After their Buddah contract expired, Epic Records agreed to distribute their next recordings.

After their distribution deal with Epic Records ended in 1984, the remaining Isleys signed with Warner Bros .. Before the contract could be completed, the group agreed with the IRS to sell their stock in T-Neck Records, folding the label in 1985.

) The reason that early pressings of the album had no personnel listed was because Epic / CBS disputed Pastorius ' contract with Warner, and only agreed to the album being released if no other CBS artists on the album were credited-prompting Pastorius to dispense with the credits altogether.

Eventually the tape was screened by Epic Records, who purchased the masters and agreed to fund the recording of a full album.

" Retired NBA Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, author of Brothers In Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes, agreed that although Patton was a bigot like most, the fact remains that he did lend his name to the advancement of blacks in the military at the time, unlike most other military officers ( Patton did prevent a black soldier from being lynched while serving as commander of a fort in El Paso before the war .).

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

The novel's title is a line from The Epic of Gilgamesh following the death of Enkidu, Tablet VIII, generally translated as " I let a filthy mat of hair grow over my body, and donned the skin of a lion and roamed the wilderness.

He began working with Epic / Sony when Polydor let him out of contract, and in late 1997 he reached the UK Top 20 twice, with " Sunday Shining " and " Even After All ".

There is no shootout during the NHL playoff games, as multiple 20-minute OT periods of five-on-five hockey are played until one of the teams scores, which wins them the game ( this has created extremely long contests such as the " Easter Epic ").

In 1985, she signed with Epic Records and made one album for them, Spoiled Girl.

That record ’ s acceptance, coupled with the band ’ s already notorious live shows, got them a deal with Epic Records.

Despite going platinum and including the # 1 hit song " The Flame ", Petersson blamed Lap of Luxury for pigeonholing them into a sound that they were not comfortable with, which led to Busted and the end of their relationship with Epic.

They released a demo in 1986, which was well received, and that led them to sign with Epic Records in 1987.

Epic was ready to move on to the next record, but Rudolph convinced them to release another single.

* In Disney's Epic Mickey Gremlins assist Mickey after he releases them.

Longfellow wrote to his friend Charles Sumner a few days later: " As to having ' taken many of the most striking incidents of the Finnish Epic and transferred them to the American Indians '— it is absurd ".

This increases all store-credit trade values by 10 %, discounts all used accessories and games by 10 %, gives new members a coupon for ' Buy 2 Get 1 Free ' on pre-owned games / accessories, enters them twice for the Epic Rewards Giveaway for each purchase, and gives them access to special content on the Game Informer website.

" By the time they wrapped up the tour at San Francisco's Fillmore West, Peter Grant had secured them a new album contract with Epic Records.

His singles were moderate hits that year, the biggest of them on either UA or Epic was a version of " Spanish Eyes ," which became a top 20 country hit.

While one Epic executive, Tom Werman, was impressed by the power and theatrics of this new incarnation of Wicked Lester, Ellis once again turned them down.

Early on in the recording process Phantom Planet's contract with Epic Records expired, which left them searching for a new record label.

Later that year, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave the band a Grammy showcase award for best unsigned band, earning them a recording contract with Epic Records.

On May 30th, 2012 Epic Games won the lawsuit which Silicon Knights had risen against them.

Their subsequent first album, an independent release on their own label, Day Glo Records, garnered them enough airplay on the then fledgling L. A. alternative radio station KROQ-FM to lead to a re-release of the album on Epic Records in 1980, and the release of two further albums, Locals Only and Oh No, Not Them Again on Enigma, with Mark Miller, keyboard player Jerry Weber and lifeguard / guitarist Andy Jackson.

In the spring of 1968 the group's first manager, Paul D., brought them to Epic Studios in New York City to record an album, which was never released after the band and the producer of the album had a falling-out.

At this time, Tim Sweeney approached the team and informed them Tyrian was to be published as a full fledged Epic MegaGames product.

They were signed by Epic Records and ultimately released two albums, but they became frustrated by the more pop orientated direction the record company was guiding them in.

They made another attempt at recording a demo, and this time it landed them a recording contract with Epic Records.

This brought them more support from Epic, so the band started work on a follow-up album.

Several more popular titles published by Safari continued to be sold via the rebranded Safari Software on the Epic Games website, however in 2001, due to limited demand, Epic stopped selling them directly.

While many game companies went from FM synthesis or General MIDI in the early 1990s to CD audio and pre-rendered audio, many of the Epic games used the less common system of module music, composed with a tracker, which used stored PCM sound effects sequenced together to produce music.

After the parent album failed to chart or produce successful follow-ups, the Motown-styled These Arms was released, but it flopped and was quickly withdrawn, and Wells ' Epic contract fizzled.

Record producer Michael Wagener, who worked on Osbourne's 1991 sixth studio album No More Tears, was initially chosen by Epic Records to produce Ozzmosis, though was later replaced with Michael Beinhorn.

Jill of the Jungle provided market recognition and allowed Epic Megagames to produce future titles, such as Jazz Jackrabbit, One Must Fall: 2097, and the very successful Unreal series of games.

In addition to his film credits, Rees helped produce and direct a record-setting 13 multimedia features at the various Disney theme parks, including Sounds Dangerous at Disney-MGM Studios, the live-action sequences of Cranium Command at EPCOT, Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!

Epic historical films often take a historical or imagined event, or a mythic, legendary, or heroic figure and add an extravagant, spectacular setting and lavish costumes, accompanied by a sweeping musical score, and an ensemble cast of bankable stars, making them among the most expensive of films to produce.

Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

They released their self-titled debut album in 1995 on Y Records, followed in 1998 by " Anthem " on Immortal / Epic and later " These Days " on Good-Ink.

Among the findings were the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation, which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation, the Epic of Gilgamesh, a large selection of " omen texts " including Enuma Anu Enlil which " contained omens dealing with the moon, its visibility, eclipses, and conjunction with planets and fixed stars, the sun, its corona, spots, and eclipses, the weather, namely lightning, thunder, and clouds, and the planets and their visibility, appearance, and stations ", and astronomic / astrological texts, as well as standard lists used by scribes and scholars such as word lists, bilingual vocabularies, lists of signs and synonyms, and lists of medical diagnoses.

In 1977, REO convinced Epic Records that their strength was in their live performances.

In the meantime, REO Speedwagon lost their recording contract with Epic, and ended up releasing Building the Bridge ( 1996 ) on the Priority / Rhythm Safari label.

The book was initially published by Pacific Comics, briefly by Eclipse Comics, then Marvel Comics under their since-discontinued Epic Comics imprint ( which allowed creators to retain copyrights ), then Image Comics, and currently Dark Horse Comics.

The Stranglers once again had complete artistic freedom and in 1983 released their first album for Epic, Feline, which included the UK No. 9 hit " European Female ".

They differ, again, in their length: for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time.

When Unreal was finally released, Microsoft's Direct3D API was growing almost exponentially in popularity and Epic was fairly quick to develop a renderer for their game engine.

To make matters worse, their contract with Epic was dropped.

Perhaps the most significant legend to survive from Mesopotamian religion is the Epic of Gilgamesh, which tells the story of the heroic king Gilgamesh and his wild friend Enkidu, and the former's search for immortality which is entwined with all the gods and their approval.

It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.

Epic versions of the mythology by 19th century Haida storyteller-poets Skaay and Ghandl have been translated by Robert Bringhurst, whose Story as Sharp as a Knife, a collection of their works, won the Governor General's Award.

Zamora's personal struggle with AIDS, and his conflict with housemate David " Puck " Rainey is credited with helping to make The Real World a hit show, for which Time ranked it # 7 on their list of 32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History.

In 1989, the band released their successful album The Real Thing, which featured their breakthrough hit single " Epic ".

On August 28, 2009 they headlined the NME / Radio One tent at Reading Festival ( and August 30 at Leeds Festival ), playing a string of their old hits, such as " Epic " and " MidLife Crisis ".

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.

Virgin Records heard the demos and signed the group in the UK, releasing their albums in Europe, while Epic Records released their albums in the United States and much of the rest of the world since Virgin did not have a US presence at the time.

The album attracted the attention of Epic Records, who signed the band in 1988 and issued their third album, How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today, later that year.