The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

Botnick recalls that the use of session musicians " sparked " the band, and they " realized they had blown it, got their act together and recorded the rest of the album.

The album got a new boost in 2006 when the second single was announced as " Always on Your Side ," re-recorded with British musician Sting and sent off to radio, where it was quickly embraced at Adult Top 40.

Finally, a white label got him a contract with Island Records and he started to record his first solo album.

The band got their name from the folk tale featured in Billy Bragg's " The World Turned Upside Down ", on his 1987 album, Back to Basics.

Maybe The Traveling Wilburys ... it's this new group I got: it's called the Traveling Wilburys, I'd like to do an album with them and later we can all do our own albums again.

As with Geen Ballade the album got limited promotion ; a few television appearances both live and playback ( Countdown ), and one acoustic solo gig the Vondelpark in Amsterdam.

In early 1964, Simon and Garfunkel got an audition with Columbia Records, whose executive Clive Davis was impressed enough to sign the duo to a contract to produce an album.

In 1981, they got together again for the famous concert in Central Park, followed by a world tour and an aborted reunion album, to have been entitled Think Too Much, which was eventually released ( without Garfunkel ) as Hearts and Bones.

In 1973 he and his friends got together to record a live album for his fans called Lucky Day, named after a song he wrote in the truck on his way up to live in Nova Scotia.

In 1992, Selena ’ s stardom got a big boost with the song, " Como La Flor " off a new album, Entre a Mi Mundo.

Davidge and Del Naja got back together in 2009 with Daddy G to finish the fifth album, incorporating bits of the Albarn material.

Webb's solo career got off to a rough start with the 1968 " counterfeit " solo album Jimmy Webb sings Jimmy Webb ( Epic ), which was produced, according to Webb, " by a bunch of ruffians from some old demos of mine and tarted up to sound like ' MacArthur Park '.

Martin got his start at age twelve with the all-boy pop group Menudo ; after five years with the group, he released his Spanish-language solo album, Ricky Martin, in 1991.

In 2004, the band got together with longtime friend Steve Hindalong to produce a special album for their summer tour.

And with ... producers and an engineer that didn't care about Jesus, I was surprised that out of 15 songs, one of the ten that got on the album was ' The Answer.

It has been seen as a transitional work, with Brown commenting in 2005 that " a lot of people have cited it as a classic Autechre album because it bridges the gap between the guys who liked our old stuff and the guys who got propelled on to our new stuff.

The first album Iona concentrated mostly on the history of the island of Iona, from which the band got its name.

" I can sit at my piano and write brilliant observational pop songs all day long but you've got to move on ", he said, and decided to let Coxon have more creative control over their new album.

Commenting on the fact that the title of this album is now in the plural, Otway said that he was very proud of it, having " finally got it ( the's ') on the right side of Hit ".

Following the release of their album " A Crow Left of the Murder ," he got an elaborate back tattoo featuring the common image of the All Seeing-Eye embedded in a pyramid.

While it got strong, but not fantastic, music reviews it failed to live up to the commercial success of any of the previous albums, peaking at # 20 in the UK album charts and the best selling single from the album only reached # 61.

* The Argument, the sixth studio album from the post-hardcore band Fugazi

* Animal, a 2009 album by the London-based electronic band autoKratz

* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky

The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

* Abducted ( album ), an album by death metal band Hypocrisy

* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.

* Brian Eno's album Before and After Science includes a song entitled " King's Lead Hat ", an anagram of " Talking Heads ", a band Eno has worked with.

* The San Francisco-based band Om mentions Absalom in their song " Kapila's Theme " from their debut album Variations on a Theme.

* " Absalom " is an album by the Experimental / Progressive band " Stick Men " featuring Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto.

* Atmosphere ( Atmosphere album ), the debut album by Polish rock band, Atmosphere

* Ark ( L ' Arc-en-Ciel album ), by the Japanese rock band L ' Arc-en-Ciel

* Absolute Design, an album from the Swedish band Engel

* Au ( album ), a 2010 release by Scottish rock band Donaldson, Moir and Paterson

* American Idiot, a 2004 album by rock band Green Day

* ANS ( album ), a box set from the British band Coil

More recently, the horn section of Antibalas have been guest musicians on TV On The Radio's highly acclaimed 2008 album Dear Science, as well as on British band Foals ' 2008 album, Antidotes.

Gothic metal band Paradise Lost also covered " Smalltown Boy " as a bonus track on the digi-pack version of the Symbol of Life album.

In May 2010, the band stated on their website that they were " back in the studio working on some new songs " and later revealed that they were " in the final stages of recording the album ".

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

The rock band from Pasadena, Ozma plays a balalaika on the song " Flight Of Yuri Gagarin "; it is derived from their partially Russian themed album Double Donkey Disc.

The punk band The F. U's performed a cover of the song, featured on the album This Is Boston, Not L. A.