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.

The ' classic ' line-up:

In November 2011 it was announced they would be playing two shows in 2012 that will feature the original line-up as well as the classic line-up of the band reunited for the first time in many years ; these shows will take place on 25 May 2012 in Manchester at the O2 Apollo and on 26 May in Brixton at the O2 Academy.

The Seekers reunited late in 1992, with the classic line-up of Durham, Guy, Potger and Woodley.

On 2 July 1971, Queen played their first show in the classic line-up of Mercury, May, Deacon and Taylor at a Surrey college outside London.

" The classic line-up has only reformed for a live performance once before, in 1982.

After 18 months, they discovered drummer Barrington Womble ( whom they persuaded to change his name to Barry Wom to save time, and his hairstyle to save Brylcreem ) hiding in their van, and the classic line-up of the Rutles was completed.

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With both Smyth, who wanted to spend more time with her two children, and synth player Tim Blake having jumped off in previous months, this marked the end of the ' classic ' line-up.

In 1994, Gong celebrated its 25th birthday in London, including a performance by most of the ' classic ' line-up, including the returning Gilli Smyth and Mike Howlett.

In 2008, the band's " classic " line-up, featuring Avery, reunited and embarked on a world tour.

That line-up released the highly successful and classic Heaven and Hell album in 1980, which revitalized the band's career.

The classic 13th Floor Elevators line-up was built around singer / guitarist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland.

Then in late December 2005, OMD's official website announced a forthcoming reformation of the " classic " 1980's line-up ( Humpheys / McCluskey / Cooper / Holmes ), both for live performances and for a new studio album.

In 1990, the Go-Go's classic line-up ( Caffey, Carlisle, Schock, Valentine and Wiedlin ) reunited to play a benefit concert for the California Environmental Protection Act, a 1990 ballot initiative.

In 2001, the band ( still with the " classic " line-up ) released an album of new material, God Bless The Go-Go's.

When Razzle joined the band, that line-up is considered the classic and definitive Hanoi Rocks line-up.

The morning daytime line-up consists of lifestyle shows, such as Homes Under the Hammer and Bargain Hunt, the afternoons contain drama with daily soap Doctors and classic US drama, such as Diagnosis: Murder.

), and The Velcro Flies, with Steve ( Dusty ) Hill and Gavin Petrie — got together as " The Rats ", playing their favourite Boomtown Rats songs, with the classic line-up of two guitars, bass and drums.

III, often called " the classic line-up ") played songs from that album on tours with Ure singing Foxx's lyrics.

However, this album was the last to feature the " classic " line-up of the band.

He unearthed one of the two acetates and had it mixed and mastered and then as a piece de resistance, had the classic Pretty Things line-up, which Dick Taylor had just left at the time of the recording of the tracks with DeBarge, record a song entitled " Monsieur Rock " ( Ballad Of Philippe ) a bonus track for this release on Ugly Things UTCD-2207.

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.

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The lyrics of some of the songs have been changed for family-friendly airplay, which has been claimed by the band to be a play on irony of sorts of the messages of their classic hits.

The band released their second album, ELO 2 in 1973, which produced their first US chart single, a hugely elaborate version of the Chuck Berry classic " Roll Over Beethoven ".

Drug-crazed firearms freak, poet and visionary Arthur Lee and his band captured its spirit on this absolute classic just perfectly: the peace and love ; the harmony ; the silliness, the incipient paranoia ..."

It features the band members ' favorite original songs plus three new tracks, " If I Die Tomorrow ", " Sick Love Song " ( co-written by Sixx and James Michael ), and a cover of The Rolling Stones ' classic " Street Fighting Man ".

The band made a guest appearance in the season finale of " Bones " on May 14, 2009 entitled " The End In The Beginning ", performing the classic song " Dr. Feelgood ".

The most successful New Zealand band, The La De Das, produced the psychedelic pop concept album The Happy Prince ( 1968 ), based on the Oscar Wilde children's classic, but failed to break through in Britain and the wider world.

Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.

The album artwork imitated the visual style of classic " girlie " and fashion magazines, featuring high-fashion shots of scantily-clad models Amanda Lear, Marilyn Cole and Jerry Hall, each of whom had romances with Ferry during the time of their contributions, as well as model Kari-Ann Muller who appears on the cover of the first Roxy album but who was not otherwise involved with anyone in the band, and who later married Mick Jagger's brother Chris.

The inspiration for the classic rock-influenced band The Hold Steady came while members Craig Finn and Tad Kubler were watching The Last Waltz.

The band performs original blues music, Monkees covers ( blues versions of some ), and covers of classic blues hits by greats such as Muddy Waters and has shared the stage with bands such as Captain Zig.

's were the label's backing band for most of the classic hits that came out of Stax, by Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and many more.

Robinson's compositions for the band in 1920, the classic " Margie ", " Singin ' the Blues ", and " Palesteena ( Lena from Palesteena )", released as a 78, were among the most popular and best-selling hits of 1920.

When the Cheyenne were fully adapted to the classic Plains culture, they had a bi-lateral band kinship system.

In addition to doing versions of songs from the classic jug band repertoire on their first album " Do You Believe In Magic " ( 1965 ) such as " Blues In The Bottle ," " Sportin ' Life ," " My Gal ," " Fishin ' Blues ," and " Wild About My Lovin '," Sebastian's " Younger Girl " used

Finally, The Philadelphia Jug Band have been playing authentic classic jug band music virtually unchanged for over 45 years.

The band would close the shows for the second leg of the tour with what they described as their " only cover song ", a version of Depeche Mode's classic single, " Stripped ".

A new guitarist, Jörg " Tritze " Trzebiatowski joined the band and he played on this album, which is widely considered a thrash classic and a big influence in death metal.

In 2001, with new guitarist Sami Yli-Sirniö, Kreator released their " comeback " album Violent Revolution, which saw the band returning to their classic thrash metal style.

He rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R & B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic " Gloria ".