The band performed mostly covers of international hits, but Andersson soon started writing his own material, and gave the band the classic hits " No Response ", " Sunny Girl ", " Wedding ", " Consolation ", " It's Nice To Be Back " and " She Will Love You " amongst others.

The High School had rock band KISS visit for Homecoming on October 9 & 10, 1975 after the football team started playing their music in the locker room which led to the team winning more.

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", in 1945.

Stating that he hung out with the " band nerds " in high school, he started a ska band.

Connick's musical talents soon came to the fore when he started learning the keyboards at age three, playing publicly at age five, and recording with a local jazz band at ten.

One of the more notable groups on the roster of SST Records ( who released most of their albums ), the Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their SST peers, the Meat Puppets established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals.

The band became a top act across Canada in the following months, and Men At Work started receiving top 40 US airplay by August.

In 1948, hoping to gain more success, Perez Prado moved to Mexico City and started his own band, where he composed and recorded most of mambos.

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 ".

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.

I've heard it said about The Velvet Underground that while not a lot of people bought their albums, everyone who did started a band.

They soon started a rock band.

Doughty started to follow around Gratzer's band, eventually sitting in on a song or two.

The same year he began to open concerts for The Eagles, who started as Linda Ronstadt's backup band.

When Orbison started with " Crying " and hit the high notes, Goodwin stated, " The strings were playing and the band had built up, and sure enough, the hair on the back of my neck just all started standing up.

The most notable RAC band was Skrewdriver, which started out as a non-political punk band but evolved into a neo-Nazi band after the first lineup broke up and a new lineup was formed.

Accompanied by his band, the Savages, he started by coming out of a black coffin.

He then started to wear a head band saying " Rozelle ", after then-league commissioner Pete Rozelle.

Demands for the " classic " line-up of the band — Macainsh, Bob Starkie, Strachan, Strauks and Symons — to reform were successful and on 23 April 1983, they started the Living in the 80's Tour.

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

Finn and Hester decided to form a new band during the Split Enz farewell tour, Enz with a Bang, during November and December 1984.

" Kaye was often invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984.

The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, a comedy based around a fictional 1970s rock band, was filmed in the style of a documentary and includes such details as fake album covers and historical videos done in the styles of the late 1960s and 1970s.

* Fugazi ( album ), a 1984 studio album by the British rock band Marillion, featuring a song also named " Fugazi "

In 1984, Joy Division's bassist Peter Hook named Play Dead, as one of their heirs: " If you listen to a band like Play Dead, who I really like, Joy Division played the same stuff that Play Dead are playing.

Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, a satirical rockumentary about a band called Spinal Tap.

Weissmuller had five wives: band and club singer Bobbe Arnst ( married 1931 – divorced 1933 ); actress Lupe Vélez ( married 1933 – divorced 1938 ); Beryl Scott ( married 1939 – divorced 1948 ); Allene Gates ( married 1948 – divorced 1962 ); and Maria Baumann ( married 1963 – his death 1984 ).

In 1984, the band took a long break as members pursued other interests and recovered from the two years of constant touring they'd done in support of both albums.

* The band Marillion had a # 29 hit in the UK in 1984 with a song entitled " Punch and Judy ", satirising marital strife.

* The band The Stranglers included a song on their 1984 album Aural Sculpture called " Punch & Judy.

Flipper ( band ) | Flipper, performing in 1984

* Persia ( EP ), 1984 extended-play record by Australian rock band The Church

" The band was joined by percussionist Marc Daubert in the fall of 1984, a time during which they promoted themselves as playing Grateful Dead songs.

A one-off reunion concert took place in October 1984, and in 1990 the band finally recorded new material, including " Jukebox in Siberia ", released in September, which peaked at the top of the ARIA Singles Charts for two weeks.

Asia Minor from Turkey released Between Flesh and Devine ( 1981 ), Bacamarte from Brazil released Depois Do Fim ( 1983 ) and Hungarian band Solaris released Marsbéli Krónikák ( Martian Chronicles ) ( 1984 ).

The Bangles ' full-length debut album on Columbia, All Over the Place ( 1984 ), captured their power-pop roots, featuring the singles " Hero Takes a Fall " and the Kimberley Rew-penned Beatlesque " Going Down to Liverpool " ( originally recorded by Rew's band Katrina and the Waves ).

Later in 1984, the members of XTC created their alter-ego, " The Dukes of Stratosphear " ( a suggested band name that the group had considered when they first formed ).

In 1984, the two pairs met in Toronto, and began performing regularly as KITH, with a rotating band of members, including Paul Bellini for a short time.

In February 1984, Doe Maar went into the studio to record their fifth album ; however, the band couldn't get into the recording, and during a crisis meeting on February 13 they decided to call it a day.

( 1980 ; flutes, celesta, percussion ); Paradiso, Michele: Pierrot: Ballet for Piano ( in Four Hands ) and Orchestra ( 2008 ); Pirola, Carlo: Story of Pierrot ( n. d .; brass band ); Stuppner, Hubert: Pierrot and Pierrette ( 1984 ; ballet, libretto by Arthur Schnitzler The Veil of Pierrette under # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues ); Vidale, Piero: Pierrot's Dream: Four Fantasy Impressions ( 1957 ; orchestra ).

The Los Angeles hardcore punk band Black Flag's 1984 record My War, on which the band combined heavy metal with their traditional sound, made a strong impact in Seattle.

In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released the album Purple Rain, which served as the soundtrack to his film debut of the same name.

After the Synchronicity tour ended in March 1984, the band went on hiatus while Sting recorded and toured in support of his successful solo debut LP, the jazz-influenced The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985, Copeland recorded and filmed The Rhythmatist ( 1985 ) and Summers recorded another album with Robert Fripp ( Bewitched, 1984 ) and the theme song for the film 2010.