Despite such criticisms, there is some educational quality to the group's activities and they have helped to foster a good deal of valuable research, especially in the area of medieval crafts.

" Despite the group's non-theistic beliefs, the court determined that the activities of the Fellowship of Humanity ',' which included weekly Sunday meetings, were analogous to the activities of theistic churches and thus entitled to an exemption.

Despite the original group's premature break-up, many of its members found considerable success elsewhere: founding member John Felice formed the seminal Real Kids, Jerry Harrison later joined Talking Heads, David Robinson co-founded the Cars, and Ernie Brooks would later work with David Johansen, Arthur Russell, Elliott Murphy, and Gary Lucas.

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 the acclaim they received, Durey did not participate in the group's 1921 collaborative work Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, a decision which was a source of great irritation to Jean Cocteau.

Despite the group's success, however, Brown felt the group was never rightfully paid the money they felt they had earned from their success, later saying " the most I saw from all the tours and all of the records we sold was $ 500 and a VCR.

Despite critical pans and a lack of airplay, the group's first six albums ( five studio releases and one live album ) were quite successful.

Despite the group's success, Vee-Jay Records was in financial distress.

Despite Sheen's status as group leader, by the time the trio entered the recording studio, Spector was often using Love as the group's primary vocalist.

Despite the group's competent musicianship, some subsequent singles employed session musicians – including Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Vic Flick – with contributions from the band, although the role of session players on Herman's Hermits records has been exaggerated in the rock media and in liner notes on their ABKCO Records Retrospective ( which does not credit the Hermits ' playing ).

Despite critical and commercial success, the group was plagued by internal conflict and legal turmoil, as Roberson and Luckett attempted to split off the group's manager Mathew Knowles.

Despite Frischmann's efforts as the group's de facto manager, the group primarily scored small-scale gigs around London's Camden Town area.

Despite this, in 1997, the Edmonds brothers released a cover of Hall & Oates ' " Sara Smile " as a single ( and sole new track ) from the career retrospective The Very Best of After 7 before completely stopping releases under the group's name.

Despite the group's modernist slant, Eckstine hit the charts often during the mid 1940s, with Top Ten entries including " A Cottage for Sale " and " Prisoner of Love ".

Despite a rule in the Democratic Party that delegates are to be allocated proportionally rather than winner takes all, some individual caucus groups decide for themselves how to allocate their group's delegates — for instance, by using a majority vote to determine which of the two methods to select.

Despite their success, Martha and the Vandellas were overshadowed, as Motown focused its promotional muscle behind The Supremes and the group's lead singer, Diana Ross in particular, more so than the Vandellas.

" Despite continued infighting DRU succeeded in coordinating the group's efforts and equipped forces.

Despite the group's small size, it exerted an influence in a turbulent Vietnamese social climate.

" Despite the group's engagement in violence, Rush nonetheless worked on several non-violent projects that built support for the Black Panthers in African-American communities, such as coordinating a medical clinic which offered sickle-cell anemia testing on an unprecedented scale.

Despite the fact that Pendergrass sung all of the group's songs, Melvin was controlling the group's finances.

Despite the group's success, particularly surrounding Aja in 1977, Becker suffered from numerous personal setbacks during this period, including addiction to narcotics.

Despite the title of the series being Birds of Prey, the phrase was not mentioned in the book until issue # 86, when one of the group's members, Zinda Blake, suggests that it might be a fitting name for the team.

Despite the group's lack of commercial success, they have been cited as an important influence in the development of alternative music in the 1980s ; Mike Watt, of the Minutemen and, more recently, Nick Cave, have cited the Pop Group as an important source of inspiration on their own work.

Despite the death of Russo and the group's disbanding, Legião Urbana continues to be the third best-selling artist in Brazil, with approximately 350, 000 albums sold per year as of 2003.

Despite these activities, for some time, the Alemanni seem to have continued their pagan cult activities, with only superficial or syncretistic Christian elements.

Despite its mixed critical reception, Kid Icarus is a cult classic, and had shipped 1. 76 million copies by late 2003.

Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.

Despite its name, both the shrine and the cult originally belonged to Helen ; Menelaus was added later as her husband.

Despite considerable critical acclaim, their early releases never gave Mercury Rev more than cult popularity, though they appeared on the smaller second stage at some 1993 Lollapalooza stops.

Despite the exclusively female, aristocratic connections of her winter festival at Rome and her high status as a protecting deity of the Roman state, elite dedications to Bona Dea are far outnumbered by the personal dedications of the Roman plebs, particularly the ingenui ; the greatest number of all are from freedmen and slaves ; and an estimated one-third of all dedications are from men, one of whom, a provincial Greek, claims to be a priest of her cult.

Despite the poor sales figures, the game has been lauded by gamers for its humorous depictions of American culture and parody of the role-playing video game genre, and has since become a cult classic.

Despite this, a cult following began to develop and following the group opening for The Rolling Stones on their U. S. tour, the group switched labels, going to CBS Records in 1974, signing with the subsidiary Epic.

Despite being a commercial faliure and mostly panned by critics, Zardoz has since developed a large cult following and found success on the home video market.

Despite the communist isolation, the tradition of singer-songwriter in Romania flourished beginning with the end of the 1960s and it was put in the context of the folk music, with its three main styles in Romania: ethno folk, American-style folk and lyrical ( cult ) folk.

Despite critical acclaim and a cult fanbase, the Boo Radleys were still largely unknown to the general public by the time the Britpop phenomenon broke into the mainstream in 1995.

Despite Myra Breckinridges mainstream failure, it did find an audience on the cult film circuit where West's films were regularly screened and West herself was dubbed " the queen of camp ".

Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called " the quintessential critics ' band " and maintains a strong cult following.

Despite receiving mixed reviews upon initial release, the film has now developed a cult following.

Despite receiving lukewarm reviews and not being as commercially successful as the Lemonheads ' previous two albums, It's a Shame About Ray and Come On Feel the Lemonheads, Car Button Cloth has gained a minor cult following in recent years.

Despite critical acclaim, Van Zandt remained a cult figure.

Despite its short run, the show has since become a cult favorite.

Despite its short run, Galaxy high become a cult favorite among fans and views alike for years.

Despite some positive reviews ( and a loyal audience that might be classified as a cult following, based on Crosby's claim the network received more requests from fans for Quiet, Please!

Despite its critics, the film did however undeniably broaden the comics ' fanbase from a relatively modest cult following to an international audience.

Despite being successful in its initial 1986 theatrical run, the film failed to make a substantial profit for the studio ; however, it eventually garnered a cult following and became popular on home video, which led to a special edition release of the film on DVD in 2006.

Despite these problems, the series acquired a significant cult following, and was eventually released on DVD in 2004.

Despite claims of missionaries and some government agents that peyote – from the Nahuatl word peyotl (" divine messenger ") – is a degenerative and dangerous drug, there appears to be no evidence of this among the members of the Native American Church, a North American Indian cult that uses peyote in its chief religious ceremony.

Despite this, the film has since developed something of a cult following.

Despite this disastrous defeat, a cult of ' Sebastianism ', with the young monarch as Portugal's " Once and Future King " who would one day, like King Arthur, return to save his nation, has ebbed and flowed in Portuguese life ever since, and was particularly strong late in the 19th century as a Romantic revivalism, some saying that to be one of the causes of the decadence and lack of attitude in late Portuguese History.