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4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, [1] active from 1989 to 1994. [2] Their only album, Bigger, Better, Faster, More! , spent 59 weeks on the Billboard 200 and sold 1.5 million copies between 1992 and 1994. [ 3 ]
Their debut album, Fourplay (1991), sold over a million copies and remained at the number one position on the Billboard contemporary jazz chart for 33 weeks. [4] Their next album, Between the Sheets (1993), reached number one, [ 4 ] went gold, and received a Grammy Award nomination.
By the time they returned in 1964, this time as a full band, their music became immensely popular in Japan, and were greeted by thousands of fans at the airport. [2] Their 1965 single " Diamond Head " reached only #70 in the United States but was a major hit overseas, reaching #1 in the Japanese and Hong Kong markets, and becoming the first ...
The Classics IV performed "Pollyanna" on Dick Clark's TV Show Where the Action Is!, and the record became a regional hit.But when WABC (AM) radio in New York started playing it they received a call from the Four Seasons' manager demanding they cease airplay of "Pollyanna" or they would no longer get exclusives on future Four Seasons recordings, among other disincentives. [6]
Guitarist Richie Stotts was a co-founder of the band and a mainstay of the pre-breakup core group (1978–1983). [7] After the full breakup of the band following the release of Coup d'etat, Stotts was edited out of band videos and was not referred to by name in a 2006 compilation DVD released by Plasmatics Media LLC (via plasmatics.com).
The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. [1] Within a few months of their first gig, the line-up settled as Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar, primary songwriter), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion), and this remained unchanged for the rest of the band's history. The Police became globally popular ...
All four members of the group began their careers together while they were high-school students in Detroit.At the insistence of their friends, Pershing High students Levi Stubbs and Abdul "Duke" Fakir performed with Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton from Northern High at a local birthday party.
Liquid Liquid is an American no wave and dance-punk group, originally active from 1980 to 1983. They are best known for their track "Cavern," which was covered—without proper permission or attribution—by the Sugar Hill Records house band as the backing track for Melle Mel's old school rap classic "White Lines (Don't Don’t Do It)."