Charles ' younger brother, Emile Charles, guest-starred in the series III episode " Timeslides ", and the songs " Bad News " and " Cash " in this episode were written by Charles, and performed by his band.

The 1988 British made-for-TV movie More Bad News was another mocumentary about a rock band, in this case an incompetent heavy metal band.

In addition to using Swan Song as a vehicle to promote their own albums, the band expanded the label's roster, signing artists such as Bad Company, The Pretty Things and Maggie Bell.

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

During the band's career and in between lengthy breaks, band members have been involved in several solo projects, such as Sumner's Electronic and Bad Lieutenant ; Hook's Monaco and Revenge and Gilbert's and Morris ' The Other Two.

The band's line-up included keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, who returned in the band after a ten year break, and Bad Lieutenant bassist Tom Chapman in place of Peter Hook.

In June 2009, Bernard Sumner formed a new band called Bad Lieutenant with Phil Cunningham ( guitar ) and Jake Evans ( guitar and vocals ), that completed an album, Never Cry Another Tear, which was released on 5 October 2009.

A song from the band Gorillaz is named " Clint Eastwood ", and features references to the actor, with the iconic yell featured in The Good, the Bad and the Uglys score heard at the beginning of the video.

However, the band did record Howlin ' Wolf's " Sitting on Top of the World " and Albert King's " Born Under A Bad Sign ".

According to a BBC interview with Clapton, the record company, also handling Albert King, asked the band to cover " Born Under a Bad Sign ", which became a popular track off the record.

On September 11, 2007 Brooklyn-based punk band The World / Inferno Friendship Society released a full-length album about Lorre called Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century, which traces Lorre's film career, drug addiction, and death.

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

The first hardcore punk band to form on the east coast of the United States was Washington, D. C .' s Bad Brains.

Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, influenced by Bad Brains, formed the band Teen Idles in 1979.

" The band also appeared in the 1995 documentary Not Bad for a Girl.

The 1983 Comic Strip Presents ... film Bad News Tour was a spoof rockumentary about a British heavy metal band.

The film led to LPs being released and the band really touring and was followed by a sequel, More Bad News in 1987.

For the second series this was replaced with the song ' Go Daddy-O ' by Californian swing revival band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Hardcore Punk / Reggae band Bad Brains ' first album contains the song ' I Luv I Jah '.

Troy is currently a member of punk / folk band The Bad Shepherds.

* California-based punk rock band Bad Religion include a song entitled " Flat Earth Society " on their 1990 album Against the Grain, as well as their compilation album All Ages and their live release 30 Years Live, written by Brett Gurewitz.

The two-part song " Religion " refers contemptuously to Roman Catholicism ; Lydon came up with the lyrics when he was part of the Sex Pistols but he claims the other members of the band were reluctant to use them.

Cited as one of the most important hardcore punk groups, the Circle Jerks were active until 1989, when Hetson left the band to continue playing guitar and release a number of albums with Bad Religion, which he had joined a few years earlier.

Paul and Wackerman ( who had just joined Bad Religion ) had left Suicidal Tendencies by 2002, while the band was on a temporary hiatus, and were replaced by brothers Steve and Ron Bruner on bass and drums, respectively.

Brett Gurewitz formed Epitaph Records as a vehicle for releases by his band Bad Religion.

Also released during this period was Peace thru Vandalism, an EP by The Vandals, who were the first band besides Bad Religion to sign to Epitaph.

Although Bad Religion was the founding band of Epitaph, releasing their early records through the label, they switched over to Atlantic in 1993, with Recipe For Hate being their first record outside of the label.

Brett Gurewitz is thought to have left Bad Religion as a result of internal disputes, but actually left the band in 1994 so he could run Epitaph full time.

In 2001, Brett returned to the band and Bad Religion once again signed to Epitaph Records, releasing four more albums: The Process of Belief in 2002, The Empire Strikes First in 2004, New Maps of Hell in 2007, and The Dissent of Man in 2010.

Bad Religion is a punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1979.

Drummer Pete Finestone left Bad Religion again in April 1991 to focus on his other band, The Fishermen, which had signed with a major label, and Bobby Schayer joined the band as his replacement.

In 1998, Bad Religion released their tenth full-length album, No Substance, produced by Alex Perialas, Ronnie Kimball and the band themselves.

However, according to a December 2008 report on the fan site The Bad Religion Page, Bentley revealed that due to Bad Religion's upcoming touring commitments for 2009, the band would not have a chance to record their new album until around the end of the year, for an expected 2010 release date.

In December 2009, Bentley revealed to the fan site The Bad Religion Page that the band was expected to go into the studio on April 26, 2010, to start recording their new album.

" In addition to their use of unusually sophisticated vocabulary for a punk band, Bad Religion is also known for their frequent use of vocal harmonies.

The items auctioned off included the original lyrics sheet to the group ’ s hits “ The Rock Show ” and " Adam's Song ", Bad Religion autographed cymbal, hand painted 1. 5 FT tall Bunny, blink-182 tour backstage pass, stickers, postcard / magnets, trading cards, the band ’ s dressing room sign from the 2000 VMAs, and Hoppus orange sweater from the “ Dammit ” music video.

The band then signed with Columbia Records in 1996 ( although Dexter claims that Brett Gurewitz, owner of Epitaph and guitarist for Bad Religion, sold the contract to Columbia ) for whom they released their next six albums, Ixnay on the Hombre ( 1997 ), Americana ( 1998 ), Conspiracy of One ( 2000 ), Splinter ( 2003 ), Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace ( 2008 ), and their most recent, Days Go By ( 2012 ).

Generator is the sixth studio album by the punk rock band Bad Religion.

After Schayer joined Bad Religion in April 1991, the band immediately started work on their follow-up to Against the Grain.

He is most recognized as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and only constant member of the noted Los Angeles band Bad Religion, which he co-founded in 1979.

In 2009 Graffin announced that he had co-written a book with American author Steve Olson entitled Anarchy Evolution, released on September 28, 2010 ( the same day his band Bad Religion released their 15th album The Dissent of Man ).

Gurewitz joined Bad Religion in 1979 at the age of 17, when he, Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley and Jay Ziskrout agreed to form a band.

Two years later, after parting ways with Atlantic Records, Gurewitz was officially back in the band and Bad Religion resigned to Epitaph.