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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.
Neil Finn ( left ) and Mark Hart
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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Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.
The key ingredient was Leon Neil Cooper's calculation of the bound states of electrons subject to an attractive force in his 1956 paper, " Bound Electron Pairs in a Degenerate Fermi Gas ".
This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...
Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.
The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.
Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.
For many years, Decade was the only Neil Young compilation album available.
The following year, Treasures, an album of covers of 1960s and ' 70s hits was released, and featured a diverse collection of material, including songs by Mac Davis, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell.
A second and more contemporary collaboration with Harris and Ronstadt, Trio II ( 1999 ), was released and its cover of Neil Young's " After the Gold Rush " won a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.
The first EVA on the lunar surface was performed by Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 21, 1969 ( UTC ), after the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
It was on the sets of Dementia 13 that he met his future wife Eleanor Jessie Neil.
Although this phenomenon was nothing new, ( the most famous example being Neil Blaney's " Donegal Mafia ") it increased significantly from the early 90's particularly in the Dublin Region with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's " Drumcondra mafia " and the separate groups supporting Tom Kitt and Séamus Brennan in Dublin South largely separate from the official party structure.
Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie had decided not to hold the defences on the Egyptian border, because the defensive plan there relied on his infantry holding defended localities, while a strong armoured force was held back in reserve to foil any attempts to penetrate or outflank the fixed defences.
My Favorite Headache, Lee's first solo album, was released on November 14, 2000 while Rush was on a hiatus due to tragedies in drummer Neil Peart's life.
At first, the band was under-rehearsed and played poorly, but improved markedly with steady gigging and received rapturous responses at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas and at a filmed concert at Liberty Hall in Houston ( with Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt sitting in ) and Max's Kansas City in New York City.
Hawks was the oldest of five children and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks ( August 12, 1899-January 2, 1930 ), William Bellinger Hawks ( January 29, 1901-January 10, 1969 ), Grace Louise Hawks ( October 17, 1903-December 23, 1927 ) and Helen Bernice Hawks ( 1906-May 4, 1911 ).
Historian Neil Davidson notes that “ after 1746 there was an entirely new level of participation by Scots in political life, particularly outside Scotland ”.
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.

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Following his success on Broadway and on film with The Odd Couple playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon would also be prominent in the 1970s, with films like The Sunshine Boys and California Suite.
By the 1980s, widely popular drummers like Billy Cobham, Carl Palmer, Nicko McBrain, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland and perhaps most notably Neil Peart were using large numbers of drums and cymbals and had also begun using electronic drums.
Singer Neil Hannon also provided Ted's vocal in the " enhanced " version of My Lovely Horse, which later appeared as a B-side on the band's single Gin Soaked Boy.
Historically, the American film industry portrayed the Foreign Legion as, in the words of Neil Tweedie of The Daily Telegraph, having " a reputation as a haven for cut-throats, crooks and sundry fugitives from justice " and also having many men escaping failed romances.
Another scandal was " Cash for Questions ", in which first Graham Riddick, and David Tredinnick accepted money to ask questions in the House of Commons in a newspaper " sting ", and later Tim Smith and Neil Hamilton were found to have received money from Mohamed Al Fayed, also to ask questions in the House.
Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary / concert movies.
She was also referred to in the song " Cortez the Killer " by Neil Young.
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.
The show also featured musical numbers by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, including future Monty Python musical collaborator Neil Innes.
Octo Barnett and Neil Pappalardo were also involved with MGH's planning for a Hospital Information System, obtained a backward compatible PDP-9, and began using MUMPS in the admissions cycle and laboratory test reporting.
On becoming an MP for the first time, his father said " Remember Neil, MP stands not just for Member of Parliament, but also for Man of Principle ".
In 1988, Bernard Sumner teamed up with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr for the Electronic project ( also enlisting the help of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys ).
She also sang lead vocals on the Francis-written " Into the White " and the Neil Young cover " I've Been Waiting for You ", both B-sides.
Buoyed by his military successes, Bruce's forces also invaded Ireland in 1315, purportedly to free the country from English rule ( having received a reply to offers of assistance from Donal O ' Neil, king of Tyrone ), and to open a second front in the continuing wars with England.
Bruce's family also included his brothers, Edward, Alexander, Thomas, and Neil, his sisters Christina, Isabel ( Queen of Norway ), Margaret, Matilda, and Mary, and his nephews Donald II, Earl of Mar and Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray.
He is also currently contributing lyrics to a number of other projects and has previously written lyrics for Anomie Belle, Natalie Imbruglia, Neil Barnes from Leftfield and The SuperDead.
Early in her professional career, Amos befriended author Neil Gaiman, who became a fan after she referenced him in the song " Tear in Your Hand " and also in print interviews.
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.
Voldemort also appears in the Potter Puppet Pals sketches by Neil Cicierega.
In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving also Cock Robin, the Queen of Hearts, Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and other characters from popular nursery rhymes.
Its farmland is also home to Neil Carter's pigs.
Percussionist Neil Peart of the rock band Rush uses the glockenspiel in several of the band's arrangements, most notably in the commercial hit songs " The Spirit of Radio " and " Closer to the Heart ", and also in album tracks " Xanadu " and " Circumstances ".

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