Death Cab For Cutie

   

The popular indie band Death Cab for Cutie takes its name from a song by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The band was formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997 and consists of Ben Gibbard (vocals, guitar), Chris Walla (guitar, production), Nick Harmer (bass) and Jason McGerr (drums).

Gibbard's first album, You Can Play These Songs with Chords, was released as a demo and lead to the band getting a record deal with Barsuk Records.

You can view a performance by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band of their song (which is on their album Gorilla) take from The Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour (1967). The filmed performance features a stripper but all the nudity was censored.



Narrow Stairs
Plans
Transatlanticism
The Open Door EP
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Something About Airplanes
The Photo Album
You Can Play These Songs with Chords
The Forbidden Love EP

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Duran Duran

    

Duran Duran is an English rock band that was one of the most successful bands of the 1980s at the forefront of the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the U.S. music scene. (The first "invasion" being from the 1960s led by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, et al.)

They have had 14 singles in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100 with sales of more than 100 million records.

Powered by their music videos and fashion designers that built an image of  "the prettiest boys in rock," their videos were controversial and included partial nudity and suggestive. the slick videos were done by professional directors on 35mm film giving them more of a polished film look than other cheap videos.

The band was created by Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Stephen Duffy, with the later addition of Roger Taylor and, after numerous personnel changes, Andy Taylor, and Simon Le Bon. Taylor and Rhodes formed the band in 1978 when the Birmingham club scene included bands such as The Sex Pistols and The Clash.



A hot club venue there was called "Barbarella's" named after the Roger Vadim French science-fiction film Barbarella starring Jane Fonda in the title role. Rhodes and Taylor decided to use the name of the film's villain, Dr. Durand Durand, as their band's name.

Red Carpet Massacre
Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Duran Duran - Greatest - The DVD
Greatest
Rio
Duran Duran
The Essential Collection
So Red the Rose (2 CD/DVD)

Deep Purple

     

The mythical river Styx (also a band name) is described as "darker than deep purple" in Canto VII, lines 103-08, of Dante's Inferno.

Though the band had a number of hit albums and FM radio hits, they are best known for the song "Smoke On The Water" which is many a young guitarist's first riffs to master. Their early single "Hush" was a popular radio hit.

The Very Best of Deep Purple
Machine Head
Fireball
Burn
Made In Japan: The Remastered Edition
History, Hits and Highlights 1968-1976 DVD
In Rock: 25th Anniversary (UK)
Who Do We Think We Are
Shades of Deep Purple
Stormbringer

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