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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.
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.
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.
Incidents included the killing of three members of a pop band, the Miami Showband, by a gang including members of the UVF who were also members of the local army regiment, the UDR, and in uniform at the time, and the killing by the Provisionals of eighteen members of the Parachute Regiment in the Warrenpoint Ambush-seen by some as revenge for Bloody Sunday.
Inspired by a concert where he saw John Lee Hooker perform, he supplemented his work as a carpenter and mechanic with a developing career playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green ( c. 1934 – 1973 ), in a band called The Hipsters ( later The Langley Avenue Jive Cats ).
Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.
Upon descending the plane on his wheelchair, he stood up and saluted the cheering crowd of supporters, including an army band playing his favorite military march tunes, which was awaiting him at the airport in Santiago.
In 2009, Charles formed the Fantasy Funk Band, from the leading British musicians in the genre, and has presented the band at festivals, including Glastonbury.
That single, " Guitar Blues ", was fairly progressive, including as it did, a clarinet solo by Nashville dance band musician Dutch McMillan with Owen Bradley on piano.
Due to the provocative name of the band, they sometimes played under pseudonyms, including " The DK's ", " The Sharks ", " The Creamsicles " and " The Pink Twinkies ".
Both sides claim they attempted to resolve the matter without legal action, but the ultimately complicated legal dispute ( involving royalties, publishing rights, and a number of other issues ) soon led to the courts, where Biafra was found liable for the royalties after the jury determined that he had committed fraud and malice, and was ordered to pay damages of nearly $ 200, 000, including $ 20, 000 in punitive damages, to the band members.
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.
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.
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.
In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.
Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.
The " band " is actually a clear 35 mm film leader on which the dialogue is hand-written in India ink, together with numerous additional indications for the actor — including laughs, cries, length of syllables, mouth sounds, breaths, mouth openings and closings.
Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.
Upon completion of the album Lynne reformed the band with completely new members including his then-girlfriend Rosie Vela ( who had released her own album " Zazu ", in 1986 ) and announced that ELO would tour again.
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.
The band also contributed most of the show's original music, including " My Lovely Horse ", as used in the episode " Song For Europe " and " My Lovely Mayo Mammy " for the episode " Night of the Nearly Dead ".

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The Pogues are a Celtic punk band from London, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan.
MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before breaking up in 1996.
The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan ( vocals ), Peter " Spider " Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer ( banjo ) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977.
In 1982 James Fearnley ( accordion ), who had been a guitarist with the Nips, joined MacGowan, Stacy, and Finer, calling the band Pogue Mahone.
Looming over the band at this period ( as throughout their entire career ) was the increasingly erratic behaviour of their vocalist and principal songwriter, Shane MacGowan.
The band was at the peak of its commercial success, with both albums making the top 5 in the UK ( numbers 3 and 5 respectively ), but MacGowan was increasingly unreliable.
According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.
In July 2005, the band — again including MacGowan — played at the annual Guilfest festival in Guildford before flying out to Japan where they played three dates.
Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The Washington Post described MacGowan as " puffy and paunchy ," but said the singer " still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point.
MacGowan got his first taste of fame in 1976 at a concert by English punk band The Clash, when his earlobe was damaged by Jane Crockford, later to be a member of The Mo-dettes.
After The Pogues threw MacGowan out for unprofessional behaviour, he formed a new band, Shane MacGowan and The Popes, recording two studio albums, a live album, three tracks on The Popes " Outlaw Heaven " ( 2010 ) and a live DVD, and touring internationally.
Strummer occasionally joined MacGowan and The Pogues on stage ( and briefly replaced MacGowan as lead singer after his sacking from the band ).
Dillon appeared in 1987 in the music video for " Fairytale of New York " by the Irish folk-punk band The Pogues playing a cop who escorts lead singer Shane MacGowan into the drunk tank ".
The album showcased their developing sound as the band widely progressed from being a four-piece punk rock outfit, and included collaborations with Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan and Cock Sparrer's Colin McFaull.
The Popes is a band formerly led by Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, who played a blend of rock, and Irish folk, sometimes referred to as Paddy Beat, borrowing from World Beat, a popular genre name in the 1980s.
As well as serving as MacGowan's backing band, The Popes recorded one studio and one live album without MacGowan, and have toured on their own.
Apart from Shane MacGowan ( with whom he co-wrote several songs, including " Fairytale of New York "), Finer was the most prolific composer for the band.
It released some of the earliest records recorded by Billy Bragg, Kirsty MacColl, Shane MacGowan, the band that became Simple Minds, and Joe Strummer.
Or as lead singer MacGowan explained the music: " I couldn't believe that nobody else were doing it, so we went on doing it ourselves ..." The title " Red Roses for Me " is the name of a play by Sean O ' Casey, though his works do not show any direct influence upon the band.
The song was originally planned as a duet by Shane MacGowan and Pogues bassist Cait O ' Riordan, but O ' Riordan left the band in 1986 before the song was completed.

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