The band didn't survive long, but it spun off several well-known post-punk acts.

Hugh Syme, creator of graphics on many of Rush's albums, stated in a 1983 interview that the Starman " didn't begin as an identity factor for the band, it just got adopted.

The band was scheduled to play Tuesday night in Minneapolis, but had to cancel because they didn't make it out on time.

They began writing songs together while attending Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School but didn't form a band at that time.

The band, particularly Smith, were unhappy with their debut ; in a 1987 interview, he admitted, " a lot of it was very superficial – I didn't even like it at the time.

The photographer following the band for the 1964 tour, Harry Benson, recalls in his book The Beatles in the Beginning, that " John was pleasant to Nicol, Paul was ambivalent, and George downright didn't like him and thought he was too pushy.

Even though Falkenbach was formed as early as 1989, the band didn't get much attention until the debut, that includes epic music that is " rife with keyboards, Viking themes, and folk music tendencies ," Falkenbach was effectively a merge of Viking metal with folk metal.

Wulf was in the band for a few days and didn't play on the band's next album, 1986's Pleasure to Kill, despite his getting credit.

Gillespie later said that the band " didn't really exist, but we did it every night for something to do.

In early 1977, David Littler saw The Heartbreakers live at Eric's Club, in Liverpool, and asked them about a band he had, but really didn't exist, and the group gave him a place to support them alongside Slaughter and the Dogs and Buzzcocks at Warrington Parr Hall, Warrington, Cheshire, in May.

Randy told the crowd that if the house band didn't know the songs, they would sing a cappella.

Jim didn't return to the band to pursue a solo carer and was replaced by Tim Rayner.

Norman described his street witnessing: " When I left my band in 1968 and moved to Los Angeles, I didn't feel awkward about witnessing anymore – I felt directed.

In 1956 Holly's band ( then known informally as Buddy and the Two Tones ( meaning Buddy Holly with Sonny Curtis and Don Guess ), posthumous releases refer to The Three Tunes ) recorded an album's worth of rockabilly numbers in Nashville, Tennessee for Decca ; the records were no more than mildly successful, and the band didn't hit pay dirt until 1957, when producer and recording engineer Norman Petty hosted Holly's sessions in Clovis, New Mexico.

EMI continued to release their back catalogue and unreleased songs on two more albums but the band themselves didn't bring out a new album until 2005 when they released Livin ' in the City, still under Sanctuary Records.

The first effective drag reducing cowling that didn't impair engine cooling was the British Townend ring or " drag ring " which formed a narrow band around the engine covering the cylinder heads, not only reducing drag, but adding a small amount of thrust.

About a minute into the song the band stopped playing, and Claypool said, " Well I opened a big-ass can of worms with that one, didn't I?

On April 21, 1993, 10, 000 Maniacs appeared on MTV Unplugged and Merchant announced her leaving the band on MTV on August 5, 1993 saying she " didn't want art by committee anymore.

However, in an interview with WBER radio in Rochester, New York, on November 23, 1999, Jian explained the band's name origin by saying that they were " trying to think of a name that wasn't easy to remember and didn't mean anything ," satirically going against two conventions most bands might use in determining a band name.

" Rolling Stone magazine would later report that Epic Records labelmate Cyndi Lauper was interested in recording " Voices Carry " with the original lyric, but only if the band didn't put it on their own release.

The album didn't meet with either commercial or critical success, and the band once again dissolved.

Warner Brothers didn't know how to promote this new combo as the only other funk band on their label was Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band.

Anderson wasn't happy about having to change the group's name for the U. S. market, as he stated: " The London Suede is not the name I chose for the band, I didn't change it happily, and I'm not going to pretend I did.

On a misty Sunday morning last month, a small band of militant anti-Communists called the Minutemen held maneuvers in a foggy field about fifteen miles east of here.

Divided almost equally into two parts, it consisted of `` The Evolution Of The Blues '', narrated by Jon Hendricks, who had presented it last year at the Monterey, Calif., Jazz Festival, and an hour-long session of Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra, a blasting big band.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

Famed anarchist-punk band Crass played their last live show for striking miners in Aberdare during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

When asked during a 2007 phone-in interview on XETRA-FM if he ever had any notions of performing in an Oingo Boingo reunion, Elfman immediately rejected the idea and stated that in the last few years with the band he had begun to develop significant and irreversible hearing damage as a result of his continuous exposure to the high noise levels involved in performing in a rock band.

The band embarked on their last world tour to date to promote the LP.

ELO's last performance of the century occurred on 13 July 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany playing as support band to Rod Stewart.

In recent years, additional attractions have been added to entertain the crowds as they wait for midnight, such as fire poi, a pipe band, street drumming and a firework display after the last fireball is cast into the sea.

When his manager informed him that a band by the name of " Bastard " would never get a slot on " Top of the Pops ", Lemmy changed the band's name to " Motörhead " – the title of the last song he had written for Hawkwind.

On June 24, 1937, Pickford married her third and last husband, actor and band leader Charles ' Buddy ' Rogers.

Thrash metal band Slayer later covered the song, with the last iteration of the lyric " Guilty of being white " changed to " Guilty of being right.

Minor Threat, which had returned to being a four-piece group with the departure of Hansgen, played its last show on September 23, 1983, with go-go band Trouble Funk and the Big Boys, ending with " Last Song ", which was the original title of " Salad Days ".

* Progressive rock band Ayreon's 2000 album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer tells the story of the last surviving human living on a Mars colony, many years after a war wiped out all life on Earth, leaving the Mars colony berift of supplies.

His last performance with the band was on July 25, 1974 at Centennial Hall in London, Ontario.

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

On the last day of the university's spring semester, guitarist Joe Matt called the band's leader and told him that he, drummer Gratzer, and bassist Mike Blair had decided to leave the band and start a new one with Doughty.

Along the way, Harrison had to stop by Tom Petty's house to pick up his guitar ; Petty and his band had backed Dylan on his last tour.

Poor reception of the album both by the public and reviewers led the band to take out a page-sized ad in the local music press declaring " Why Don't You All Get Fu ** ed " ( title of one of their songs ) and they played their last performance on 8 June in Kalgoorlie.