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The group's 1980 album Making Waves peaked at number 11 but had the longest UK album chart run of their career ( 33 weeks ) Singles from the album included " Don't Make Waves " ( UK number 12, Eire number 5 ); " Who's Gonna Rock You " ( co-written by Billy Ocean, UK number 12 in 1980, Eire number 14 ), and " Gotta Pull Myself Together " ( UK number 9, Eire Nº8 ).
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Hi Infidelity ( 1980 ) contained four US Top 40 hits and is the group's best-selling album, with over ten million copies sold.
Two further Parliament albums, Gloryhallastoopid ( 1979 ) and Trombipulation ( 1980 ) were less successful than the albums from the group's prime 1975-1978 period.
1980 also saw the release of PiL's first live album, Paris au Printemps – also the group's last album featuring Jah Wobble.
The reunion tour is the group's first since breaking up in 1980, but much is also made of the band becoming the first to charge over $ 100 per ticket for arena shows.
The song also appeared on the group's first album, The Age of Plastic, released in 1980.
The group's second album Showcase drew on these singles, and the band cemented their status with a performance at the 1980 Reggae Sunsplash festival.
In 1980 the song was the anchor of the group's first album The Sugarhill Gang.
In 1980, the group's song, " Moscow ", topped the Australian charts and remained # 1 for six weeks.
Written by bass guitarist John Deacon, the song featured on the group's eighth studio album The Game ( 1980 ).
Island dropped the three Ultravox albums from its catalogue, and released a compilation of highlights from the group's first three albums in 1980, called Three into One.
The group's 10-minute debut album, A Taste of DNA was recorded for Kip Hanrahan's American Clavé label, and was later released on Rough Trade in 1980.
She recorded the group's remaining two albums Invasion Of the Booty Snatchers in 1979 and Play Me Or Trade Me in 1980 with Shirley Hayden and Janice Evans.
Historically, one of the group's most notable actions was raising the Red Flag over the Alamo Mission in San Antonio on March 20, 1980.
In 1980, she started singing with the band Slatki Greh when the group's original singer Spasa left the band because of her marriage.
The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist Lyle Mays ( who was part of the group's inception in 1977 ), and bassist and producer Steve Rodby ( joined in 1980 ).
This new iteration of Rough Trade landed a record contract with True North Records in mid-1980, and recorded the group's second album, Avoid Freud, which was released in October 1980.
The group's next record, Young and Restless, was released in 1980.
Former Motown writer Dino Fekaris, who'd penned the band's hits " I Just Want to Celebrate and " Hey Big Brother ", was next to step back into the group's life in 1980.
The group's first album, the self-titled Survivor, was released on the Atlantic subsidiary Scotti Bros. in early 1980, but the album produced no Top 40 singles, and did not achieve the level of success that the band had hoped for.
In 1980, New Orleans writer Bunny Matthews, explaining that he enjoyed the group's ability to put its audience " through changes ", drolly summed up the experience: " No one is ever going to attend a Panther Burns recital and leave with mixed feelings ".
Carlos Meléndez lasted in Menudo until mid 1980, barely missing out on the group's golden era.
Released nationally in late 1979, " Rock It " made it into the Top 20 on the Billboard Disco Charts where it got the attention of Casablanca Records ; the group's debut album, Mouth To Mouth, was released in early 1980.
But Rod Price, unhappy with the group's still constant touring and the shift away from their hard boogie sound towards a more New Wave influenced Pop direction, left the band in November 1980.
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Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).
The Bridge Wars, however, were only short-lived and after the death of Scott La Rock prior to the group's second album, KRS began to concentrate on consciously focused music.
In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.
" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".
He also designed some of the costumes worn by the group, notably those from the cover of the group's debut album Crowded House.
In the 1980s, concept albums also became popular among rock bands like Kiss, with their album, 1981's Music from " The Elder ", which went on to become the group's poorest selling and charting album in their history, primarily because of its radical departure in musical style compared to Kiss's previous offerings.
After Wood's departure following the band's debut record, Lynne wrote and arranged all of the group's original compositions and produced every album.
The group's name is an intended pun based not only on electric light ( as in a light bulb as seen on early album covers ) but also using " electric " rock instruments combined with a " light orchestra " ( orchestras with only a few cellos and violins that were popular in Britain during the 1960s ).
** The Electric Light Orchestra ( album ), the group's debut album
** ELO 2, the group's second album
Track 7 on 1993's Organix album by The Roots is entitled Grits and describes each member of the group's preferred way of eating grits.
Lee also plays bass on Canadian rock band I Mother Earth's track " Good For Sule ", which is featured on the group's album " Blue Green Orange ", released in 1999.
The album was re-released in an expanded single-CD version by Rhino in 2001, featuring alternate mixes, outtakes and the group's 1968 single, " Your Mind and We Belong Together "/" Laughing Stock ", the last tracks that featured the " Forever Changes " line-up of Johnny Echols, Ken Forssi, Michael Stuart and Bryan MacLean ( Forssi and MacLean both died in 1998 ).
Rather than being a loose collection of individual, insular songs, the record is an expansive, interlocking work unified by lush strings, acoustic guitars and lyrical content often based on the group's name and album title ( when the words ' Love Forever Changes ' are connected in that order ).
Nearly all of the tracks on this album are compositions or traditional arrangements of Murat Ses, the group's keyboardist, arranger and composer ( official records by SACEM, GEMA and MESAM ).
The group's rapid evolution can be traced through the Seven Steps to Heaven album, In Europe ( July 1963 ), My Funny Valentine ( February 1964 ), and Four and More ( also February 1964 ).
Substance was an important album in collecting the group's 12-inch singles onto CD for the first time and featured new versions of " Temptation " and " Confusion "— referred to as " Temptation ' 87 " and " Confusion ' 87 ".
The group's album art earned them the status of icons in the alternative community, and has shown considerable longevity.
The album was the group's first step toward stardom.
Huston teamed up with Dan the Automator to form Handsome Boy Modeling School ; the group's album So ... How's Your Girl?
The song was the group's most popular hit at that point and the album was certified platinum.
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