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.

Mötley Crüe was formed on January 17, 1981 when bass guitarist Nikki Sixx left the band London and began rehearsing with drummer Tommy Lee and vocalist / guitarist Greg Leon.

After rehearsing for some time without a band name, Squire came up with ' The Stone Roses '.

Texas has an ' Eight Hour Rule ' which states that no competitive part of a marching band can spend more than 8 hours per week, including full band rehearsals, sectionals, and time before competitions, rehearsing.

It was not uncommon for Strayhorn to fill in for Duke, whether in conducting or rehearsing the band, playing the piano, on stage, and in the recording studio.

New pictures have also appeared on the band's Myspace of the band rehearsing.

That footage, which showed the band rehearsing and recording songs for the album, was later edited together and released on the DVD, The Making of Mr. Buechner's Dream

PiL began rehearsing together in May 1978, although the band was still unnamed.

Shields described the band as " what all the nerds and weirdos actually do as opposed to the cool people with the leather jackets " and said " we started rehearsing, it was an every Sunday kind of thing.

At this point the band were rehearsing at Salem Studios, which was connected to the record label Fever Records.

The Stooges disbanded in February 1974 as a result of Pop's ever-present heroin addiction and erratic behavior ( at least off stage, as many people around the band acknowledged that while performing or rehearsing, Iggy had more focus ).

The band was living and rehearsing in another part of the building that housed Unicorn Studios prior to the sessions.

After hearing the band rehearsing the album, singer Henry Rollins wrote lyrics for several of its songs.

In 1981, Ian Astbury had moved into a new house in Bradford and reportedly discovered a band rehearsing in the cellar.

After several months of rehearsing, and following a line up reshuffle which saw the departure of lead guitarist Alistair MacLatchy, the band recorded their first demo in late 1993.

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

Although the band were initially unimpressed with the song, they began rehearsing it with a full, electric rock band arrangement, changing the time signature from 2 / 4 to 4 / 4 in the process.

Buckley assembled a band, composed of bassist Mick Grondahl and drummer Matt Johnson, and spent several weeks rehearsing.

In early 2010, pictures appeared on the band's official Facebook page showing the band rehearsing in a studio.

However, Topping and King's personalities clashed and Topping eventually left the band in early 1988 after initial writing and rehearsing sessions in Dublin.

He quit the job after a year and started auditioning as a guitarist while rehearsing his own band in his mother's rented basement in North Vancouver.

After the dissolution of Violet Fox, Rhoads taught his best friend Kelly Garni how to play bass, and together they formed a band called The Whore ( rehearsing during the day at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, a 1970s Hollywood nightspot ), spending several months playing at backyard parties around Los Angeles.

Le Bon's ex-girlfriend, Fiona Kemp ( a barmaid at the Rum Runner nightclub where Duran Duran was rehearsing ), introduced him to the band in May 1980, recommending him as a potential vocalist.