In December 2009, NME listed "Formed a Band" as the 32nd best single of the decade.
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In October 2011, NME placed it at number 102 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
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In the 1980s Russell Crowe and friend Billy Dean Cochran formed a band, "Roman Antix", which later evolved into the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts (TOFOG for short).
In 1975, Belgian record producer Michel Jaspar - who had been born in what was then the Belgian Congo - was contacted by Zairean singer Steve Banda Kalenga, who had formed a band with friends from Angola.
Firman then formed a band in London, which he took to Les Ambassadeurs restaurant in Paris.
Kerry formed a band with Brendon, Roger and Hammond Organ player Jeff Muendel.
In the late 60s, he formed a band, A More Perfect Union, and developed a multimedia, rock theater adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology.
Critic Toby Creswell described Circus Animals as, "a really extraordinary piece of work, as though John Steinbeck, Henry Lawson, Manning Clarke and Jerry Lee Lewis formed a band."
He spent a period of time living in Montana before moving to Austin, Texas, where he formed a band called the Stains that later evolved into MDC.
He moved to New York City in 1985 to help manage a recording studio, formed a band called Bongwater, and later met Frank London with whom he started The Klezmatics.
During the spring of 1989, vocalist Nebojša Drakula, with the former Varšavski Geto member Miroslav Pilipović "Trta" on guitar, former Pogrebni Zavod member Srđan Marić on bass guitar and former Hogari member Dragan "Rale" Rašković on drums, formed a band performing cover versions of oi! punk acts such as Sham 69, Cockney Rejects and Skrewdriver.
After a break from music, during which he completed an M.Sc in Economics from the London School of Economics, he formed a band with his Goodenough College friends Alistair Watson, Andrew Morgan and Benjamin Salmon.
In early 1984 Zlatko Arslanagić formed a band with his mates Dražen Ričl, Aljoša Buha, and Cunja Jelčić.
In his first year there, Lloyd formed a band with his friends which included Archis Tiku.
Hani Naser continues to lead these workshops at the Esalen Institute and other institutions and has formed a band with Walfredo Reyes Jr., Armand Sabal-Lecco, and Craig Eastman.
Born in Cuthbert, Georgia, while later attending Wilberforce University he formed a band called the Collegians, which included Benny Carter and Rex Stewart.
After completing treatment, Saunders and McCready returned to Seattle and formed a band called The Gacy Bunch, with vocalist Layne Staley and drummer Barrett Martin.
Wood's career began in the mid '70s when she formed a band called Rebecca and the Sunnybrook Farmers. In 1972, she provided back-up vocals on Frank Zappa's album The Grand Wazoo.
Igor Hansen-Love, the bass player in Milt Opus, was an early mentor to Nikolai Fraiture, who, together with Julian Casablancas, also attended the LFNY, and formed a band called The Strokes in 1998, shortly after Milt Opus played its first gig at The Spiral, an East Houston Street music venue in New York City.
He then formed a band including ex-members of Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart's Magic Band called The Lost Soul Crusaders (named after a fictional group in an episode of the detective series Columbo whose lead singer was played by one of Riley's heroes, Johnny Cash), but the record company funding the band went bust before any material could be recorded.
Along with her sisters Megan Alatini and Monique Cassie, she formed a band called the Nubian Angels in her early teens.
With schoolmate Gagi Mihajlović, Mladenović formed a band called Limunovo drvo (Lemon Tree) that dabbled in melodic hard rock.
In 1999 Urlich co-starred in a New Zealand reality show, Popstars (arguably the inspiration for the worldwide "Idol" phenomenon), which was a hunt for people to form a pop band, and to perform and produce an album (the winners formed a band named TrueBliss).
Matlock and New went on to tour with Iggy Pop, while Egan and Ure formed a band called The Misfits (not the American horror punk band Misfits) and, after short spells with Skids and Thin Lizzy, respectively, reunited in Visage.
They were formed when Conor, Peter and Aodhan met at Lumen Christi College and formed a band at the age of 15.
In 1998 friends from Thurston Community College, Greg McDonald, Nick Morley, Tom Weller and Ben Jennings formed a band, The Hip Down.
The brothers soon formed a band, the Lazy Ramblers, and performed as a duo on WJHL radio in Johnson City, Tennessee.