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Crowded House are a pop rock band formed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985 by lead-vocalist and primary songwriter, New Zealand-born Neil Finn.
Queen Elizabeth II bestowed an OBE on both Neil and Tim Finn, in June 1993, for their contribution to the music of New Zealand.
Neil Finn had decided to end the band to concentrate on his solo career and the Finn Brothers project with Tim.
Neil Finn ( vocals, guitar, piano ) and drummer Paul Hester ( ex-The Cheks, Deckchairs Overboard ) were former members of New Zealand band Split Enz, which spent part of 1975-6 in Australia and several years in England.
Neil is the younger brother of Split Enz founding member Tim Finn, who joined Crowded House in 1990 on vocals, guitars and keyboards for the album Woodface.
L to R: Paul Hester, Neil Finn, Nick Seymour. Thanks to their Split Enz connection, the newly formed Crowded House had an established Australasian fanbase.
As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.
Neil Finn and his brother Tim recorded songs they had co-written for their own album, Finn.
Following the recording sessions with Tim, Neil began writing and recording a third Crowded House album with Hester and Seymour, but these tracks were rejected by the record company, so Neil asked Tim if Crowded House could use the Finn songs.
In June 1993 the New Zealand Government recommended that the Queen award an OBE to Neil and Tim Finn for their contribution to the music of New Zealand.
The concert featured the line-up of Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mark Hart and Paul Hester.
Neil Finn released two solo studio albums, Try Whistling This ( 1998 ) and One Nil ( 2001 ), as well as two live albums, Sessions at West 54th ( 2000 ) and 7 Worlds Collide ( 2001 ).
Tim Finn had resumed his solo career after leaving the group in 1992 and he also worked with Neil on a second Finn Brothers album, Everyone Is Here, which was released in 2004.
Writing in 2010 Neil Finn said, " When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue.
Matt Sherrod, Dublin, 2007. In 2006 Neil Finn asked Nick Seymour to play bass on his third solo album.
As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name, rather than as a Neil Finn solo album.
As the primary songwriter for the band, Neil Finn has always set the tone for the band's sound.
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* Trouser Press commentary on Crowded House, Neil Finn and Tim Finn discography

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Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.
Schmitt is also the only geologist as well as the only person to have walked on the Moon who was never a member of the United States Armed Forces, although he is not the first civilian, since Neil Armstrong left military service prior to his landing in 1969.
After Decade of Decadence was released, Neil left the band in February 1992, at a time when other bands in the 1980s glam metal scene ( Ratt, Stryper, White Lion, Winger, Europe & Britny Fox ) also broke up because of the rise in popularity of Grunge.
It was an important story for Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich that O ' Neil had become suicidal and had left the military after his son's death.
Neil O ' Donnell left the Steelers in the offseason and signed a long-term free agent contract with the New York Jets, accepting New York's more lucrative offer.
Gagarin was also honored by the American space program during Apollo 11 when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left a memorial satchel containing medals commemorating Gagarin and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov on the surface of the Moon.
Enfield left after the first series, and was replaced in the second series by Neil Morrissey as Tony.
Despite having coached the Rangers to a regular season first place finish and the Stanley Cup, head coach Mike Keenan left after a dispute with General Manager Neil Smith.
Rangers General Manager Neil Smith orchestrated a deal that sent Sergei Zubov and center Petr Nedved to Pittsburgh in exchange for defenseman Ulf Samuelsson and left winger Luc Robitaille in the summer of 1995.
A number of performers also enjoyed a renaissance by adopting country sounds, including: the Everly Brothers, whose Roots album ( 1968 ) is usually considered some of their finest work ; former teen idol Rick Nelson who became the frontman for the Stone Canyon Band ; John Fogerty, who left Creedence Clearwater Revival behind for the country sounds of The Blue Ridge Rangers ; Mike Nesmith, who had experimented with country sounds while with The Monkees, formed the First National Band ; and Neil Young who moved in and out of the genre throughout his career.
While his brother Tim Finn left for England, Neil was the founder of Crowded House with Split Enz's final drummer Paul Hester in 1985.
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Paul Raymond left the band at the end of the No Place To Run tour and was replaced by John Sloman from Uriah Heep for a couple of months and then by former Wild Horses guitarist and keyboardist Neil Carter, who helped fill the void in the songwriting left by Schenker's departure.
Graham and Neil Weir left at the end of the 1989 US tour and co-founder Paul Humphreys subsequently called it a day, unhappy with the band's commercial orientation.
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong ( left ) and Buzz Aldrin train in Building 9 on April 18, 1969.
A solid partnership of 71 between Allan Lamb and Neil Fairbrother left Imran with no choice but to give an early second spell to his main pacer Wasim Akram in the 35th over.
Under the influence of Eric Hobsbawm on the opposing wing of the party Martin Jacques became the editor of the party's theoretical journal Marxism Today and rapidly made it a significant publication for Eurocommunist opinions in the party, and eventually for revisionist tendencies in the wider liberal-left, in particular for the soft left around Neil Kinnock in the Labour Party.
" Maggie Pie " was Marti Pellow, and the " impostors " were ( on album cover, clockwise from top left ) Neil Mitchell, Graeme Duffin, Tommy Cunningham, and Graeme Clark.
She left acting soon after to live with rock musician Neil Young and care for their son Zeke, who was born with cerebral palsy.
Returning to the House of Commons, Margaret Beckett gradually moved away from the hard left, supporting incumbent leader Neil Kinnock against Benn in 1988.
Neil is on the left of the SNP, and is known as a fundamentalist, critical of the gradualist wing.
Later that same night, Miller attempted to punk actor Neil Patrick Harris by putting a bear in his car and saying that it was Harris's fault, because he had left food in his car after signs told him specifically not to.
In Moscow, the British traitor Kim Philby drafts a memorandum for the General Secretary ( Soviet president ) stating that, if the Labour Party wins the next general election in the UK ( scheduled for sometime in the subsequent eighteen months ), the " hard left " of the party will oust the moderate, populist Neil Kinnock in favour of a radical new leader who will adopt a true Marxist-Leninist manifesto, including the expulsion of all American forces from England and the country's withdrawal from and repudiation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ).

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