Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event, and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.

" Morris wanted Tom Waits and Mickey Rourke to play the brothers, and he wrote the script, but the project eventually failed.

Previous guest designers include Gus Van Sant, Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, Marjane Satrapi, Guillermo del Toro, David Bowie, David Byrne, and Dennis Hopper.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

This had been followed three years later by " Twins ", a segment featuring actors Steve Buscemi and Joie and Cinqué Lee, and then in 1993 with the Short Film Palme d ' Or-winning " Somewhere in California ", starring musicians Tom Waits and Iggy Pop.

Musicians appear frequently in key roles – John Lurie, Tom Waits, Gary Farmer, Youki Kudoh, RZA and Iggy Pop have featured in multiple Jarmusch films, while Joe Strummer and Screamin ' Jay Hawkins appear in Mystery Train and GZA, Jack and Meg White feature in Coffee and Cigarettes.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

They were joined by Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warnes, and k. d.

The Pet Shop Boys, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs have recorded " The Second Threepenny Finale " under the title " What Keeps Mankind Alive?

* Tom Waits ( The Fisher King, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus )

In October 2007, Dreams confirmed that this would be Gilliam's next project and was slated to star Christopher Plummer and Tom Waits.

Thomas Alan " Tom " Waits ( born December 7, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.

Later in 1973, Tim Buckley released the album Sefronia, which contained a cover version of Waits ' song " Martha " from Closing Time, the first-ever cover of a Tom Waits song by a known artist.

This cover later appeared in the 1995 compilation Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits.

After leaving Asylum, the label released the first Tom Waits " Best of " album in 1981, a collection called Bounced Checks, notable for including an alternate, stripped down version of " Jersey Girl " and the otherwise unreleased " Mr. Henry ", as well as an alternate master of " Whistlin ' Past the Graveyard " and a live performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking ".

Edwards was extremely complimentary of Waits ' contributions, saying: Tom Waits is the one who got me my contract with PolyGram.

Critic Steve Huey calls it " perhaps Tom Waits's most cohesive album ... a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental ' 80s classics to stunningly evocative — and often harrowing — effect ... Waits ' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible.

In 1998, after Island Records released the compilation Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years, Waits left the label for Epitaph, whose president, Andy Kaulkin, said the label was "... blown away that Tom would even consider us.

Tom Waits in Prague in 2008

On May 20, 2008, Scarlett Johansson's debut album, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head, featured covers of ten Tom Waits songs.

In early 2011, Tom Waits completed a set of 23 poems entitled Seeds on Hard Ground, which were inspired by Michael O ' Brien's portraits of the homeless in his upcoming book, Hard Ground, which will include the poems alongside the portraits.

* Discography at the Tom Waits Library

During 1981, Nicks toured with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and New Zealand band Split Enz as a guest.

Yes toured with a symphony orchestra in 2001 with keyboardist Tom Brislin as Wakeman was occupied with his solo tours.

During the late 70's he also toured and recorded often with Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill and Tom Howard.

In 2004, their line up included Buddy Whittington, Joe Yuele, Hank Van Sickle and Tom Canning, and the band toured the UK with Mick Taylor as a guest musician.

During 1844 – 45, Barnum toured with Tom Thumb in Europe and met Queen Victoria, who was amused and saddened by the little man, and the event was a publicity coup.

In 2004 and 2005, she played the Devil in William Burroughs ' and Tom Waits ' musical, The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson, which opened at London's Barbican Theatre, toured to San Francisco, but from which she was forced to withdraw prior to performances at the Sydney Festival, owing to exhaustion.

Petersson, however, released the solo album Tom Peterson and Another Language and toured the North American club scene with his new group with his then-wife Dagmar.

In the second half of 1978, they toured with the Tom Robinson Band, and in 1979, they released their first album on the Rough Trade Label, Inflammable Material.

Originally established as a side project from Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club comprised a loose aggregation of musicians, sound engineers, and artists of the Compass Point All Stars family, including Tina Weymouth's sisters and guitarist Adrian Belew, the latter of whom toured with Weymouth and Frantz in the expanded version of Talking Heads in 1980 and 1981.

Bethune, Thomas ' owner, then hired out " Blind Tom " at the age of eight years to concert promoter Perry Oliver, who toured him extensively in the US, performing as often as four times a day and earning Oliver and Bethune up to $ 100, 000 a year, an enormous sum for the time, " equivalent to $ 1. 5 million / year 2004, making Blind Tom undoubtedly the nineteenth century's most highly compensated pianist ".

Tom later toured the South with Bethune or accompanied by hired managers, though their travels and bookings were sometimes hampered by the North-South hostilities which were drawing the nation towards Civil War.

Johnston toured in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the Tom Johnston Band, which featured fellow Doobie alum John Hartman on drums.

They toured Canada and the United States with Tom Gabriel Fischer's project Triptykon in October 2010.

In 1929 the All Blacks toured Australia, Towers was in two of the three Test sides captained by Tom Lawton which for the first time in history beat the All Blacks 3-0 in a series whitewash.

He recorded and toured with German guitarist and composer Torsten de Winkel, drummer Steve Smith and keyboardist Tom Coster.

Discharged from the RAF at the war's end, Tom Clancy toured with a British repertory company.

In the spring of 2011, Tom toured the UK and Europe with a UK string quartet, and did a solo tour in Germany.

A trained singer, she played the lead female, Sandy, in the stage musical Grease, and she also sang with a rock group called " The Young Uns ", which toured the country supporting stage acts such as Bobby Davro and Tom O ' Connor.

In 2007 she toured with a show called Have My Stuff and also briefly worked in radio on Mix 101. 1 with comedian Tom Gleeson on The Saturday Show in Sydney and Melbourne.

After The Shadows break-up at the end of the 1960s, Rostill toured with Tom Jones.

MacLean toured to promote Silence for over two years, including opening slots for Ashley MacIsaac, Barenaked Ladies, Paula Cole, Ron Sexsmith and Tom Cochrane, and The Cure as well as eight dates on the Lilith Fair tour.

He toured Vaudeville and, after Cole's 1911 death, began a successful tour with Charles Hart and Tom Brown.