Some major UK acts include The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Elton John, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Sex Pistols, Eric Clapton, The Clash, Van Morrison, Dire Straits, The Police, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, The Who, Eurythmics, Dusty Springfield, The Cure, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Duran Duran, Oasis, Radiohead, Coldplay, Muse, Gorillaz, Robbie Williams, Seal, Bee Gees, Spice Girls, UB40, Adele, Jessie J Amy Winehouse ... Other popular European musicians are U2 ( Ireland ), Björk ( Iceland ), ABBA ( Sweden ), a-ha ( Norway ), Andrea Bocelli ( Italy ), Julio Iglesias ( Spain ), Nana Mouskouri ( Greece / France ), Kati Wolf ( Hungary ), Boney M. ( Germany ), Daft Punk ( France ), Charles Aznavour ( France ), Johnny Hallyday ( France ), Modern Talking ( Germany ), Scorpions ( Germany ), Rammstein ( Germany ), Ace of Base ( Sweden ), t. A. T. u.

In addition to Radiohead and Manic Street Preachers, the new album features artists such as Coldplay, Bloc Party, Gorillaz, Elbow, Feeder and Kaiser Chiefs, along with Keane who are current patrons of War Child UK.

Some groups, like The Archies, Gorillaz, Peepall and Alvin and the Chipmunks, are hand-drawn characters, and much of their media use traditional animation and cartooning techniques.

A stylized duck head, an Easter egg in early Gorillaz videos, can be found on the heads of the missiles right before they are sneezed away by the moose.

It leads past a door to a room where Gorillaz are performing.

Like the Gorillaz, they are a virtual band ( though not to the degree that Gorillaz are ).

The song " Hip Albatross ", also by Gorillaz, features a clip of Terry Alexander's dialogue.

Willis appeared in the music video for the song " Stylo " by Gorillaz.

Gorillaz is a virtual band composed of four animated band members created in 1998 by Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl.

Two modern examples of the " cartoon rock group " could include the British band, Gorillaz — a musical project created in 1998 by British musician Damon Albarn and British cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, and Dethklok, a fictional death metal band created by Brendon Small.

* The opening line of " Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach ", performed by Snoop Dogg on the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach, is " The revolution will be televised ".

* Blur's video for " For Tomorrow ", the video for " Kingdom of Doom " by Blur lead singer Damon Albarn's 2007 project The Good, the Bad and the Queen, and in the video for " Tomorrow Comes Today " by further side project Gorillaz

* Title song: " 19-2000 ( Soulchild Remix )" by Gorillaz

* a song by the Gorillaz on Gorillaz ( album )

* " 911 ", a song by Gorillaz, D12 & Terry Hall on the Bad Company soundtrack

Album cover of Gorillaz ( 2001 ) by Gorillaz.

Gorillaz, the virtual pop band have shown support through a TV spot showing animated frontman, 2D, meditating with fellow supporters outside of the Chinese embassy, followed by a brief message encouraging people to join the Free Tibet Campaign.

The cover of the album was drawn by Jamie Hewlett, the artist known for Tank Girl, and more recently, Gorillaz.

The following week, Gorillaz were knocked off the top by Albarn's former Britpop rivals Oasis who in turn were knocked off the top by Coldplay's eagerly awaited X & Y, which was met with mixed reviews itself.

Democrazy is a 2003 vinyl-only double EP by Damon Albarn, frontman of British rock band Blur, the animated group Gorillaz and most recently the unnamed band behind the album titled " The Good, the Bad and the Queen ".

One of the songs, " I Need a Gun ", was extended and performed as " Dirty Harry " by Gorillaz on their album Demon Days.

The track " A Rappy Song " has often been mis-labeled as an unnamed Gorillaz ' track featuring Bootie Brown & Cee-Lo Green, however the song is little more than a remix made by a fan.

" by LCD Soundsystem, " Robot Rock " by Daft Punk and DARE by Gorillaz.

He often fills in for rapper Mos Def on the Gorillaz ' song Stylo on the group's Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour & at the Glastonbury Festival in 2010.

It has been announced that they will be supporting Gorillaz on the North American leg of their 2010 ' Escape to Plastic Beach ' World tour., In recent times ( as of summer 2012 ) N. E. R. D haven't confirmed any tour dates or new singles.

Smith more recently provided guest vocals on the new Gorillaz album Plastic Beach, on the song " Glitter Freeze ", and joined the group Shuttleworth to record the World Cup song England's Heartbeat.

:" Green World Tourist " is also the title of an album by the band Suicide Machines, " The Green World " is the title of an album by Dar Williams, and " O Green World " is the title of a song by virtual band Gorillaz.

Most of its clients have been rock or indie rock acts, and it currently handles Gorillaz, Foo Fighters, and Radiohead, among other big-time performers.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

Trip hop has influenced artists outside the genre, including Gorillaz, Emancipator, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Travis, How to Destroy Angels, Beth Orton, The Flaming Lips, Bitter: Sweet, Beck, Deftones as well as Icelandic singer Björk, who utilized the genre throughout her 1995 album Post.

It was rumoured that Gilliam may direct – or be involved in the production of – the animated band Gorillaz ' movie.

In an August 2008 Observer interview, Gorillaz band members Albarn and Hewlett revealed the nature and title of the project, Journey to the West, a movie adaptation of the opera of the same name based on a 16th-century Chinese adventure story also known as Monkey.

A song from the band Gorillaz is named " Clint Eastwood ", and features references to the actor, with the iconic yell featured in The Good, the Bad and the Uglys score heard at the beginning of the video.

Graham Coxon recorded a string of solo albums, while Damon Albarn dedicated his time to Gorillaz, the animated band he had created with Jamie Hewlett.

* Gorillaz ' song " Dare " from their 2005 album Demon Days begins with a rapid, rising Shepard glissando.

Parlophone is still an important pop label with artists such as Coldplay, Gorillaz, Kylie Minogue, and Pet Shop Boys among others.

However, he has been involved in many other high profile projects, such as Gorillaz, a virtual band.

Albarn founded Gorillaz with Jamie Hewlett in 1998.

Gorillaz is a " virtual band " consisting of four animated members: 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs.

' Not unlike the band Gorillaz, Rhodes ' alter-ego, ' Lumi ,' was conceived as a ' virtual idol ,' except in this instance, unlike Hatsune Miku, Lumi is based on a real human girl.

## strong fan followings: e. g. Rush, Gorillaz, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Faith No More, Devo, and Queensrÿche

Several special editions of Converse shoes have been made, including DC Comics, The Ramones, AC / DC the Sailor Jerry, Metallica, The Clash, Dr. Seuss, Grateful Dead, Ozzy Osbourne, Jimi Hendrix, Drew Brophy, Nirvana, Bad Meets Evil, and Gorillaz the Control, green, brown or camouflage edition, Super Mario, and the Danny Potthoff.

* 2D, the fictional character from Damon Albarn's virtual band Gorillaz, comes from Crawley, according to the back-story created for them.

In 2005, De La Soul collaborated with Gorillaz on the hit single " Feel Good Inc .," which won a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Collaboration ( the first Grammy win in the group's career ) after being nominated for a total of three Grammys.

Gorillaz ' frontman Damon Albarn played the song when he filled in for Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1.

Murdoc Niccals, a fictional member of the group Gorillaz with the role of bass guitarist is ( in his constructed biography ) said to have been born in Stoke-on-Trent.