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.

The band's self-titled debut album began selling copies again off of the success of Tragic Kingdom and reached total sales of over a quarter of a million copies.

Live in the Tragic Kingdom, a live long-form video of the band's performance at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, was released and The Beacon Street Collection was re-released while the band was on tour that year.

The band's 1919 appearance at the London Hippodrome was the first official jazz gig by any band in the United Kingdom and was followed by a command performance for King George V at Buckingham Palace.

A surge of popular interest in anarchism occurred during the 1970s in the United Kingdom following the birth of punk rock, in particular the Situationist-influenced graphics of Sex Pistols artist Jamie Reid, as well as that band's first single, " Anarchy in the UK ".

The soundtrack also included the Grammy-nominated song " The Great Beyond ", which remains the band's highest-charting single in the United Kingdom.

The material was released in the United Kingdom on 8 December 1967 as a six-track double EP on the Parlophone label ; in the United States the record, released on 27 November 1967, was an eleven-track LP created by Capitol Records, adding the band's 1967 single releases.

Frontiers was the band's highest-charting album in the United Kingdom, reaching # 6 on the UK Albums Chart in 1983.

In 1989 O ' Connor joined The The frontman Matt Johnson as a guest vocalist on the band's album Mind Bomb, which spawned the duet " Kingdom of Rain.

" By early 1980, " Babe " had become the band's biggest international hit and first million-selling single, reaching number six in the United Kingdom.

Of the nine albums credited to Wings during the band's life, all went top 10 in either the United Kingdom or United States, with five consecutive U. S. No. 1s.

The band toured the United Kingdom in late 1988 and in 1989, they signed to Rough Trade, and released their second album, On Fire, which has been described as " lo-fi psychedelia reminiscent of Jonathan Richman being backed by The Velvet Underground ", and is considered the band's defining moment.

The group's first album, Kingdom Come is to date the band's most internationally popular and biggest selling recording.

However, the subsequent backlash against the band's perceived appropriation of a similar Led Zeppelin sound ( earning them the derisive moniker of " Kingdom Clone ") hurt their commercial appeal, and after the band's second album failed to sell well, all members other than Wolf quit the group.

" We Have Explosive " was the second single from the album, and the band's highest charting single ( beating " My Kingdom " by one spot to number 12 ), and over the course of its five-part extended version included hints of funk, something which would be heard again when the band returned many years later.

The album was an instant commercial success ; it became the first album in the United Kingdom following a change in regulations to qualify for a gold disc, the band's fourth consecutive, based on pre-orders alone.

The band's second album, You Could Have It So Much Better ( 2005 ), was a platinum-selling album in the United Kingdom and gold-selling in the United States.

The album spawned the band's first and largest hit, " Teenage Dirtbag ", a song which charted at No. 2 in the United Kingdom.

It was released on 24 August 1998 and became the first of the band's two number one singles in the United Kingdom to date.

The band's first album, The Opera Band ( 2004 ), reached number one on the Australian classical charts, number two on the United States ( US ) classical charts and the top 5 in the United Kingdom ( UK ) classical charts.

Flower / Satan is Boring ( Supermix ) is a single by the alternative rock band Sonic Youth released in the United Kingdom in 1986, but quickly withdrawn at the band's request.

The band's fourth album, Kingdom of Rust, was released in April 2009.

2002's Comfort in Sound is the band's best selling release, shifting over 503, 706 units in the United Kingdom alone with The Singles taking second spot with 497, 700 units, thus nearing the 500, 000 mark Comfort in Sound has already passed making that album a large commercial success.

The band's material has been released on a variety of labels, including Rough Trade in the United Kingdom, Arts & Crafts in the U. S., and EvilEvil in Canada.