CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.

When I joined, they had what they called a Shepherd — after all, the meetings were at the Lambs Club — who was the president, Billy Gaxton.

George and Louis Johnson later joined Billy Preston's band, and wrote Music in My Life and The Kids and Me for him before leaving his group in 1973.

Warren Frost also joined the cast in a recurring role as Cliff's father Billy, an old nemesis from Matlock's past as Ben had stood his sister up at the altar in order to pursue his law degree.

After Compo died in 2000, Compo's son, Tom Simmonite, filled the gap for the rest of that series, and Billy Hardcastle joined the cast as the third lead character in 2001.

On 21 October 1991, Sting joined Don Henley and Billy Joel at New York's Madison Square Garden for a benefit rock show, The Concert for Walden Woods.

In 1888, Patrick Garrett ( known as the Sheriff who had shot Billy the Kid ) along with promoter Charles Greene, joined forces with Eddy to design and build a system of canals and flumes to divert water to their ranches and properties.

They were later joined by Carl's younger brother, 15-year-old Billy Isaacs.

Billy Preston joined The Beatles on keyboards from 22 January, having been recruited by Harrison partly with a view to deter bickering among the Beatles.

Following the 2000 breakup of the band, Chamberlin joined Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan in the supergroup Zwan and also formed his own group, the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex.

Before entering Cardozo High School and shortly after the Gay family relocated to D. C .' s Deanwood neighborhood in northeastern Washington, he had joined several doo-wop groups in the D. C. area, including the Dippers, which featured his friend Johnny Stewart, brother of R & B singer Billy Stewart.

Richards has so far been featured in four series as an attorney: Richards joined the cast of NBC's Law & Order spin-off Conviction as Billy Desmond, the undefeated New York City Assistant District Attorney.

Billy McPhatter was not in the group in 1979, but joined the current members for a performance at Madison Square Garden ( originally intended to include Lester ), and remained in the group afterwards.

Billy Warlock joined the cast in Season 10 as Roger's brother Flip, along with Crystal Bernard as Howard's and Marion's niece K. C.

Landerman then left to join Vanity Fare, Bob Andrews joined on keyboards, and finally, Whale was replaced by Billy Rankin on drums.

Starr's album features the Lennon-penned " I'm The Greatest ", which is the only song on which all four musicians appear together, joined by Billy Preston.

The current line-up is: Tony Crane ( founder member ) lead vocals and lead guitar ; Billy Kinsley ( founder member ) lead vocals and rhythm guitar ; Bob Packham ( joined 1974 ) backing vocals and bass guitar ( born Robert Packham, 17 July 1944, Anfield, Liverpool ) ( ex The Galvinsers ); Dave Goldberg keyboards and lead guitar ; and Lou Rosenthal ( also joined 2000 ) drums.

While still at Billy's, Strange and Egan joined Billy Currie and Midge Ure of Ultravox to form the band Visage.

On returning from service he joined Billy Eckstine's orchestra.

When Billy Sheehan left David Lee Roth's band in 1988, he joined with Paul Gilbert, who had left his former band, Racer X.

In May 2006, he joined Portnoy, Gary Cherone, and Billy Sheehan to form Amazing Journey: A Tribute to The Who, playing three shows.

* Billy Powell was a roadie for Lynyrd Skynyrd until he joined the band as piano player.

Mysterio's on-and-off tag team partner Billy Kidman joined him during the feud with LWO, wrestling against the LWO despite Mysterio being a part of the group.

Upon completion of his studies, Hammer spent a year touring with Sarah Vaughan, recorded with Elvin Jones and Jeremy Steig, then moved to Lower Manhattan and joined the original lineup of the Mahavishnu Orchestra with guitarist John McLaughlin, violinist Jerry Goodman, bassist Rick Laird, and drummer Billy Cobham in 1971.

The first major recording session for the album, which took place on April 7, 1970, was almost accidental: John McLaughlin, awaiting Miles's arrival, began improvising riffs on his guitar, and was shortly joined by Michael Henderson and Billy Cobham.

The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.

After Peligro joined the band, the extended play In God We Trust, Inc. ( 1981 ) saw them moving toward full on hardcore / thrash.

So large numbers of Dutch traders / pirates joined their English and French brethren on the Spanish main.

In 1985, Angell joined forces with Peter Casey and David Lee as Cheers supervising producers / writers.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

Then on July 20, 2007 guitarist Jack Owen ( ex-Cannibal Corpse ) announced that Deicide is " on hiatus " and he has joined Ohio based death / thrash combo Estuary for touring purposes.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

So large numbers of Dutch traders / pirates joined their English and French brethren trading on the remote coasts of Hispaniola.

A group of " warrior " horse-nomads would conquer and / or be joined by other warrior groups throughout western Eurasia, and in turn extracted tribute over a territory that included other social and ethnic groups, including sedentary agricultural peoples.

These were joined in 1584 / 5 by the counties of Armagh, Coleraine, Donegal, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone.

On 23 June 1977, Moon joined Led Zeppelin on stage and drummed with John Bonham for encores in a show at the L. A. Forum arena ( recorded on Led Zeppelin bootlegs, For Badgeholders Only / Sgt.

The back or the shell is assembled from thin strips of hardwood ( maple, cherry, ebony, rosewood, gran, wood and / or other tonewoods ) called ribs, joined ( with glue ) edge to edge to form a deep rounded body for the instrument.

The only original cast retained for the U. S. version series were Matt Frewer ( Max Headroom / Edison Carter ) and Amanda Pays ( Theora Jones ); a third original cast member, W. Morgan Sheppard, joined the series as " Blank Reg " in later episodes.

Named Team OS / 2, it was a grassroots organization conceived by an IBM employee and initially joined by other IBMers which quickly spread outside IBM.

Sandy Ginoza joined USC / ISI in 1999 to work on RFC editing, and Alice Hagens in 2005.

Two years later, under the pressure of Allies ( especially France desperate to open a new front ), on August 14 / 27 1916 it joined the Allies, for which they were promised support for the accomplishment of national unity, Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary.

In November 1942 he joined the 2 / 31st Infantry Battalion in New Guinea, where he served for two months.

Due to largescale British migration to Perth, Western Australia, many British youths in that city joined skinhead / sharpies gangs in the late 1960s and developed their own Australian style.

Switzerland also has joined UN economic sanctions imposed on Libya, Sierra Leone, UNITA ( Angola ), Liberia, and Serbia / Montenegro.

Peter Tork joined ' Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart ' onstage for a guest appearance on their concert tour on July 4, 1976 at Disneyland, and following on from this later that year he reunited with his fellow former bandmates Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz in the studio for the recording of the single " Christmas Is My Time of The Year " b / w " White Christmas ", which saw a limited release for fan club members that holiday season.

They were joined there by 9 / 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour who had moved out of San Diego and Arizona after living in or visiting Abdussattar Shaikh's house, where Khalid al-Mihdhar also stayed.

In 1982, he joined with ex-Pat Travers guitarist Pat Thrall to form Hughes / Thrall, they released one self-titled album which went virtually unnoticed at the time but is now often cited by many fans / musicians to be their favourite Glenn Hughes album.

* The rails of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " were joined on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, after track was laid over a gap between Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska / Council Bluffs, Iowa in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.

* Jazzy Rockers from Biel / Bienne: Seyo, Eduzy, Kid Rock, Rubber Band, Dee, Chico Rock, Zed, ( around ’ 86 Carlos aka Risk Leader of the African Posse, Shy One, Lee joined )