Bobby Neuwirth and the back-up band ' Guam ' warmed up the audience.

His restless and turbulent nature marked him out for a military career ; and having collected a small band of soldiers, he assisted Emperor Charles V in his war with France in 1543.

Alexander's band, an optical phenomenon, is named after him.

Apart from learning how to exist on one meal a day and other artistic exercises, he worked at an open-air park show, sang and yodelled with any band that would have him and worked with a traveling medicine show.

In 1972, he formed Kurtalan Ekspres, a legend by itself, the band that would accompany him until his death.

Upon descending the plane on his wheelchair, he stood up and saluted the cheering crowd of supporters, including an army band playing his favorite military march tunes, which was awaiting him at the airport in Santiago.

A band of Fremen outlaws capture Leto and force him to undergo the spice trance at the suggestion of one of Alia's agents, who has infiltrated the group.

A statement issued by the band described him as, " A warm-hearted, funny and talented man, who was a valuable member of Crowded House.

Biafra claims that their lawyers had told him only to correspond through lawyers and not directly with the band, as the conflict over payment had apparently arisen before the accounting mistake was discovered.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Jones sang his signature solo hit " Girl ", with a grunge band providing backing, this time with middle-aged women swooning over him.

During the recordings for the band's second LP, Wood left the band taking cellist McDowell and horn player Hunt with him to form Wizzard.

In March 1970, most of the members of Brown's mid-to-late 1960s road band walked out on him due to money disputes, and The Famous Flames singing group had disbanded ( for the same reason ), with original and founding member Bobby Byrd the only one remaining with Brown.

Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including " It's Been a Long, Long Time " (# 1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945 ), " Five Minutes More ," and the Oscar-winning " Three Coins in the Fountain ".

The band continued without him for a few songs.

At the end of 2002, Uncle Kracker left the band to pursue a solo career, and Detroit underground rapper Paradime replaced him.

With the band living in a Manchester flat, he had a relationship with a girl named Tracy who bore him a son, Paul Inder, although it would not be until the boy was six that Lemmy had any involvement with him.

When his manager informed him that a band by the name of " Bastard " would never get a slot on " Top of the Pops ", Lemmy changed the band's name to " Motörhead " – the title of the last song he had written for Hawkwind.

In July 1970, Aziz Azmet, the band's vocalist left the band and Ersen Dinleten replaced him for a short time.

Also, Engin Yörükoğlu stayed in Paris, and the drummer of Mavi Işıklar ( Blue Lights ), Ayzer Danga, joined the band to replace him.

On seeing him perform with the band Rock Candy at the Starwood in Hollywood, California, Mars suggested they have Neil join the band.

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

A show with the band Psychic TV led to him becoming full-time DJ with The Shamen, and touring with them on their ' Synergy ' tours for nearly two years.

During this time, Sonny Stitt tried to persuade him to join the Tiny Bradshaw band, then passing through town, but Davis ' mother insisted that he finish his final year of high school.

* Adrian Sieber ( born 1972 ), Swiss singer and the lead singer in the Swiss Britpop band Lovebugs

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

Holly formed his own band, later to be called The Crickets, consisting of Holly ( lead guitar and vocals ), Niki Sullivan ( guitar ), Joe B. Mauldin ( bass ), and Jerry Allison ( drums ).

He is best known as a founding member of and lead guitarist for the band Widespread Panic.

In 1930 Milton Brown joined the group as lead vocalist and brought a sense of innovation and experimentation to the band, now called the Light Crust Doughboys due to radio sponsorship by the makers of Light Crust Flour.

Love initially gained notoriety in the Los Angeles indie rock scene as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989 with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

Ingram, older than the rest of the members of the band, left to serve active duty in Vietnam, and was later replaced by Walter " Clyde " Orange, the second lead singer who wrote or co-wrote many of their hit tunes before Lionel Richie came on board.

He was the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo, from 1976 to 1995.

Bowie's backing band included Peter Frampton on lead guitar.

The city has produced or been home to musicians that have been extremely successful in modern times, particularly Ian Anderson, frontman of the band Jethro Tull ; Wattie Buchan, lead singer and founding member of punk band The Exploited ; Shirley Manson, lead singer for the band Garbage ; The Proclaimers ; the Bay City Rollers ; Boards of Canada and Idlewild.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

Robert Schwartzman is the lead singer in the band Rooney and appeared in The Princess Diaries as well as having small appearances in several films, including his cousin Sofia's The Virgin Suicides.

It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.

The success of the film would later lead to actual recordings of the fictional band and concert tours plus press interviews, all done in character.

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

Jeffry Ross Hyman ( May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001 ), best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, was an American musician, vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.