plates along the streets of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

According to his analysis of thousands of captured Iraqi secret police documents and declassified U. S. government documents, as well as interviews with scores of Kurdish survivors, senior Iraqi defectors and retired U. S. intelligence officers, it is clear that Iraq carried out the attack on Halabja, and that the United States, fully aware of this, accused Iran, Iraq's enemy in a fierce war, of being partly responsible for the attack.

According to several interviews with Rzeznik, he was experiencing serious bouts of writer's block when he was approached, and was on the verge of quitting the band days before he wrote the song.

According to a book written by Barrett's brother Scott ( A Place in the Sun: The Truth Behind Jay's Journal ), and interviews with the family, Sparks used roughly 25 entries of 212 total from Barrett's actual journal.

According to interviews conducted with then-Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, every story prior to this story remains canon ( this would later be contradicted as the events of later stories imply MJ never fell pregnant ).

According to a tale he was often asked to repeat in interviews, he once killed a lion with a spear while he was working as a cowherd.

According to interviews, the band also kicked their drug habit at this time.

According to a story in Ha ' aretz, based on Arab media and interviews with Israeli and Arab sources, Jaradat carried out the bombing as an act of revenge after Israel Defense Forces undercover operatives in Jenin killed her cousin ( Salah, 34 ) and her younger brother ( Fadi, 25 ).

According to a San Francisco Weekly newspaper account, citing no sources but based largely on interviews with two former political allies of White, he quit the force after reporting another officer for beating a handcuffed black suspect.

According to interviews, Smigel helped punch up the scripts for Little Nicky and the Wedding Singer.

According to three interviews with Sam Sianis, William Sianis ' nephew-in-law, the Curse of the Billy Goat can be dispelled only by the Chicago Cubs organization's showing a sincere fondness for goats ; allowing them into Wrigley Field because they genuinely want to and not simply for publicity reasons.

According to later interviews with Dinger, he plays on side two (" Vom Himmel Hoch "), while Hohmann plays on side one (" Ruckzuck ", " Stratovarius "), which was completed before Dinger joined the sessions.

According to Banno though, from later interviews conducted with him, Godzilla vs. Hedorah 2 was actually still being worked on after he was removed from the project.

According to official website " also in the works is an EPK documenting the reunification and the latest recording sessions along with some rare old footage of interviews, behind the scenes stuff, and live performances ".

According to statements and interviews, drivers have different opinions on the track.

According to interviews with Buck, he has said it was around this time he was given the nickname " Buck ," as he tended to hang out in the locker room " Buck " naked.

According to interviews, the idea of bringing in a younger producer was for McCartney to challenge himself, and accordingly Godrich fired McCartney's touring band on the first day's sessions, and demanded the star abandon songs Godrich felt to be clichéd, over-sentimental or subpar .< ref >

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

" According to writer Philip Norman, when Groucho jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, " Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player ," thereby naming the album he had just completed.

According to the news item, eleven tracks had already been written for the new album, with more to come.

According to an interview in Viva, Milford recorded an album Chain Your Lovers to the Bedposts and a single, " Help is on the Way, Rozea ".

According to the liner notes of the 1995 compilation Love Story, Young stuck with the album project long enough to arrange the track " The Daily Planet.

According to the RIAA, Kind of Blue is the best-selling jazz album of all time, having been certified as quadruple platinum ( 4 million copies sold ).

According to the band's official website, this was intended as part of a tongue-in-cheek album called Nirvana Sings Nirvana that was aborted when Cobain died.

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 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.

Following the success of The Stranglers ' previous four albums they were given complete freedom for their next, The Gospel According to The Meninblack, a concept album exploring religion and the supposed connection between religious phenomena and extraterrestrial visitors.

According to former stage manager David Blayney ( 15 years with ZZ Top ) in his book, Sharp Dressed Men, sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album as a live-in high-tech music teacher to Beard and Gibbons.

According to Nielsen Soundscan, by 2009 CDs accounted for 79 percent of album sales, with 20 percent coming from digital, representing both a 10 percent drop and gain for both formats in 2 years.

According to an NME interview, this may have been one of the last times he performed as Fatboy Slim, as he may now focus on his new album, The Brighton Port Authority ( BPA ).

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 guitarist James " Munky " Shaffer, Korn has begun writing new material for their next album.

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 Matthew O ’ Callaghan who directed the short, the audio comes from a 1950s recording for a children's album.

* Year Zero ( 2007 ): According to the information discovered from the viral marketing campaign for the concept album by Nine Inch Nails, its story takes place in 2022 A. D., which in America is referred to as 0000 B. A.

According to Wetton's website in late November 2009: " Good news is that the new album is starting to leap, rather than creep ( or sleep ) in terms of progress.

According to the For You album notes, Prince produced, arranged, composed and played all 27 instruments on the recording.

According to Sting, " There will be no new album, no big new tour, once we're done with our reunion tour, that's it for the Police ".

According to Smith, the album was the third of a trilogy along with Pornography and Disintegration.

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.