Despite the tour ending prematurely in financial disaster, it was the basis for the band's first international press.

Despite this, the album was the band's first taste of commercial success and their first platinum album in Canada.

Despite being unpolished, the album established the band's sound and attitude, as AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted that it's filled with " fuzzy guitars, barrelhouse rhythms, dirty jokes, and Texan slang ".

Despite the departure of Stevie Nicks, Christine remained loyal to Mick Fleetwood and her former husband, recording five songs for the band's 1995 effort Time.

Despite her reservations, Christine complied with the band's touring schedule, and then performed for the group's 1998 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the Grammy Awards show, and the BRIT Awards in the UK.

Despite its pop stylings, the album failed to crossover beyond the band's existing fanbase and produced no major hit singles.

Despite the concerns about the album's uncommercial sound, Pornography became the band's first UK Top 10 album, charting at number eight.

Despite the band's claims that their fall tour would be celebrating the 20th anniversary of Core, this did not happen.

Despite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States ( where it sold more than 150, 000 copies even before the band toured there ).

Despite being advertised as soon available in November 1979, Horrendous Disc was not finally released by Solid Rock until April 10, 1981, ten days before the band's follow-up ¡ Alarma !, was released on Newpax Records.

Despite the reported hiatus and Love's acting career, the band recorded and released a cover of Fleetwood Mac's " Gold Dust Woman " for The Crow: City of Angels ( 1996 ), the band's first studio song to feature Melissa Auf der Maur on bass.

Despite the band's short tenure and limited output it was one of the most influential of its era, earning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recognition and spawning fellow Hall honorees Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Poco, as well as popular acts Loggins and Messina and Crazy Horse.

Despite being promised creative freedom, Virgin instead insisted on some sweeping changes to the band's style for their first single in order to make it more commercial.

Despite being well received by critics as their best album since Dare ( the music climate at the time seeing a new interest in electronic pop music with the electroclash movement ), the band's new record label, Papillon developed financial problems, and was closed by the parent company shortly after the album's release, leading to poor promotion and sales.

Despite obtaining gold status and receiving positive reviews, it was not as successful as the band's first two albums.

Despite the success of the album, Ashley Hutchings and the band's vocalist Sandy Denny left Fairport Convention.

Despite poor sales, Decca agreed to finance the band's second album Shades of a Blue Orphanage, released in March 1972.

Despite their Beatlesque image, the band's use of minor chords, haunting harmonies, and folky acoustic guitar playing — as heard on their debut single " Laugh, Laugh "— was stylistically very similar to the later folk rock of The Byrds.

Despite the initial reaction, Devil's Night Out has gone on to become one of the band's most popular albums.

Despite the success of the album, some fans of the band's earlier work criticised Simple Minds ' new and more commercial orientation.

Despite the band's new-found popularity in the UK and Europe, Simple Minds remained essentially unknown in the U. S. The band's UK releases on Arista were not picked up by Arista USA who had ' right of first refusal ' for their releases.

Despite the album's unimpressive sales figures, the band's video for " Bringin ' On the Heartbreak " became one of the first metal videos played on MTV in 1982, bringing the band increased visibility in the U. S. After the album's release, a European tour followed.

Despite the disagreements of the time, the members of the 1981-1984 King Crimson maintained enough camaraderie and mutual respect to reunite in 1994 ( adding second drummer Pat Mastellotto and Warr Guitarist Trey Gunn ) with Belew continuing as the band's singer, guitarist and frontman.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

Despite the discomfort of jumping from the boat into swamps, rivers and marshes the film apparently rekindled in Bogart his early love of boats and on his return to California from the Congo he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout which he kept until his death.

Despite his love of Japanese traditional design, this was a stark, modernist concrete structure.

Despite their eighteen year age difference, the couple fell in love and married on October 2.

Mazzini, in turn, described Marx as " a destructive spirit whose heart was filled with hatred rather than love of mankind " and declared that " Despite the communist egalitarianism which preaches he is the absolute ruler of his party, admittedly he does everything himself but he is also the only one to give orders and he tolerates no opposition.

Despite arguments that realism cannot be achieved in reality shows because the outcomes may or may not have been scripted, Geoff King argues in his book, Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond that even though the contestants are in a fabricated setting and the situation has been set up for a certain outcome, as in real love shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these contestants still harbor feelings that make their participation in the show real to them.

Despite his cursing them as " slimy things " earlier in the poem (" Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / upon the slimy sea "), he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them (" a spring of love gush'd from my heart and I bless'd them unaware "); suddenly, as he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated.

Despite his great love of knowledge Montgomery did not receive a degree.

Despite her love for him and his position as co-ruler, Maria Theresa never allowed her husband to decide about matters of state and often dismissed him from council meetings when they disagreed.

Despite the fact that he was in love with his girlfriend, Amy, his insecurities about her adventurous sexual past caused him to sabotage the relationship and leave her.

Despite his love for Louise and his promise to be an obedient husband, Count Alfred finds his role as a figurehead unbearable.

Despite her family's objections, soon they were living together, and although Hébuterne was the current love of his life, their public scenes became more renowned than Modigliani's individual drunken exhibitions.

Despite this, they really do love him very much.

Despite his faults, Moe has been shown to express genuine love and sentimentality, which suggests that he may not be as gruff or sociopathic as he appears.

Despite this, Kekaumenos lauds the " loyalty and love " Harald had for the empire, which he reportedly maintained even after he became king of Norway.

Despite his depression he had a deep love for the sea, and it became a prominent theme in many of his plays, several of which are set onboard ships like the ones that he worked on.

Despite personality differences, Robert and Catherine become attracted to each other and make love in her room.

Despite the events of 1956, Childe retained a love of the Soviet Union, having visited it on a number of occasions prior, and was involved with the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR, a satellite body of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Despite Zack's playboy persona his main love interest is Kelly ; they have an on-again, off-again relationship throughout high school.

Despite their frequent clashes, Paula and Elliot fall in love and sleep together.

Despite her declared expertise, Minako herself has little personal experience in relationships ( aside from a brief and ill-fated love in the Sailor V manga ), but is enthusiastic about romantic opportunities — even to the point of two-timing a pair of the series ' villains.

Despite being madly in love, however, their careers kept them separated, with Lucy's film work keeping her anchored in Hollywood, while Desi's nightclub engagements with his orchestra kept him on the road.

Despite the misunderstanding, Lum falls in love with Ataru and moves into his house.

Despite his feelings of genuine love for the Caleban Fannie Mae ( a love which is fully returned ), McKie finds it difficult to form long-term attachments to human women ; he has been married on no fewer than fifty occasions by the time of the Dosadi affair.