Prior to the release of the VHS Volumes, a laserdisc titled Beavis and Butt-Head: The Essential Collection was issued in 1994, containing sixteen episodes from the second and third seasons.

Prior to New World Pictures ' release of the film, Toho had the film dubbed in Hong Kong.

Prior to this, in his early twenties, he traveled to negotiate with Emperor Nero for the release of several Jewish priests.

Prior to the release of NeXTSTEP, Chrysler planned to buy 3, 000 copies in 1992.

Prior to the release of these maps, players were limited to playing multiplayer games on the single-player levels, which, while functional as multiplayer levels, were not designed with deathmatch gameplay specifically in mind.

Prior to the release of the TV series, the name Robotech was used by model kit manufacturer Revell on their Robotech Defenders line in the mid-1980s.

Prior to the album's release, the track " This Is It " was available for download on the iTunes Store, as well as for Rock Band.

Prior to the release of The Wind Waker, a bonus disc called The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest was released, containing a port of Ocarina of Time and a GameCube-modified version of Ocarina of Time Ura.

Prior to the release of HP-UX version 11. 11, HP used a decimal version numbering scheme with the first number giving the major release and the number following the decimal showing the minor release.

Prior to its release, a competition was run by Queen online to guess the track listing as a promotion for the album.

Prior to the release of Windows Media Player in Windows 98 Second Edition, separate programs, CD Player, Deluxe CD Player, DVD Player and Media Player, were included in old versions of Microsoft Windows for playback of media files.

Prior to the release of 1998's Follow the Leader, Gretchen Plewes, a Zeeland high school assistant principal, said in an interview for a Michigan newspaper that Korn's music is " indecent, vulgar, obscene and intends to be insulting " after giving a student, Eric VanHoven, a one-day suspension for wearing a shirt with the Korn logo on it.

Prior to the release of Dr. No – and unconnected with the book itself – Bernard Bergonzi, in the March 1958 issue of Twentieth Century attacked Fleming's work, saying that it contained " a strongly marked streak of voyeurism and sado-masochism " and that the books showed " the total lack of any ethical frame of reference ".

Prior to the release of this tape, President Nixon had denied political motivations in his instructions to the CIA, and claimed he had no knowledge prior to March 21, 1973 of any involvement by senior campaign officials such as John Mitchell.

Prior to the film's release, executive producer and Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs stated " If Toy Story is a modest hit — say $ 75 million at the box office — we'll and Disney both break even.

Tausen's preaching converted ordinary people, merchants, nobles, and monks and even the Prior grew to appreciate Tausen and ordered his release.

Prior to the release of the first film, she was noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, for which she is also known in Denmark.

Prior to the release of Windows Mobile 2003, third-party software was developed using Microsoft's eMbedded Visual Tools, eMbedded Visual Basic ( eVB ) and eMbedded Visual C ( eVC ).

Prior to release of the film, the Los Angeles Daily News reported that Bellaman " heads west to help Erich Wolfgang Korngold on the scoring " of the film, and that Bellaman used to be on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Prior to its release, the film had been hailed by critic Amy Harmon as an epochal moment when cyberpunk counterculture would enter the mainstream.

Prior to the Special Edition release, however, LucasArts announced that Loom, along with other games from its back catalog, would be made available on Steam.

Prior to its North American release, game play footage from Super Mario Bros. 3 appeared in the Universal Studios film The Wizard, which helped fuel its fans ' anticipation.

Prior to the game's release, a promotional soundtrack was released in North America, titled Music to Pound the Ground To: Yoshi's Story Game Soundtrack.

* Summer Solstice ( album ), 1971 folk music album by Maddy Prior and Tim Hart

Prior to the recording sessions, Rundgren listened through demos of the songs, chose 15 for the record and worked out a sequence for the album.

Prior to the recording of their fourth album Burning from the Inside ( 1983 ) Peter Murphy was stricken with pneumonia, which prevented him from contributing much to the album.

Prior to the disbanding of The Revolution, Prince was working on two separate projects, The Revolution album Dream Factory and a solo effort, Camille.

Prior to his next album Beefheart appeared in 1977 on the Tubes ' album Now, playing saxophone on the song " Cathy's Clone ", and the album also featured a cover of the Clear Spot song " My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains ".

Prior to the release of Big Science, Anderson returned to Giorno Poetry Systems to record the album You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With ; Anderson recorded one side of the 2-LP set, with William S. Burroughs and John Giorno recording a side each, and the fourth side featured a separate groove for each artist.

Prior to his death, he was collaborating on a project with former Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice, under the moniker Heaven & Hell, whose only studio album, The Devil You Know, was released on April 28, 2009.

Prior to the album's release, Slipknot gave away " Heretic Song ", titled " The Heretic Anthem " on the album, free on their website and was limited to a quantity of 666 copies to coincide with the song's chorus ; " If you're 555, then I'm 666.

Prior to its release, band members promised a much darker and heavier album than Slipknot, and many sources praised the band for achieving this – effectively fulfilling their promises.

Prior to the album release, Glenn Danzig noted how the band had improved in the interim between the debut recording and the recording of Lucifuge: “ Everybody's much more comfortable with each other now.

While recording the album, the five members were all living in the same house, an arrangement that produced considerable tensions particularly between Hart and Prior on the one hand and the Woods on the other.

A by-product of this gig was founding vocalist Gay Woods rejoining the band fulltime, partly because Prior was experiencing vocal problems, and for a while Steeleye toured with two female singers, and released the album Time 1996, their first new studio album in seven years.

Prior also sang backing vocals on the title track of Jethro Tull's 1976 album Too Old To Rock and Roll, Too Young To Die.

Prior to Spence again departing and the group again breaking up, the group performed a few concerts to support the album, most notably, during the last days of the Fillmore East.

Prior to the release of their debut album in 2000, they had already contributed songs to film soundtracks and made featurings on high profile albums.

Prior to formally leaving the band, Taylor worked with Duran Duran bandmates Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes on the album So Red The Rose for their side project Arcadia in 1985.

Prior to Keith's signing with Sparrow Records and two years before the release of " No Compromise ", Tommy James ( of Tommy James and the Shondells ) released " Don't Wanna Fall Away From You " on his 1976 Fantasy album titled " In Touch ".

Prior to recording the album, drummer James Bradley Jr was replaced by Kyle Hollinger.

Prior to iTunes 9. 0, the iTunes Store was delivered using a custom XML format that describes the position of all of the elements, boxes, album art and all of their properties — including whether a reference link can be dragged out of iTunes and into another document.