Other notable acts include Ali B ( who has been featured on other artists ' tracks, most significantly with Marco Borsato on the song " Wat zou je doen?

The uprising was mainly a campaign of non-violent civil resistance, which featured a series of demonstrations, marches, acts of civil disobedience, and labour strikes.

" Clay Witt, a minister in the Metropolitan Community Church, explains how theologians and commentators like John Shelby Spong, George Edwards and Michael England interpret injunctions against certain sexual acts as being originally intended as a means of distinguishing religious worship between Abrahamic and the surrounding pagan faiths, within which homosexual acts featured as part of idolatrous religious practices: " England argues that these prohibitions should be seen as being directed against sexual practices of fertility cult worship.

The Tazmania Freestyle: Overloaded compilation featured some of the biggest acts from their past, such as Pure Pleazure, Stefanie Bennett, Sammy C and Samantha, but the label has since shifted focus toward pop and house.

Virtuoso jazz guitarist John McLaughlin spent several years in Madurai learning Carnatic music and incorporated it into many of his acts including Shakti which featured prominent Indian musicians.

His love of rock music led Marrow to use electric guitar in the instrumentation of his hip hop albums in order to provide his songs with edge and power, and to make his raps harder ; he used the fusion of rock and hip hop of Rick Rubin-produced acts like Beastie Boys, Run-DMC and LL Cool J, which featured rock samples in their songs.

The film also featured such acts as The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Gerry & the Pacemakers, James Brown, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and The Beach Boys ( whose sequence was later cut from the film, due to contract issues ).

Show and the legendary list of performers ( including a performance by James Brown that many critics have called the best of his career ) marked a high point for Jan and Dean, as they were the hosts and one of the main featured acts as well.

" Later that same year, Run became an ordained minister, and in 1995 the iconic group appeared in The Show, a Def Jam-produced documentary that featured several of hip hop's biggest acts discussing the lifestyle and sacrifices of the industry.

The show featured acts reviving traditional sideshow stunts and carrying some of them to extremes, and " fringe " artists ( often exhibiting extreme body modification ) performing bizarre or masochistic acts like eating insects, lifting weights by means of hooks inserted in their body piercings, or stapling currency to their forehead.

The Michael Powell film Peeping Tom ( 1960 ) featured a filmmaker who committed murders and used the acts as the content of his documentary films, although no murders are seen in the film.

The event was held, following an appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 30, on Thanksgiving Day of 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, and featured a horn section with arrangements by Allen Toussaint and a stellar list of guests, including other Canadian acts Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

The compilation was released by Barsuk and featured indie, alternative, and high-profile acts such as Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, and Bright Eyes.

To emphasise how fine a line the police ( and Fitz ) walk in their close association with criminals, all three series featured several stories in which the police themselves commit criminal acts or become victims of crime.

Another notable film in this period was the short rock music performance film Three Directions In Australian Pop Music ( 1972 ), which featured in-concert colour footage of three of the most significant Melbourne rock acts of the period, Spectrum, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band and Wendy Saddington.

Although many of Spector's s productions were credited to acts such as The Ronettes, The Crystals, the Righteous Brothers, the Paris Sisters and Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, in reality they were created using a crack team of top-rank Los Angeles session players ( now known as " The Wrecking Crew ") and often featured an interchangeable lineup of lead singers, including Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love.

In 2002 Scruggs won a second Grammy award for the 2001 recording of " Foggy Mountain Breakdown ", which featured artists such as Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo ( Martin played the banjo tune on his 1970s stand-up comic acts ), Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin.

As of 2003, it has featured seven or eight stages ( depending on the venue ) accommodating popular contemporary rock music, electronic music, mainstream international acts and local acts.

The European leg of the 1993 " World Of Hurt Tour " featured Savatage and Non-Fiction as support acts.

One of the first in the USA was the six day Explo ' 72 held in Dallas, Texas in June 1972 that was attended by around 80, 000 people with around 100, 000-150, 000 at the final concert and which featured acts such as Larry Norman, The Archers, Love Song, Randy Matthews, Children of the Day, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson.

In 1975, an Off Broadway version of a Lampoon show led to his first television role as a cast member of the ABC variety show Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell that featured animal acts and little kids with loud voices.

These first-wave anarcho-punk bands are musically varied but are often connected by discernible stylistic elements: a willingness to experiment that often went outside the bounds of other hardcore punk acts, a slipshod and improvised feeling, perhaps owing to the many of the bands conceiving of themselves more as musical collectives than formal acts, and " ranting " sections, where bands would expound on issues like animal rights or gender inequality.

With their self-proclaimed trademark of " Ithyphallic metal ," Karl Sanders ( guitar / vocals ), Chief Spires ( bass / vocals ), and Pete Hammoura ( drums ) debuted with their Festivals of Atonement EP in 1995, leading Nile to a southwestern tour in support of other big metal acts such as Obituary, Deicide, and Broken Hope.

Named for the band members ' tendency to stare at their feet and guitar effects pedals onstage rather than interact with the audience, acts like My Bloody Valentine, and later Slowdive and Ride created a loud " wash of sound " that obscured vocals and melodies with long, droning riffs, distortion, and feedback.

David Crosby had performed rhythm guitar and vocals with folk-rock group The Byrds ; Stephen Stills had been a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in the band Buffalo Springfield ; and Graham Nash had been a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter with The Hollies, one of the " British Invasion " acts.

By 1961, the group, now known as The Vels, were recording background vocals for Motown acts.

Signed to the label in 1969, they were signed among other popular acts of the early 1970s, including Freda Payne ( Scherrie's older sister who saw a # 1 hit in 1970 with " Band Of Gold "), and The Honey Cone who saw a # 1 hit with " Want Ads " In an ironic twist of fate, ' Want Ads ' was originally recorded by Glass House with Scherrie on lead vocals.

Both Horn and Downes have performed the song live in other acts, including Yes ( which Downes and Horn joined for the Drama album and tour in 1980 ), Downes in the 2006 – 2009 revival of Asia with John Wetton on lead vocals, and Horn in his band The Producers, also in 2006.

During the 1970s, a similar style of country rock called southern rock ( fusing rock, country and blues music, and focusing on electric guitars and vocals ) was enjoying popularity with country audiences, thanks to such non-country acts as Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band and The Marshall Tucker Band.

For a brief time following Colourbox's dissolution, Martyn Young served as a producer on records by acts as diverse as The Christians and fellow labelmates The Wolfgang Press, whilst former singer Lorita Grahame lent her vocals to a record released by short-lived One Little Indian act Hit the Roof ( on a cover of Edwin Starr's " Contact ").

Named for the bandmembers ' tendency to stare at their feet onstage, shoegazing acts like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, and Lush created an overwhelmingly loud " wash of sound " that obscured vocals and melodies with long, droning riffs, distortion, and feedback.

He produced such hits as " Leap Up And Down And Wave Your Knickers In The Air " for St Cecilia and also acts such as Bay City Rollers, singing all the backing vocals on their first hit, " Keep on Dancing ".

She has also provided vocals for a number of other acts ' songs.

Heavily influenced by other lo-fi music, Swearing At Motorists ' songs are characterized by emphatic, crunching tonic chords, emotive vocals, and raw recordings, though with more emphasis on production than many lo-fi acts.

The song was also the third straight ( and last ) single to include Martha and the Vandellas in background vocals just weeks before "( Love is Like a ) Heat Wave " made the girl group one of the high-tier Motown acts.

Following more than a year of touring as an 8-piece ( 2 guitars, trumpet, trombone, violin, drums, keys, 4 vocals & percussion ) with such acts as Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley, as well as outings on their own, Head of Femur signed with Brooklyn's spinART Records in the summer of 2004.

Gordon resumed her singing career in 1988 singing lead vocals for club-oriented acts such as Offshore, Deja Vu and most notably, House ensemble Quartzlock, releasing the singles " No Regrets ", " Love Eviction " and " You Make Loving Fun ".

In an attempt to re-create the feel of his recordings Kidd employed the use of an echo unit on his vocals, one of the first UK rock acts to attempt this on stage.

Pierce later ran a recording studio in New Brunswick called Technical Ecstacy which recorded many locally legendary acts including The Ergs and used his old Dead Guy connections to get " Pops " to do guest vocals on their song " Maybe I'm The New Messiah " while recording their benchmark album " Dorkrockcorkrod ".

Featuring high-to-ultra-high vocals, twisting and expressive Arab-flavoured guitar work, powerfully funky basslines, arrogantly catchy keyboards and intense disco beats, Izabo have established themselves as one of Israel's most absorbing live acts.

Though mainstream audiences in the early sixties preferred a clean-cut style – epitomised by the acts that appeared on the Nine Network pop show Bandstand – there were a number of ' grungier ' guitar-oriented bands in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne, who were inspired by American and British instrumental and surf acts like Britain's The Shadows – who exerted an enormous influence on Australian and New Zealand music prior to the emergence of The Beatles – and American acts like guitar legend Dick Dale and The Surfaris.

Their early albums included both instrumental surf rock, including covers of music by Dick Dale, and vocal songs, drawing on rock and roll and doo wop and the close harmonies of vocal pop acts like the Four Freshmen.

These first few signings to the company were instrumental in establishing the company ethos of " innovation and artiste development, taking risks and signing acts far into the left field ".

In the vein of many other more traditional ska acts, many of Skapara's songs are purely instrumental.

The team would take turns presenting either in pairs or solo and would often introduce acts in an out-of-vision voiceover over the song's instrumental introduction and sometimes even conducted short informal interviews with the performers.

As secretary of the academy he was instrumental in assisting the publication of the collections of historic documents made by Constantin Hurmuzachi ( 30 vols., Bucharest, 1876-1897 ), and other acts and documents besides a number of minor political pamphlets of transitory value.

( Historian Vicente Carcel Orti asserts that anticlerical Freemasons had in fact played a large part in the anti-Catholic acts of the prior Republican government since they held key government positions, including at least 183 deputies in the Cortes ( the Spanish parliament ), and thus were instrumental in the making of anti-Catholic laws.

Technology plays an instrumental role in the continued development of manufacturing sectors, and acts to lower transaction costs in several ways.

Also they were and one of the best known acts to come out of East Los Angeles in the 1960s, with a cover of " Land of a Thousand Dances ", and the instrumental track, " Whittier Boulevard " in 1965.

In 1714, Veracini went to London and played instrumental pieces (" symphonies " in contemporary parlance ) between the acts of operas at the Queen's Theatre.

They were distinctly different from Jamaican reggae acts, in that they wrote songs that dealt with the issues surrounding the experiences of black youths growing-up in the UK ; such as " Three Babylon " and " It's Not Our Wish ", and the powerful jazz-influenced instrumental " Warrior Charge ".

Up to the present time, various composers have written instrumental ( often organ ) music as acts of worship, including well known organ repertoire by composers like Olivier Messiaen, Louis Vierne, Maurice Duruflé, and Jean Langlais.

Some acts also attempted to elevate the aesthetic values of rock music by incorporating features associated with classical instrumental music.

He is accompanied throughout by instrumental music and sung commentary by Laurie Amat, who acts as a " Greek Chorus " ( and sings the opening credits on the first track ).

Because of its receptivity to music videos ( something of a necessity because of the comparative rarity of tours by overseas acts ) Countdown proved to be instrumental in the worldwide success of a number of important overseas acts of the period.

He is convinced that he has been instrumental in helping many rock acts to achieve megastardom and yet received no credit for his efforts, such as being the cause for the gap in " Make Me Smile ( Come Up And See Me )" by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, inadvertently launching the vocal career of Phil Collins at a failed audition for the lead singer of Genesis after the departure of Peter Gabriel and giving Howard Jones the idea for using a mime artist in the hit " New Song " while working opposite him at a Clingfilm factory in High Wycombe.

In the early 1960s Atlantic began to license material from international sources for release on Atco, leading to instrumental hit singles from such acts as Jorgen Ingmann, Acker Bilk and Bent Fabric.

Their early albums included both instrumental surf rock ( among them covers of music by Dick Dale ) and vocal songs, drawing on rock and roll and doo wop and the close harmonies of vocal pop acts like the Four Freshmen.

Opera composers sometimes wrote instrumental intermezzi as connecting pieces between acts of operas.

Melody Maker reviewed the album in the context of contemporary German acts, feeling that " their instrumental playing " did not reach the same heights but that " they yield precedence to no-one in their creative use of electronics.

The first of these says that, given that Chopin was a composer for the piano first and foremost, the orchestral part of this piece acts more as a vehicle for the pianist, with the individual instrumental parts being uninteresting to perform.