As a youth he became one of Finney's band of evangelists and gave himself to winning young men.

The band performed mostly covers of international hits, but Andersson soon started writing his own material, and gave the band the classic hits " No Response ", " Sunny Girl ", " Wedding ", " Consolation ", " It's Nice To Be Back " and " She Will Love You " amongst others.

Capitol Records initially failed to see the band's potential and gave them only low key promotion, forcing the band to play at small venues to try and gain attention.

In addition to the obscenity lawsuit and being ignored by the mainstream media ( MTV and most radio stations gave such groups scant notice, not to mention airplay ), the band became increasingly disillusioned with the underground scene as well.

The song gave international exposure to the underground New Romantic movement when Bowie visited the London club " Blitz "— the main New Romantic hangout — to recruit several of the regulars ( including Steve Strange of the band Visage ) to act in the accompanying video, renowned as one of the most innovative of all time.

They sang, had a band / orchestra, composed songs, and gave much attention to its cultivation.

Friedman's father objected to the name of the band, calling it a " negative, hostile, peculiar thing ", which gave Kinky even more reason to choose the name.

Their minimalist album sleeves and " non-image " ( the band rarely gave interviews and were known for performing short concert sets with no encores ) reflected the label's aesthetic of doing whatever the relevant parties wanted to do, including an aversion to including singles as album tracks.

The band rarely gave interviews in the 1980s, later ascribing this to not wanting to discuss Curtis.

" Bassist Jeff Jensen of Boston's Real Kids reports of a show that year, " A reviewer for one of the free entertainment magazines of the time caught the act and gave us a great review, calling us a ' punk band.

Hall of Rickenbacker met with the band and their manager, and gave Harrison a model 360 / 12 ( the second electric twelve-string built by Rickenbacker ).

Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead.

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.

Having a charting single gave the band entree to play outside London, starting with a booking at the Outlook Club in Middlesbrough on 13 July, sharing the billing with the Hollies .< ref >

Second Coming received a mixed reception from the British press, which music journalist Simon Reynolds attributed to " the resentment that the Roses, divorced from the cultural moment that gave them meaning, were now just another band ".

The young band met Willie " The Lion " Smith who introduced them to the scene and gave them some money.

The latter featured " Bohemian Rhapsody ", which stayed at number one in the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks ; it charted at number one in several other territories, and gave the band their first top ten hit on the US Billboard Hot 100.

It gave the band their first real experience of international success, and was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

Although sceptical of Albarn's new manifesto for the band, Balfe gave assent for the band's choice of Andy Partridge of the band XTC to produce their follow-up to Leisure.

As a mentor to Armstrong, Oliver gave young Louis his first cornet in New Orleans and later summoned him to Chicago to record and play with his band.

The Cherokees gave sanctuary to a band of Shawnee in the 1660s, but from 1710 to 1715 the Cherokee and Chickasaw, allied with the British, fought Shawnee, who were allied with the French, and forced them to move northward.

The band records, first marketed simply as a novelty, were a surprise hit, and gave many Americans their first taste of jazz.

At one point, Cobain gave Novoselic a demo tape of his former band Fecal Matter, and asked him to form a band together.

Undismayed by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's home at 6:30 A.M. the next day, put on their uniforms, and headed for a farm several miles away.

It is also the home of a community band which draws musicians from several neighboring communities.

In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged, Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.

He recorded several singles and toured with the band, both domestically and internationally, until the band members revealed that they did not want to live abroad.

Love initially began several music projects in the 1980s, first forming Sugar Babydoll, and then having a brief stint as a singer in Faith No More after " demanding " them to let her be in their band.

In the summer of 2011, the band played at several festivals in Russia, and toured in Australia and Brazil in early 2012.

" Over the course of Hole's career, the band experimented with several different styles, from punk to noise rock as well as more mellow alternative rock, power pop, and folk techniques.

One idea that has drawn attention for several decades is that consciousness is associated with high-frequency ( gamma band ) oscillations in brain activity.

When the sheriff returned to Cadillac, a force consisting of several hundred armed men was assembled ; this group reportedly included a brass band.

Neil Finn ( vocals, guitar, piano ) and drummer Paul Hester ( ex-The Cheks, Deckchairs Overboard ) were former members of New Zealand band Split Enz, which spent part of 1975-6 in Australia and several years in England.

This allows several users to share a band of frequencies ( see bandwidth ).

Together, Levy, Guest and a small band of other actors have formed a loose repertory group, which appear across several films.

It was the first of several concept albums released by the band through the first few years of the 1970s.

Alternative metal band Fear Factory, released several concept albums in the 90s.

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.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s Brubeck canceled several concerts because the club owners or hall managers continued to resist the idea of an integrated band on their stages.

* Church of the SubGenius – A half-serious / half-humorous non-mainstream religion of which several of the band are members.

Enya has four brothers and four sisters, several of whom formed the band An Clann As Dobhar in 1968.

Robert Schwartzman is the lead singer in the band Rooney and appeared in The Princess Diaries as well as having small appearances in several films, including his cousin Sofia's The Virgin Suicides.

To this end, manager Jim Dickson instigated a loose session where the band recorded several honky tonk staples from their live act, contemporary pop covers in a countrified vein (" To Love Somebody ", " Lodi ", " I Shall Be Released ", " Honky Tonk Women "), and Larry Williams ' " Bony Moronie ".

Punk historian Ian Glasper indicates that " For several months gob-smacked audiences weren't sure whether Napalm Death were actually a serious band any longer, such was the undeniable novelty of their hyper-speed new drummer.

In October 2001, he again released two albums: Songs I Heard, featuring big band re-workings of children's show themes, and 30, featuring Connick on piano with guest appearances by several other musical artists.