Boomania, her platinum-selling debut album, was largely self-written and self-produced in her bedroom.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.

In the early 1970s, largely at the behest of companion Erin Fleming, Groucho had a live one-man show, including one recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1972 and released as a double album, An Evening with Groucho, on A & M Records.

In 1984 they followed the largely synthesised single " Thieves Like Us " with the heavy guitar-drum-bass rumble of " Murder ", a not-too-distant cousin of " Ecstasy " from the Power, Corruption & Lies album.

Their debut album, Licensed to Ill, largely featured a rock-based sound.

Most successful were the Rolling Stones, whose first eponymously titled album in 1964 largely consisted of rhythm and blues standards.

Mercury Nashville's promotion of the album was based largely upon a series of music videos.

* 1978: The pop group Brotherhood of Man recorded a largely a cappella version for their album Twenty Greatest.

The album's first week sales were the second highest of any album that year, a significant achievement for a hard rock band at a time when music charts were largely dominated by hip hop and teen-pop acts.

The songs on this album indicated a change in both musical and lyrical influences ; although the songs remained largely guitar-oriented, the band had written songs which focused upon the Troubles in Northern Ireland such as " Crisis of Mine ", " You're Welcome " and the single " It's Going To Happen!

Flood earned them a platinum album, largely thanks to the success of " Birdhouse in Your Soul " which reached number three on the US Modern Rock chart, as well as " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )".

Through extensive study, Amos also wove in the stories of the Gnostic gospels and the removal of women from a position of power within the Christian church to create an album based largely on religion and politics.

Ostensibly, this was due to " musical differences " -- Gregory was unhappy with the plan to record an album whose arrangements relied largely upon orchestral instruments and keyboards rather than guitars.

The album largely consisted of reworked versions of tracks from the Supernova album.

The album received largely positive reviews and reached number 13 on the charts.

On ELP's eponymous first album, Emerson's classical quotes went largely uncredited.

Another album of largely jazz-influenced music, Xpectation, was released via download in 2003 to members of the NPGMusicClub.

Critical reactions to the album were largely positive ; Stephen Thompson in the Wisconsin State Journal described it as possessing " great lyrics, creative instrumentation and production that's about as simple as production gets ", Thomas Conner praised it for being " soulful and smooth, witty and gritty, this record makes the ghosts of Bob Wills, Buddy Holly and Lou Reed smile " in the Tulsa World, and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer noted its " gimlet eye and sardonic humor ".

Their first album, Emergency !, was largely rejected by the jazz community at the time of its release.

The group's US label Sire Records released Ship of Memories, an album of largely unfinished Focus tracks from the aborted 1973-1974 rehearsal sessions to produce a follow-up album to Focus 3.

Upon release in November 1968, the album received largely positive reviews and reached number 1 on the charts in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Such diversity was largely unprecedented in global pop music in 1968, and the album ’ s sprawling approach provoked ( and continues to provoke ) both praise and criticism from observers.

Despite trailing the Nintendo Entertainment System in terms of number of units sold, the 7800 was a profitable enterprise for Atari Corp., benefiting largely from Atari ’ s name and the system's 2600 compatibility.

In modern times, couscous production is largely mechanized, and the product is sold in markets around the world.

The controversy prompted one local politician to call for locals to boycott the performances, but this was largely ignored and the premiere was sold out.

Despite a largely negative critical reaction, the game sold in excess of a million copies.

On 28 January 1999, Volvo Group sold its business area Volvo Car Corporation to the Ford Motor Company for US $ 6. 45 billion, with the resulting group largely set on commercial vehicles.

When geologist Henry De la Beche painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial representation of a scene from prehistoric life derived from fossil reconstructions, he based it largely on fossils Anning had found, and sold prints of it for her benefit.

It sold poorly and was not widely promoted largely because of moral objections to the depiction of a country girl who pursues her dreams of fame and fortune through relationships to men.

) By 1854 most of the Mormon towns, farms and villages were largely taken over by non-Mormons as they abandoned them or sold them for not much and continued their migration to Utah.

A few months later, encouraged by her brother, who believed his niece should try her luck in " the picture business ", then operating largely on the East Coast, Edith sold her daughter's piano and bought three train tickets for New York.

His collection of books on magic and witchcraft was one of the finest in private hands and was largely sold at Sotheby's in 2003, and a substantial part of the remainder of his library was sold at auction in May 2007 by Lyon & Turnbull.

In France and Belgium, most magazines have disappeared or have a largely reduced circulation, but the number of published and sold albums stays very high, with the biggest successes still on the juvenile and adolescent markets.

The war largely impoverished the Gilliam family and the house would be sold in 1873 to a cousin, Mrs. Evelyn Gasquet Marshall of New York.

There are also purpose-built apartment blocks dating from the inter-war period as well as more recent developments, and a large council estate, the 650-flat Hallfield Estate, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and now largely sold off.

The most widely sold editions of the Greek New Testament are largely based on the text of the Codex Vaticanus.

Phelps ' sales were largely unsuccessful, and he eventually sold much of his land to Nicholas T. Smith's San Carlos Land Development Company.

Since the settlement existed largely on land owned or sold by Smith Lapham, it became known as Laphamville.

There was no permanent formation above the regimental level, senior officers were largely recruited from aristocratic circles ( and commissions were generally sold to the highest bidder, regardless of competence ), and the Russian soldier, in line with 18th-century practice, was regularly beaten and punished " to instill discipline ".

The College formerly owned a number of houses throughout Oxford used for undergraduate accommodation, some formerly boarding houses of the Society of Oxford Home-Students ; these have been largely sold off to fund the building of the Ruth Deech Building, completed in 2005.

The original residents were largely composed of former workers, from the company's previous coal mining operation in Nortonville, California, which primarily sold coal to the thriving new metropolis of San Francisco.

Land had been sold before anyone set foot in the largely unexplored territory and the city ( the basis for the future central business district ) was surveyed and planned in a remarkably short space of time.

Coal sold and purchased for blacksmithing should be largely free of sulfur.

In March 1996, largely due to the cost of developing the new Ace, Angliss ' company went into receivership and was eventually sold to Pride Automotive in December 1996, who continued car production in Weybridge, Surrey under the name of AC Car Group Ltd.

Lord & Taylor, the lone department store division not to be largely converted to the Macy's nameplate, was sold to a group of investors at NRDC Equity Partners, LLC for $ 1. 2 billion in October 2006.

Until it closed in July 2004, the Dudley Do-Right Emporium, which sold souvenirs based on his many characters and was largely staffed by Ward and his family, was located on Sunset Boulevard.