The band took its name from the Irish constitutional law guaranteeing freedom of the press.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

It took decades following Armstrong's death for FM broadcasting to meet and surpass the saturation of the AM band, and longer still for FM radio to become profitable for broadcasters.

The line-up stabilised as the band took to a decidedly more accessible sound.

With the goal of becoming " the most extreme hardcore punk band of all time ," the group took Mick Harris from Napalm Death in 1987.

He took his place as the leader of his band and numerous tales are told of their adventures.

For a short time before his death, he took the role of manager and producer for the punk rock band The Independents.

By 1971, Friedman had formed his second band, Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, which many took to be a play on the name of the famous band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

In 1984, the band took a long break as members pursued other interests and recovered from the two years of constant touring they'd done in support of both albums.

That same year, Green Day, which had gone through a relatively fallow period commercially, took American Idiot to number one on both the U. S. and UK charts ; the band matched the feat five years later with 21st Century Breakdown.

According to the band, the entire developmental process for Vapor Trails was extremely taxing and took approximately 14 months to finish, by far the longest the band had ever spent writing and recording a studio album.

* The band REO Speedwagon took their name from the REO manufactured REO Speed Wagon light delivery truck, an ancestor of pickup trucks.

In 1979 the band took a turn back to hard rock with the release of Nine Lives.

Canadian electronic progressive rock band Syrinx took their name from the legend.

A one-off reunion concert took place in October 1984, and in 1990 the band finally recorded new material, including " Jukebox in Siberia ", released in September, which peaked at the top of the ARIA Singles Charts for two weeks.

Byrne took legal action against the rest of the band to prevent them using the name " Talking Heads ", something he saw as " a pretty obvious attempt to cash in on the Talking Heads name.

The band Radiohead took their name from the Talking Heads song " Radio Head " from the 1986 album True Stories.

A British 1980s pop band took the name Thompson Twins after the Tintin characters.

The band eventually found a vocalist ; however, Westerberg wanted to be the singer and took him aside one day to say " The band doesn't like you ".

Before Westerberg joined the band, Dogbreath often drank and took various drugs during rehearsals, playing songs as an afterthought.

Jesperson chose an eight-track home studio in Minneapolis called Blackberry Way ; however, as the band had no clout at the studio, time spent in the studio was intermittent, and so it took about six months to record the album.

The band took its name from the Popol Vuh, a manuscript of Quiché Maya kingdom, after watching Herzog's Fata Morgana ( in which Lotte Eisner reads parts of the Popol Vuh ).

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

It took me a moment to realize what was odd about that panel: there was a gimbaled compass welded to it, which rocked gently back and forth as the Land Rover bounced about.

There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

Woodward took occasion to warn Blackman about Lewis's drinking and urged him to `` try to keep him sober ''.

One of the many things that was so nice about her was that she always took your questions seriously, particularly your very, very serious questions.

The roof was about ready to fall in on Diane's little world, but it took nothing less than the Egyptian revolution to bring it down.

Feeds for livestock took about one-sixth of the world's cereal crop in 1957-1958.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

When he heard Calenda say: `` What about that picture you took this afternoon ''??

`` You took a picture of me at the corner of Washington and Blake about three thirty this afternoon ''.

He questioned God's taking time to telegraph the message, but he felt better about Kizzie, and he took the sealed envelope from its pigeonhole, wondering why he had preserved it.

Outside, the garden, the tame wilderness, yielded a patchwork bouquet of daisies, sweet william, scented stock and lady's bedstraw, which she tied with long grasses and took back to show Rosa, who was now stirring about the kitchen and haranguing Folly.

He wisecracked about the captain's indoctrination of new men, took great delight in slaughtering cockroaches with ethyl chloride, and gave no thought for tomorrow.

It took him about fifteen minutes to calm himself ; ;

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

The name Abdul Alhazred is a pseudonym that Lovecraft created in his youth, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five.

The warning — a result of violent activity springing from Mexico's drug cartel debacle — took college campuses by storm, with some schools going so far as to warn their students about the risks of travel to Mexico over spring break.

The new settlement took the name of Amphipolis ( literally, " around the city "), a name which is the subject of much debates about lexicography.

This took place whilst Canova was in his thirteenth year ; and with Torretto he continued about two years, making in many respects considerable progress.

Doubts about the veracity of Hill's 1991 testimony persisted long after Thomas took his seat on the Court.

The waltz with its modern hold took root in England in about 1812 ; in 1819 Carl Maria von Weber wrote Invitation to the Dance, which marked the adoption of the waltz form into the sphere of absolute music.

Bonnet's crew of about 70 were reportedly dissatisfied with his command, so with Bonnet's permission, Teach took control of his ship Revenge.