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"Edge left the band. He was feeling that he couldn't serve both god and man. I decided I couldn't either. So we both quit."
Fears that Christianity was incompatible with life in a rock band caused much soul-searching for U2 in the early '80s, and ...
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This one goes out to the band we loved: Author reclaims R.E.M.’s artistry throughout its lifespan
“You would see them play in pizza parlors in ... When Berry suffered a brain aneurysm and left the band, burned out and artistically spent, in 1997, R.E.M. carried on as a trio, but its sales ...
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Dear listeners: 'Bambi' is whatever the band Anxious says it is
Your teenage years are for figuring out who you are and maybe for joining a band. Grady Allen and Dante Melucci — along with three other friends — formed the band Anxious in 2016, before they ...
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Lauren Mayberry Steps Out of the Band Chvrches for a Solo Album That Shows Her Influences
Lauren Mayberry Steps Out of the Band Chvrches for a Solo Album That Shows ... "It’s a mission statement of all things that you like, and you just go in and write the song that feels like ...
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How the biggest rock band in the world disappeared
So you know. It will have been 14 years this March since R.E.M. — an Athens, Georgia, foursome that for a stretch of about five years in the 1990s was arguably the biggest rock band on the ...
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This Will Destroy You Splitting Into Two Separate Bands Both Called This Will Destroy You
Post-rock legends This Will Destroy You are breaking up, but the band is not ending. Rather, as the writer Taylor Grimes points out, they are undergoing mitosis.In a message on their Instagram ...
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“I must bow out of the band while I can still do so gracefully”: Eagles guitarist steps down
Eagles guitarist Steuart Smith has announced that he’s leaving the group due to health reasons. Smith has been a member of the country rock giants since 2001 but made a statement confirming that ...