* The Damned-Damned Damned Damned, a limited number of which were deliberately printed with a photo of Eddie and the Hot Rods on the back of the cover, rather than The Damned playing at The Roxy Club, and with an erratum sticker apologising for this " mistake ", and on the front of the LP, on top of the original shrinkwrap, a red food-fight sticker saying ' Damned Damned ', thus completing the LP's title when read underneath the band's name ;

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.

The band's sound appealed to both Lemmy's original fans and, eventually, to fans of the punk rock scene.

Saints of Los Angeles features the band's original lineup.

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.

The Midwestern United States was the original REO Speedwagon fan stronghold and is pivotal in this period of the band's history.

Many early Pink Floyd songs such as " See Emily Play " ( played with a Zippo lighter for a slide ), feature Syd Barrett's slide guitar performances, reflecting the band's original Chicago urban blues repertoire from musicians such as Bo Diddley and Slim Harpo.

The band's original intention with Fingerprince was to release it as the very first " three-sided " album – they had found a way to simulate a third side by arranging the grooves on one side of the vinyl album to play a completely different program of tracks depending on which series of grooves the needle was dropped on.

A joint statement between Williams and the group said " The rumours are true ... Take That: the original lineup, have written and recorded a new album, to be called, Progress for release later this year ," read the band's statement.

These events included numerous appearances and performances by surviving members of the original Comets, including the band's induction into the Rock Walk hall of fame, a performance at the Viper Room club on the Sunset Strip, and a special performance for employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to celebrate the success of the Deep Impact space probe.

The band's popularity in the United States began to wane in 1956 – 57 as sexier, wilder acts such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard began to dominate the record charts ( although Haley's cover version of Little Richard's " Rip It Up "-which was released in direct competition-actually outsold the original ).

In the wake of the group's success for the Victor release, in May the band returned to Columbia, recording two selections of popular tunes of the day chosen for them by the record company ( possibly hoping to avoid the copyright problems which arose after Victor recorded two of the band's supposedly original compositions ) " Darktown Strutter's Ball " and "( Back Home Again in ) Indiana " as catalogue # A-2297.

And after a slew of rumours, they announced that this original line-up of Asia were planning a CD, DVD and world tour to celebrate the band's 25th anniversary.

" 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.

They contributed two tracks to the influential Marty Thau Presents 2x5 compilation and their debut album, the self-titled Comateens, ( 1980 ) featured the band's bizarrely original compositions alongside covers of " Summer in the City " ( The Lovin ' Spoonful ), " TVC 15 " ( David Bowie ), and the theme song from TV's The Munsters.

" The album's singles — the Bruce Johnston-produced original " Bluebirds Over the Mountains " ( Billboard # 64 ) and the Carl Wilson-produced cover of The Ronettes ' " I Can Hear Music "— won lukewarm attention, with the latter reaching # 24 on the Billboard single chart in April 1969 ; the lead track, the Wilson / Love-authored " Do It Again ", an unabashed throwback to the band's earlier surf hits, had been an international hit in the summer of 1968, reaching # 20 in the US charts and # 1 the UK while also scoring well in other countries.

The band were originally known as Riot but the name became Riot / Clone after two members of the original lineup wanted the band's name to become Clone.

The Kinks ' early recordings of 1964 ranged from covers of R & B standards like " Long Tall Sally " and " Got Love If You Want It "; to the chiming, melodic beat music of Ray Davies ' earliest original compositions for the band, " You Still Want Me " and " Something Better Beginning "; to the more influential proto-metal, protopunk, power chord-based hard rock of the band's first two hit singles, " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".

On October 11, 2011, Goomba Music released Worship the Animal, which is a newly titled version of Nile's demo, which the band's original line-up recorded in 1994.

It has been identified alternately as an abbreviation of " Parliament-Funkadelic ", " pure funk " or " Plainfield Funk ", referring to Plainfield, New Jersey, the hometown of the band's original line-up.

" Another suggested definition is " Plainfield Funk ", referring to Plainfield, New Jersey, the hometown of the band's original line-up.

Drummer Pierre Moerlen, who had been persuaded by Virgin to rejoin Gong as a co-leader with Malherbe ( after his spell with the French contemporary ensemble Les Percussions De Strasbourg ) in 1975, gradually took over the band's leadership ( with the original band dissolving in 1976 ).

The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell ( vocals ), Dave Navarro ( guitar ), Eric Avery ( bass ) and Stephen Perkins ( drums ).

The original version of the video is only available on a few of the band's DVD releases, as well as on YouTube.

In late 1917 the spelling of the band's name was changed to Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

In the later stages of the band's career, Page took a back seat in composition and Jones became increasingly important in producing music, often composed on the keyboard.

Their third album Drums and Wires contained the band's first major hit single " Making Plans for Nigel " ( another Moulding composition ), which caused a minor controversy because of its lyrical reference to British Steel.

After the Kinks obtained a recording contract in early 1964, Davies emerged as the chief songwriter and de facto leader of the band, especially after the band's breakthrough success with his early composition " You Really Got Me ", which was released as the band's third single in August of that year.

For many Buffalo Springfield fans it is " Bluebird ", a Stephen Stills composition, that was then and remains the band's peak.

One of the band's songs, " Grind ", credited as a group composition, can be found on the independent Flamingo Records release Out of the Fog and the CD Out of the Fog Too.

The album marked a key shift in the band's sound, now focusing more on the composition and arrangement skills of drummer ( and studio keyboard player ) Jonny Maudling, as well as the " storytelling " aspect of Byron Roberts's spoken-word vocals.

Further increasing the band's visibility, the single " Love Song " was an international hit ( reaching the Top 20 in Canada and Australia ) and the instrumental " Theme for Great Cities " proved so enduring a composition that it was later re-recorded in 1991 as a B-side to the single " See the Lights ".

Stock had also worked on the band's debut single ( a cover of Buddy Holly's " Not Fade Away ", with an original composition, " You Can't Fight It ", on the B-side ).

From their first release in August 1980, ( the Bill Sharpe composition " Steppin '" on the Polydor record label ), and their first album, Drivin ' Hard, the band's singles and albums have entered the charts regularly.

The majority of the band's catalog of music was written by Yoshiki with relatively little composition from the other members.

" Grehan still wrote the lion's share of the band's material, but Dee and Coburn also contributed songs to this album ; " Feel It Again ", a Coburn composition, reached the Top 40 in the US, while Grehan's " What Does It Take " reached no.

Andy left Barenaked Ladies in 1995 to pursue a musical composition degree at McGill University, while Jim continued as the band's bassist.

This marked the departure of the musician credited with the bulk of the musical composition of the band's three most recent studio albums.

His first famous composition was for the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, the two-part " Cubano Be, Cubano Bop " ( 1947 ) and part of that band's pioneering experiments in fusing bebop and Cuban jazz elements ; " A Bird in Igor's Yard " ( a tribute to both Charlie Parker and Igor Stravinsky ) was recorded in a session led by Buddy DeFranco the next year.

For a year, the group worked alongside members of Switch, helping to add background vocals, instrumentation, arranging, and musical and lyrical composition to the band's works, much prominently, " I Call Your Name ", " My Friend in the Sky ", and " Love Over and Over Again ".

Although the majority of tracks are clean hard rock, more so than on the previous ... Very ' Eavy ... Very ' Umble, the album features forays into both jazz-fusion on " The Park ", whose tune is borrowed from a traditional Andean / Bolivian song " Nacimiento ", and square progressive rock on the band's first foray into large – scale composition, the 16 – minute title track featuring a 24 – piece orchestra.

Kallio temporarily quit the band in the spring of 1972, being replaced by guitarist Pekka " Albert " Järvinen who made it the band's most famous composition.

The song was written almost fully by Ernie Isley with additional instrumental background composition by the band's keyboardist Chris Jasper.

The single, an original composition written by the band's members, was released in 2005.

In terms of the band's original material, Miles Davis praised the Bloomfield – Goldberg composition, " Over-Lovin ' You ", in a Down Beat Blindfold Test in 1968.

The song was met with mixed to positive reviews from critics ; many reviewers lauded the band's musical composition, but maligned the track for its heavy reliance on pop culture references.