Adopting an approach similar to that taken by the band Marillion, Spock's Beard have decided to take pre-orders of the CD before entering the recording studio, to support the production costs.

Adopting a new name, the group played its first gig as the Sex Pistols on November 6, 1975, at St. Martin's School of Art and soon attracted a small but ardent following.

Adopting the status of empire meant that Korea was declaring independence from Qing China and, at least nominally, it implemented the " full and complete " independence of Korea as recognized in 1895.

Adopting the pseudonym " J. J. Marric ", he wrote Gideon's Day, 1955, in which George Gideon, a high-ranking detective at Scotland Yard, spends a busy day supervising his subordinates ' investigations into several unrelated crimes.

Adopting the colour theories of his former neighbour Denman Ross, who had become a prominent collector and a teacher at Harvard, Hopkinson later used the results of Carl Cutler's experiments with a spinning disk to study the color spectrum.

Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villa at Gambais just outside Paris, where he kills them and burns their bodies.

Adopting the pen name of " Mountjoy ," he wrote and published at least 23 works between 1896 and 1923.

Adopting timeboxing more than tripled developer productivity at DuPont in the ' 80s.

Adopting a winner-take-all strategy, the disparity associated with the minimum or maximum cost value is selected at each pixel.

Adopting Joseph Seiss's designation that the Great Pyramid of Giza was " the Bible in stone " Russell taught that it played a special part in God's plan during the " last days " basing his interpretation on Isaiah 19: 19-20 which says-" In that day shall there be an altar ( pile of stones ) to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar ( Hebrew " matstebah " or monument ) at the border thereof to the Lord.

Adopting a platform based on ending all " coloured " immigration and offering National Assistance only to immigrants who agreed to accept repatriation Bean secured 9 % of the vote, which was at that point the highest ever won by a candidate running on an avowedly racialist ticket.

Adopting the name of the parish priest or local official ( who also acted as the godfather at baptism ), was a widespread practise in Bombay during these early conversions.

Adopting the emblem of the Arrow Cross, the League sought to forge links with like-minded groups in Europe, and took part in international Neo-Nazi rallies at Diksmuide in Belgium, where they forged links with the Vlaamse Militanten Orde and the National States ' Rights Party.

Adopting this circumscription, Malvaceae incorporates a much larger number of genera.

Adopting the TNT aircraft management principle, Air Foyle and then its sister passenger airline Air Foyle Passenger Airlines operated a variety of aircraft including Boeing 737-200, 737-300, 727-200, Airbus A320 and A300 for a number of airline and virtual airline customers including EasyJet, Sunseeker, Sabre, Virgin Express, Debonair, Color Air, and Air Scandic from 1993 until 2000.

Adopting a fake accent ( American, Irish, Scottish, English, etc.

Adopting Thomas Malthus's population theory, they saw poor urban conditions as inevitable, as they believed population growth would outstrip food production ; and they considered that to be desirable, as starvation would help limit population growth.

Adopting the original shield, he dons a new costume incorporating a pistol and a knife.

Adopting a single name to identify oneself was in vogue by artists in many fields during that era, especially among those in Paris.

Adopting Marxism-Leninism as his guiding ideology, in 1961 Castro proclaimed the socialist nature of the Cuban revolution, and in 1965 became First Secretary of the newly founded Communist Party.

Adopting the name change, the council resolved to call on residents, businesses and public organisations to use the name Staines-upon-Thames, and to call on the Surrey County Council and Runnymede Borough Council to use Staines-upon-Thames for all official business.

Adopting the stage-name " Baptiste ", Deburau played Pierrot, from about 1819, as the servant of the heavy father ( usually Cassander ), his mute acting a compound of placid grace and cunning malice.

Adopting the stage name " Michael Scott ", In July 1953 he was cast as the drunkard Hindley in the Company's production of Wuthering Heights.

Adopting strong protectionist policies, One Nation advocated the restoration of import tariffs, a revival of Australia's manufacturing industry, and an increase in support for small business and the rural sector.

Adopting the principle of heat storage, he combined a heat source, two large hotplates and two ovens into one unit: the AGA Cooker.

Adopting a latin pop sound, she and Mozart released Oppera ’ s debut album Violince in 2004.

Adopting a formula successfully employed by Mondonville a few years earlier, these pieces differ from trio sonatas in that the harpsichord is not simply there as basso continuo to accompany other instruments ( the violin, flute or viol ) playing the melody but has an equal part in the " concert " with them.

Adopting a falsetto, Lymon carried on.

Adopting the stage name " Sly Stone ," he then formed " The Stoners " in 1966 which included Cynthia Robinson on trumpet.

Adopting the use of the horse, the Niitsitapi established themselves as one of the most powerful Indian tribes on the Plains in the late 18th century, earning themselves the name " The Lords of the Plains.

Adopting the title of viceroy was yet another way to walk the thin line between challenging the Sultan's power explicitly and respecting his jurisdiction.

Adopting a serialized, mock-melodrama format, the series followed the adventures of Crusader and his dimwitted sidekick Rags the Tiger.

* Adopting multiculturalism as a curricular alternative that eliminates, marginalizes, or vilifies European heritage to the point that Europe epitomizes all the evil in the world.

Adopting the integrated pest management ( IPM ) approach usually helps with resistance management.

Adopting the motto “ Exploring, Understanding, Designing Change – Globally, Regionally, Locally ", the Geography Department offers an integrated bachelor degree programme in geography in addition to teacher training programmes, focusing on methodology and approaches in the fields of regional global change research, remote sensing and spatial modeling, environmental analysis, land use management, conservation as well as threats to nature.

Adopting the color of their favorite charioteers was a way fans showed their loyalty to that particular racer or faction.

Adopting a pro-American stance to promote economic development and recovery from depression, the United Fruit Company under Ubico became the most important company in Guatemala behind wheelbarrow manufacturing.

Led Zeppelin laid the foundation for the big hair of 1980s glam metal bands such as Mötley Crüe and Skid Row.

Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil ( 1983 ), Theatre of Pain ( 1985 ), and Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

After Decade of Decadence was released, Neil left the band in February 1992, at a time when other bands in the 1980s glam metal scene ( Ratt, Stryper, White Lion, Winger, Europe & Britny Fox ) also broke up because of the rise in popularity of Grunge.

It also bridged the transition from early blues-and folk music-based rock to progressive rock, glam rock, hard rock and as a result influenced the development of sub-genres such as heavy metal.

New genres that emerged from this scene included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements ; glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style ; and the diverse and enduring major sub-genre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power and speed.

* Warrant ( American band ), a glam metal band from Hollywood, California

Hard rock, heavy metal, and glam metal became some of the most dominant music genres of the decade, peaking with the arrival of such bands as Guns N ' Roses, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, Europe, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Mötley Crüe, and virtuoso guitarists such as Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

It declined after 1976, but had a major influence on genres including punk, glam metal, New Romantics and gothic rock and has sporadically revived since the 1990s.

Although glam rock went into a steep decline in popularity in the second half of the 1970s it was a direct influence on acts that rose to prominence later, including Kiss and American glam metal acts like Quiet Riot, W. A. S. P., Twisted Sister and Mötley Crüe.

The genres they have been associated with include progressive rock, heavy metal, glam rock, hard rock, pop rock, dance / disco, blues rock and psychedelic rock.

" Humor in grunge often satirized glam metal — for example, Soundgarden's " Big Dumb Sex "— and other forms of popular rock music during the 1980s ..

" Michael Azerrad asserted that Nevermind symbolized " a sea-change in rock music " in which the glam metal that had dominated rock music at that time fell out of favor in the face of music that was authentic and culturally relevant.

In NATO ( 1994 ), Laibach also memorably re-work Europe's glam metal anthem " The Final Countdown " as a bombastic disco epic.

Robbin Crosby ( August 4, 1959 – June 6, 2002 ) was an American guitarist who was a member of glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the U. S. in the mid-to-late 1980s.

* Steel Panther, an American glam metal band

The glam metal of bands like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard and the rawer sounds of Guns N ' Roses followed up with great success in the later part of that decade, before losing popularity with the commercial success of grunge and later Britpop in the 1990s.

England's The Darkness ' Permission to Land ( 2003 ), described as an " eerily realistic simulation of ' 80s metal and ' 70s glam ", topped the UK charts, going quintuple platinum.

Los Angeles band Steel Panther managed to gain a following by sending up 80s glam metal.

A more serious attempt to revive glam metal was made by bands of the sleaze metal movement in Sweden, including Vains of Jenna, Hardcore Superstar and Crashdïet.

The band's protopunk sound prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era ; their visual style influenced the look of many new wave and 1980s-era glam metal groups, and they began the local New York scene that later spawned the Ramones, Blondie, Television and Talking Heads.

In 1982 were formed some of the first Japanese glam metal bands, like Seikima-II with Kabuki-inspired makeup, and X Japan who pioneered the Japanese movement known as visual kei, and became the best-selling metal band.