Other members have included his brother Tim Finn, Australians Paul Hester, Nick Seymour and Peter Jones and Americans Mark Hart and Matt Sherrod.

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.

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.

Crowded House were mid way through a US tour when Paul Hester quit the band on 15 April 1994.

The concert featured the line-up of Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mark Hart and Paul Hester.

Paul Hester 1959 – 2005. Following the 1996 break-up of Crowded House, the members embarked upon a variety of projects.

Paul Hester joined The Finn Brothers on stage for three songs at their Palais Theatre show in Melbourne at the end of 2004.

Paul Hester worked with children's entertainers The Wiggles, playing " Paul the Cook ".

Finn and Hester performed " Not the Girl You Think You Are " with Largest Living Things, before being joined by Seymour for " Sister Madly " and a version of Paul Kelly's " Leaps and Bounds ", which also featured Kelly on vocals.

On 26 March 2005 Paul Hester was found dead, after hanging himself from a tree in a park near his home in Melbourne.

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* 1959 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer ( Crowded House and Split Enz ) ( d. 2005 )

Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors ' " People are Strange ", Depeche Mode's " Personal Jesus ", Joni Mitchell's " The Circle Game ", Madonna's " Live to Tell " and " Like a Prayer ", Björk's " Hyperballad ", Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks " ( which she debuted in Austin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina ), Kate Bush's " And Dream of Sheep " and Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over ", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before.

Paul Hester, late drummer of Crowded House, once appeared in a VB advert.

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.

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.

In January 2007, it was announced that Crowded House were reforming with Neil, Nick Seymour, Mark Hart and new drummer Matt Sherrod ( following the suicide of Paul Hester in 2005 ).

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

* General Paul Hester USAF graduated from West Point High School

Paul Newell Hester ( 8 January 1959 – 26 March 2005 ) was an Australian musician and television personality ; he was the drummer for the related bands Split Enz and Crowded House.

After leaving Crowded House, Paul Hester appeared on many TV and radio shows in Australia and opened a cafe / restaurant named Beach House Cafe with fellow Melbourne musician Joe Camilleri in Elwood Beach in Melbourne.

Paul of Tarsus sailed for Europe for the first time from Alexandria Troas and returned there from Europe ( it was there that the episode of the raising of Eutychus later occurred ).

When Saint Paul returned to Jerusalem after his conversion, Barnabas took him and introduced him to the apostles ( 9: 27 ).

Paul returned with him to Antioch and labored with him for a whole year ( Acts 11: 25, 26 ).

After they had returned to Antioch from the Jerusalem council and after spending some time there ( 15: 35 ), Paul asked Barnabas to accompany him on another journey ( 15: 36 ).

When she returned east in 1913, she joined Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and others in founding the militant Congressional Union, which became the National Woman's Party.

Most New Testament scholars believe Paul of Tarsus wrote this letter from Corinth, although information appended to this work in many early manuscripts ( e. g., Codices Alexandrinus, Mosquensis, and Angelicus ) state that Paul wrote it in Athens after Timothy had returned from Macedonia with news of the state of the church in Thessalonica (; ).

Paul notes that because of his conversion, Onesimus is returned " no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a beloved brother " ( v. 16 ).

On November 27, 2004, those relics, along with those of John Chrysostom, were returned to Istanbul ( Constantinople ) by Pope John Paul II, with the Vatican retaining a small portion of both.

His feast day is on June 28 in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, where it was inserted for the first time in 1920 ; in 1960 it was transferred to July 3, leaving June 28 for the Vigil of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, but in 1969 it was returned to June 28, the day of his death.

At the next elections in 2000, Sir Anerood Jugnauth ’ s MSM, in coalition with Paul Bérenger ’ s MMM was returned to power, with Sir Anerood Jugnauth appointed as Prime Minister.

They met when her mother was treated by him in New York City on a weekend housecall, after Moore and her mother returned from a visit to the Vatican where they had personal audience with Pope John Paul II.

With the help of producer Paul Northfield the band returned in May 2002 with Vapor Trails, written and recorded in Toronto.

In 1932, Paul Muni returned to Hollywood to star in such harrowing pre-Code films as the original Scarface and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, for which he received his second Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Paul returned to serve in the Russian army during the First World War, and Nicholas II rewarded his uncle's loyalty by elevating Olga and her children as Princess and Princes Paley in 1915.

Paul Carrack also returned to the band in 1993, although by this point Squeeze was not so much a band as it was a trade name for Difford and Tilbrook plus sidemen.

The team returned home to massive crowds in Montreal and Toronto, and Paul Henderson had become a national hero.

Adair returned to prison in January 2003, when his early release licence was revoked by Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Paul Murphy on grounds of engaging in unlawful activity.

Paul Shaffer never returned the call which offered him the role of George Costanza in Seinfeld.

Two of the guns, the St. Paul and Edenton, have been returned to Edenton and can now be seen at Edenton's waterfront park.

This situation lasted until 1837, when Grand Duke Paul Friedrich returned the capital status to Schwerin.

Lennon returned to the subject in the lyrics of three of his subsequent songs: in the 1968 Beatles song " Glass Onion " he sings " now here's another clue for you all — the walrus was Paul ", ; in the third verse of " Come Together " he sings the line " he bag production, he got walrus gumboot ", and in his 1970 solo song " God ", admits " I was the walrus, but now I'm John.

On 20 December 1538 Pope Paul III named him a cardinal in pectore and Bembo returned to Rome.

Robert Plant started his own label, Es Paranza Records, in the wake of the closure of Swan Song, while Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones returned to Atlantic Records.