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The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single " Whip It ", and has maintained a cult following throughout its existence.
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He had ordered the ponies brought inside the fortified circle and had assigned Pierre and a band of picked engages the job of trying to keep them steady under fire.
All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.
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.
His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.
He had conducted the 20-piece band in a series of concerts at Blue Lake park during the summer months.
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.
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 ".
His voice is based on a band director Mike Judge had in 9th grade.
The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".
In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.
From listening to their recordings, one had difficulty determining if the Crickets, the name of Buddy's band, were white or black singers.
Wills added a trumpet to the band inadvertently when he hired Everet Stover as an announcer, not knowing that he had played with the New Orleans symphony and had directed the governor's band in Austin.
Stover, thinking he had been hired as a trumpeter began playing with the band with no comment from Wills.
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 commanded enormous fees playing dances there, and began to make more creative use of electric guitars to replace the big horn sections the Tulsa band had boasted.
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.
The High School had rock band KISS visit for Homecoming on October 9 & 10, 1975 after the football team started playing their music in the locker room which led to the team winning more.
Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".
Neil Finn had decided to end the band to concentrate on his solo career and the Finn Brothers project with Tim.
Worried that their goodbye had been too low-key and had disregarded their home fans, the band performed the Farewell to the World concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on 24 November 1996, which raised funds for the Sydney Children's Hospital.
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* Adrian Young ( born 1969 ), American drummer for the rock band No Doubt
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.
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.
The album garnered the band their first and only No. 1 hit single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with the title track " Celebrity Skin ".
The third single from Woodface, " Weather With You ", peaked at No. 7 in early 1992 giving the band their highest UK chart placement.
* Conspiracy No. 5, an album by the Christian rock band Third Day
Originally presented with an opportunity to rock out Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 " From the New World " by their new stereophonic label, the band instead forged ahead to unify their own orchestral-based threads of a day in the life of a common man.
In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.
* Mars ( band ), a short-lived No Wave band
No replacement had been named, which sent the band into a hiatus following a 2000 tour in support of their studio release, New Tattoo.
The band was ranked No. 29 on VH1's list of the greatest hard rock bands.
Metalcore band, Norma Jean, derived the title of their song " No Passenger: No Parasite " from the section in the book in which Lewis describes a fully Christian society as having " No passengers or parasites ".
*" Mother Superior ", a song on the album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow by the progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria
) The band recommended the book to fans on their website, and considered calling the album Kid A " No Logo " for a time.
Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.
" Another example of this bias was that the album Nevermind, by grunge band Nirvana, was given three stars in its original review, despite being placed at No. 17 in " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time " list in 2003.
The following year No Earthly Connection ( 1976 ) had him pare down the production to just using his band, the " English Rock Ensemble ".
After a rendition of " Beautiful Day ", the band launched into " MLK " and " Where the Streets Have No Name ", both featuring two backdrops with the names of victims of the 9 / 11 attacks floating into the sky behind the band.
On a 2011 update of Rolling Stones " 100 Greatest Artists of All Time ", the band was ranked at No. 100.
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At once the whole band set off at a lope.
In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
One day he followed the Irish Jasper Greens, the town band, to a picnic and spent the entire day listening, while his family spent the day looking.
While with the Whiteman band Mercer met Jerry Arlen.
After leaving Whiteman, Mercer joined the Benny Goodman band as a vocalist.
With the help of Ziggy Elman, also in the band, he transformed a traditional Jewish melody into a popular song, `` And The Angels Sing ''.
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.
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.
After a tortuous drive in an open truck and a World War 2, army jeep down soggy trails, the band arrived at a small clearing squeezed between a long, low ridge and a creek-filled gully.
in the distance he saw a band of men who seemed to advance and retreat even as he watched.
His being and His will -- Stevie could not divide God from his Papa -- illumined every parish face, turned the choir into a band of angels, and the pulpit into the tollgate to Heaven.
But while the two men are riding into the country, where they are going to dinner, they are attacked in the dark of the forest by a band of thieves, who strip them of everything, including most of their clothes.
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.
With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.
A band viscometer is shown in Figure 2.
At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.
When in place, a well-cemented band actually protects the part of the tooth that is covered.
Usually this is a thin band of wire attached to the molars and stretching across the teeth.
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.
A band of robbers enters a railroad station, overpowers and ties up the telegraph operator, holds up the train and escapes.
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