* 1978 – The English punk rock band Sex Pistols broke up amidst their US tour.

After that band broke up, MacKaye decided to switch from bass guitar to vocals, and organized Minor Threat with drummer Nelson, bassist Brian Baker, and guitarist Lyle Preslar.

After Decade of Decadence was released, Neil left the band in February 1992, at a time when other bands in the 1980s glam metal scene ( Ratt, Stryper, White Lion, Winger, Europe & Britny Fox ) also broke up because of the rise in popularity of Grunge.

The band broke up twice, in 1996 and 2002, but reunited again in 2006.

The band initially broke through to North American audiences in the western provinces of Canada, with lead single " Who Can It Be Now?

The band broke up in January 1998 as Ballew quit to spend more time with his young family and explore other musical terrain.

The band broke up because Sir Mix-A-Lot wanted to take the band in a harder, more electronic direction, but Finn and Dederer were not interested.

On July 13, 1985, the band made a stop in Philadelphia ( en route to a show in Milwaukee ) to play at the US Leg of Live Aid, which broke a record for number of viewers.

The most notable RAC band was Skrewdriver, which started out as a non-political punk band but evolved into a neo-Nazi band after the first lineup broke up and a new lineup was formed.

The band broke up in 2000, after years of feuding over songwriting credits and publishing money.

With the departure of Dom Salvador to the United States, the band broke up, but at the beginning of the 1970s, some ex-members, including Luiz Carlos, José Carlos Barroso, and Oberdan joined Christovao Bastos, Jamil Joanes, Cláudio Stevenson and Lúcio da Silva to form Banda Black Rio.

More Songs ... cover of Al Green's " Take Me to the River " broke Talking Heads into general public consciousness, and gave the band their first Billboard Top 30 hit.

In parallel with Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley formed a more experimental and post-punk band, The Tiller Boys, along with Eric Random and Francis Cookson, while Steve Garvey joined The Teardrops in 1978, along with The Fall's Tony Friel and Karl Burns ; both bands were releasing material in late 1970s and broke up at the same time as Buzzcocks.

By the time the band broke up, all of us had had enough.

Unfortunately Jak broke his arm in a cycling accident and after a period of 6 months with the band Paul was asked to not only be in the band and make video promos but also to manage them too.

After the television show ended and the band broke up, Dolenz hoped to continue a solo recording career and released several singles on MGM Records ( and its subsidiaries ) in the early 1970s.

According to an interview at the Tulane's Hogan Jazz Archive with Oliver's widow Stella Oliver, in 1919 a fight broke out at a dance where Oliver was playing, and the police arrested him, his band, and the fighters.

He lost his life savings to a collapsed bank in Chicago, and he struggled to keep his band together through a series of hand-to-mouth gigs until the group broke up and Oliver was stranded in Savannah, Georgia, where he worked as a janitor at Wimberly's Recreation Hall ( 526-528 West Broad Street ); "... he died there of arteriosclerosis, too broke to afford treatment.

Since Stein as leader was the only musician under contract by name, the rest of the band broke off, sent to New Orleans for drummer Tony Sbarbaro, and on June 5, started playing under the name, The Dixie Jass Band.

Robinson was a member of the band until it broke up in 1923.

A band of robbers enters a railroad station, overpowers and ties up the telegraph operator, holds up the train and escapes.

As he approached the open bandstand, erected facing the South entrance to the Executive Mansion, the band struck up the `` Star Spangled Banner '' and followed it with `` Hail To The Chief ''.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

An electron and electron hole ( electron-hole pair ) can recombine giving up their energy to an electron in the conduction band, increasing its energy.

In March 1964, " Elverket Spelmanslag " was up against another band in a talent contest, The Hep Stars.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

So I came up with the title ‘ Sabbath Bloody Sabbath ,’ and sort of put it in how the band was feeling at the time, getting away from management, mixed with the state Ireland was in.

Upon descending the plane on his wheelchair, he stood up and saluted the cheering crowd of supporters, including an army band playing his favorite military march tunes, which was awaiting him at the airport in Santiago.

In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

The energy bands each correspond to a large number of discrete quantum states of the electrons, and most of the states with low energy ( closer to the nucleus ) are occupied, up to a particular band called the valence band.

Musician Jack Bessant, the bass guitarist with the band Reef grew up on his parents ' strawberry farm, and Matt Goss and Luke Goss, former members of Bros, lived in Cheddar for nine months as children.

In addition, Grammy-winning metal band Mastodon has released three concept albums, Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye, which, along with their debut album, Remission, make up a quadrilogy, each representing its own element: water, earth, air and fire, respectively.

Members of the band and others in the chain of distribution were charged with violating the California Penal Code on a misdemeanor charge carrying a maximum penalty of up to a year in county jail and a base fine of up to $ 2, 000.

Jello Biafra brought up the court case after the break-up of the band on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Matters were stirred up even further when the three bandmates invited Jello Biafra to " bury the hatchet " in the form of a band reunion.

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.

Upon breaking up in July 2012, famous anarchist pop band Chumbawamba issued a statement which compared their own legacy with that of the Dada art movement.

In 1974, German electronic music band Kraftwerk released the 22-minute song " Autobahn ," which takes up the entire first side of that LP.

A second crash cymbal is common, typically an inch or two larger or smaller than the 16 ", with the larger of the two to the right for a right-handed drummer, but a big band may use crashes up to 27 " and ride up to 24 " or very occasionally 26 ".

The band followed up with Duty Now for the Future in 1979, which moved the band more towards electronic instrumentation.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

* Adrian Sieber ( born 1972 ), Swiss singer and the lead singer in the Swiss Britpop band Lovebugs

In 1972, he formed Kurtalan Ekspres, a legend by itself, the band that would accompany him until his death.

In 1972 Richard Elfman founded the American New Wave band / performance art group, originally called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.

is an American punk rock / new wave band formed in 1972 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio.

Parsons attempted to rekindle his relationship with the band on their 1972 tour to no avail.

In 1972 Hyman joined the glam punk band, Sniper.

In 1972 Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

* Janus, a British band based in Germany, that released an album called Gravedigger on Harvest Records in 1972

Large scale pieces such as De Staat ( 1972 – 76 ), for example, are influenced by the energy of the big band music of Count Basie and Stan Kenton and the repetitive procedures of Steve Reich, both combined with bright, clashing dissonances.

Ersen then re-joined the band in July 1972 and they recorded another single.

Murat Ses left the band in August 1972.

* 1972 – Torquil Campbell, lead singer and songwriter for Montreal-based band Stars

Luttrell left the band in early 1972, eventually becoming the vocalist for Starcastle.

They became a recognised symphonic prog band when they reformed in 1971 with Annie Haslam as the vocalist for the album Prologue ( 1972 ).

Producer Kim Fowley courted the band, traveling to Boston to produce some poor-quality demos in June 1972.

) 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.

Tensions between members during the recording of 666 eventually caused the split of the band in 1971, but the album was still released in 1972.

First coming together in 1972, the core duo of Andy Partridge ( guitars & vocals ) and Colin Moulding ( bass & vocals ) went through many band names ( including The Helium Kidz and Star Park ) over the next five years.

It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

He left Fairport Convention in early 1972 to join The Albion Country Band, He returned to Fairport to help complete the 1973 album Rosie with a revamped line up of the band.

Mungo Jerry, who had evolved from an earlier blues group Good Earth, were in effect a jug band on their first live performances and recordings, thanks to their use of jug ( played by the group's banjo player Paul King, who left in 1972 ), and washboard, contributed by regular ' extra member ' Joe Rush.

The band held together long enough to record one more LP, entitled Long John Silver, begun in April 1972 and released in July.

It covers the years 1965 – 1972 and includes recent interviews with band members and thirteen complete songs ( almost all are vintage performances ).

Billie Joe Armstrong ( born February 17, 1972 ) is an American rock musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, main songwriter, and guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt.