On 13 June 2007, Greenhalgh's new band King Tommy's Velvet Runway débuted in London.

Sam Spade joins forces with a band of adventurers in search of a priceless jeweled statue of a falcon ; ;

While with the Whiteman band Mercer met Jerry Arlen.

Carrying it to the living room, she imagined the picture she made: tall and roundly slim, a bit sophisticated in her yellow sheath, with a graceful swingy walk that she had learned as a twirler with the school band.

The present proceeding is concerned with the standard broadcast ( AM ) band, from 540 kc. to 1600 kc..

Because of the difference between daytime and nighttime propagation conditions, it has been necessary to evolve different allocation structures for daytime and nighttime broadcasting in the AM band, with many more stations operating during the day than at night.

In September 1817 at Fort Daer ( Pembina ) Dickson met the noble lord whom, with the help of a band of Sioux, he escorted to Prairie Du Chien.

One of the rings was a white gold band with a diamond setting, valued at $900.

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 ''.

Everywhere there are little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments with winning warmth.

Mulligan's band has been infected with his solid sense of swing, and what it does seems far more meaningful than most of the noise generated by the big concert aggregations.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

Since 1994, a new version of the band has toured, with Parsons performing live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various lineups.

* Brian Eno's album Before and After Science includes a song entitled " King's Lead Hat ", an anagram of " Talking Heads ", a band Eno has worked with.

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.

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.

His restless and turbulent nature marked him out for a military career ; and having collected a small band of soldiers, he assisted Emperor Charles V in his war with France in 1543.

Coin of Alfred, king of Wessex, London, 880 ( based upon a Roman model ). Obv: King with royal band in profile, with legend: ÆLFRED REX " King Ælfred ".

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

Roman Emperors and Roman males of the senatorial class wore clothes with a purple band to denote their class so the reference to purple may be to an aristocratic heritage.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

* Waiting For Columbus, 1978 live album by the rock band Little Feat

Dead Kennedys are an American hardcore punk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978.

* 1978 – Don Ellis, American jazz band leader ( b. 1934 )

* 1914 – Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and big band leader ( d. 1978 )

In 1978, co-founder Bob Lewis asked for credit and compensation for his contributions to the band.

The band performed on part of the 1996 Lollapalooza tour in the rotating Mystery Spot, with a setlist largely composed of material from their heyday between 1978 and 1982.

The 1978 British comedy film The Rutles was done in the style of rock documentary which treated the fake band The Rutles as if they were a real band.

* The Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos wrote a song titled Hound of Heaven on their 1978 album Horrendous Disc that is based on the Thompson poem.

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

Öngür joined Dadaşlar, a band with Ersen Dinleten between 1974 – 1975 and 1979 – 1980 and Dervişan ( Dervishes ), a band with Cem Karaca between 1974 and 1978 ; in 1975, Danga participated in Erkin Koray's ' Elektronik Türküler ' ( Electronic Songs ) album.

* " Madrigal " ( Yes song ), a 1978 song by British progressive rock band Yes, from the album Tormato

* Hawklords ( 1978 ) ( Also known as 25 Years On and recorded using the band name Hawklords )

The band was an international success, with worldwide hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), the latter written and sung by Sakamoto.

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO ) in 1978.

* Tokyo Joe ( 1978, with Kazumi Watanabe, more a compilation than a proper album, featuring an odd mix of tracks from Thousand Knives and from the eponymous album by Watanabe's short lived Kylyn band )

Strachan had solo releases since 1976 and finally left the band in 1978 and was also a radio and television presenter.

The band Tako combined symphonic and jazz rock, and released two albums, Tako ( 1978 ) and U vreći za spavanje ( 1980 ).

This band recorded the album Rock ' N ' Roll with the Modern Lovers ( 1977 ) and toured until Keranen left to go to college and was replaced by Asa Brebner, who played on the albums Modern Lovers Live ( 1978 ) and Back in Your Life ( 1979 ).

However, contractual obligations related to the much-delayed release of Eskimo forced its release in 1978 after the band had almost forgotten about it.

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.

The Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums between 1978 and 1983 before Sharkey announced his intention to leave the band in May 1983, citing musical differences as the reason for the break up.

On 16 June 1978, the band recorded their debut four-song EP " Teenage Kicks " on a budget of only £ 200.