In the late 1980s, they created the epic recording God in Three Persons, a story about the exploitation of two Siamese twins with healing powers by a male dominant force and The King & Eye, a surreal biography of Elvis Presley and the birth of rock and roll.

A Rolling Stone biography described his work as " a sort of modern chamber music for rock band, since he plans every note and teaches the band their parts by ear.

Describing their fifth studio album, 2002's Volcano, frontman Satyr stated in a press release and biography on their homepage that " the music is rock based but more extreme ; it is black metal pushing the boundaries that began with bands like Venom and Bathory.

The validity of these arguments is currently in doubt, mainly due to the identification of Ptolemy's Leukaristos, located at a latitude similar to that of Kalisz, with the name Laugaritio / Leugaritio certainly referring to the town of Trenčín in Slovakia ( this identification is confirmed by a rock inscription made in the winter of 179 / 180 CE by a Roman military unit, and the biography of the unit's commander, M. Valesius Maximianus, carved on his tomb in Diana Veteranorum in today's Algeria ).

He is also a contributor to the 2009 rock biography on The Triffids Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids, edited by Australian academics Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran.

Tinariwen's biography has variously been described as " the most compelling of any band " ( Songlines ), " the most rock ' n ' roll of them all " ( The Irish Times ), " hard-bitten " ( Slate. com ), and " dramatic " ( The Independent ).

Public Stunts Private Stories is an authorized biography of the Canadian alternative rock group Barenaked Ladies originally published in 2001.

* Perfect Sound Forever ( book ), a 2004 biography by Rob Jovanovic about indie rock band Pavement

The English eclectic rock band Pocketful O ' Nowt perform a song " Steve Peregrin Took " which contains a ( somewhat muddled ) biography of Took, and features the use of the pixiphone.

Harvey is also a contributor to the 2009 rock biography on The Triffids Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids, edited by Australian academics Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran.

In 2009, Australian scholars Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy's rock biography on The Triffids, Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids, was published by Fremantle Press, and includes contributions by Mick Harvey, Nick Cave, John Kinsella, DBC Pierre and Judith Lucy.

According to rock journalist Stephen Davis, the author of the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga, the lyrics for this song reflect a romance Plant had with his wife's younger sister.

Elvis and Gladys ( ISBN 1-57806-634-4 ) is a biography of rock and roll singer Elvis Presley by author and film industry insider, Elaine Dundy.

As described by David Dann in his biography of the Electric Flag, " The record was also one of the most adventurous for pop music in 1967, sampling freely from jazz, rock, blues and classical idioms, and doing so with wit and intelligence.

* Cecilia Parsons, " Countess Godiva ", 1999, revised 2004: biography and developing legend

This possible origin is mentioned as a legend in Elijah McCoy's biography at the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

During the period of Enlightenment in Poland he was written about by poets and writers such as Stanisław Potocki, Franciszek Karpiński, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and Franciszek Ksawery Dmowski, and a biography by Michał Krajewski, cementing his legend of a hero rescuing Poland from anarchy and invasion, a legend that became even stronger during the times of the partitions of Poland in the 19th century, where the artists of the Polish romanticism period used him as a symbol of patriotism, and a reminder of military successes.

Citing the Boeotian orthography of her surviving fragments, David Campbell, who edited a modern version of her fragments, argues that she lived about 200 BC, and that her traditional biography, replete with contradictory accounts of her character, emerged as legend at a much later date.

A recent biography by Emanuel Levy, Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer, claims evidence that Minnelli did, in fact, live as an openly gay man in New York prior to his arrival in Hollywood, where the town that made him a film legend also pressured him back into the closet.

John Rollin Ridge, grandson of the Cherokee leader Major Ridge, wrote a dime novel about Murrieta ; the fictional biography contributed to his legend, especially as it was translated into various European languages.

As a 1994 winner of the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat ( state medal ), the first Singaporean footballer to play in Europe, the first Singaporean millionaire sportsperson and first Singaporean sportsperson to have a published biography, Fandi has been called a national legend.

Time of Roses () is a 1969 Finnish science fiction film directed by Risto Jarva, about an innocent girl glamour model legend and a journalist trying to find out her true essence for a biography.

Vakhtang is a subject of the 8th or 11th century vita attributed to Juansher which intertwines history and legend into an epic narrative, hyperbolizing Vakhtang's personality and biography.

Since little is said of her in the New Testament, and no verifiable biography exists, details on Pilate's wife are surmised from Christian tradition and legend.

Still, the episode of the bone transferral is dated to the 9th century by most scientists, because the version according to which the transfer occurred in the 5th century is based on a tale by bishop Andrew, who in turn attributed the legend to the Milanese bishop Simplicianus, who, according to Andrew, wrote a biography of the saint.

Biographies of Ramprasad are a mixture of biography, metaphor, and legend.

Manuelle's first foray into movie acting was his cameo role ( mostly singing ) as salsa legend Rubén Blades in El Cantante, the 2007 film biography of Héctor Lavoe, starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez.

* Also see McFarland biography by historian James Elton McMillian, Jr., published by Sharlot Hall Museum Press, Prescott, Arizona.

According to writer Philip Norman in his early 1990s authorized biography, " Elton ," during a party in Los Angeles, John's friend Groucho Marx jokingly pointed his index fingers at the singer, as if holding a pair of six-shooters.

Translated to English by John Bester, the book was a biography of one of the last traditional Yakuza bosses in Japan.

Furthermore, John Murray believed that Disraeli had caricatured him and abused his confidence – an accusation denied at the time, and by the official biography, although subsequent biographers ( notably Blake ) have sided with Murray.

Media reports immediately following his death indicated Haley displayed deranged and erratic behavior in his final weeks, although beyond a biography of Haley by John Swenson, released a year later, which described Haley painting the windows of his home black, there is little information extant about Haley's final days.

John W. Haley, his eldest son, wrote Sound and Glory, a biography of Haley, while his youngest daughter, Gina Haley, is a professional musician based in Texas.

* In 1990, Haley's eldest son, John W. Haley, along with John von Hoëlle wrote Sound and Glory, a biography focusing mostly on Haley's early life and peak career years.

* Stephen Cooper The Real Falstaff ( a biography of Sir John Fastolf ) ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

A biography of Carangi by Stephen Fried called Thing of Beauty ( the title of John Keats ' famous poem ) was published in 1993.

* Wolf, John B. Louis XIV ( 1968 ), the standard scholarly biography online edition

According to George Weigel's biography of John Paul II, Paul VI named Archbishop Karol Wojtyła ( later Pope John Paul II ) to the commission.

Fleming did not provide Bond's date of birth, but John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920, while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921.

* Parsons, Lynn H. John Quincy Adams ( 1999 ), scholarly biography

* John Graves Simcoe's biography

* John Brown ( biography ), a 1909 biography written by W. E. B Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown

* Nelson, Jacob A. John Hanson and the inseparable union: an authentic biography of a revolutionary leader, patriot and statesman.

A biography, Memoirs of John Abernethy, by George Macilwain ( 1797 – 1882 ), appeared in 1853.

John Lahr wrote a biography of Orton entitled Prick Up Your Ears, a title * Orton himself had considered using, in 1978.

John Gillingham, author of a major biography of Richard I, follows this line too, although he considers John a less effective general than do Turner or Warren ; Bradbury takes a moderate line, but suggests that in recent years modern historians have been overly lenient towards John's numerous faults.