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.

He picked up the name from the hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, of which he is a fan.

The band picked their name in part as a reaction against those used by synthpop bands of the early 1980s, such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Spandau Ballet, which they considered pretentious.

During a piano solo he approached the timbales, picked up a stick, and attempted to play clave on the clave block along with the band.

Isaac later picked up a second-hand guitar, Zac borrowed an old set of drums, and Taylor became the keyboard player of what turned into a garage band.

Although a limited release-because it was so unique and at odds with everything else on the market – it was picked up on by NME who championed the band, although one guest reviewer, John Lydon of Public Image Limited condemned the band as " trendy hippies.

By the time " Plan B " was released, the band were in dispute with EMI, claiming that as their contract option had not been picked up by the company, they were no longer under contract, and they asked, without success, that EMI not release the single.

Shortly after the band was picked up by Anthrax producer Mark Dodson and signed to the Columbia subsidiary Epic Records.

The first, in January and February 1986, featured Bragg, Weller's band The Style Council, The Communards, Junior Giscombe, Lorna Gee and Jerry Dammers, and picked up guest appearances from Madness, Heaven 17, Bananarama, Prefab Sprout, Elvis Costello, Gary Kemp, Tom Robinson, Sade, The Beat, Lloyd Cole, The Blow Monkeys and The Smiths along the way.

Shortly after, however, the band was picked up by Ivy League Records, run by Winterman & Goldstein, for an Australian record deal.

In 2000, 4AD released Stars and Topsoil, a compilation of selected songs picked by the band members that had been released during their years with 4AD ; all recordings had been digitally remastered by Robin Guthrie.

In October the band picked up the Inspiration Award at the Q Awards.

As the band picked up the award, he commented on stage, " Seeing as we don't get nominated for this shit no more this'll have to do.

The band picked up several prestigious ' achievement ' awards from Q magazine, MTV and a Brit award.

He broke into the Chicago scene in 1927, when he was picked by MCA to become a member of " Thelma Terry and Her Playboys ," the first notable American Jazz band ( outside of all-girl bands ) to be led by a female musician.

The band signed to a division of Chrysalis Records in the UK, and American distribution was picked up by influential label Delicious Vinyl, and N ' Dea Davenport ( who had signed an artist development deal with Delicious Vinyl ) joined the group.

Famous fans include Stephen Morris of the band New Order, singer Mutley Mclad of the band Macc Lads, actor Marshall Lancaster, Amateur Football Alliance Director Jonathan Leese and ex-wrestling star Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson ( having randomly picked Macclesfield Town as his team out of the hat on Soccer AM ).

The band secured commercial success in 1989, when their song " Pacific State " was picked up by BBC Radio 1 DJ Gary Davies.

With Takac as their lead singer, the band released their first album, Goo Goo Dolls in 1987 on Mercenary Records, but was picked up in 1988 by Celluloid Records, a larger record company.

The EP was exclusively released in Brazil and Japan, but then the band was picked up by record label SPV and Revolusongs was later included as a bonus disc on the digipak edition of Roorback, the next full length studio album with Green.

By the time of their second album, The Bends ( 1995 ), the band, through frequent touring and greater attention to detail in the recording studio, had picked up a large cult fan base and had begun to receive wider critical acclaim.

The track 7th Time, with Anka Wolbert on lead vocals, was picked up by John Peel, leading to the band recording two of the Peel Sessions at the BBC, in June and November 1985.

They finalized a deal and the label opened its roster to the director who picked only one band: Me Phi Me.

With the help of Ziggy Elman, also in the band, he transformed a traditional Jewish melody into a popular song, `` And The Angels Sing ''.

* Aberdeen ( song ) A song by alternative rock band Cage The Elephant

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.

* Brian Eno's album Before and After Science includes a song entitled " King's Lead Hat ", an anagram of " Talking Heads ", a band Eno has worked with.

* During the finale of the song Distant Early Warning by Canadian band Rush, Geddy Lee sings, " Absalom Absalom Absalom.

* The San Francisco-based band Om mentions Absalom in their song " Kapila's Theme " from their debut album Variations on a Theme.

* The garage folk band David's Doldrums references Absalom in their song, " my name is Absalom.

* " Ark ", a song by the Japanese band Sound Horizon

* " The Ark ", a song by American rock band Dr. Dog

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.

In 2007 Bronski remixed the song " Stranger To None " by the UK alternative rock band, All Living Fear.

Bronski also remixed the track " Flowers in the Morning " by Northern Irish electronic band, Electrobronze in 2007, changing the style of the song from classical to Hi-NRG disco

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

The rock band from Pasadena, Ozma plays a balalaika on the song " Flight Of Yuri Gagarin "; it is derived from their partially Russian themed album Double Donkey Disc.

The punk band The F. U's performed a cover of the song, featured on the album This Is Boston, Not L. A.

* " Mademoiselle Nobs " from Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii ( 1971 ) who " sings " a song with the band.

The incident has been commemorated by Irish band, U2, in their 1983 protest song " Sunday Bloody Sunday ".

The Celtic metal band Cruachan addressed the incident in a song " Bloody Sunday " from their 2004 album Folk-Lore.

The Wolfe Tones, an Irish rebel music band, wrote a song also called " Sunday Bloody Sunday " about the event.

* Folk Metal band Turisas makes multiple references to Constantinople in their song " Miklagard Overture ", referring to it as " Konstantinopolis ", " Tsargrad ", and " Miklagard ".

* Columbus ( song ), a song by the band Kent from their album Tillbaka till samtiden

With that, Love sort of whispered, " Fucking idiots ," and launched the band into its next song.

In 1990, he appeared on " Kool Thing ", a song by the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and along with Flavor Flav, he sang on George Clinton's song " Tweakin '", which appears on his 1989 album The Cinderella Theory.