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.

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 ".

His father was a military bandmaster, and by the time Arthur had reached the age of 8, he was proficient with all the instruments in the band.

In February 1977, the first album by a British punk band appeared: Damned Damned Damned ( by the Damned ) reached number thirty-six on the UK chart.

The following year, Enema of the State, the first major-label release by pop punk band Blink-182, reached the top ten and sold four million copies in under twelve months.

When Alexander the Great reached Egypt, he put his whole vast enterprise on hold, while he made his way with a small band deep into the Libyan desert, to consult the oracle of Ammun.

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.

The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The EP reached No. 72 in the national charts and the band played triumphant shows on their return to Perth.

Later in 1989 the band released a double A-side single, " Fools Gold / What the World Is Waiting For ", which reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart in November.

By July the band had released their final single for Silvertone, " One Love ", which reached number four in the UK singles chart, their highest placing yet.

In 1990, the band ( now without Lindsey Buckingham ) recorded Behind the Mask, but the album only reached ' Gold ' status in the U. S. The album did however, enter the UK album chart at # 1, but there were no UK hits from the album and only Christine's song " Save Me " made the US Top 40.

When Sousa reached the age of 13, his father, a trombonist in the Marine Band, enlisted his son in the United States Marine Corps as an apprentice to keep him from joining a circus band.

The Freddie Mercury-written lead single " Seven Seas of Rhye " reached number ten in the UK, giving the band their first hit.

The Queen Is Dead reached number two in the UK charts, and consisted of a mixture of mordant bleakness ( e. g. " Never Had No One Ever ", which seemed to play up to stereotypes of the band ), dry humour ( e. g. " Frankly, Mr. Shankly ", allegedly a message to Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis disguised as a letter of resignation from a worker to his superior ), and synthesis of both, such as in " There Is a Light That Never Goes Out " and " Cemetry Gates ".

The band had announced on their website that the next single was to be the rocky " Is Everybody Here On Drugs ", although the announcement was quickly removed once it was clear that Catatonia had reached the end of the road.

A decision had been reached amongst members of Incubus in a face-to-face meeting at the end of the Morning View tour to discuss his involvement in the band.

All four albums released with Fish were commercial successes, and the band released eleven Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart, including 1985's " Kayleigh ", which reached No. 2 and became their biggest hit single.

The band released " You're Gone " as the lead single from the album, which reached No. 7, making it the first Marillion song to reach the UK Top Ten since " Incommunicado " in 1987 and the band's first Top 40 entry since " Beautiful " in 1995.

The song reached number 15 on the British charts and earned the band an appearance on the television show Top of the Pops.

Chicago cabaret focused intensely on the larger band ensembles and reached its peak during Roaring Twenties, under the Prohibition Era, where it was featured in the speakeasies and steakhouses.

The record sales went down, by the end of the 1990s the band reached both commercial and critical nadir.

Throughout the 1980s, the band struggled to find success, but gained prominence in the UK in the mid-1990s with the release of the albums His ' n ' Hers in 1994 and particularly Different Class in 1995, which reached the number one spot in the UK Albums Chart.

* All five albums released by the band between 1982 and 1991 reached the Top 30 on the Billboard 200 album chart and have been certified either Gold, Platinum, or Multi-platinum.

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.

After the band gained complete creative control from their record company, they decided to expand their follow-up of the Metropolis story into a full album: Metropolis Pt.

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

In a very short mid-2007 interview with Jamirotalk, drummer Derick McKenzie expressed his satisfaction with leaving Sony as the beginning of a period in which the band will have more creative control over their own work, together with plenty of room for experimentation and lack of pressure from a record company.

Although the band members consciously decided to move in this overall direction, creative differences between the band and long-time producer Terry Brown began to emerge.

In 1979, creative differences pulled the band in different directions, leading to the Document and Eyewitness LP ( 1981 ), a recording of a live performance that featured, almost exclusively, new material, which was described as " disjointed ", " unrecognizable as rock music " and " almost unlistenable ".

It remained unreleased and unfinished as, on 12 April 2010, the band announced that it was splitting up due to musical and creative differences.

The band said that the split had become necessary due to " irreconcilable creative differences ".

He purposefully restricted his oversight of the band, limiting himself to business matters and public image, and gave the band free creative rein in their music.

Still psychologically overwhelmed by the cancellation of SMiLE and the imminent birth of his first child Carnie Wilson in 1968 amid the looming financial insolvency of The Beach Boys ( Friends, which was largely written and produced by Wilson and recorded with much involvement from the Wrecking Crew, peaked at # 126 on the American charts ), Wilson's creative directorship within the band became increasingly tenuous.

This creative inertia meant the band took over a year to finish the next record.

Roberts left the band as well, citing creative differences.

He left the band in 1979, citing, among other reasons, creative differences with Ginn, and his own " freaking out on cocaine and speed.

Due to creative differences over the lyrical direction of the next album, Walsh left in October 1981 to form a new band, Streets.

In 1992, Skillings left the band due to creative differences and was replaced by Doug Wimbish.

When personal and creative tensions within the group reached breaking point in late 1980 Marsh and Ware left the band, ceding the Human League name to Oakey.

The four-month long recording sessions were beset with creative disputes, with Jam and Lewis having preconceived ideas on how they wanted the album to sound, rejecting most of the band's material ( which would cost the band considerable loss of royalty income ).

The band eventually quit the sessions early amidst creative acrimony, although the personal relationships had actually been good.

Kilroy brought the creative and competitive tensions within the band beyond the breaking point.

Although Matlock is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, his creative contribution to the band has been disputed.

Following the tour in support of Don't Break the Oath, which saw them play in the United States for the first time, King Diamond split ways with the band in April 1985 as a result of frustration over creative differences with Hank Shermann.

Eric did not like to relinquish creative control to someone outside the band and eventually stopped recording and rehearsing.