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.

Undismayed by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's home at 6:30 A.M. the next day, put on their uniforms, and headed for a farm several miles away.

But while the two men are riding into the country, where they are going to dinner, they are attacked in the dark of the forest by a band of thieves, who strip them of everything, including most of their clothes.

The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

* 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.

Roman Emperors and Roman males of the senatorial class wore clothes with a purple band to denote their class so the reference to purple may be to an aristocratic heritage.

An electron and electron hole ( electron-hole pair ) can recombine giving up their energy to an electron in the conduction band, increasing its energy.

Famed anarchist-punk band Crass played their last live show for striking miners in Aberdare during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

The plot revolves around a sinister construction corporation's plans to depopulate, destroy and redevelop the Bronx, and a band of rebels who are out to expose the corporation's murderous ways and save their homes.

However, in 1908 with the Scottish and Irish unions refusing to be involved, the Anglo-Welsh side only sported red jerseys with a thick white band on their jerseys on tour to Australia and New Zealand.

At the height of their popularity the band consisted of singer Jimmy Somerville backed by Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek, both of whom played keyboards and percussion.

The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".

In May 2010, the band stated on their website that they were " back in the studio working on some new songs " and later revealed that they were " in the final stages of recording the album ".

On 17 July 2010, the band performed their first UK gig in almost four years to a crowd of around 30, 000 at Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Southwold.

The University of Illinois marching band, the Marching Illini, wore two baldrics as a part of their uniform until 2009, with one over each shoulder.

From listening to their recordings, one had difficulty determining if the Crickets, the name of Buddy's band, were white or black singers.

** Marching band, a group of performers that consist of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching ( and possibly other movements ) with their musical performance

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.

Many bands, such as Mayhem and Gorgoroth, are noted for their controversial shows, which have featured impaled animal heads, mock crucifixions, medieval weaponry and band members doused in animal blood.

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

The Danish band Mercyful Fate influenced the Norwegian scene with their imagery and lyrics.