House of Pain abruptly broke up in 1996 after the release of their third album, Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again, which featured guest appearances by rappers Sadat X of Brand Nubian, Guru of Gang Starr, producer / rapper Divine Styler and reggae singjay Cockni O ' Dire ( credited as the Scheme Team ).

* 1966 – DJ Premier ( Christopher Edward Martin ), American record producer and DJ ( Gang Starr )

This same period is sometimes referred to as " mid-school " or a " middle school " in hip hop, the phrase covering acts like Gang Starr, The UMC's, Main Source, Lord Finesse, EPMD, Just Ice, Stetsasonic, True Mathematics, and Mantronix.

The area surrounding Eufaula Lake has a colorful history, recalling such notorious characters as Belle Starr and the James-Younger Gang, who used the area north of the dam as their hideout.

Pleasence was the author of the 1977 children's book Scouse the Mouse ( London: New English Library ), which was animated by Canadian animator / film director Gerald Potterton ( a friend of the actor, who directed him in the 1973 Canadian film The Rainbow Boys, retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States ) and also adapted into a children's recording ( Polydor Records, 1977 ) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.

Keith Edward Elam ( July 17, 1961 – April 19, 2010 ), better known by his stage name Guru, was an American emcee and member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr, along with DJ Premier.

He founded Gang Starr in 1987.

Two albums, Moment of Truth ( 1998 ) and compilation Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr ( 1999 ) were certified gold in the United States by the RIAA.

Gang Starr made archetypal East Coast hip hop with Guru's rhyming described as sharp-eyed but anti-ostentatious.

In 1993, Guru released the first in a series of four solo albums while still a member of Gang Starr.

A Gang Starr reunion album was planned but will never be released because of Guru's death.

: Gang Starr albums are listed in the group's main article.

Barry's work began to be sampled in the 1990s by artists such as Dr. Dre and Wu-Tang Clan, with his " James Bond Theme " being sampled by performers as diverse as Bonobo, Gang Starr and Junior Reid.

It featured an appearance by Butterfly of Digable Planets and Gang Starr ( Guru and DJ Premier ) contributed to two tracks.

Gang Starr was an influential East Coast hip hop duo that consisted of the late MC Guru and the DJ / producer DJ Premier.

In 1987 and 1988, Gang Starr released three 12 " vinyl singles on Wild Pitch Records.

In 1989, the group split and the only member willing to continue under the name Gang Starr was Guru.

He invited DJ Premier to join Gang Starr and in that same year they released their first single " Words I Manifest " along with the album No More Mr. Nice Guy ( 1989 ).

During their career Gang Starr helped pioneer the New York City hardcore hip hop sound.

The entire Gang Starr catalog, especially Step in the Arena ( 1990 ), Daily Operation ( 1992 ), Hard to Earn ( 1994 ) and Moment of Truth ( 1998 ) are well respected among underground rap fans and critics.

Gang Starr provided a track, Battle, for the sound track of the 2002 movie 8 Mile.

Guru was involved in a European Gang Starr tour in 2003-04 with an alternate DJ after DJ Premier's return to the United States.

In 2006, Guru indicated in several interviews that Gang Starr had reached its end.

DJ Premier recently stated that there is a posthoumous Gang Starr CD / DVD project in the works, most likely to be released in 2012.

In 1979, the Sugar Hill Gang released " Rapper's Delight ", the first hip-hop record to become a hit.

* December 26 – The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is released.

The newly released Chicago Crime Commission publication, " The Gang Book 2012 ", conveyed a startling statistic that Chicago has more gang members than any other city in the United States: 150, 000 members Traditionally Los Angeles County was considered the Gang Capital of America, with an estimated 120, 000 ( 41, 000 in the City ) gang members ; Nevertheless, Chicago actually has a higher rate of gang membership per capita than Los Angeles ; and also the state of Illinois has a higher rate of gang membership ( 8-11 gang members per 1, 000 population ) than California ( 5-7 gang members per 1, 000 population ).

* Der Gang in die Nacht ( Journey Into the Night, released 13 December 1920 )

They also released a cover version of the Kool & The Gang song " Fresh " which was released in a selection of European countries, but not the United Kingdom.

Butch Cassidy's outlaw gang was actually called " The Wild Bunch "; this was changed, in the film, to " The Hole-In-The-Wall Gang " to avoid confusion with Sam Peckinpah's recently released film The Wild Bunch.

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly had been executed only twenty-six years before The Story of the Kelly Gang was made and Ned's mother Ellen and younger brother Jim were still alive at the time it was released.

They released an eponymous tape before changing their name to the Bloodhound Gang, a reference to " The Bloodhound Gang ", a segment on the 1980s PBS kids ' show 3-2-1 Contact that featured three young detectives solving mysteries and fighting crime.

In November 1994, the Bloodhound Gang released their first EP, Dingleberry Haze.

* November 9 – The single " Rapper's Delight " by The Sugarhill Gang is released.

* 26 December-The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is released.

Spirit of the Boogie is the highly successful eighth studio album released in 1975 by Kool & the Gang.

Garbage Pail Kids ( also known as " The Garbage Gang " in Australia and New Zealand and later United Kingdom versions, " La Pandilla Basura " Garbage Gang or " Basuritas " in Latin America, " Gang do Lixo " Gang in Brazil, " Sgorbions " in Italy, " Les Crados " Filthies in France and Belgium, and " Die total kaputten Kids " Totally Broken Kids in Germany ) is a series of trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls created by Xavier Roberts which were immensely popular at the time.

In Shanghai, Chiang cultivated ties with the city's underworld gangs, dominated by the notorious Green Gang and its leader Du Yuesheng.

It was announced in September 1988 by a consortium of PC clone vendors ( the " Gang of Nine ") as a counter to IBM's use of its proprietary Micro Channel architecture ( MCA ) in its PS / 2 series.

EISA extends the AT bus, which the Gang of Nine retroactively renamed to the ISA bus to avoid infringing IBM's trademark on its PC / AT computer, to 32 bits and allows more than one CPU to share the bus.

In 1988, the Gang of Nine IBM PC compatible manufacturers put forth the 32-bit EISA standard and in the process retroactively renamed the AT bus to " ISA " to avoid infringing IBM's trademark on its PC / AT computer.

By the following year Dalglish was a full professional and a regular member of the highly-rated Celtic reserve team that became known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay.

Mad is known for the stability and longevity of its talent roster, billed as " The Usual Gang of Idiots ," with several creators enjoying 30 -, 40-and even 50-year careers in the magazine's pages.

Acts like Earth, Wind and Fire, Kool and the Gang and Ohio Players, who began as psychedelic soul artists, incorporated its sounds into funk music and eventually the disco which partly replaced it.

The Red Army Faction or Red Army Fraction ( RAF ; German: Rote Armee Fraktion ), in its early stages commonly known as Baader-Meinhof Group ( or Baader-Meinhof Gang ), was one of post – World War II Germany's most prominent left-wing militant groups.

The terms " Baader-Meinhof Gang " and " Baader-Meinhof Group " were first used by the media and the organization was generally known by these during its first generation, and applies only until Baader's death in 1977.

* 1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.

During its first season the BBC titled the show as Crazy People, or in full, " The Junior Crazy Gang featuring those Crazy People, the Goons!

She is the focal point of the Scooby Gang, as the team initially formed around her responsibilities as the Chosen One, and she is very close to most of its members.

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

The area gives its name to the Bloomsbury Group ( also Bloomsbury Set ) of artists, the most famous of whom was Virginia Woolf, who met in private homes in the area in the early 1900s, and to the lesser known Bloomsbury Gang of Whigs formed in 1765 by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.

On 6 October, less than a month after Mao's death, anti-Gang of Four leaders with Hua at its core executed the arrest of Jiang Qing and her followers, as word came out that the Gang of Four was to soon wage a military coup against the Hua leadership of the CPC.

In April 1852, the Reelfoot Williams Gang robbed a Nevada City stagecoach of $ 7, 000 in gold bullion and its two passengers near Illinoistown.

During this period he briefly teamed up with ex-MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer in the group Gang War, which later altered its name.

Bloodhound Gang is a Collegeville, Pennsylvania-based American rock band, beginning as a rap group but gradually changing its genre throughout the years.

On September 7, 1876, Northfield experienced one of its most important historical events: The James-Younger Gang tried to rob the First National Bank of Northfield.

The coalition attempted to prosecute The Irish Press for its coverage of the maltreatment of republican prisoners by the Garda " Heavy Gang ", with the paper winning the case.

Beginning in 1941, Soundies experimented with expanding its format, and filmed comedy Soundies with Our Gang star Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer, Broadway comic Willie Howard, dialect comedians Smith and Dale, and silent-movie comedians The Keystone Kops.

After the fall of the Gang of Four, the government began to revert to its earlier policy, with less emphasis on Marxist-Leninist ideology.

The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for its 1979 hit " Rapper's Delight ," the first hip hop single to become a Top 40 hit.