Bowie shelved his solo career in 1989, retreating to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the early 1970s.

Spyropoulos cited Schuster's departure due to pregnancy as the instigator for the band returning to its core membership.

The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first United States tour.

Burnett follows others, like C. M. Bowra, in suggesting that Sappho's circle was somewhat akin to the Spartan agelai or the religious sacred band, the thiasos, but Burnett nuances her argument by noting that Sappho's circle was distinct from these contemporary examples because " membership in the circle seems to have been voluntary, irregular and to some degree international.

A limited edition of the album was also made available to fans, which included 3 bonus tracks and a year membership in the Staind Fan Club, along with other items ( the first 200 fans who pre-ordered the album through Atlantic Records received a signed copy of the album by the band ).

After achieving a small amount of fame in Puerto Rico for his work in television commercials, Martin auditioned for membership in Puerto Rican boy band Menudo.

By this time the original ten-member lineup of Parliament-Funkadelic had begun to splinter, but many others joined for various album releases by either band, leading to a collective with a fluid and rapidly expanding membership.

In order to resolve this problem, Geffen engineered a deal whereby Nash was essentially traded to Atlantic for the rights to Richie Furay's band Poco ; Furay was signed to Atlantic as a result of his membership in Buffalo Springfield.

By this time Freiberg had become a member of Jefferson Starship -- he had worked with Paul Kantner and Grace Slick to form a trio on the album Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun, leading to full-time membership in the dying days of Jefferson Airplane as the band evolved into Jefferson Starship.

Band membership is matrilineal: children are members of their mother's band.

Hunter-gatherers are often grouped together based on kinship and band ( or tribe ) membership.

On January 4, 2012, the band announced via the band's official website, along with their other official sources, that Howard Jones had left the band after his nine-year membership with them.

He is also well known for his unofficial membership of the English rock band The Who, with whom he has performed and recorded since 1996.

Over the years, with band membership changes and new bands evolving, the term has been used to describe a musical style or subgenre, rather than a regional group of musicians.

Formed in 1967 by Joseph Byrd, the band membership consisted of Joseph Byrd ( electronic music, electric harpsichord, organ, calliope, piano, and Durrett Electronic Music Synthesizer ); Dorothy Moskowitz ( lead vocals ); Gordon Marron ( electric violin, ring modulator ); Rand Forbes ( an early adopter of the fretless electric bass ), and Craig Woodson ( drums and percussion ).

In 2008, Nicu Covaci re-built up the band, and the new membership of the band include, beside Covaci, Moni Bordeianu ( the first vocalist of the band ), Bogdan Bradu ( vocals ), Dzidek Madenkiewic ( Keyboard ), Volker Vaessen ( bass ), Ovidiu Lipan Tandarica ( Drums ) and Cristi Gram ( Guitar ).

However, touring, financial difficulties, and other interests and agendas of the players led to membership changes and the band ’ s break up in 1975.

Mike Gabriel also joined Men Without Hats around this time of constant membership turnover and by 1982 both Arrobas and Gabriel would leave to work with Pisapia in a new ( pre-The Box ) band, before eventually forming their own group, Isinglass.

The live album, Stupidity, reached number one in the UK Albums Chart, but although Johnson played on Dr. Feelgood's first 5 single releases, including " Roxette " and " Back in the Night ", the only single to chart during his membership of the band was " Sneakin ' Suspicion ".

Raymond John Pepperell ( born November 17, 1958 in Oakland, California ), better known by his stage name East Bay Ray, is a guitarist best known for his membership in the San Francisco Bay area-based punk band Dead Kennedys.

After four years of membership, Hedlund left the band on 19 June 2011.

The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded as The Dirt Band.

Article 301 originally was part of penal-law reforms meant to modernise Turkey to EU standards, as part of negotiating Turkey's membership to the EU.

The nations were originally seen as subversive organisations promoting less virtuous aspects of student life, but in 1663 the consistory made membership in a nation legal, each nation being placed under the inspectorship of a professor.

Mattachine was originally organized in similar structure to the Communist Party, with cells, oaths of secrecy and five different levels of membership, each of which required greater levels of involvement and commitment.

He originally declined membership in the NAACP unless the organization promised not to make him do public appearances.

The elective principle was reduced to a formality: the Staatsbewind, originally consisting of the three directors taking part in the coup, expanded its membership by co-optation to twelve.

The membership has evolved since its founding through creative collaborations: the group was originally promoted as painters, but members work in various other media, including poetry, fiction, performance, photography, film and music.

While he seems to have originally believed in evolution, he later takes up the creationist cause to bolster his church's membership.

The Pan-German League, founded in 1891, originally allowed for the membership of Jews, provided they were fully assimilated into German culture.

Savannah State originally applied for membership into the MEAC in 2006 but faced an NCAA probationary period soon after.

The governing body originally consisted of three elected officials, one of which would be elected by the membership to serve as the Mayor.

Founded in 1917, the parish was originally located in downtown Mars, but by the early 2000s, membership had swelled so much that a new facility was constructed just outside of the neighboring Seven Fields borough along PA 228 in 2008.

AMBA was originally set up as an association of MBA graduates and part of its activities remain focused on maintaining the membership dimension.

Its membership originally consisted of a group of Cambridge students led by Robert Woodhouse.

NAQT was more organized than ACF in several respects: it had a formal membership structure, an actually incorporated business rather than ACF's ad-hoc financing, paid writers, and a product to sell other than its regional and national tournaments — specifically, the " invitational sets " which were originally marketed to colleges but became extremely popular ( and much more competitively appropriate ) with high schools soon afterwards.

The National Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists ( NCGIH ) convened on June 27, 1938, in Washington, D. C. NCGIH originally limited its full membership to two representatives from each governmental industrial hygiene agency.

Its membership originally consisted of Darlene McCrea, Margie Hendricks, Patricia Lyles, and Gwendolyn Berry.

The party was originally opposed to membership of the Euro currency, but later stated that it would not seek to withdraw from the Economic and Monetary Union once Finland had entered.

A club membership that originally cost its owner as much as $ 7500 to join has, in some cases, changed hands for $ 500 or $ 600.

The Keys were not originally an elected body, and membership was for life.

China's seat in the United Nations and membership of the United Nations Security Council was originally occupied by the Republic of China ( ROC ) from October 24, 1945 to October 25, 1971, but has since been occupied by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

It originally excluded ladies from membership and hard liquor from being consumed until 1912 when the club had to get incorporated.

Skinner remains loyal to the policies on which he originally was elected into office, reflected by his membership of the Socialist Campaign Group.

This was originally introduced to allow the best associate members to gain regular experience in internationals before making the step up to full membership.

This chapter, the shortest in the Fiji Constitution, stipulates that the Great Council of Chiefs, or Bose Levu Vakaturaga in Fijian, originally established under the Fijian Affairs Act, continues in existence, and that its membership, functions, operations, and procedures are as prescribed by that act.

While the Islamic group had originally been an amorphous movement of local groups centered in mosques without offices or membership roll, by the late 1980s it became more organized and " even adopted an official logo: an upright sword standing on an open Qur ' an with an orange sun rising in the background ," encircled by the Qur ' anic verse that Abdel Rahman had quoted at his trials while trying to explain jihad to the judges: