In November 2007 Led Zeppelin made the band's songs available as legal digital downloads, one of the last major rock bands to do so.

While there have occasionally been a few vocals on the band's other releases, such as the track " Kiew Mission " from 1981's Exit and " The Harbor " from 1987's Shy People, the group only recently returned to featuring vocals in a musical trilogy based on Dante's Divine Comedy and their 2007 album Madcap's Flaming Duty.

After the departures of Margolis and Krummenacher, the band's lineup stabilized in 2007 around Hickman, Lowery, Funaro and new bass guitarist Sal Maida, who had played with Roxy Music.

In 2006 he began work with Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock on songs that eventually featured on the band's 2007 release, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

The band's first release through Gray Matters was a Christmas album that was released on October 16, 2007, entitled Christmas Songs.

A & M Records, the band's record company, promoted the 2007 – 2008 reunion tour as the 30th anniversary of the band's formation, and of the release of their first single for A & M, " Roxanne ".

In early 2007 it was announced that Difford and Tilbrook would re-form Squeeze for a series of shows throughout the latter half of the year, in support of Universal and Warner's re-issuing of the band's back catalogue and the release of a new ' best of ' album, Essential Squeeze, on 30 April.

Karl Sanders had confirmed a release date of June 29 via a posting on the band's message board, which was later pushed back to July 20, 2007.

Following their 2004 concert tour the band was on a hiatus from the public until September 2006, when new bassist Wolfgang Van Halen's place was confirmed and Roth reunion rumors began to re-surface, both events coinciding with the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on March 12, 2007.

The year 2007 witnessed the band's first world tour in a decade.

On January 16, 2007, America released Here & Now, the band's first major label studio album in over twenty years.

" The band's original line-up reunited in June 2007, embarking on a tour later that year and releasing the album Forth in August 2008.

On 26 June 2007, the band's reunion was announced by Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1.

The band's appearance at Irving Plaza in New York City in early November 2006 was filmed and was released in 2007.

A new track, " It's OK Johanna ", appeared on the band's MySpace site in 2007, and in January 2008, Rowland told Uncut magazine further details about the album, saying in part: " I'm in the process of demo-ing the songs ...

Early that year, the band's record company placed an ad for a lead singer to "... take part in a 2007 World Tour and TV Series.

The band's cover of ELO's " Mr. Blue Sky " was used in the end credits of the British Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle in 2007.

This would be the band's last concert with David Lee Roth as lead singer until 2007.

A 2007 newsletter from Kay's Wolfpack fanclub stated there would be some remastering of the band's albums throughout 2007 and 2008.

The band's album " Have Mercy " was to have been released on V2 Records in summer 2007 ( originally set for January 2007, and then spring, according to V2 marketing materials ).

The band's eighth studio album, Send Away the Tigers, was released on 7 May 2007 on Columbia Records.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band's Dick's Picks concert album series.

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, to Linda Carroll, now a psychotherapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher who had some association with the Grateful Dead ; consequently, Love was included in a group picture on the back of the band's album Aoxomoxoa ( 1969 ).

In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

" Machine Gun ", the instrumental title track from the band's debut album, became a staple at American sporting events, and is similarly featured in many films, including Boogie Nights and Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

At Capitol's behest, the band's name was changed to Crowded House, which alluded to the lack of space at the West Hollywood apartment they shared during the recording of the album Crowded House.

As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.

The album was released in June 2010, in time for the band's appearance at the West Coast Blues & Roots Festival near Perth, Western Australia.

A new compilation album, The Very Very Best of Crowded House, was released in October 2010 to celebrate the band's 25th anniversary.

No mention of this album has been made on the band's official website or Twitter page, which suggests that they are not involved with its release.

Bassist Nick Seymour, who is also an artist, designed or co-designed all of the band's album covers and interior artwork.

The album was played as two continuous pieces of music on the two sides of the vinyl and produced the band's two biggest hit singles, " Kayleigh " and " Lavender ".

1: The Miracle and the Sleeper ", which was released on the band's 1992 breakthrough album, Images and Words, and is followed by the 2005 album " Octavarium ".

Although it did not achieve the same levels of commercial success as the band's later releases ( it reached # 73 on the Billboard 200 ), it has been hailed by many fans and critics as Dream Theater's masterpiece and the band's defining album.

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

Also in 1979 Rhino Records released Devotees, a tribute album, containing a set of covers of the band's songs interspersed with renditions of popular songs in Devo's style.

After Wood's departure following the band's debut record, Lynne wrote and arranged all of the group's original compositions and produced every album.

For the band's fourth album, Eldorado, A Symphony, a concept album about a daydreamer, Lynne stopped overdubbing strings and hired an orchestra and choir instead.

The new logo appeared on most of the band's album covers in various forms.

It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.