Moving Pictures is currently the band's highest-selling album ( 4. 4 million units ).

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.

He has also worked with Travis three times, producing the Scottish band's commercial breakthrough The Man Who ( 1999 ), the follow-up The Invisible Band ( 2001 ) and The Boy With No Name ( 2007 ), although the band also worked with Brian Eno and Mike Hedges on the latter album.

The music video for " Land of Confusion ", a song that appeared on the band's 1986 album Invisible Touch, contained Spitting Image puppets of Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and other people.

Shaping the Invisible is the band's first album and its title is taken from a quote by Leonardo DaVinci describing music.

Tyler Connolly ( vocals / guitar ) reportedly slipped a copy of the band's demo ( which would become the song " Invisible Man ") to Kroeger at a post-concert party and the two were soon collaborating on songs together.

It was apparently meant to capitalise upon the group's ( and likely Gabriel's ) surging popularity in the U. S., as suggested by the timing of its release ( closely on the heels of Invisible Touch ) and its liner notes which document the band's early history, up to … And Then There Were Three …, which was not familiar to most of the group's American audience.

The band's only album, released on April 21, 1997 in Europe by Dynamica, and on May 27, 1997 in the United States by Invisible Records.

This record received the most critical acclaim yet upon its release in February 2003, partly owing to the increased exposure caused by their signing of a distribution deal with American label The End Records, and saw them play a string of live shows before travelling to Västerås in June 2004 to record Invisible, which is the band's first departure from their conceptual storyline approach, dealing with a wide array of topics from love to history.

The band's debut album, 1991 / 92's Ferment, made an immediate impression on the music press and introduced Catherine Wheel's second-biggest U. S. hit, " Black Metallic ," as well as moderate hit " I Want to Touch You ".

The band's reformation fostered the 1987 Gold album Touch the World, which was nominated for a Soul Train Award in the category of Best R & B / Soul Album of the Year and rose to number three on the Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums chart and number 33 on The Billboard 200.

Some editions of Touch included a second disc featuring several live tracks, although these recordings were later incorporated into the band's third live album, Access: D. Access: D was released towards the end of 2002, capping a year which had seen four full album releases from the band.

The single " Destroy Everything You Touch " () became the band's best known song.

Most of the band's catalog was kept in print through Touch and Go Records for years following their breakup.

In 1992 Big Black's catalog reverted to Touch and Go Records, who re-released their entire discography and kept their records in print long after the band's breakup.

Despite a lukewarm reception, the album became the band's fourth top-ten hit album in a row and the single " Touch Me " was hugely successful.

However, despite making # 6 in the US, the album did not chart in the UK, perhaps due to the band's lack of a supporting hit single (" Touch Me " also did not chart ).

On October 6, all of the band's Touch & Go studio albums were re-released with improved sound and bonus tracks.

) Although not as widely remembered as " High School Confidential " today, the LP's first single ( the sexually-charged " All Touch ") was the band's most successful single on the Canadian charts during their career, peaking at No. 12.

Touch and Go argued that according to existing US copyright law, it controlled the copyright to the band's recordings for a minimum of 35 years, based on sec.

" Touch of Grey " is a 1987 single by the Grateful Dead, and is the band's only commercial hit.

On June 12, 2006, the band's label Touch and Go Records announced that Man or Astro-man?

Judester was the band's first album released on Touch & Go Records, and was subsequently released as a two-for-one CD with Fizzjob.

Performed by Steve Perry However most of the studio recordings on the Uniting Nations debut and only album One World released in 2005 on Gut Records were done by vocalist and session artist Jinian Wilde including for the band's two initial UK hits " Out of Touch " and " You and Me ", whereas the band's third hit, " Ai No Corrida ", a remake of the Quincy Jones hit featured the vocals of Laura More.

It also includes three non-Motörhead tracks: Girlschool's cover version of Motörhead's " Bomber ", a cover version of Johnny Kidd & The Pirates ' " Please Don't Touch " performed by the Motörhead / Girlschool collaboration Headgirl, and Hawkwind's original version of " Motörhead ", the song from which Motörhead frontman Lemmy took the band's name after being fired from Hawkwind.

Even at this early stage in the band's history, they were already becoming known for their incredible song lengths ; 019: Hypnosis, Drugs, and Mind Control ( The Beginning: A Touch ) is eight hours long, 028: Even to the Edge of Doom is twenty-four hours long, 044: A Corpse in My Arms on Awakening breaks the one day mark at thirty-seven hours long, but is surpassed by 045: The Wicked Cease From Struggling which is one-hundred and sixty-eight hours long.