"Band (rock and pop) A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble which performs rock music, pop music or a related genre. The four-piece band is the most common configuration in rock and pop music. Before the development of the electronic keyboard, the configuration was typically two guitarists (a lead guitarist and a rhythm guitarist, with one of them singing lead vocals), a bassist, and a drummer (e.g. the Beatles, KISS, Metallica). Another common formation is a vocalist who does not play an instrument, electric guitarist, bass guitarist, and a drummer (e.g. the Who, the Monkees, Led"
"technique both laborious and expensive) and badly under-promoted. The sole television commercial was a confusing minimalist close-up shot of a man's head (John Brockman); after 30 seconds the man smiled and the name HEAD appeared on his forehead. This ad was a parody of Andy Warhol's 1963 film ""Blow Job"", which only showed a close-up of a man's face for an extended period, supposedly receiving 'head'. Receiving mixed critical reviews and virtually non-existent box office receipts, the film succeeded in alienating the band's teenage fanbase while failing to attract the more adult audience for which they had strived. ""Head""s abysmal"
"Head (film) Head is a 1968 American satirical musical adventure film written by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, directed by Rafelson, starring television rock group The Monkees (Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith), and distributed by Columbia Pictures. During production, one of the working titles for the film was ""Changes"", which was later the name of an unrelated album by The Monkees. Another working title was ""Untitled"". A rough cut of the film was previewed for audiences in Los Angeles in the summer of 1968 under the name ""Movee Untitled"". The film featured Victor Mature as ""The"
"commercial failure in the United States, it failed to enter the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and barely entered the Adult Top 40 chart, inching to number 37. The video for ""The Right Time"" directed by Kevin Bray was based on 1960s television. The black and white rooms and mirrored visual tricks gave the video an old-fashioned and psychedelic feel and the style of the bands clothes and hair styles added to 1960s look. Visual tricks was responsible for both mirrored effects tricks which showed the band as being ""giant"" compared to various props and items in the video. Whilst the band"
"the counterculture film ""Head"" (1968), starring The Monkees, directed by Rafelson and featuring a screenplay co-written by Rafelson and Jack Nicholson. The film bombed in its initial release due to poor distribution and the lack of a target audience for 1968. Monkees fans were disappointed that the disjointed, stream-of-consciousness ring of stories was not just an expanded episode. Art film enthusiasts may have embraced its creativity but were not interested in a film by the ""pre-fab four."" In recent years, the film has received above average reviews from critics and fans alike as an interesting 1960s period piece. They had"
"Diamond Head (film) Diamond Head (1963) is a film starring Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, and James Darren, directed by Guy Green, and released by Columbia Pictures. The original music score was composed by John Williams, Hugo Winterhalter composed the theme, and Darren sang the title song. The soundtrack album was released by Colpix Records (CP 440). Silent film star Billie Dove makes her last film appearance in a brief cameo. Richard ""King"" Howland is a swaggering bigoted land baron living on the Big Island of Hawaii. He objects when his sister, Sloan Howland, announces she plans to marry"
"reception instantly halted studio plans for any further films with The Monkees. It also corresponded with a steep drop in the group's popularity as recording artists; the ""Head"" soundtrack peaked at No. 45 on the U.S. chart, the first time any Monkees album had not risen to the Top 5. ""Porpoise Song (Theme from ""Head"")"" was also the first single to not make the Top 40. In her scathing review, Renata Adler of ""The New York Times"" commented: ""Head"" ""might be a film to see if you have been smoking grass, or if you like to scream at The Monkees,"
"Head (The Monkees album) Head is the soundtrack to the film ""Head"", the only theatrical release by The Monkees. Released in 1968 through Colgems, it was the band's sixth album. ""Head"" was the last Monkees album to feature Peter Tork until ""Pool It!"" in 1987 and the last to feature all four Monkees until 1996's ""Justus"". The soundtrack album intersperses the six full-length songs (""Porpoise Song"", ""Circle Sky"", ""Can You Dig It?"", ""As We Go Along"", ""Daddy's Song"" and ""Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again?"") with bits of Ken Thorne's incidental music, dialogue fragments, and"
"and ""arguably the most authentically psychedelic film made in 1960s Hollywood"", ""Head"" dodged commercial success on its release but has since been reclaimed as one of the great cult objects of its era."" In the book, ""Hey, Hey We're The Monkees,"" Rafelson explains, ""[Head] explored techniques on film that hadn't been used before. The first shot of Micky under water is a perfect example. Now you see it on MTV all the time, but it was invented for the movie [...] I got two long-haired kids out of UCLA who created the effects that the established laboratory guys said couldn't"
"on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1971. He made his film debut in ""The Family Way"" (1966), which featured Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and John Mills in the leading roles. Head won a leading role in the Oscar-nominated film ""Sunday Bloody Sunday"" (1971), alongside Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson. Despite these successes, he received little public attention in the next ten years (except for his single release, ""Say It Ain't So, Joe"" in 1975, which has been covered by The Who's lead vocalist, Roger Daltrey, among others, including The Hollies). ""Never Even Thought"" has been covered by both Colin"
"reaching gold status. Their 1983 record ""Tornado"" was marked by controversy, with the band's new American label MCA Records demanding that they change their name to ""Teenage Heads"" to placate the more conservative American audience. The title track was the band's last big hit in Canada. During this time the band appeared, as themselves, in the film ""Class of 1984"" (starring fellow Canadian Michael J. Fox) and performed ""Ain't Got No Sense"". In 1986, one year after the release of ""Trouble in the Jungle"", Venom left the band to form a new group, Frankie Venom and The Vipers. Nick Stipanitz"
"""Bigger Than the Beatles"" a C-minus rating, calling it ""just a lame device to evoke the names of beloved rock heroes."" ""Twice Upon a Time"" followed in 1996. Its singles all failed to make the Top Ten on the country charts, with lead-off ""This Is Your Brain"" reaching number 25, followed by ""Somethin' Like This"" at number 40 and ""The Promised Land"" at number 61, the lowest-peaking single of his career. The album also failed to achieve a gold certification. Doug Virden and Drew Womack, who then recorded on Epic in the band Sons of the Desert, sang backing vocals"
"show"", ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"", ""The Mike Douglas Show"", ""Nashville Now"" and ""Wolfman Jack"". Despite the group's US success, they made virtually no impact at all in the UK; their only UK Singles Chart appearance occurred in 1975, when a reissue of 1966's ""My Heart's Symphony"" peaked at No. 36. Nevertheless, at a time when British groups were dominating the American music scene, Gary Lewis & the Playboys was one of the few successful 1960s homegrown groups. Gary Lewis & the Playboys Gary Lewis & the Playboys were an American 1960s era pop and rock group, fronted by"
"to be made in the late 1990s, but the plans for the film fell through. This version never came into fruition. Head of the Family Head of the Family is a 1996 b movie black comedy released by Full Moon Features. It concerns a Southern couple who blackmail a family of mutants to get money and revenge. Howard (Gordon Jennison Noice) is the meanest nastiest thug in town, a Harley riding criminal with a hot wife Loretta (Jacqueline Lovell). Loretta's problem is she's having an affair with Lance (Blake Adams), owner of the town diner and Howard’s getting suspicious. Driving"
"Do This All Over Again? Swami - Plus Strings, Etc. Ditty Diego — War Chant [First Recorded Version] Circle Sky [Live Version] Happy Birthday to You Can You Dig It? [Early Mix] Daddy's Song [Early Mix] ""Head"" Radio Spot Head (The Monkees album) Head is the soundtrack to the film ""Head"", the only theatrical release by The Monkees. Released in 1968 through Colgems, it was the band's sixth album. ""Head"" was the last Monkees album to feature Peter Tork until ""Pool It!"" in 1987 and the last to feature all four Monkees until 1996's ""Justus"". The soundtrack album intersperses the"
"Medicine Head Medicine Head was a British blues rock band – initially a duo – active in the 1970s. Their biggest single success was in 1973, with ""One and One Is One,” a Number 3-hit on the UK Singles Chart. The group recorded six original albums; the opening trio of which were on John Peel's Dandelion label. For most of its career, the group was a duo comprising: At various stages, the band utilised the following musicians: Laurence Archer, Clive Edwards, Keith Relf, Tony Ashton, Roger Saunders, George Ford, John Davies, Rob Townsend and Morgan Fisher. Fiddler and Hope-Evans met"
"charted just once on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100—albeit a minor hit as it only peaked at number 97—with a cover version of Allen Toussaint's song ""Fortune Teller"". It was the first rendition of the composition to reach the U.S. national charts. In 1967, the band released their sole album, ""Blew Mind""; however it failed to be commercially successful. Music critic Jason Ankeny comments on the album's uneven sound, saying there is ""a lot to scratch one's head about, as well, like the odd, overly baroque version of 'Candy Man' which opens this collection, a production approach that is also repeated"
"notorious experimental film ""Head"" premiered, featuring a memorable song-and-dance sequence with Davy Jones and Toni Basil performing Nilsson's composition ""Daddy's Song."" (This is followed by Frank Zappa's cameo as ""The Critic,"" who dismisses the 1920s-style tune as ""pretty white."") With the success of Nilsson's RCA recordings, Tower re-issued or re-packaged many of their early Nilsson recordings in various formats. All of these reissues failed to chart, including a 1969 single ""Good Times"". This track, however, was resurrected as a duet with Micky Dolenz for the 2016 Monkees' CD release of the same name by adding additional parts to an unused"
"Lovely Head ""Lovely Head"" is an electronic song performed by British group Goldfrapp. The song was written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory for the duo's debut album ""Felt Mountain"" (2000). It was released as the album's first single in May 2000 but did not chart. In November 2001, the song was re-issued as a double A-side single with ""Pilots (On a Star)"" and reached number sixty-eight on the UK singles chart. In 2002, ""Lovely Head"" appeared in the Guy Ritchie film ""Swept Away"". It appeared in Jan Kounen's ""99 francs"" (2007), as well as in Pawel Pawlikowski's"
"on the West coast. The Blades of Grass had a moderate hit with ""Happy"" reaching number 87 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|""Billboard"" Hot 100]], while their competitor peaked at number 50. Surprisingly enough, the group's second single, ""I Love You Alice B. Toklas"" from the film of the same name, was also simultaneously distributed in early-1968 with another version by [[Harpers Bizarre]] (whose version was used in the film) and failed to chart. More releases followed throughout 1968 that failed to chart, including their debut [[album]], ""The Blades of Grass Are Not for Smoking"". The Blades of Grass were especially"
"little earlier in 1966. An instrumental version of Tommy Roe's ""Sweet Pea"" only reached No. 36 when issued as a single and the follow-up, Randy Newman's ""So Long, Dad"", with its intricate keyboard arrangement, missed the top twenty altogether. Thus, 1967 was for the group largely an unsuccessful year in the charts, besides ""Ha Ha Said The Clown"" which reached the UK singles chart early in 1967. There was no album, as Mann and Hugg explored other avenues of their career, although their record company did compile the UK budget-priced album ""What A Mann"" (Fontana SFL 13003), a predominantly instrumental"
"1981 film, ""Urgh! A Music War""). It was another triple A-side, with ""Horse"" and ""The Butterfly Song"". The band then performed on ""Top of the Pops"", but the single only reached No. 26 in September 1980. Their eponymous debut album (released in January 1981 when the band was on hiatus) failed to chart. In the band's early days, they were noted for playing pranks. These included leaving Splodge stranded on top of a set of speakers for an entire set; supporting themselves when the support band failed to show by playing the wrong instruments badly at deafening volume levels; and"
"Teenage Head (band) Teenage Head is a Canadian rock group from Hamilton, Ontario and was a popular Canadian punk rock band during the early 1980s. The group was formed in Hamilton by Frankie Venom (Frank Kerr), Gord Lewis, Steve Mahon and Nick Stipanitz. Stipanitz has since been replaced by Jack Pedler, and Venom died of cancer on October 15, 2008. The band's name is a reference to The Flaming Groovies' album ""Teenage Head"", which Gord Lewis had seen advertised in a music magazine, but not heard, and decided that he, one day, would form a band with that name. Teenage"
"singles fared less well: ""Dance Everybody Dance"" peaked at #99 Pop, and the third single, ""Clap Your Hands"" (not to be confused with the Beau-Marks record with the same title), failed to chart. The group split up shortly thereafter. Lead singer Doug Phillips later played in New Concepts and Cottonwood, neither of which enjoyed sustained success. Some of the group's members later joined the short-lived late 1960s group Rain. The Dartells The Dartells were an American rock band from Oxnard, California. The group formed in 1962 while its members were teens, and won local attention under the umbrella of manager/record"
"album, ""Zilch"", was a commercial flop upon its release. Critical consensus was that Head's songwriting was promising but that the album's production was lacking. In 1990, frontman Mick Head told ""NME"" that Shack's second album would be less lyrically serious than ""Zilch"" and that the band's influences at the time were The Stone Roses, Flowered Up, and The Charlatans. He also stated: The stuff I'm working on now is far more humorous ... The new LP's gonna have better stories on it. It's a great challenge to put a story into a three-minute pop song. It'll still be very melodic,"
"Dog of Two Head Dog of Two Head is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Status Quo released by Pye Records. At the time of recording, the band consisted of Francis Rossi (credited on the sleeve as ""Mike Rossi""), Rick Parfitt (credited as ""Ritchie Parfitt""), Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan (credited as ""John Coughlan""). March 1971 saw the new four-man lineup of the band release another non-album single: a Rossi/Young song called ""Tune to the Music"". The single was not a hit. The band then set to work writing and recording a new album. A couple of"
"Diamond Head (band) Diamond Head are an English heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. The band is recognised as one of the leading members of the new wave of British heavy metal movement and is acknowledged by thrash metal bands such as Metallica and Megadeth as an important early influence. Two working class teenagers from Stourbridge created the band in 1976. Brian Tatler & Duncan Scott formed the band with a biscuit tin drum kit and borrowed guitar in Brian's bedroom. They auditioned several school friends for a singer until finding Sean Harris. ""It was the last"
"in pop music, and its display of Idol and James' maturing talent as songwriters, failed to chart, regardless of a brief low-key tour in November 1980-January 1981 (with James Stevenson playing guitar) to promote it. A lacklustre pre-release in October 1980 of the song ""Dancing with Myself"", backed by a B-side of a Rocksteadyesque dub song entitled ""Ugly Rash"", with a stark cover art portrait of Idol photographed by Iain McKell utilizing a child model in a disturbing way, had also failed to launch the new act, reaching only #62 in the U.K. Singles Chart. A hotchpotch E.P., entitled ""Gen"
"same title was released on Epic records. Later that year the group had another, but smaller, hit with ""He's Ready"" which reached #106 pop. Two more singles were released but they did nothing. The last of their four Epic singles was ""There's A Pain in My Heart"" which became a Northern soul classic and is heavily played in UK/Australian clubs. The Poppies (American band) The Poppies were a 1960s girl group formed and headed by Dorothy Moore with Petsye McCune and Rosemary Taylor. Dorothy Moore was the lead singer for The Poppies. The first 45 single released was ""Lullaby of"
"Pops"", with a special performance recorded outside the BBC Television Centre with 100 or so hooded back-up dancers. Despite the chart success of their singles, the group failed to match their success with their second album, ""Now or Never"", only peaking at #36 on the UK Albums Chart. A live recording of a concert in Liverpool was released on DVD for Christmas 2003 but failed to achieve any commercial success. It also failed to re-ignite the low sales of the album. The band soon attempted an eleventh-hour revival of their career, adding new member Joe-E to the group, and using"
"to join Cream in 1966. He refused. Although musically competent, the group's lack of distinctive personality contributed to its lack of long-term success, as did Decca's poor promotion. (By 1970, Decca's only remaining rock acts were The Rolling Stones and The Moody Blues, both of whom handled their own promotion.) In the late Sixties the group returned to its old craft: backing other artists like Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent. In 1971 they released a single, ""Ella James"", a Roy Wood-penned song originally recorded by The Move, on the Parlophone label, again without success. Arthur Sharp left in"
"barrow Wayland's Smithy in Oxfordshire, and directed by Dwight Clarke, features frontman Thom Yorke portraying the character of Pop as ""a dandified vampire in a glass coffin"", accompanied by other band members. The video was compared to those of Nirvana. Radiohead Technical personnel Pop Is Dead ""Pop Is Dead"" is a song by the British alternative rock band Radiohead. It was released as a non-album single in on 10 May 1993, only several months after their debut single ""Creep"" and their debut album ""Pablo Honey"". ""Pop Is Dead"" reached number 42 on the UK Singles Chart in May 1993. It"
"the songs are lip-synched except Martin singing/speaking the title song at the end, but Arthur, Tom, and Eileen dance. Four paintings are recreated as ""tableaux vivants"" in the film: ""Hudson Bay Fur Company"" and ""20 Cent Movie"" by Reginald Marsh, and ""New York Movie"" and ""Nighthawks"" by Edward Hopper. Three of the four were painted after 1934, when the movie takes place, and all depict scenes in New York City rather than the Chicago setting of the movie. The film was a commercial failure, grossing slightly more than $9 million at the box office against a budget of $22 million."