She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at the London Palladium.

She joined the Maenads disregarding her pregnancy, and got into labor when she was dragging a sacrificial bull by the horns.

She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to perform solo.

She was joined by her sister Lydia who shared an apartment with her.

She also joined the Literary Club and had two stories published in the yearbook: Little Sister and Sergeant Terry.

She also joined the Pep Club, the National Honor Society, National FFA Organization and Paperdoll Queen.

She then began dating Kevin Gilbert and joined him in an ad hoc group of musicians known to everyone in the group as the " Tuesday Music Club.

She joined Olivier for a European tour with Titus Andronicus, but the tour was marred by Leigh's frequent outbursts against Olivier and other members of the company.

She also joined Temple's summer program at Tennessee State and trained regularly and raced with his Tigerbelles for two years.

She joined her first band " The Changing Times " while attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California.

She was attending a high school party and saw Buckingham playing " California Dreamin '", and joined in with the harmony.

She has spoken of being embarrassed about handing President Bill Clinton a silenced tambourine when he joined Fleetwood Mac on stage.

She was joined by guitarist Marc Ribot and percussionist Jay Bellerose.

She was joined there by her daughter, Edith of Wilton, who lived there as a nun until her death.

She is soon joined by Freder and Josaphat, who help her rescue the children and escape to the upper levels of the city via an escape ladder.

She also joined the choir in the finale of " O Holy Night ". Joan Baez concert in Dresden, Germany, July 2008

She first aligned with Sean and Vecepia who readily joined her.

She introduced him to Transactional Analysis therapists and joined him in meditation twice a day, ( given to him by Harriet Levy ), and cooked him a macrobiotic diet.

She joined Earth First!

She also joined Earth First!

She also joined a host of distinguished comedy stars, including Ian Carmichael and Peter Sellers, in the Boulting Brothers ' satire I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ).

" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.

She soon became involved with the suffrage movement and joined her mother at speaking events.

She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances.

The band performed mostly covers of international hits, but Andersson soon started writing his own material, and gave the band the classic hits " No Response ", " Sunny Girl ", " Wedding ", " Consolation ", " It's Nice To Be Back " and " She Will Love You " amongst others.

She is also part of the band Bandella, which also includes fellow NASA astronaut Steven Robinson, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, and Micki Pettit ( astronaut Don Pettit's wife ).

She is Ireland's best-selling solo musician and is officially the country's second-largest musical export after the band U2.

She acquired a love of rock music during the 1970s, having been introduced by a babysitter to the music of the Los Angeles punk rock band X, which proved a life-changing experience.

She then transferred as a piano student to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, in the hope of finding a band with which to sing.

She has expressed interest in playing the role of Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in Michel Gondry's upcoming biographical film about the band.

She also worked extensively in live musical theatre as a band member and accompanist.

The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track off their 1994 album The Friends of Rachel Worth, When She Sang About Angels in reference to Smith's long time influence on themselves.

She portrays Diana, a fan of The Beatles band member John Lennon ; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him.

She had an affair with Tom Verlaine, and formed a highly successful band of her own, The Patti Smith Group.

Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures ( which featured the hit singles " And She Was " and " Road to Nowhere "), 1986's True Stories ( Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared ), and 1988's Naked.

She also recorded a song called " Distant Storm " for the film China O ' Brien ; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called Tess Makes Good.

Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).

She came out for the encore and performed Rock Lobster with the band.

She admitted inspiration when she saw Joplin perform live ( and opened for with her first band " Fritz ") shortly before Joplin's death.

She renewed her support for a defeat of the Confederacy, and before long she was leading a band of scouts through the land around Port Royal.

She has recorded with Yellow Magic Orchestra and its members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi, as well as Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, The Chieftains, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Mino Cinelu, Jeff Bova, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, Bill Frisell, Thomas Dolby, the band Quruli, Rei Harakami as yanokami, and her daughter Miu Sakamoto.

When she got into the band, she was dedicated to her music …. She was a lonely girl around New York, just kept herself to herself, for the gig.

She sang with Tony Pastor's big band.