He was in the chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section.

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

The front and back covers of Devo's first release, the 45rpm single ( music ) | single " Mongoloid ( song ) | Mongoloid " b / w " Jocko Homo " ( 1977 ), released on the band's Booji Boy Records

2008 also saw a Japan exclusive box set containing the band's first six albums, This is the Devo Box.

The Beatles song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).

In November of the same year, the band's first album with Jeepster, ' If You're Feeling Sinister ' was released to critical acclaim.

The acid jazz flavours and ethnic influences of the first three albums continued with the release of Synkronized, and Jay Kay's interest in funk and disco music were shifting the band's directions towards such.

In a 2002 story for the Chicago Daily Record, Mark Guarino, the newspaper's music critic, wrote that "' Forever Changes ' is a touchstone for serious pop fanatics ..." He added that, "... the band's first three albums were since rediscovered as visionary classics, all three culminating in ' Forever Changes ' ( Elektra ), the band's 1967 masterpiece of ornate pop.

A North American tour, the band's first since 1977, was scheduled to commence on 17 October.

The first Led Zeppelin box set, featuring tracks remastered under Page's supervision, was released in 1990 and bolstered the band's reputation, leading to abortive discussions among members about a reunion.

The band spent the first few months of 2004 touring around the world, first with the third Projekt Revolution tour, and later several European concerts. At the same time, the band's relationship with Warner Bros. Records was deteriorating rapidly on account of several trust and financial issues.

The band's first 7 " EPs, Minor Threat and In My Eyes, were released in 1981.

" Straight Edge ," a song from the band's first EP, helped to inspire the straight edge movement.

Lyle Preslar was briefly a member of Glenn Danzig's Samhain, and his playing appears on a few songs on the band's first record.

The band's first release was the single " Stick to Your Guns / Toast of the Town ", which was released on their own record label, Leathür Records, which had a pressing & distribution deal with Greenworld Distribution in Torrance, California.

Despite the tour ending prematurely in financial disaster, it was the basis for the band's first international press.

On October 14, 1991, the band's first compilation album, Decade of Decadence, was released.

The band's first experience in the recording studio was recording the music to Riff Raff, a low-budget stage musical on which Sneddon had worked.

Curtis committed suicide on 18 May 1980, the day before Joy Division were scheduled to depart for their first American tour, and prior to release of the band's second album, Closer.

The single, " True Faith ", with its surreal video, became a hit on MTV and the band's first American top 40 hit.

While we can confirm that there will indeed be something special done to mark the occasion, the depth of the band's involvement still remains undetermined.

In an interview in the 1990s describing Epstein's involvement in the band's rise to fame, Martin declared " He's the fifth Beatle, if there ever was one ".

Baxter's also marked the ascendency of Kantner and Slick as the band's chief composers and the concurrent decline in the influence and involvement of founder Marty Balin.

Following the termination of the Capitol contract in 1969, the band's new contract with Reprise Records ( brokered by Van Dyke Parks, then employed as a multimedia executive at the company ) stipulated Brian Wilson's proactive involvement with the band in all albums — a factor that would become hugely problematic for the band in the years to come.

While the band's management had involvement in the artwork of the release, the overall finished product was disappointing due to the label's poor quality control.

The album was Weather Report's first album to employ drum machines and samplers ( the Emulator ), furthering developing the band's involvement with technology, and also featured a guest vocal from Carl Anderson.

Belew's involvement with Talking Heads extended to playing on the band's spin-off projects-he played on keyboard player / guitarist Jerry Harrison's debut album The Red and the Black and on several tracks on David Byrne's soundtrack to the Twyla Tharp dance piece The Catherine Wheel ( with his guitar noises credited, amongst other things, as " beasts ").

In January 1985, the band's sixth and final album In the Long Grass was released, although delayed by the band's involvement with Band Aid ( on which they all played ); and, the band performed at Live Aid's charity performance.

Based on the dates of the film and of the band's involvement with the Freese family, it is most likely that the band's lineup of Dave Quackenbush, Warren Fitzgerald, Joe Escalante and Josh Freese ( a lineup which has remained intact since 1990 ) should receive credit for the performances on these last two songs.

Fire eventually re-issued the disc ( without the band's involvement or permission ) in 2002 with a slipcover and slightly modified artwork.

One of the major factors in the band's breakthrough in 2005 was their involvement in the NME Awards Tour at the beginning of the year.

The band's involvement with current technological development has not lessened its infatuation with older technologies.

The band's statement revealed that all bass playing on the forthcoming album had in fact been performed by either John Mitchell or John Beck-in what the band referred to as " Genesis-style ", a reference to the 1978 Genesis album ... And Then There Were Three ...-and that It Bites had reluctantly parted company with Nolan due to his lack of involvement and commitment.

The band's debut single, " Smalltown Boy ", the tale of a boy who was cast away by his family for being homosexual, was a hit, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.

( Their bug-themed band's name, The Beatles, was chosen partly in homage to Holly's Crickets.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

Soon after, the band's name was revised to Bill Haley & His Comets.

They show off the band's strengths significantly, in part because the group was not confined to the three-minute limits of 78 RPM discs.

It was rekindled once, in 1978, for the Hawklords spin-off, but otherwise continued only with design commissions for projects involving the band's saxophonist Nik Turner.

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, to Linda Carroll, now a psychotherapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher who had some association with the Grateful Dead ; consequently, Love was included in a group picture on the back of the band's album Aoxomoxoa ( 1969 ).

At Capitol's behest, the band's name was changed to Crowded House, which alluded to the lack of space at the West Hollywood apartment they shared during the recording of the album Crowded House.

As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.

The album was released in June 2010, in time for the band's appearance at the West Coast Blues & Roots Festival near Perth, Western Australia.

A new compilation album, The Very Very Best of Crowded House, was released in October 2010 to celebrate the band's 25th anniversary.

The album was played as two continuous pieces of music on the two sides of the vinyl and produced the band's two biggest hit singles, " Kayleigh " and " Lavender ".

1: The Miracle and the Sleeper ", which was released on the band's 1992 breakthrough album, Images and Words, and is followed by the 2005 album " Octavarium ".

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.