He was the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo, from 1976 to 1995.

In 1976, she disbanded the Travlin ' Family Band, in order to form a new band, Gypsy Fever, composed of seasoned musicians who had more of a rock sensibility, in order to support her impending crossover.

This lineup of Devo lasted until 1976 when Jim left the band.

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

The official band logo, designed in 1976 by artist Kosh, was first seen on their 1976 album A New World Record and is based on a 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox model 4008 speaker.

In fact, Idol had been a member of the punk band Generation X from 1976 – 1981, which was named after Deverson and Hamblett's 1965 sociology book Generation X — a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.

The band completely dissolved in 1976.

This band was dissolved in 1976 and 3 45 rpms.

The cover of the Ramones ' 1976 debut album, featuring a shot of the band by Punk photographer Roberta Bayley, set forth the basic elements of a style that was soon widely emulated by rock musicians both punk and nonpunk.

In September 1976, The Saints became the first punk rock band outside the U. S. to release a recording, the single "( I'm ) Stranded ".

In February 1976, the band received its first significant press coverage ; guitarist Steve Jones declared that the Sex Pistols were not so much into music as they were " chaos ".

In eastern Canada, the Toronto protopunk band Dishes had laid the groundwork for another sizable scene, and a September 1976 concert by the touring Ramones had catalyzed the movement.

Strachan had solo releases since 1976 and finally left the band in 1978 and was also a radio and television presenter.

The following year No Earthly Connection ( 1976 ) had him pare down the production to just using his band, the " English Rock Ensemble ".

The original band existed from 1970 to 1974 but their recordings were not released until 1976 or later.

" Cryptic was formed as a corporation in California by Jay Clem ( born 1947 ), Homer Flynn ( born April 1945 ), Hardy W. Fox ( born 1945 ), and John Kennedy in 1976, all of whom denied having been band members.

Buzzcocks are an English pop punk band, formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter-guitarist Steve Diggle.

The band formed as Buzzcocks in February 1976 and performed live for the first time on 1 April 1976 at their college.

In September 1976 the band travelled to London to perform at the two-day 100 Club Punk Festival, organised by Malcolm McLaren.

Sharkey was also responsible for giving the band their first name: at the introduction to a gig at Saint Joseph's Secondary School in Derry on 16 March 1976, Feargal Sharkey was asked the name of the band and quickly replied " The Hot Rods ".

With the arrival of punk rock in late 1976, the artistic focus of the band changed.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

Easy listening icon Percy Faith, in one of his last recordings, recorded a disco version of his famous " Theme from A Summer Place " in 1976.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

It contains 35 of Young's songs recorded between 1966 and 1976, among them five tracks that had been unreleased up to that point.

It was shelved until the following year, where it appeared with two songs removed from the original tracklist ( a live version of " Don't Cry No Tears " recorded in Japan in 1976, and a live version of " Pushed it Over The End " recorded in 1974 ).

" Secret Agent Man " had been recorded first in 1974 for Devo's first film and performed live as early as 1976.

* In 1976 The Kinks recorded the song " Father Christmas ".

Musician Joe Walsh recorded chats with Moon, finding it remarkable how witty and alert the inebriated drummer managed to stay, ad-libbing his way through surrealistic fantasy stories à la Peter Cook, which Cooper reaffirms, saying he was not even certain he ever knew the real Keith Moon, or if there was one. Keith Moon showing off atop his drumkit Toronto, 21 October 1976

Murphy stayed on for two more albums, Lost in a Dream and This Time We Mean It, before Cronin returned to the fold in January 1976 and recorded R. E. O., which was released that same year.

The last major outbreak of the disease in humans occurred between 1974 and 1976, where an estimated 10, 000 to 20, 000 cases were recorded.

* 1976: Jazz guitarist Pat Martino recorded an instrumental version of the song for We'll be Together Again

They recorded the album Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers ( 1976 ), but Robinson again left after Richman persisted in reducing the size and volume of his drum kit, and was replaced by D. Sharpe.

* The Modern Lovers ( recorded September 1971 and March 1972, released 1976 )

In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking ( Not Me ) ( An Evening with Pete King )" and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart ( In Lowell )".

That same year, the group recorded soundstage performances with country singer Emmylou Harris (" Evangeline ") and gospel-soul group The Staple Singers (" The Weight "); Scorsese combined these new performances, as well as interviews he had conducted with the group, with the 1976 concert footage.

In 1976, he recorded a 9-song album for Lou Adler's Ode Records which was unreleased in its entirety until February 2010, when it was made available as a legal download ( 4 tracks from these sessions had been released on a 1990 Rocky Horror box set ).

1976 saw the first recorded outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, a highly lethal virally transmitted disease.

Nicks originally wrote " Secret Love " in 1976 and recorded a demo of it for Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours.

As co-leader of the Dicey Ross Band with harmonica player Bill Dicey, Ross recorded with Big Joe Turner in 1976 for Spivey Records, a Brooklyn label owned by Victoria Spivey and Lenny Kunstadt.

During the period of Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, Piazzolla lived in Italy, but returned many times to Argentina, recorded there, and on at least one occasion had lunch with the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla.

" Bonzo's Montreux " by Led Zeppelin is named after the city where the drums session of John Bonham was recorded in 1976.

* In 1976 he recorded a promotional flexi-disc for Heinz called " The Noodle Doodle Man ".

Stella Parton, Dolly's sister, recorded " Ode to Olivia " and Newton-John recorded her 1976 album, Don't Stop Believin ', in Nashville.