The band's fashion-sense has been seminal ; Simeon Lipman, head of pop culture at Christie's auction house, has commented that " Led Zeppelin have had a big influence on fashion because the whole aura surrounding them is so cool, and people want a piece of that ".

The band's members cited punk rock as a key influence on their style.

Gary Smith, who produced the Pixies ' first recording, Come On Pilgrim, commented on the band's influence on alternative rock and their legacy in 1997:

Supporters cite the band's accomplishments including longevity, proficiency, and influence, as well as commercial sales figures and RIAA certifications.

The film explores the band's influence on popular music and the reasons why that influence has been underrepresented over the years.

) Another strong influence on the band's final sound was Zolar X, a theatrical glitter rock band popular in the Los Angeles area circa 1972 – 1980.

Blur's work, along with many more minor Britpop bands, have been cited as particularly reminiscent of 1970s Wire at various points, with Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn both speaking of the band's influence on Blur.

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.

Most of the album was recorded in Munich during the most turbulent period in the band's history, and Taylor and May lamented the new sound, with both being very critical of the influence Mercury's personal manager Paul Prenter had on the singer.

Due to the band's lack of creative control on the first album, Smith exerted a greater influence on the recording of The Cure's second album Seventeen Seconds, which he co-produced with Mike Hedges.

Sutcliffe's input was, however, an important early influence on the development of the band's image ; Sutcliffe was the first to wear what would later become famous as The Beatles ' moptop hairstyle, asking his girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr to cut his hair in emulation of the hairdo worn by friend Klaus Voormann.

" Guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers cited Van Vliet as a prominent influence on the band's 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik as well as his debut solo album Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt ( 1994 ) and stated that during his drug-induced absence, after leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he " would paint and listen to Trout Mask Replica.

Baxter's also marked the ascendency of Kantner and Slick as the band's chief composers and the concurrent decline in the influence and involvement of founder Marty Balin.

Particularly, the band Aerosmith was a large influence on the band collectively, with guitarist Dean DeLeo acknowledging the band's influence on songs such as " Huckleberry Crumble " off their self-titled record.

After reconvening in the studio for their second album, Purple, the band's style developed, taking influence from psychedelic rock, country music, and jangle pop.

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

Bootsy Collins was a major songwriter, rhythm arranger, and bassist for Parliament-Funkadelic during the seventies and was a major influence in the band's sound during that time.

The first three Funkadelic albums displayed strong psychedelic influences ( not least in terms of production ) and limited commercial potential, despite containing many songs that stayed in the band's setlist for several years and would influence many future funk, rock, and hip hop artists.

The band's multi-layered guitar sound became a major influence on a number of new bands who the British music press grouped together under the shoegazing label.

During their period of greatest celebrity, the band's influence on aspiring R & B-flavored white acts was without equal, especially in the northeastern U. S. Notable bands that incorporated ( sometimes to the point of parody ) the Rascals ' full-on stage demeanor and energy as well as the intense, hyper-dramatic vocalizing, drumstick-spinning gyrations and heavy bottom-end rhythm also achieved some prominence: the Vagrants ( featuring Leslie West, later of Mountain ), the Rich Kids, and the epitome of over-the-top funky psychedelia, the Vanilla Fudge, all owed their styles to the Rascals ' synthesis of show-biz and soul.

" Levitation " ranks among the band's most iconic songs, with its Tommy Hall penned lyrics and its twisted blues sensibilities, while " Postures " displays a distinct Motown influence.

The band's music had evolved much in a short time, moving away from hardcore formulas toward a more innovative jazz-informed style, featuring musicianship and dynamics far beyond other bands in the genre ( thus effectively removing the music from that genre ).

Despite its pop stylings, the album failed to crossover beyond the band's existing fanbase and produced no major hit singles.

The band's sound began to evolve beyond its early garage roots with their second ( nine minute long ) LP, Toolin ' For A Warm Teabag, which saw the band drifting towards a more truculent punk rock sound, influenced by GG Allin.

" Nature Bears A Vacuum " was released with no expectations of expanding the band's following beyond Albuquerque.

Zen Arcade received critical praise and significant mainstream music press attention, ending up on several year end best-of lists ; it also helped expand the band's audience beyond the punk community.

A guitarist William Tang ( 鄧煒謙 ) wished the band's name to convey a feeling of surpassing or going beyond themselves ( 超越 ), so the name " Beyond " was chosen.

By this point, the band's aggressive political message and related critique of their contemporaries had sparked much controversy, and they endured prominent animosity in New York City and beyond.

Steve Huey argues that the release of Cap ' n Jazz's retrospective compilation album Analphabetapolothology helped spread the band's influence " far beyond their original audience ", while also considering the group as influential for the development of emo in the independent music scene.

Although still a relatively traditional folk album, its release on a major label meant that it was the band's first album to expand their fan base significantly beyond the folk music scene.

The official departure of band members Jason Gilardi, Daniel ' Heavy Tarmac ' Kirby, and Mark Haugh was announced on the band's MySpace on June 29, 2007 due to " situations beyond our control.

Allmusic criticized the vocal sections as " excuses for Winwood to exercise his expressive voice as punctuation to the extended instrumental sections ", but made note of how the album took the band's jazz / rock leanings beyond mere jamming.

The band's success beyond Latin America hinges largely on their ability to constantly reinvent themselves, as with their late 1990s venture into ska music, popular in the United States at the time.

With enthusiastic reception from the dance music scene, it has since become the band's signature track, yielding beyond a dozen remixes from Black Hole over the years.

Genocky was unable to commit to the band beyond the recording of the album and the band's live debut at the Reading Festival in 1978.

According to the band's official biography, " What emerged would be a band that would go beyond shaking up the house that ' Mickey ' built and extend to paving the way and breaking ground for performance based music artists thereafter worldwide ".

Originally, it was supposed to be the first single, but was delayed due to circumstances beyond the band's control.

Europa carried Covenant's aggressive, often distorted brand of music into the beat-driven realm of synth pop, marking the beginning of a gradual evolution in the band's collective sound.

Susan Fast argues that as Plant emerged as the band's main lyricist, the songs more obviously reflected his alignment with the West Coast counterculture of the 1960s.

The band's " non-rhythm-and-blues, whiter-than-white fusion of 1960s rock and postpunk was a repudiation of contemporary dance pop " – the style popular in the early 1980s.

Originally conceived as the soundtrack to a television play that was never produced, the band's first rock opera affectionately chronicled the trials and tribulations of a working class everyman and his family from the very end of the Victorian era through World War I and World War II, the postwar austerity years, and up to the 1960s.

Daltrey's Townshend-inspired stuttering expression of youthful anger, frustration and arrogance in the band's breakthrough single, " My Generation ", captured the revolutionary feeling of the 1960s for many young people around the world and became the band's trademark.

By the time the group recorded their final album of the 1960s, Rock ' n ' Roll Party, the band's success in the US was history and the album was not released by MGM there.

New recording commenced in 2009, following the release of The Place and the Time, a well-received collection of demos, outtakes, alternate versions and otherwise unreleased material from the band's 1960s recording period.

The band's name is a play on the name of the 1960s rock band Dick Dale and the Del-Tones.

The band's music expanded using their folk roots, demonstrating some punk energy, reggae and 1960s pop influences.

Coupled with the band's " retro " 1960s look and pop / rock sound, the company's stylings led detractors to accuse them of being Beatles rip-offs, which the band and their record company denied.

The band's sound was similar to many 1960s rock bands, with elements of 1990s synth culture, especially later on.

The band's name was taken from Lunchroom Manners, a 1960s children's educational film which was featured in a Pee-wee Herman Show HBO special in the early 1980s.

The band's sound draws strong comparisons to the psychedelic rock of The Beatles and The Beach Boys during the 1960s.

This move would prove vital in modernizing the band's sound, ensuring success in an ever-changing market well into the late 1960s.

The band's original core members, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, and Ken Weaver, were joined at various times in the 1960s by a number of others, some of whom were noted session musicians or members of other bands.

The band's often frank and humorous lyrics about sex, drugs, and politics have caused a hostile reaction in some quarters, most notably the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the late 1960s.

While the band's interest in all things Indian was partly inspired by a pilgrimage to India that Mills undertook in the early 1990s, it was also born out of a love for the Indian influences present in the music of The Beatles and other late 1960s acts.

This new emphasis on Indian mysticism and instrumentation, dovetailed with the Beatlesque, 1960s derived influences already present in the band's music, to create a sound heavily indebted to 1960s psychedelia.

The band's early repertoire consisted covers of 1960s R & B songs and original songs inspired by the likes of Dr. Feelgood.

The group's sound was originally rooted in surf and psychedelic rock music of the 1960s, although they have made " sincere attempts to get away from the surf music label " and currently delves into many genres, mainly influenced by the band's founder, songwriter and guitarist Jim Thomas ' modern melodic visions.

In July 1979, after Brian and Mike Love quickly composed some new original songs, the Beach Boys all reconvened at Western Recorders in Los Angeles ( where most of the band's classic 1960s material had been produced by Brian ) and hoped for the best.

The band's name is derived from the 1960s Australian TV character " Professor Ratbaggy ", who was a bumbling but kind-hearted scientist, a comical character, performed by Ernie Carroll on GTV-9 on Melbourne television.