In 2004, a double live album of the Licks Tour, Live Licks , was released and certified gold in the US. It reached No. 2 in both the UK and US.
The album, Franz Ferdinand , was released in early 2004
Morrissey and Marr – who were represented separately at the trial – insisted that the royalty split had been explained to Rourke and Joyce, though they were no longer sure when. Additionally, this agreement was only discussed verbally and it was never legally written on paper, something Marr came to…
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The band remained on hiatus until the summer of 2004 when they returned to headline Ozzfest 2004 and 2005.
In early 2004, the band debuted live on a couple of promotional TV performances in Israel.
Also in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Police No. 70 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
After a couple of North American tours and heavy rotation of the “Take Me Out” video on MTV , the album eventually reached No. 32 on the Billboard 200 later in 2004, and sold over a million copies in the United States.
After Glastonbury, The Subways went on to play The Carling Weekend 2004 in both Reading and Leeds , and then proceeded to play their very first (self funded) tour of the UK consisting of 35 dates.
The Who would not return to Australia until 2004.
Their first self-titled album was released in Israel and Europe in 2004