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Mixed-gender bands

  • Fleetwood MacPeter Green picked the name Fleetwood Mac to lure bassist John McVie into his new band. McVie first refused.
  • Beastie BoysThe Beastie Boys, an American hip-hop trio from New York City, once set off a worldwide run of car thefts without ever touching a car. Around the time their debut album came out, Mike D began appearing on stage and in publicity photographs…
  • Siouxsie and the BansheesSiouxsie and the Banshees first played with Sid Vicious on drums. It was a 20-minute improvisation in 1976.
  • Blondie (band)The band Blondie got its break when Australian TV played the B-side of a single instead of the A-side.
  • Earth, Wind & FireEarth, Wind & Fire began as a small team writing commercials in Chicago. They later sold more than 90 million records.
  • GorillazGorillaz performed at the Grammy Awards, though no band member ever existed. The four are cartoon characters.
  • Grateful DeadIn August 1991, a television crew from PBS watched the Grateful Dead play at Shoreline Amphitheatre, and guitarist Jerry Garcia offered a strange confession about his own band. "We didn't really invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented…
  • The Smashing PumpkinsThe Smashing Pumpkins played their farewell concert on the 2nd of December 2000. The show ran four and a half hours and held 35 songs. It took place at the Metro, a Chicago club. A single called "Untitled" was released commercially to…
  • Paul McCartney and WingsPaul McCartney named Wings after a frightening hospital night in 1971. Both Linda and baby Stella nearly died.
  • Plastic Ono BandThe Plastic Ono Band began as an art idea, not a band. Yoko Ono conceived it in 1967 for a Berlin exhibition.

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