It also achieved Top 10 status in the UK, reaching Nº6, and was a Top 10 hit for the band in Australia.

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

Also during the 1920s, an old-time music band known as the Hill Billies featuring Al Hopkins and Fiddlin ' Charlie Bowman, achieved acclaim as recording artists for Columbia Records.

Men at Work are an Australian rock band who achieved international success in the 1980s.

Though the band only achieved limited commercial success, they were acclaimed both by music industry professionals and critics.

In 2008, the rapcore band Hollywood Undead achieved success with their debut album Swan Songs.

Formed in 1967, the band cultivated a following during the 1970s and achieved significant commercial success throughout the 1980s.

The first stations recognized as having achieved single band WAC RTTY were W1MX ( 3. 5 MHz ); DL0TD ( 7. 0 MHz ); K3SWZ ( 14. 0 MHz ); W0MT ( 21. 0 MHz ) and FG7XT ( 28. 0 MHz ).

Crash and Smear were enthusiastic fans of the band from the pre-Germs days, and the fast tempos and raw guitar tone of ( the historically pre-punk ) Zolar X are very similar to the sound achieved on later Germs recordings.

In 1975, the band achieved success with the album Fleetwood Mac.

Sousa wanted a tuba that would send sound upward and over the band with a full warm tone, much like a concert ( upright ) tuba, an effect which could not be achieved with the more directional hélicon bell position.

As a result, the band helped to popularise the Britpop genre and achieved mass popularity in the UK, aided by a chart battle with rival band Oasis in 1995 dubbed " The Battle of Britpop ".

2001 did see the band with a stable line-up, achieved during the Aura sessions featuring Downes, Payne, guitarist Guthrie Govan and ex-Manfred Mann's Earth Band / The Firm / Uriah Heep / Gary Numan / AC / DC drummer Chris Slade ( who had first joined Asia in 1999, briefly ).

The band achieved chart success in the UK, attaining top-ten hits in 1985 with " Kayleigh " and " Lavender ", and again in 1987 with " Incommunicado ".

The band achieved widespread recognition with their third album, Slippery When Wet, released in 1986.

On January 27, 1968, Beefheart achieved one of his most memorable live performances, when the band performed in the MIDEM Music Festival on the beach at Cannes, France.

Jefferson Starship continued in one form or the other into the 80s, but never achieved the critical acclaim of its predecessor band.

The band achieved their initial notoriety through Bjelland's " babydoll " image — sometimes referred to as the kinderwhore look — which contrasted dramatically with the raw power of her singing voice and her aggressive lyrics.

Enrique " Ricky " Martín Morales ( born December 24, 1971 ), better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.

Shortly after forming, Liberty received a legal challenge in the UK High Court from a funk R & B band, also called " Liberty ", who achieved success in the 1990s, including being awarded Capital Radio Band of the Year, playing Wembley Arena, European tours and the release of albums in the USA, Europe and UK.

Since their rise to fame in recent years, singer Justin Bieber, boy band One Direction and country-pop musician Taylor Swift have become recent examples of modern-day teen idols who have achieved international success, known for their devoted teen and tween fan base.

The band OK Go may exemplify this trend, having achieved fame through the videos for two of their songs, " A Million Ways " in 2005 and " Here It Goes Again " in 2006, both of which first became well-known online.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

Duke Ellington's and Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for the Duke Ellington big band were usually new compositions, and some of Eddie Sauter's arrangements for the Benny Goodman band and Artie Shaw's arrangements for his own band were new compositions as well.

Molecular absorption, in contrast, is much broader, so that it is more likely that some molecular absorption band will overlap with an atomic line.

For example, a 3 kHz band can carry a telephone conversation whether that band is at baseband ( as in your POTS telephone line ) or modulated to some higher frequency.

In May 2010, the band stated on their website that they were " back in the studio working on some new songs " and later revealed that they were " in the final stages of recording the album ".

** Marching band, a group of performers that consist of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching ( and possibly other movements ) with their musical performance

Soon after this he decided, as all successful people must decide at some time or another, to be his own boss again-and he has been that ever since .’ these notes fail to account for his early band, known as the Four Aces of Western Swing.

In 1962 and 1963, with his next band, Harmoniler (" The Harmonies "), he recorded cover versions of some of popular American twist songs and rearrangements of Turkish folk songs in rock and roll form, marking the beginning of the Anatolian rock movement, a synthesis of Turkish folk music and rock.

Incidents included the killing of three members of a pop band, the Miami Showband, by a gang including members of the UVF who were also members of the local army regiment, the UDR, and in uniform at the time, and the killing by the Provisionals of eighteen members of the Parachute Regiment in the Warrenpoint Ambush-seen by some as revenge for Bloody Sunday.

In some guns, this element is replaced with a wide ring and is called a muzzle band.

Within the realm of popular music and jazz, " drums " usually refers to a drum kit or a set of drums ( with some cymbals ) and " drummer " to the actual band member or person who plays them.

The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).

D. H. also left the band to " take some personal time off ".

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

In some cases, blues or rockabilly bassists may have obtained some initial training through the classical or jazz pedagogy systems ( e. g., youth orchestra or high school big band ).

The lyrics of some of the songs have been changed for family-friendly airplay, which has been claimed by the band to be a play on irony of sorts of the messages of their classic hits.

As part of the film's promotional campaign, some ads were placed in music magazines from fake music collectors claiming to be looking for albums from the band.

The small band of adventurers dragged as much gold and silver as they could carry back across some 18 miles of jungle-covered mountains to where they had left the raiding boats.