He was in the chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section.

The band's debut single, " Smalltown Boy ", the tale of a boy who was cast away by his family for being homosexual, was a hit, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.

( Their bug-themed band's name, The Beatles, was chosen partly in homage to Holly's Crickets.

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.

Soon after, the band's name was revised to Bill Haley & His Comets.

They show off the band's strengths significantly, in part because the group was not confined to the three-minute limits of 78 RPM discs.

It was rekindled once, in 1978, for the Hawklords spin-off, but otherwise continued only with design commissions for projects involving the band's saxophonist Nik Turner.

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 ).

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.

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 ".

" 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.

With the sound moving away from punk rock, the band's rockabilly influence became even more noticeable, along with some new elements: funk on the track " True Love pt.

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler has made scatting a part of many of the band's recordings and live shows, sometimes performing extended scat solos which work to complement extend guitar solos, act as solos themselves, even to replace forgotten lyrics.

The band's unfashionable reputation and image problem has often been mentioned in the media, even in otherwise positive reviews.

" Their lyrics are sung exclusively in Swedish instead of the Finnish language " apparently because this language was better to evoke the trollish spirit ", even though the real reason for this lies in the band's original vocalist belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority.

" In a review of the band's 2003 greatest hits collection Thank You, Allmusic critic Stephen Erlewine wrote that " STP made music that sounded great at the time and even better now ," and that " this music has stood the test of the time ," calling Thank You " nearly perfect.

The film features an even bigger number of celebrity interviewees discussing the band's influence.

Despite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States ( where it sold more than 150, 000 copies even before the band toured there ).

This album was followed by Love of Life ( recorded by Martin Bisi in 1992 ), and the EP single Love of Life / Amnesia, taking the group even farther into experimentation, and then The Great Annihilator ( 1995 ), considered to be one of the band's most accessible releases, possibly through being their most straightforward.

Dukowski acted as the group's tour manager even after he no longer performed with them, and he was likely as important as Ginn in establishing the band's DIY punk ethic and demanding work ethic.

album recording, but continued to provide percussion for the band's albums ( and many others ) for years, and even reunited with other early members of the band for a 1999 performance in California.

No official release announcement was made even on the band's official website.

The single reached the Top 5 in the UK, even though the band's original version had been a hit only a year earlier.

The discussion covered the band's history and the current state of their live show and songwriting, with Sylvain commenting that " even if you come to our show thinking ' how can it be like it was before ,' we turn that around ' cos we've got such a great live rock ' n roll show ".

Moraz was retained as the band's permanent keyboardist, though Pinder had originally understood that he would continue to record even if not touring with the band.

The Woodstock Movie camera crew even caught the band's opening number, " More and More ", as they took to the stage.

While " Magic " was the band's only American top 40 hit, a later single from the band, " January " became a much bigger hit than " Magic " in the U. K., claiming the number 1 spot (" Magic " did not even make the U. K. top ten ).

Initially disliked by many Elevators fans, it has found a substantial fan-base today, with some even rating it the band's best LP.

In an even bigger blow, the band's longtime label, EMI America Records, went bankrupt during the same period.

The band's later releases, Fresh ( 1973 ) and Small Talk ( 1974 ), featured even less of the band and more of Stone.

Butler disliked the band's indulgence on the tour during his bereavement, in which he became more alienated from the band so much that he even travelled separately.

Ice-T cowrote the band's music and lyrics with lead guitarist Ernie C, and took on the duties of lead vocalist, even though he felt that he did not have a great singing voice.

" This Is Your Land " was chosen as the lead single for the U. S., and even with guest vocals from the band's idol Lou Reed, the single failed to make a mark on the pop charts.

The last song on the album, Shorter's " Non-Stop Home ", foreshadowed the band's developing hallmark sound ( which would be even more in evidence on their next album ).

" Dave Marsh, normally an ardent detractor of the band, was even more enthusiastic, describing the album as " the band's finest recording of the 80's ".

However, after the release, critics were mostly positive, even though there was a consensus that the band's sound was remarkably different.