In early 1960, Brown's band recorded the top ten R & B hit, "( Do the ) Mashed Potatoes " on Dade Records, owned by Henry Stone, under the pseudonym " Nat Kendrick & The Swans " because Brown's label refused to release it.

Their decadent lifestyles almost shattered the band, until managers Thaler and McGhee pulled an intervention, and refused to allow the band to tour in Europe, fearing that " some them would come back in bodybags ".

After Doolittle tensions between Deal and Francis came to a head ( for example, Francis threw a guitar at Deal during a concert in Stuttgart ), and Deal was almost fired from the band when she refused to play at a concert in Frankfurt.

By Bossanova, the band had developed a severe aversion to recording music videos, and Francis refused to lip-sync to them.

The owners of the club had never heard of Phish and refused to book them, so the band rented the club for the night.

They first refused to record another album ( offering up the four-track EP Poguetry in Motion instead ); O ' Riordan married Costello and left the band, to be replaced by bassist Darryl Hunt, formerly of Plummet Airlines and Pride of the Cross ; and they added a multi-instrumentalist in Terry Woods, formerly of Steeleye Span.

Also at the first rehearsal were guitarist Geoff Bradford and vocalist Brian Knight, both of whom refused to join the band citing objections to playing the Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs preferred by Jagger and Richards.

The gig was a failure ; the band were almost refused entry, Bob Stinson was thrown out as soon as he walked in the door, and the Replacements were the last of five bands, which meant they played in the early morning on a Monday night.

* August 9 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Big Hole: Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army.

Henny initially refused, feeling that Doe Maar wasn't the right move in anybody's career ; but he got second thoughts and decided to join the band after all.

Despite publishing a very good review for their 1995 album Afraid Of Sunlight and including it in their 50 Best Albums of 1995, Q refused to interview the band or write a feature on them.

The surviving members of the British punk rock band Sex Pistols, inducted in 2006, refused to attend the ceremony, calling the museum " a piss stain ".

Because of her death, her close friend Marty Balin refused to perform with the band that night.

Dean DeLeo is reported to have said " I refused to be in a band called Swing ," and shortly the band changed their name to Mighty Joe Young.

California punk band Rancid's lead singer Tim Armstrong asked Armstrong to join his band, but he refused owing to the progress with Green Day.

Label executives had refused over 80 songs from the band, believing new material lacked marketability.

At a gig in Cheltenham, in 1975, Allen refused to go on stage, claiming that a " wall of force " was preventing him, and left the band.

Three weeks later, upon hearing of Harris ' separation from the band, a Houston, Texas promoter refused to allow Millinder's band to perform.

Although many Potawatomi had relocated to Indian Territory in present-day Kansas, Chief Menominee and his band of the Yellow River refused to go.

A furious Sullivan refused to shake the band members ' hands, and they were never invited back to the show.

Capitol was the only company that had missed out on signing a San Francisco “ hippie ” band during the first flurry of record company interest and, consequently, Quicksilver Messenger Service was able to negotiate a better deal than many of their peers.

A popular outcry places the state government under strong pressure to negotiate Rajkumar's release, but in August the Supreme Court rules out a deal involving the release of imprisoned members of Veerappan's elephant poaching and timber smuggling band.

1 ) and Stigwood had to negotiate with the band to get them back as part of the package.

Before filming started, Stone and his producers had to negotiate with the three surviving band members and the parents of Morrison and his girlfriend Pamela Courson, and the band's label Elektra Records.

' So I said we should negotiate a deal where the band can come over and record in Los Angeles.

Since Failure was essentially sidelined while the owners of Slash were trying to negotiate a new distribution deal, the band members kept themselves busy with outside projects: Andrews and Edwards ( and friends ) recorded an album of covers under the name Replicants ; Andrews produced albums for Blinker the Star and Molly McGuire ( the Kansas City-based rock band, not the LA-based singer-songwriter ); Scott did some session work.

The reform gives extra incentives to producers to band together into “ producer organisations ” which can negotiate with retailers on a more equal footing.

The tranter and the rest of the band visit the vicar's home to negotiate, but reluctantly give way to the more modern organ.

According to Jay Ferguson of Spirit, Graham would negotiate shrewdly and would frequently offer a lower fee to a band than Helms would, but when the concert was over, he would pay the band in full ; Helms did not always do likewise.

Governor Long was a showman, and enjoyed parades and fanfare, and would negotiate special fares to get the cadets and band transported to athletic events across the region.

They rejected the track, more on a business footing than artistic, thus leaving the band free to negotiate with other interested parties.

Slayer approached the record company regarding a box set release, and discussions lasted roughly a year, since the band had to negotiate with the record company concerning plans they had with the box set which were not in their contract.

If there was a regular government that Downes could deal with, he was authorized to negotiate with it, if not, he was to " inflict chastisement " on any " band of lawless pirates " responsible for the atrocity.

As for why the band decided to call themselves by a new name, Jimmy Jam said that “ the decision was made at that point that we could either continue to, shall we say, negotiate or argue or plead or whatever.

In a constant, drug-and-alcohol induced stupor, he attempts to negotiate the future of his career with his savvy, world-weary agent, who wants Bryan to team up with an up-and-coming band known as the English Prices.

Because of a large migrating band of Osage, Laclede went to St. Louis to negotiate their departure from the fledgling post.

After failing to negotiate the rights to No. 18 from wide receiver Sidney Rice, Rosenfels decided to wear No. 2 because he has two children and his favorite band is U2.

Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.

Greif subsequently sued all parties in a Los Angeles Superior Court action that dragged on for several years, and coincidentally later re-surfaced as manager of Sixx's former band, London.

Coffman himself was sued by several investors to whom he had sold " stock in the band ", including Michigan-based Bill Larson.

The three sued him for contracting for Lee to appear on two unsuccessful reality shows the band claim hurt its image.

The band and Kovac sued in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming Stein was not entitled to a cut of Mötley Crüe's earnings.

Stein sued the same day in Nashville's federal court, saying he was entitled to 1. 875 percent of what the band makes.

In 2003, Staind unsuccessfully sued their logo designer Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court for attempting to re-use the logo he had sold to the band.

Member of a 1970s band called Poll, and a friend of Vangelis at the time, Logarides sued Vangelis for plagiarism in 1987.

Soon afterwards, the band fell apart amid much legal wrangling ; McQuickly sued Nasty and O ' Hara, Wom sued McQuickly, Nasty sued O ' Hara and Wom and-in all the confusion-O ' Hara ended up accidentally suing himself.

Knight sued for breach of contract, which resulted in a protracted legal battle and the band dropping the word " Railroad " from their name ( in his 2001 autobiography, " From Grand Funk to Grace ", Farner stated that the shortening of the band's name was done after most of their fans began to refer to them as Grand Funk ).

The British rock band Oasis were sued after their recording " Shakermaker " borrowed its melody and some lyrics directly ; they were forced to change their composition.

Trauma sued for US $ 100 million for breach of contract, fraud, and extortion and sought to have its joint venture agreement ended, claiming that Interscope had reneged on its contract after the band had become more successful than expected.

In early September 2010, original band members Harold Brown, Lee Oskar Levitin, HoLowriderd Scott, and Morris Dickerson, as well as Laurian Miller, daughter of original band member Charles Miller, collectively sued Pepsi Co. for more than $ 10 million.

Nick LaRocca and the band sued Nunez for $ 10, 000.

Oasis have been successfully sued for plagiarism by Neil Innes, ironically himself a member of Beatles-parody band The Rutles sued by McCartney over plagiarism of The Beatles ' songs, as Noel Gallagher's 1994 song Whatever directly lifted parts of its melody from Innes's 1973 song How Sweet to Be an Idiot.

EMI then sued the band, claiming that Spirit of Eden was not " commercially satisfactory ", but the case was thrown out of court.

The band sued EMI for releasing the remixed material without their permission.

Following the popularity of Resurrection, Common Sense was sued by an Orange County-based reggae band with the same name, and was forced to shorten his moniker to simply Common.

This new beak was drawn showing a small rubber band holding it in place until the threat of being sued was withdrawn.

Also in 1998, they sued the Norwegian black metal / Industrial metal band The Kovenant ( then known as Covenant ) for the rights to the name " Covenant ", arguing that they had the name first.