At 14, he conducted a band that won a nationwide contest held in San Francisco.

In 1972 Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

In August 2000 he won the first prize at the contest for bands of the 25th " Plinn festival " in Bourbriac ( Brittany ) with the band " Le Bûcheron Mélomane et les Nains de la Forêt " ( The Music-loving Lumberjack and the Dwarfs of the Forest ).

The band then spent much of 2004 touring throughout Brazil, Europe, Japan, and the U. S. The group won the Act-of-the-Year award in the 2004 Boston Music Awards.

On March 5, 2012, the band won the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

The band has won two Grammy Awards, one in 2002 for their song " Boss of Me ", which served as the theme to Malcolm in the Middle.

The band also won their first MTV Video Music Awards in the categories of Best Group Video for " Legs ," and Best Direction for " Sharp Dressed Man ".

Its inclusion helped the song reach number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1992 ( it remained in the Hot 100 for over 40 weeks ), and won the band an MTV Award at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

In January 1935, Fitzgerald won the chance to perform for a week with the Tiny Bradshaw band at the Harlem Opera House.

The band won an award for Billboard's Modern Rock Single of the Year for " Drive ".

The instrumental " Behind My Camel ", written by Andy Summers, won the band a Grammy for " Best Rock Instrumental Performance ", while " Don't Stand So Close to Me " won the Grammy for " Best Rock Vocal Performance for Duo or Group ".

As Slovenia's most popular music band, the group has won countless awards including eight consecutive television competitions, twelve from German network television, eighteen as Germany's most popular band, the recording industry's " European Oscar " in 1975, the Golden Rose Award ( most requested on Austrian radio ) in 1979, the Linhart plaque ( Slovenia ), and the " Hermann Löns " award from the German Minister of Culture.

Kent first received a Swedish Grammy Award for " Best Pop / rock Group of the Year " in 1995, and have won 19 in total since, which makes Kent the most Swedish Grammy Award-winning artist or band in Sweden.

Kaukonen was invited to jam with the new band and although initially reluctant to join he was won over after playing his guitar through a tape delay device that was part of the sound system used by Ken Kesey for his Acid Test parties.

Something for Kate's third album, Echolalia won the Australian Rolling Stone Readers Poll for Best album, Best band, Best single, Best male vocalist and Best rock album of 2001 while also topping the Triple J listeners poll for Best album of 2001.

The album won the first Mercury Music Prize, beating Gillespie's former band The Jesus and Mary Chain.

That same year, the band won a Grammy for " Best Hard Rock Performance " for the song " Plush " from the album Core.

Since then, he has toured for the first time in decades with a new band and released acclaimed albums, including a reworked version of SMiLE in 2004, for which Wilson won a Grammy Award for " Mrs. O ' Leary's Cow ( Fire )" as Best Rock Instrumental.

Jarvis Cocker and the band became major figures in the Britpop movement, and were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 1994 for His ' n ' Hers ; they won the prize in 1996 for Different Class.

* The band has won one Grammy Award, in 1986:

" The prize was $ 500, however the band won gas money and a trip to the Grand Ole Opry.

Lyrically, the band continued their trademark social commentary, with songs such as " MTV Get Off The Air " and " Jock-o-rama " poking fun at mainstream America.

In addition to the obscenity lawsuit and being ignored by the mainstream media ( MTV and most radio stations gave such groups scant notice, not to mention airplay ), the band became increasingly disillusioned with the underground scene as well.

In addition, the band has played a reworked version of their song " MTV Get Off the Air ", re-titled " MP3 Get Off the Web ", with lyrics criticizing music piracy.

Music commented that Jones's death " hit so many people so hard " because " Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run ; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns ; to the twenty-and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV ( a network that owes much to the Monkees ' influence ) began airing old episodes in 1986.

MTV awarded the band their Best Rock Video and Best Direction awards for " In the End ".

After playing the US Festival, and with the aid of the new medium of MTV, the band found rapid success in the United States.

To promote the album, the band made their only video for MTV, " Down With Disease ", airing in June of that year.

Rickman was one of the many artists who recited Shakespearian sonnets on the 2002 album When Love Speaks, and is also featured prominently in a music video by the band Texas entitled " In Demand ", which premiered on Europe MTV in August 2000.

It raised controversy when it was said to be an attack on the Bush administration, and was banned from daytime view on MTV ( despite the band saying that it was not an attack on a particular person, rather a comment on some people's negative attitudes ).

The same year the band was honoured with an MTV Icon award in a television special presented by Marilyn Manson.

In 1993, the band filmed an episode of MTV Unplugged, where they debuted the song " Big Empty.

In retrospect, MTV writer James Montgomery published an article questioning the validity of music critics opinions of the band during the 90's, saying, " All I'm suggesting is that perhaps it's time to admit that we were wrong about them from the get-go — that we treated them unfairly.

Mötley Crüe's video for " Girls, Girls, Girls " was banned by MTV for having completely nude women dancing around the members of the band in a strip club.

In 1993, Australian rock band INXS ' song " The Gift " was banned by MTV because of its use of Holocaust and Gulf War footage, among images of famine, pollution, war and terrorism.

As well as this, metal band Tool's music video for Prison Sex was banned from MTV, as the video and lyrics touch on the sensitive matter of child abuse.

* Mutha's Day Out, 1990s rock band, signed to Chrysalis records, had 3 videos on MTV rotation and 2 world tours

Initially dismissed in the music press as a " teeny bob sensation " were Norwegian band a-ha, whose use of guitars and real drums produced an accessible form of synthpop, which, along with a MTV friendly video, took single " Take on Me " ( 1985 ) to number two in the UK and number one in the US.

Perhaps most infamously, the band was asked to play at MTV Video Music Awards, where they were nominated for the " Doll Parts " music video.

The band released a music video for the album's only single, " Lacquer Head ", which was banned from MTV because of references to and depictions of drug use, despite the song's anti-drug message.

While it is only one of the few music videos by Black Flag, the move of airing the video on MTV was controversial among fans due to the fact that the band members were against the act of selling out and was based on promoting their material DIY through distributing flyers and other low budget promotion.