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Many notable bands originally went by different names before becoming successful. [1] This list of original names of bands lists former official band names, some of them are significantly different from the eventual current names. This list does not include former band names that have only minor differences, such as stylisation changes, with ...
Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong wrote a song called "Green Day" about his first experience with the drug, and it soon replaced "Sweet Children" as the band's name. [164] Gukurahundi – The band's name "Gukurahundi" comes from the Shona language meaning "Cleansing rain" and a series of mass killings that took place in Zimbabwe.
8. Buffalo Springfield. Before he became a successful solo act, Neil Young was a member of the folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield alongside Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
Band member David Nixon is a philosophy professor at the University of Washington, Bothell. [6] Band member Rob Pro (accordion, clarinet) is a composer and sound designer for theater productions. Band member John Osebold, who wrote most of the band's songs, won a 2011 Stranger Genius Award. [5]
A few years before he became an iconic piano man on the pop charts, Billy Joel played in a couple of hard-rocking psychedelic bands. One of them, Attila, was a duo featuring Joel playing distorted ...
"Crazy Man, Crazy" was the title of an early rock and roll song written by, and first recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in April 1953. It is notable as the first recognized rock and roll recording to appear on the national American musical charts, peaking at #12 on the Billboard Juke Box chart [1] for the week ending June 20, 1953, and #11 for two weeks on the Cash Box chart beginning for ...
Conlee was born on a tobacco farm in Versailles, Kentucky. [5] By age 10, Conlee had begun singing and playing guitar, and later sang tenor in a barbershop quartet. [6]Conlee did not immediately take up a musical career, instead becoming a licensed mortician, [7] [6] employed by Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel, and later a disc jockey at radio stations WQXE in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, [8] and at ...
Danny Ray Whitten (May 8, 1943 – November 18, 1972) was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse, and for the song "I Don't Want to Talk About It", a hit for Rod Stewart and Everything but the Girl.