But she did not learn to read or write music until she was 20, when she became arranger for a swing era band, the Clouds of Joy.
That same man had appeared in a surprising number of the photographs of English psychedelic-era bands I had been studying for my thesis, Fools or Dreamers?
Greg's brother Chris has a band, the Prom Kings, that sounds like most other Green Day-era bands, i.e., like Green Day, i.e., not that bad.
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers There's a lot of shtick in Shilpa Ray's act, much of it borrowed from a couple of CBGB-era bands, Blondie and the Cramps.
Mr. Byrne led Talking Heads, one of the pioneering punk-era bands at CBGB, from sparse new wave through dizzying Afro-funk and twisted Americana, sounds that have been revived lately by indie rockers like Vampire Weekend.
It's a multimedia music business now, and as video-era bands amass box-worthy archives, DVD's with video clips are beginning to take their place alongside hits, outtakes, rarities and live cuts.
By adding French horns and woodwinds (including piccolo, bass clarinet, and at times multiple clarinets) and reinstating the tuba in a more melodic and contrapuntal role, Thornhill's orchestra acquired a totally fresh and subtle sound, one considerably softer and more opaque than the bright, loud, brash sonorities of the late swing-era bands.
One of the other things that infuriates them apart from meeting Wombats fans in pubs is being compared to grunge or grunge-era bands from Nirvana to Jesus Lizard when really they'd prefer to be referred to in the same breath as Dean Martin, the Modern Lovers, the Fall, James Chance and the Contortions, the Beatles and Daft Punk.
The record producer Martin Rushent, who has died aged 63, established himself as a pivotal figure in British pop music through his work with the punk-era bands Buzzcocks and the Stranglers, then later with his revolutionary contribution to the Human League's bestselling 1981 album Dare.
