* " Blind ", a song by Placebo from their fifth album, Meds

In November, he joined Placebo on stage at their Wembley Arena gig to sing the band's hit song " Without You I'm Nothing ", as well as The Cure staple " Boys Don't Cry ".

But Schultzberg suggested playing together until they finished the promotion of their first album, Placebo, and the band accepted.

In the same year, however, they were able to convince Hewitt to return to Placebo as their full-time drummer.

In early 1996, Placebo opened several concerts for David Bowie in Italy, France, and Switzerland as part of his Outside Tour after he had only heard one of their demos.

In 1998, Placebo switched to the major label Virgin Records, and issued their album Without You I'm Nothing in November.

In spring 2003, Placebo released their fourth album, Sleeping with Ghosts.

In 2006, Placebo switched labels in the US to Astralwerks and re-released several revisions of their earlier works.

In October their debut album Placebo was digitally remastered and re-released with the subtitle " 10th Anniversary Collectors Edition "; the box set also included a DVD containing music videos, concerts, and TV performances.

From 29 to 31 May 2009, Placebo streamed the new album on their official website.

Two tracks from the movie soundtrack, " Protonilus Death March " and " Syrtis Major " were released as a 5000-only picture-disc EP late in 2004, available only through the band's online store in conjunction with the purchase of their limited-edition pictorial biography Waking Up With a Placebo Headwound.

The band made a few more festival appearances, including an appearance at V99, as a last-minute replacement for Placebo, before playing their last ever gig in Holland at the end of August.

* The computerized voice at the end of " Funny Little Man " was sampled by Placebo on " Evil Dildo ", the secret track on their second LP Without You I'm Nothing.

* Placebo filmed the video for their 1999 single " Every You Every Me " during a gig at the Academy.

In 2000, Magic Dirt signed a recording contract with – ironically – Warner Music Australia, and began recording their third album, What Are Rockstars Doing Today with Phil Vinall ( Placebo ) producing.

Other prominent independent rock bands in the 2000s include: Editors, The Fratellis, Placebo, Lostprophets, Razorlight, Keane, Kaiser Chiefs, Muse, Kasabian, The Kooks and Arctic Monkeys ( the last being the most prominent act to gain their initial fan base through the use of internet social networking ).

The band were forced to change their name because it was previously registered by Steve Hewitt ( formerly of Placebo ) on his vanity record label.

Their first album, The Things We Make was released the following year, after which they began headlining their own shows, as well as touring with Ash, Manic Street Preachers, The Dandy Warhols, and Placebo.

Schultzberg had known Stefan Olsdal from a band in school in Sweden they were both in in 1993 and joined Placebo when the band formed in September 1994, helping them to record their first studio demo in April 1995, which garnered lots of industry attention culminating in a deal with Virgin Records.

Schultzberg suggested playing together until they finished the promotion of their first album, Placebo.

They were signed to Beggars Banquet offshoot label Placebo, who released their Trophy EP in April 1993: awarded single of the week in the NME.

The alternative rock artist Placebo refers to a medicine show in their song " Twenty Years " on the album Once More With Feeling.

Touring slots with The Killers, Feeder, Duran Duran, Placebo, supporting them at Wembley Arena, The Tears and a reformed Gang Of Four soon followed as the band sought to build a support base ahead of their first wing of releases.

In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, Placebo Effect by Gary Russell, the Eighth Doctor was invited to attend their wedding, which took place on Micawber ’ s World in 3999.

In September 1995 Kula Shaker were joint winners of the In The City contest ( along with Placebo ), which quickly resulted in a record contract with Columbia Records, who were eager to sign another band that had the multi-platinum, crossover appeal of Oasis.

Another possible resolution of the ethical dilemma might come from the " honest placebo " effect found in a 2010 study carried out by researchers in the Program in Placebo Studies at the Harvard Medical School, where patients with irritable bowel syndrome experienced a significant beneficial effect even though they were told the pills they were taking were placebos, as compared to a control group who received no pills.

* Parkinson's disease: Placebo relief is associated with the release of dopamine in the brain.

During this time the configuration experienced a renaissance of sorts with groups such as Nirvana, Silverchair, Meat Puppets, Violent Femmes, Babes in Toyland, Primus, Hüsker Dü ( and spin off bands Nova Mob and Sugar ), Walt Mink, the Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, Melvins, Fudge Tunnel, Galaxie 500, DC3, Nomeansno, The Presidents of the United States of America, Low, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Killdozer, Cosmic Psychos, Therapy ?, Placebo, Jawbreaker, Bratmobile, Sleater-Kinney, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, Gov't Mule, Morphine ( bass, sax and drums ) and Ben Folds Five ( piano, bass and drums ).

Placebo trials of Reiki are complicated by the difficulty of designing a realistic placebo, although subsequent trials with adequate placebo or sham controls have shown no difference between the procedure and the control groups.

Stabbing Westward continued to tour with bands like Placebo, The Cult, Monster Magnet, and Depeche Mode, while playing numerous summer festivals.

Bowie made a special appearance on-stage with Placebo during a tour stop in New York.

Placebo played " 20th Century Boy " live with David Bowie at the BRIT Awards show in 1999.

As revealed on the Once More with Feeling DVD extras, whilst on tour in South America, Placebo and Limp Bizkit played on the same evening.

Januarie's brothers are named Placebo and Justinus: the former a sycophant, whose name in Latin means ' I will please ', and the latter a fairer man (' the just one ') with no individual motive.

The Venus in Furs covers several Roxy Music songs with Thom Yorke channeling Bryan Ferry on vocals, Placebo covers T. Rex's " 20th Century Boy ," Wylde Ratttz and Ewan McGregor cover The Stooges ' " T. V.

All three members of the band Placebo also appeared in the film, with Brian Molko and Steve Hewitt playing members of the Flaming Creatures ( Malcolm and Billy respectively ) and Stefan Olsdal playing Polly Small's bassist.

** " Placebo " ( with Rufus Dog, in 2000 AD # 1405, 2004 )

Kensit was a special guest host on The Friday Night Project on 23 June 2006 with band Placebo.

They have toured with Jane's Addiction, The Raveonettes, Placebo, The Killers, and Editors.

Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996 – 2004 is a greatest hits album by English alternative rock band Placebo.

In August 2012, Chris Olley announced that he and James Flower reformed Six by Seven and that they are recording new material with the former Placebo drummer Steve Hewitt.

* Stefan Olsdal of Placebo played bass with them when the two bands toured together in 2003.