Which group sharing its name with a military aircraft had hits with 'Rock Lobster and 'The Love Shack'?
"wife up!'"" His return to the studio led to the release of ""[[Double Fantasy]]"". At a 2002 B-52's concert in New York, [[Yoko Ono]] joined the band on stage for the performance of this song. The song appears in the ""[[Family Guy]]"" episodes ""[[The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire]]"" (in which [[Peter Griffin|Peter]] plays it on guitar), ""[[Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q]]"" (as ""Iraq Lobster"") and in the 2008 movie ""[[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie]]"" (as ""Rock Monster""). Early [[Commodore International|Commodore]] [[Amiga 500]] units had ""B52/ROCK LOBSTER"" etched on the main circuit board. The song is"
"group returned to touring, and played arenas and stadiums almost solely. Privately, the group was dealing with miscommunication and spiraling drug problems. In 1974, the band was regularly making $100,000 per show, and was renting the Starship, a customized Boeing 720B used by Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. ""When [we] got that goddamn plane, it was the beginning of the end"", said Allman. Band member relationships became increasingly frustrated, amplified by heavy drug and alcohol abuse. In January 1975, Allman began a relationship with pop star Cher—which made him more ""famous for being famous than for his music"", according"
"band came into its own during the mid-1970s with a string of hit records. Chief among these successes were ""Toys in the Attic"" (1975) and ""Rocks"" (1976), thanks largely to the prevalence of free-form, album-oriented FM radio. The group also managed hit singles on the radio with songs like ""Dream On"", ""Same Old Song and Dance"", ""Sweet Emotion"", ""Walk This Way"", ""Back in the Saddle"", and ""Last Child"". During this time, Perry and Tyler became known as the ""Toxic Twins"" for their notorious hard-partying and drug use. Aerosmith's crowd earned the nickname ""The Blue Army"", so called by the band"
"with Rick Richards. Danish metal band Volbeat has also covered the song on their 2016 album, ""Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie"". Battleship Chains ""Battleship Chains"" is a song written by Terry Anderson and recorded by his band The Woods. It was covered and made famous by the band The Georgia Satellites in 1986. Appearing on their debut album, It reached number 86 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song also appeared on the album ""Hindu Love Gods"" by the band Hindu Love Gods, a collaboration between members of R.E.M. and Warren Zevon. The song also features on The Wildhearts"
"at number 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1985. Talking Heads' song ""Burning Down the House"" peaked at number 9 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1983. The song ""Love Shack"" by the band the B-52's peaked at number 3 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1989. The band's album ""Cosmic Thing"", released on 27 June 1989, was certified 2x platinum by the RIAA a little less than nine months after being released. The Human League had three top ten hits on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 during the 1980s, with two of those hits peaking at number 1 on"
"band with their eclectic performances at the Avalon Ballroom, the Fillmore, the Monterey Pop Festival, and both the original and 1979 reunion Woodstock Festivals. Their best known song is his ""The ""Fish"" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag"" (1965), a black comedy novelty song about the Vietnam War, whose familiar chorus (""One, two, three, what are we fighting for?"") is well-known to the Woodstock generation and Vietnam veterans of the 1960s and '70s. McDonald wrote the song in about 20 minutes for an anti-Vietnam War play. The ""Fish Cheer"" was the band performing a call-and-response with the audience, spelling the word ""fish"", followed by"
"Aero Force One Aero Force One is the fan club for American hard rock band Aerosmith. The origins of the fan club were rooted in the mid-1970s, when the band first broke through with their album ""Toys in the Attic"". The band became a popular act with a loyal following of fans, often referred to as the ""Blue Army"". Former Aerosmith guitarist and band friend Ray Tabano got the idea of printing simple T-shirts with the classic Aerosmith ""wings"" logo. 100 of these T-shirts were printed and sold out within a matter of minutes at an Aerosmith concert. As a"
"Aero Force One Aero Force One is the fan club for American hard rock band Aerosmith. The origins of the fan club were rooted in the mid-1970s, when the band first broke through with their album ""Toys in the Attic"". The band became a popular act with a loyal following of fans, often referred to as the ""Blue Army"". Former Aerosmith guitarist and band friend Ray Tabano got the idea of printing simple T-shirts with the classic Aerosmith ""wings"" logo. 100 of these T-shirts were printed and sold out within a matter of minutes at an Aerosmith concert. As a"
"the dream he heard someone whisper in his ear that the name of the band was ""the B-52s."" The band's quirky take on the new wave sound of their era was a combination of dance and surf music set apart from their contemporaries by the unusual guitar tunings used by Ricky Wilson and thrift-store chic. Their first single, ""Rock Lobster,"" recorded for DB Records in 1978, was an underground success, selling over 2,000 copies in total, that led to the B-52's performing at CBGB and Max's Kansas City in New York City. Both this version of ""Rock Lobster"" and its"
"promote hope and the spirit of brotherhood. The band WAR disbanded and four of the original members left the band WAR and formed the Lowrider Band. Jerry Goldstein took them to court and sued for rights to the name of the band and won so now there is the band WAR with only Lonnie as the original band member. All other original band members and songwriters are in the Lowrider Band. In the 90’s and 2000s, Goldstein along with Glenn Stone and Bruce Garfield managed Isaac Hayes and signed, managed, produced and promoted the successful three man pop/rap group LFO"
"to Love"" and ""White Rabbit"", are among ""Rolling Stone's"" ""500 Greatest Songs of All Time."" The ""classic"" lineup of Jefferson Airplane, from October 1966 to February 1970, was Marty Balin (vocals), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals), Grace Slick (vocals), Jorma Kaukonen (lead guitar, vocals), Jack Casady (bass), and Spencer Dryden (drums). Marty Balin left the band in 1971. After 1972, Jefferson Airplane effectively split into two groups. Kaukonen and Casady moved on full-time to their own band, Hot Tuna. Slick, Kantner, and the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane recruited new members and regrouped as Jefferson Starship in 1974, with Marty Balin"
"The Starship The Starship was a former United Airlines Boeing 720 passenger jet, bought by Bobby Sherman and his manager, Ward Sylvester, and leased to touring musical artists in the mid-1970s. ""The Starship"", N7201U (S/N: 17907), was the first Boeing 720 built. It was delivered to United Airlines on October 1960 and then purchased in 1973 by Contemporary Entertainment. English rock band Led Zeppelin used the aircraft for their 1973 and 1975 North American concert tours. During the 1972 tour and in the early part of the 1973 tour the band had hired a small private Falcon Jet to transport"
"""Blue Tip"". ""Rocket USA"" is a cover of a 1977 song by the American band Suicide, from their self-titled debut. Move Like This Move Like This is the seventh studio album by American rock band The Cars, released on May 10, 2011. The album is their first since 1987's ""Door to Door"" and the first without bassist and vocalist Benjamin Orr, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2000. The album reached the top ten of the ""Billboard"" 200 and peaked at number 2 on the ""Billboard"" Top Rock Albums chart; a single from the album, ""Sad Song"", reached number 33"
"Lovewar (band) Lovewar was an American technical Hard Rock band. They released just one album titled ""Soak Your Brain"" which was published in 1993. It was produced by the siblings John Elefante and Dino Elefante. ""Soak Your Brain"" ranked 47/100 in the Heaven's Metal ""Top 100 Christian Rock Albums of All Time"". Bassist Rick Armstrong used to play for the Christian metal band Whitecross. He played bass on their 1993 output ""Triumphant Return"" Guitarist Tim Bushong produced ""Tsar Bomba"" for Christian hardrockers Bride several years later. He also acted as engineer and recordist for many other Christian and secular albums."
"one on the U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, receiving significant airplay on MTV's modern rock show ""120 Minutes"". They then embarked on the Cosmic Tour. The next single, ""Love Shack"", with its party vibe and colorful music video, became their first top 40 hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, ultimately reaching No. 3 in November 1989. That peak was matched in March 1990 when their follow-up single, ""Roam"", also reached No. 3. In Australia, the country that had most embraced the band a decade earlier, ""Love Shack"" stayed at number one for eight weeks. A fourth single, ""Deadbeat Club"","
"some members of The Leaves, Conka also was on the recording ""Vietnam"" by Bobby Jameson. He has one credited role on the Arthur Lee & Love compilation album, ""Coming Through To You : The Live Recordings"" (1970–2004), on ""Disc Four : A Fan's View"" with Johnny Echols on the track ""Smokestack Lightning "". Love (band) Love is an American rock group that was most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were originally led by singer/songwriter Arthur Lee, who wrote most of the songs, although some of their best known songs were written by Bryan MacLean. One of"
"United States and Libya signed a comprehensive claims settlement agreement. Full diplomatic relations were restored between the two nations. In 1986, hardcore punk band The Meatmen referred to the lack of French cooperation with the raid in their song 'French People Suck': ""French people suck, I just gotta' say/made the jet fighter pilots fly out of their way."" This song appears on the album ""Rock & Roll Juggernaut"" (Caroline Records). In 1987, Neil Young wrote ""Mideast Vacation"" a song from his live album, ""Life"" about the bombing. On Roger Waters' third studio album, ""Amused to Death"" the songs Late Home"
"took this song with her, bringing it to the ""Surrealistic Pillow"" sessions, along with her own composition ""White Rabbit"". Subsequently, the Airplane's more ferocious rock and roll version became the band's first and biggest success, reaching No. 5 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The group's first hit song, ""Somebody To Love"" was also one of the first big hits to come out of the US West Coast and San Francisco Bay area counterculture scene, to which numerous artists and musicians would be drawn over the following few years. Slick's original performance of the song with The Great Society is more"
"he formed the band Road Crew—named after the Motörhead song ""(We Are) The Road Crew""—with his childhood friend Steven Adler, who by then had learned to play drums. He placed an advertisement in a newspaper looking for a bassist, and received a response from Duff McKagan. They auditioned a number of singers, including one-time Black Flag vocalist Ron Reyes, and worked on material that included the main riff of what would become the Guns N' Roses song ""Rocket Queen."" Slash disbanded the group the following year due to them not being able to find a singer, as well as Adler's"
"addition to being catchy tunes, their songs have hysterically funny lyrics, like ""Yachting Type"", where the guy's girl runs off with a yachtsman, or ""Mantovani's Hits"", which hypothesizes a rock and roll world where Elvis records had not been hits but Mantovani's had, or ""Box 202"", where the guy's girl is killed in an aircraft crash so he puts out a classified ad to look for a replacement. The others deal with romance in equally oddball ways, but always rocking and always catchy as hell"". They toured in the US and Europe with Joe Jackson and The Who, and released"
"Love"" detailing his time with the band and lessons while on trips to India. In addition to his work with The Great Society, in the 1990s Darby worked on an album with his son Jor Slick (""Sandoland"", Taxim Records) and a solo album (""King of the Fretless Guitar"" (1998), Taxim Records). Darby Slick Dabney Roger ""Darby"" Slick (born 1944) is an American guitarist and songwriter, best known as a former member of The Great Society, and as the writer of the Jefferson Airplane song, ""Somebody to Love"". In 1965, he co-founded The Great Society with his brother Jerry Slick, Jenn"
"Rollin' (Limp Bizkit song) ""Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"" is a song by the American band Limp Bizkit from their album ""Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water"". It was released as the second single along with ""My Generation"". The song peaked at number sixty five on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and remained in the chart for seventeen weeks. Outside the United States, ""Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"" topped the charts in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, peaked within the top ten of the charts in Austria, Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden and the top twenty of the"
"had a group called the ""RAF Gang Show"", which was organised by Ralph Reader (who had in the pre-war years produced the ""Boy Scout Gang Show""). The Navy also produced many concert parties that performed both afloat and in onshore venues. SIB was directed during the war by Frank Chacksfield. It also included the popular band leader Bert Firman. ""Stars in Battledress"" is frequently referred to as an Army “concert party troupe.” It was very much more than that and had a considerable number of companies performing at various locations at the same time. Its official title was the War"
"League started to take flight, Suarez and Blackinton were presented with a contrasting opportunity from Suarez's neighbor at the time, Midtown drummer Rob Hitt to join Cobra Starship. Suarez was approached to join Gabe Saporta's newly formed band Cobra Starship before the release of the hit song, ""Snakes on a Plane (Bring it)"". Alex and Ryland initially turned down the offer, preferring to stay as Ivy League. The song was featured on the soundtrack for the film ""Snakes on a Plane"" and the band was offered a record deal from Pete Wentz's Fueled By Ramen Records imprint, Decaydance. Suarez and"
"Aerosmith Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as ""the Bad Boys from Boston"" and ""America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop rock, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many subsequent rock artists. They were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. Guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton, originally in a band together called the Jam Band, met up with vocalist Steven Tyler, drummer Joey Kramer, and guitarist Ray Tabano, and formed Aerosmith. In 1971, Tabano was replaced by"
"from 1977 through 1979 until it went into storage at Luton Airport. It was dismantled for parts starting in July 1982. The Starship The Starship was a former United Airlines Boeing 720 passenger jet, bought by Bobby Sherman and his manager, Ward Sylvester, and leased to touring musical artists in the mid-1970s. ""The Starship"", N7201U (S/N: 17907), was the first Boeing 720 built. It was delivered to United Airlines on October 1960 and then purchased in 1973 by Contemporary Entertainment. English rock band Led Zeppelin used the aircraft for their 1973 and 1975 North American concert tours. During the 1972"
"a joke rock band if you must, but give them this much: they're actually funny, and there's as much rock as mock to their singular brand of ‘roque’"", adding ""there's plenty of worthy riffs and double-entendre wit to go around"". The group originated from a Boston surf rock band called 'The Clamdiggers'. Other related bands were The Bags, The Titanics, The Satanics, The Flies, The Oysters and Seks Bomba. The Upper Crust has appeared on ""Late Night with Conan O'Brien"" and ""The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"". The music video game ""Guitar Hero"" included the band’s signature song ""Eureka,"
"Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra is a nickname given to artists who recorded together in the early 1970s. They were predominantly members of Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Their first album together was ""Blows Against the Empire"", when they were known as Jefferson Starship. Starship founder Paul Kantner then came up the term ""Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra"", a label of reference to the San Francisco musicians that played on David Crosby's ""If I Could Only Remember My Name"". During the sessions for"
"with an entirely new lineup that also became the current touring lineup. The album was released on December 9, 2014 with ""Waited My Whole Life"" released as a single. In December 2015, Lowery (along with Camper Van Beethoven) filed a class action lawsuit against music streaming service Spotify, alleging that Spotify knowingly and unlawfully reproduced and distributed copyrighted recordings without obtaining proper music licenses. Cracker (band) Cracker is an American rock band led by singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. The band is best known for its gold-selling 1993 album, ""Kerosene Hat"", which includes the hit songs ""Low"" and"
"who it is agreed by most 415th members gave the ""foo fighters"" their name. The phrase foo fighter, also taken from Holman's strip, was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various unidentified flying objects or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific Theaters of Operations. Though foo fighter initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the 415th Squadron, the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period. Foo Fighters is also the name of a rock band, first heard in 1995."
"and George McFadden. The Jubalaires The Jubalaires was an American gospel group active during the 1940s and 1950s. And it was also the first documented Hip-Hop mega-group in U.S. music and entertainment history. The group initially went by the name The Royal Harmony Singers, as far back as 1936 and under that name reached #10 on the R&B charts on November 14, 1942, with ""Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"", a song adapted from the speech of a naval chaplain in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor the previous year. In 1946 the Jubalaires secured a spot on"
"bird. A 2018 television commercial for Heineken beer, named ""New Friends"", used the Ramones version. In the game Battlefield Vietnam, the song is one of the songs you can hear on the radio when commanding vehicles. Surfin' Bird ""Surfin' Bird"" is a song performed by American surf rock band the Trashmen, and it is also the name of the album that featured this hit single. The song was released in 1963 and reached No. 4 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It is a combination of two R&B hits by the Rivingtons: ""Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow"" and ""The Bird's the Word"". The Rivingtons followed"
"2005 to 2007. It was featured in ""American Dad!""s episode ""Next of Pin"". The song was released in three versions, each with a different cover color and track listing. There was also a DVD that was only released in the United Kingdom. Rollin' (Limp Bizkit song) ""Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"" is a song by the American band Limp Bizkit from their album ""Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water"". It was released as the second single along with ""My Generation"". The song peaked at number sixty five on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and remained in the chart for seventeen"