In 1998, Philips Electronics chose Gomez to cover The Beatles ‘ song ” Getting Better ” for an ad campaign for Philips’ new lines of flat panel and high-definition television sets.
was recorded and released in 1998 as Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal .
The group reconvened in 1998 at the suggestion of Rob Gretton, nearly five years since they had last seen each other. Sumner said, “We decided before we agreed to doing any gig, to have a meeting, and if anyone had any grudges to bear, to iron them out.” By the…
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The band’s fifth album, 1998’s This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours , was their first number 1 in the UK, remaining at the top of the albums chart for three weeks, selling 136,000 copies in the first week and spending a total of 74 weeks in the chart. The…
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These largely-improvised recordings, along with ProjeKct Two’s 1998 studio album Space Groove , showed influences including jazz, industrial, techno and drum and bass .
The Shamen continued recording into the late 1990s, releasing two additional LPs with an increasingly experimental bent. Their penultimate studio album, the instrumental Hempton Manor , followed an acrimonious split with their label One Little Indian . It is alleged to have been recorded in seven days to conclude the…
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They also won the Best Band in the World Today award at the 1998 Q Awards .
Bauhaus reunited for the Resurrection Tour in 1998. Their stage show opened with Double Dare and Murphy singing to the audience on a television screen. The tour featured a new song, “The Dog’s a Vapour”, which was also included in the Heavy Metal 2000 film soundtrack.
The band members had been playing together since the age of 14. The band, originally known as Soap, had sent the demo of the Time For Change EP to the indie Household Name Records in 1998 and had played a gig with Link 80 at the record company’s request, which…
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Shortly before a European tour in the summer of 1998, Ward had a heart attack and was temporarily replaced by former drummer Vinny Appice .