Finn formed a new band called The Mullanes ( Mullane being both his middle name and his mother's maiden name ) with Split Enz drummer Paul Hester, guitarist Craig Hooper of The Reels and bassist Nick Seymour ( younger brother of Hunters & Collectors leader Mark Seymour ), whom Neil had met on the final Split Enz tour.

Mullane is Neil Finn's middle name and was his mother's maiden name.

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

Both Neil and his brother Tim were invested as Officers of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for services to New Zealand music in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

* Sir Neil Cossons OBE FSA FMA ( 1986 – 2000 )

Both Tim and Neil were made OBE for services to New Zealand music in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Glenys Kinnock MEP, The Rt Hon Neil Kinnock, Jan Morris CBE, Dr Alex Moulton CBE RDI FREng, Dervla Murphy, Steven Norris, Jeremy Paxman, Jonathon Porritt CBE, Claire Rayner OBE, Richard Rogers, Bettina Selby, Jon Snow, The Rt Hon the Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, The Rt Hon Sir George Young MP.

Neil Scales OBE, Chief Executive and Director General of Merseytravel, outlined some major projects that Merseytravel may be involved in in the future:

Neil Scales OBE, Chief Executive and Director General of Merseytravel, outlined some major projects that Merseytravel may be involved in in the future:

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the Lost Generation as the cohorts born from 1883 to 1900, who came of age during World War I and the roaring twenties.

Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930, in Wapakoneta, Ohio, to Stephen Koenig Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel

Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock ( born 28 March 1942 ) is a British Labour Party politician.

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the social generation of Boomers as the cohorts born from 1943 to 1960, who were too young to have any personal memory of World War II, but old enough to remember the postwar American High.

David Neil Cutler, Sr. ( born March 13, 1942 ) is an American software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS and VAXELN at Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT at Microsoft.

Notable examples include David Tennant, born David McDonald, who said in an interview that he adopted the surname " Tennant " after seeing Neil Tennant in a copy of Smash Hits, Nathan Lane, whose birth name Joseph Lane was already in use, Stewart Granger, whose birth name was James Stewart, and Michael Keaton, born Michael Douglas.

He was the second of seven children born to Neil Livingstone ( 1788 – 1856 ) and his wife Agnes Hunter ( 1782 – 1865 ).

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Neil Turner ( born 16 September 1945 ) is a British Labour Party politician and a former Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wigan.

* Neil Ardley, jazz pianist and composer, was born in Wallington.

Anthony Neil Wedgwood " Tony " Benn PC ( born 3 April 1925 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a retired British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

* Neil Everett ( born 1962 ), US sports announcer

Neil Finn was born the youngest of four children to Dick and Mary Finn in Te Awamutu, New Zealand.

* Neil Cavuto ( born 1958 ), Fox News Channel anchor.

* Neil O ' Donnell ( born 1966 ), former NFL quarterback.

* Neil L. Andersen – LDS Church apostle ( born in Logan ; raised in Pocatello, Idaho )

* Neil Brand, writer, composer and silent film accompanist was born in Burgess Hill.

Mostyn Neil Hamilton ( born 9 March 1949 ) is a British politician and former barrister, teacher, and Conservative MP in the UK Parliament.

Over the next 13 years George and Barbara Bush had six children: George W. Bush ( born July 6, 1946 ), Pauline Robinson Bush ( December 20, 1949 – October 11, 1953, died of leukemia ), John Ellis " Jeb " Bush ( born February 11, 1953 ), Neil Mallon Bush ( born January 22, 1955 ), Marvin Pierce Bush ( born October 22, 1956 ), and Dorothy Bush Koch ( born August 18, 1959 ).