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Following the album's commercial failure and the group's subsequent disbanding, Amos began working with other artists ( including Stan Ridgway, Sandra Bernhard, and Al Stewart ) as a backup vocalist.
It did continue the group's commercial success, however ; lead single " Incommunicado " charted at No. 6 in the UK charts gaining the band an appearance on ' Top of the Pops '.
The group's objective was to reach a common understanding on: ( a ) the definition of " equipment or material especially designed or prepared for the processing, use or production of special fissionable material ;" and ( b ) the conditions and procedures that would govern exports of such equipment or material in order to meet the obligations of Article III. 2 on the basis of fair commercial competition.
In 1976, frustrated with group's lack of direction and the constraints of working with its commercial ambitions, Akkerman left on the eve of a sell-out UK tour.
Slick's recruitment proved pivotal to the Airplane's commercial breakthrough — she possessed a powerful and supple contralto voice that complemented Balin's and was well-suited to the group's amplified psychedelic music, and as a former model, her good looks and stage presence greatly enhanced the group's live impact.
Unfortunately, none of the singles from the album managed to land in the Top 30 on any of the singles charts, and the period after the release of the fourth album began the group's commercial decline.
But it still did not sell as well as albums from the group's 1969-71 commercial peak period.
album did not re-capture the group's huge commercial success of the 1980s with its second single " Soundtrack to a Generation " barely charting.
Although forced by Capitol to record Endangered Species in Los Angeles using established studio musicians to shore up the group's commercial chances, the album was a critical and commercial flop.
Despite critical and commercial success, the group was plagued by internal conflict and legal turmoil, as Roberson and Luckett attempted to split off the group's manager Mathew Knowles.
Ignoring their record label's advice and vowing to " fight or fall ," the group's next album, 2112, ultimately paved the way for lasting commercial success despite opening with a 20-and-a-half-minute conceptual title track.
Paul's Boutique was initially considered a commercial failure by the executives at Capitol Records, as its sales did not match that of the group's previous record, Licensed to Ill, and the label eventually decided to stop promoting the album.
The group's stated aims were to foster political, professional, commercial and sporting links with Germany although Mount Temple stated publicly that membership of the society did not assume support for Nazism or anti-Semitism.
The commercial failure of the album contributed towards the group's temporary breakup.
In order to increase the commercial potential of the group's major label debut the running order was changed, adding more commercial songs and removing much of the Atlantis Suite material.
By mid-1968, with their commercial popularity flagging, the group's personnel began to change ; the band was renamed " Sky Saxon and the Seeds " in 1969, by which point Bob Norsoph, guitar, and Don Boomer, drums, had replaced Savage and Andridge.
A tour of the U. S. later that year failed to bring them any commercial success there, but some members guested on a Beach Boys session, which resulted in the eventual release of the latter group's single " It's OK " in 1976.
A commercial failure, it sold just over 1, 000 units and it led to the group's disbanding and the release from their contract in 2004.
When in the late fifties The Weavers agreed to provide the vocals for a TV cigarette commercial, Pete Seeger, opposed to the dangers of tobacco and discouraged by the group's apparent sell-out to commercial interests, decided to resign.
Guard wanted Shane and Reynolds to follow his lead and learn more of the technical aspects of music and to redirect the group's song selections, in part because of the withering criticism that the group had been getting from more traditional folk performers for the Trio's smoother and more commercial versions of folk songs and for the money-making copyrights that the Kingston group had secured for their arrangements of public domain songs.
Tender Prey, their dark, brooding 1988 followup, saw the arrival of American guitarist Kid Congo Powers ( moving Howard to bass ) and short-tenured German keyboardist Roland Wolf, featured the signature song " The Mercy Seat " ( which was later covered by Johnny Cash ), and further increased the group's critical acclaim and commercial attention.

group's and fortunes
But it was former Argent guitarist Russ Ballard, who had the greatest effect on the group's fortunes.
Nash's departure saw The Hollies again turn to outside writers for their single A-sides, but the group's British chart fortunes rallied during 1969 and 1970 and they scored four consecutive UK Top 20 hits ( including two consecutive Top 5 placings ) in this period, beginning with the Geoff Stephens / Tony Macaulay song, " Sorry Suzanne " ( Feb. 1969 ), which reached No. 3 in the UK, followed by the emotional civil rights – themed ballad " He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother ", which featured the piano playing of Elton John, and which reached No. 3 in October 1969.
Thereafter, the group's fortunes began to decline.
With " Fitz " gone, Night Ranger required a touring keyboardist ( Jesse Bradman ) to complete the next album, Man in Motion, which promised a return to earlier form with more hard rock to anchor the group's sagging fortunes.
Suddenly, the group's fortunes changed drastically.

group's and improved
The group's performing skills improved rapidly and they soon gained a strong following in and around San Francisco, aided by reviews from veteran music journalist Ralph J. Gleason, the jazz critic of the San Francisco Chronicle who, after seeing them at the Matrix in late 1965, proclaimed them " one of the best bands ever.
In 2001, she declined to accept the Overseas Press Club Award, in protest of the group's pledge not to ask questions of keynote speaker Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and because the OPC was honoring Indonesia for their improved treatment of journalists despite the fact that its forces had recently beaten and killed reporters in occupied East Timor.
By this time, the group's touring conditions had greatly improved, thus enticing Dan Schmid – who had originally left the band due to health concerns – to return as the Daddies ' bassist at Perry's request.
Murray also felt that the group's voices had improved so that they could " pull off more difficult passages with at least an iota of conviction ".
An improved offer from Global was finally accepted by GCap shareholders, resulting in the departure of the group's senior management.
The eight-point plan, which focused on increased networking of secular Americans, improved outreach and education efforts, and an expansion of the group's issue base, was approved by the Board of Directors in January 2010.

group's and even
Patrol parties from large groups will even take over a smaller group's territory, gaining access to more resources, food and females.
Led Zeppelin are one of the best-selling music artists in the history of audio recording — various sources estimate the group's sales at more than 200 or even 300 million albums worldwide.
The even-toed ungulates stand on an even number of toes ; the group's four suborders differ in other characteristics.
Although the record was issued under the group's name, Pet Sounds is arguably seen as a Brian Wilson solo album — Wilson even toyed with the idea by releasing " Caroline, No " as a solo single in March 1966 — reaching no.
* If every voter's preference between X and Y remains unchanged, then the group's preference between X and Y will also remain unchanged ( even if voters ' preferences between other pairs like X and Z, Y and Z, or Z and W change ).
Dukowski acted as the group's tour manager even after he no longer performed with them, and he was likely as important as Ginn in establishing the band's DIY punk ethic and demanding work ethic.
This led to conflicts with Hagar and the group's new manager, Ray Danniels ( Ed Leffler's replacement and Alex Van Halen's former brother-in-law ), even though it was former manager Ed Leffler who renewed their contract with Warner Bros. Records and added in the Best Of album option years before.
Lobrano, as the group's first white member, made them even more racially mixed, now with two black, two Hispanic, and one white member.
Drummer-singers are expected to remain at their drum and ready to sing at any moment's notice ; a dancer might approach the drum and whistle, fan or gesture his staff over a drum to indicate his request for a song even if it is not that drum group's turn to sing.
The two leaders limited the group's contacts with those outside the movement, even some who may have been interested in joining, ostensibly to prevent infiltration from hostile parties.
Lionel Richie, who went on to even greater success as a solo artist in the 1980s, fronted the group's biggest 1970s hits, including " Easy ," " Three Times a Lady " and " Still.
Prior to SMAP's official debut in 1991, the group's lineup continuously rotated and, at one point, even included future V6 leader Masayuki Sakamoto and future Tokio member Taichi Kokubun.
The group's first album, Capitol T996 The Kingston Trio, was recorded over a three day period in February 1958 and released in June the same year just as the Trio was beginning its engagement at the Hungry i. Gilmore had made two important supervisory decisions as producer — first, to add the same kind of " bottom " to the Trio's sound that he had heard in live performance and consequently recruiting Purple Onion house bassist Buzz Wheeler to play on the album, and second to record the group's songs without the secondary orchestral accompaniment that was nearly universal ( even for folk-styled records ) at the time.
A typical group contains: one dominant silverback, who is the group's undisputed leader ; another subordinate silverback ( usually a younger brother, half-brother, or even an adult son of the dominant silverback ); one or two blackbacks, who act as sentries ; three to four sexually mature females, who are ordinarily bonded to the dominant silverback for life ; and from three to six juveniles and infants.
" In addition to referring to itself as a non-organization, the group's " non-members " also even playfully call the group a " disorganization.
However, Coates sang on the group's breakthrough single " Don't Call Me Baby ", as Van Dorsselaer preferred her version, even though the song was initially used as the guide track for Wolfgram.
She writes epic ballads about the group's heroic exploits, such as feeding Nodwick to hydras, sundering ancient seals with his head, and so on, which tend to make the four even bigger laughingstocks than they were before.
Aramaki deals with various branches of the government and military in his capacity as the group's leader, and carries substantial political influence even with high officials.
The group's first single, " Heaven ", reached No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, also crossing over even to the Hot Country Songs chart, where it peaked at No. 46.
Their third album Barclay James Harvest and Other Short Stories was an even greater achievement, though Martyn Ford was brought in to supervise the orchestral work after Robert John Godfrey departed over writing issues behind " Mockingbird "-one of the group's most consistently popular tracks.
Felipe Rodríguez, a legendary singer of romantic music, also followed the group's career closely, sometimes even making suggestions to Ithier.
The group's leader, T. J. Detweiler, tends to have the most complete vision of this struggle, though even he has times when he inadvertently leads the group too far toward an extreme of conformity or nonconformity.
Air Europe Express was forced to halt its operations on 8 March 1991 along with its sister airlines in the ILG-controlled Airlines of Europe group as a result of its parent company's decision to put all the group's companies into administrative receivership on that day, even though Air Europe Express itself had remained profitable throughout that period.

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