They were signed to Decca Records at the end of that year, and in 1965 released several singles, including "No Good Without You Baby" and "Leaving Here", after a name change from The Thunderbirds to The Birds.
The band was then put together as an outlet to release these songs, as well as covers of Billy Bragg's "To Have and to Have Not", Holland-Dozier-Holland's "Leaving Here" (which was also covered by Motörhead).
She's Leaving Home | The Leaving Trains | Leaving You for Me | Leaving Here | All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane | You've Got a Habit of Leaving | Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory | Primary School Leaving Examination | Leaving Through the Window | Leaving the End Open | Leaving on a Jet Plane | Depiction of Madoc leaving Wales with his ship ''Gwennan Gorn'' leading a fleet, (from William Cullen Bryant |
In 1950, together with the sheds at Löbau and Zittau, trains were still leaving here hauled by locomotives of classes state railway times, which were 35 to 45 years old.