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

It features mostly new material, plus re-recordings of four very obscure Devo songs: " I Need A Chick " and " I Been Refused " ( from Hardcore Devo: Volume Two ), " Find Out " ( which appeared on the single and EP of " Peek-A-Boo " in 1982 ), and " Beehive " ( which was recorded by the band in 1974, at which point it was apparently abandoned with the exception of one appearance at a special show in 2001 ).

After the band disbanded in 1971, Jones reunited with Micky Dolenz as well as Monkees songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart in 1974 as a short-lived group called Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart.

In 1974, Jeffry Hyman co-founded the punk rock band the Ramones with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin, upon which point all three adopted stage names using " Ramone " as their surname: Cummings became Johnny Ramone, Colvin became Dee Dee Ramone, and Hyman became Joey Ramone.

In 1974, Taner Öngür and Ayzer Danga left the band.

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.

In 1974, as well, the Detroit band Death — made up of three African-American brothers — recorded " scorching blasts of feral ur-punk ," but couldn't arrange a release deal.

In April 1974, Patti Smith, a member of the Mercer Arts Center crowd and a friend of Hell's, came to CBGB for the first time to see the band perform.

" The band played its first gig at CBGB on August 16, 1974, on the same bill as another new act, Angel and the Snake, soon to be renamed Blondie.

In Japan, Osamu Kitajima's 1974 psychadelic rock album Benzaiten utilized electronic equipment such as a synthesizer and drum machine, and one of the record's contributors was Haruomi Hosono, who later started the electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( as " Yellow Magic Band ") in 1977.

The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first United States tour.

With the aid of Danniels and the newly enlisted engineer Terry Brown, the band released their self-titled debut album in 1974, which was considered highly derivative of Led Zeppelin.

Immediately after the release of the debut album in 1974, Rutsey was forced to leave the band due to health difficulties ( stemming from diabetes ) and his general distaste for touring.

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

Peart officially joined the band on July 29, 1974, two weeks before the group's first U. S. tour.

In 1974 the band added a second guitarist, Richard Lloyd, and changed their name to Television.

In 1988, the band Blue Öyster Cult recorded an updated version of their 1974 song " Astronomy ".

Journey To the Centre of the Earth ( 1974 ) and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ( 1975 ) made use of symphony orchestras and choirs along with his band.

Some of speed metal's earlier influences include Black Sabbath's " Children of the Grave ", Deep Purple's " Fireball " and Queen's " Stone Cold Crazy " ( which was eventually covered by the thrash metal band Metallica ), from their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, and Deep Purple's song " Highway Star ", from their album Machine Head.

The original band existed from 1970 to 1974 but their recordings were not released until 1976 or later.

They continued to perform live for a few months with new drummer Bob Turner, but Richman was increasingly unwilling to perform his old ( although still unreleased ) songs such as “ Roadrunner ”, and after a final disagreement between him and Harrison over musical style the band split up in February 1974.

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.

Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.

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.

Love briefly played bass in Bjelland's group Babes In Toyland in 1987 before being ejected from the band.

Ingram, older than the rest of the members of the band, left to serve active duty in Vietnam, and was later replaced by Walter " Clyde " Orange, the second lead singer who wrote or co-wrote many of their hit tunes before Lionel Richie came on board.

They secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.

Biafra claims that their lawyers had told him only to correspond through lawyers and not directly with the band, as the conflict over payment had apparently arisen before the accounting mistake was discovered.

The band had a falling out soon after, but played two shows in 1991 before breaking up.

She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to perform solo.

Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening Leo's Tavern, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

Parsons was fired from the band before its release in early 1970.

In the middle of the show Bono delivered an emotional eulogy to Brood before the band performed " In a Little While ".

For a short time before his death, he took the role of manager and producer for the punk rock band The Independents.

Tudrick is with the band Detroit Cobras, who he was with before touring on Kid Rock's ' Live ' Trucker tour.

These recordings were completed in only a matter of days, and along with a few drawings and one of Curt's paintings taken from the wall to serve as cover art ( a dish of three boiled eggs, a green pepper, and a bottle of Tabasco sauce ), were all sent to SST shortly before the band returned to the road en route to their next gig.

Derrick Bostrom began a web site for the band about six months before the original trio stopped working together.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).

* Chris Blackwell, Island Records ' founder who produced the band before hitting his production stride in the 1970s with Bob Marley

The members of Joy Division had agreed before Curtis's death not to continue under the Joy Division name should any one member leave the band.

For example, a rubber band with a higher tensile strength will hold a greater weight before snapping.

Bands anticipating the forthcoming movement were appearing as far afield as Düsseldorf, West Germany, where " punk before punk " band NEU!

New Wave became a catch-all term, encompassing disparate styles such as 2 Tone ska, the mod revival inspired by The Jam, the sophisticated pop-rock of Elvis Costello and XTC, the New Romantic phenomenon typified by Ultravox, synthpop groups like Tubeway Army ( which had started out as a straight-ahead punk band ) and Human League, and the sui generis subversions of Devo, who had gone " beyond punk before punk even properly existed ".