By 1987, the band's membership was down to just Jeczalik and Dudley.

On January 4, 2012, the band announced via the band's official website, along with their other official sources, that Howard Jones had left the band after his nine-year membership with them.

On the band's first album, Briana Corrigan was featured as a background vocalist ; she was promoted to full membership status in 1990, and thereafter featured as a lead vocalist on numerous Beautiful South tracks, which helped to characterise the bittersweet kitchen sink dramas played out in Heaton's often barbed songs.

The new band's core membership remained largely intact for more than a decade: Fee Waybill ( real name John Waldo Waybill ) ( vocals ), Bill " Sputnik " Spooner ( guitar, vocals ), Roger Steen ( guitar ), Prairie Prince ( real name Charles L. Prince ) ( drums ), Michael Cotten ( synthesizer ), Vince Welnick ( piano ), and Rick Anderson ( bass ).

The membership of Spiritualized has changed from album to album, with Pierce — who writes, composes and sings all of the band's material — being the only constant member.

By the 1980s, the band's membership grew significantly.

Named for the late Mrs. Ackroyd, a mongrel belonging to Barker, the band's membership has also included, at one time or another, June Tabor, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Norma Waterson, Martin Allcock, Bernard Wrigley, Nick Fairclough, Timothy Inman, and Ben Mepsted.

In 1979 the centenary was celebrated with a membership of 100-one member for every year of the band's existence.

Following 2002, the group would shrink in membership as Yvonne Chen left in order to focus on her vegan boutique Otsu and self-published magazine Zum, while Cory McCulloch also stopped touring, focusing instead on producing the band's next two LPs.

But the band's philosophy of not touring and maintaining their day jobs eventually caused some changes in membership.

Originally formed in 1997 by Olivier Benoit and Simon Proulx, the band's current membership is:

The band's current remaining membership is led by Pat Vasquez.

under the band's membership codes, people who are registered under section 6 ( 2 ) of the Indian Act are denied membership in the band.

As of November 2006, that band's membership consists of Snyder, Sangster, Dustin Karsin ( drums ), and Andrew Filyk ( guitar, vocals ).

Founding members Chuck Robertson, Sascha Lazor, Todd Rosenberg, Carter Benson and James Malis started the group while attending Santa Ynez Valley Union High School but the band's membership has changed frequently since its inception.

The band's membership eventually stabilized around Carroll, Archer, Phillips, the three Lewis brothers, lead singer Sharon Bryant ( who was later replaced by Barbara Weathers ), trumpeter William Sudderth, and saxophonist Damon Rentie ( who was later replaced by Koran Daniels ).

Ghost Reveries occupies an important fulcrum in the band's membership.

Though musicians came and went throughout the band's history, by the time of their most successful EP, 1999's Kamikaze, the membership had solidified to its final state.

The band's membership would change variously as Waters went on to record the Radio K. A. O. S.

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

A deluxe digital version, available for download only, has 32 tracks including a rare 1987 live recording of the band's version of the Hunters & Collectors song " Throw Your Arms Around Me ".

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.

As the primary songwriter for the band, Neil Finn has always set the tone for the band's sound.

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.

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 own Dischord Records released material by many bands from the Washington, D. C., area, such as Government Issue, Void, Scream, Fugazi, Artificial Peace, Rites of Spring, Gray Matter, and Dag Nasty, and has become a respected independent record label.

He has written about a number of offbeat subjects in the band's songs, such as extraterrestrials, surrealism, incest, and biblical violence.

Meanwhile, in 2002 material from the band's original 17-track demo tape was released as an EP, Pixies, on Cooking Vinyl in the U. K. and SpinArt Records in the U. S .; Frank Black has also used these labels to release solo work and albums with The Catholics.

Since the release of the band's self-titled debut album in March 1974, Rush has become known for its musicianship, complex compositions, and eclectic lyrical motifs drawing heavily on science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy.

The bulk of the band's music has always included synthetic instruments in some form or another, and this is a great source of contention in the Rush camp, especially the band's heavy reliance on synthesizers and keyboards during the 1980s, particularly on albums Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire.

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

During the band's early years, Peart's lyrics were largely fantasy / science fiction-focused, though since 1980 he has focused more on social, emotional, and humanitarian issues.

In an unpublished memoir, Mars later explained the band's choice of name: " Like maybe the main act doesn't show, and instead the crowd has to settle for an earful of us dirtbags.

Since the band's inception, Andi Watson has been their lighting and stage director, designing the visuals of Radiohead's live concerts, such as the carbon-neutral " LED forest " of the In Rainbows tour.

The band's chief live technician, Peter Clements, or " Plank ", has worked with the band since before The Bends, overseeing the setup of their instruments for both studio recordings and live performances.

Allmusic has described the album as a favourite among the band's hardcore fans, and it is the first of three Queen albums to feature in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

The band's sixth studio album News of the World was released in 1977, which has gone four times platinum in the United States, and twice in the UK.

The band's second greatest hits compilation, Greatest Hits II, followed in October 1991, which is the eighth best-selling album of all time in the UK and has sold 16 million copies worldwide.

Albarn, however, attempted to assuage fans ' fears that the album would be electronic by providing reassurances that the band's new album would be " a rockin ' record ", and also stated that it has " a lot of finely crafted pop songs ".

This incarnation of the band has sometimes been informally referred to as " Yes-West ", reflecting the band's new base in Los Angeles rather than London.

Squire has also mentioned the possibility of ' Yes on Broadway ' in 2013 to celebrate the band's 45th anniversary.