The band took its name from the Irish constitutional law guaranteeing freedom of the press.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

It took decades following Armstrong's death for FM broadcasting to meet and surpass the saturation of the AM band, and longer still for FM radio to become profitable for broadcasters.

The line-up stabilised as the band took to a decidedly more accessible sound.

With the goal of becoming " the most extreme hardcore punk band of all time ," the group took Mick Harris from Napalm Death in 1987.

He took his place as the leader of his band and numerous tales are told of their adventures.

For a short time before his death, he took the role of manager and producer for the punk rock band The Independents.

By 1971, Friedman had formed his second band, Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, which many took to be a play on the name of the famous band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

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.

That same year, Green Day, which had gone through a relatively fallow period commercially, took American Idiot to number one on both the U. S. and UK charts ; the band matched the feat five years later with 21st Century Breakdown.

According to the band, the entire developmental process for Vapor Trails was extremely taxing and took approximately 14 months to finish, by far the longest the band had ever spent writing and recording a studio album.

* The band REO Speedwagon took their name from the REO manufactured REO Speed Wagon light delivery truck, an ancestor of pickup trucks.

In 1979 the band took a turn back to hard rock with the release of Nine Lives.

Canadian electronic progressive rock band Syrinx took their name from the legend.

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.

Byrne took legal action against the rest of the band to prevent them using the name " Talking Heads ", something he saw as " a pretty obvious attempt to cash in on the Talking Heads name.

The band Radiohead took their name from the Talking Heads song " Radio Head " from the 1986 album True Stories.

A British 1980s pop band took the name Thompson Twins after the Tintin characters.

The band eventually found a vocalist ; however, Westerberg wanted to be the singer and took him aside one day to say " The band doesn't like you ".

Before Westerberg joined the band, Dogbreath often drank and took various drugs during rehearsals, playing songs as an afterthought.

Jesperson chose an eight-track home studio in Minneapolis called Blackberry Way ; however, as the band had no clout at the studio, time spent in the studio was intermittent, and so it took about six months to record the album.

The band took its name from the Popol Vuh, a manuscript of Quiché Maya kingdom, after watching Herzog's Fata Morgana ( in which Lotte Eisner reads parts of the Popol Vuh ).

No replacement had been named, which sent the band into a hiatus following a 2000 tour in support of their studio release, New Tattoo.

After the tour's final date in New York, the band was too exhausted to attend the end-of-tour party the following night and soon announced a hiatus.

After wrapping up the tour promoting Test for Echo in 1997, the band entered a five-year hiatus primarily due to personal tragedies in Peart's life.

During that time the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control, and after Naked the band went on " hiatus ".

Following the Spine on the Hiway Tour of 2004, the band announced that they would take an extended hiatus from touring to focus on other projects, such as a musical produced by Flansburgh and written by his wife, Robin " Goldie " Goldwasser, titled People Are Wrong !.

After 13 and the subsequent tours in 1999-2000, the band entered into a hiatus, during which band members pursued other projects.

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.

After the group's Celebrity Tour in 2002, the band decided to take a hiatus.

After mixed reviews, record company turmoil and lacklustre sales, the band went on a still-continuing hiatus.

After a short hiatus, the band returned with a new lineup.

The band was unsuccessful in being able to fully tour in support of Tiny Music .... A short tour in the fall of 1996 ensued in the U. S. but final dates at the end of December in Hawaii had to be cancelled, including a further tour in 1997 ; as a result of Weiland's personal issues, Stone Temple Pilots went on hiatus.

The band released its self-titled in 2006 before going on " indefinite hiatus " in 2007.

The band released 8 studio albums before going into hiatus in 1988.

The band would release two further albums, This Is Hardcore ( 1998 ) and We Love Life ( 2001 ), after which they entered an extended hiatus, having sold more than 10 million records.

The band then went to a few more shows until their last show in 2003 where the band went on a " indefinite hiatus ".

After a hiatus, the band reformed in 2009.

After several more performances the band took another hiatus for six months.

Graves took a hiatus from the band during 1998, during which Myke Hideous of The Empire Hideous filled in as singer during tours of South America and Europe.

Allan Dias, PiL's bassist since the spring of 1986, quit the band in the summer of 1992, some months before PiL itself went on hiatus.

Following their 2004 concert tour the band was on a hiatus from the public until September 2006, when new bassist Wolfgang Van Halen's place was confirmed and Roth reunion rumors began to re-surface, both events coinciding with the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on March 12, 2007.

Despite the reported hiatus and Love's acting career, the band recorded and released a cover of Fleetwood Mac's " Gold Dust Woman " for The Crow: City of Angels ( 1996 ), the band's first studio song to feature Melissa Auf der Maur on bass.

* During the hiatus, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker regularly played this song in their band, + 44.

Elektra soon dropped the Stooges from its roster, and the band went on hiatus for several months.