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It namechecked Linzhi, but the firm's issued a strong denial to Coindesk.
Well, according to Captain Marvel it's Pitt, who gets namechecked during the autopsy scene.
In the first debate, Julián Castro namechecked Moms Demand volunteers when talking about fighting gun violence.
The 'Candace' namechecked by West is Candace Owens, a right-wing commentator that regularly features on U.S. political television shows.
Crypto mining, the process of creating Bitcoin and other digital currencies through the use of computing power, was namechecked. 2.
Yet he is being helped by an obscure European Union capital rule known as Article 104a, which the bank namechecked.
Their style skips gleefully among a dozen genres, "visionary poems" to "futuristic films", "folk tales" to "gossip columns" (all namechecked by Jósef).
Inspired by the filmmakers she promoted (she namechecked Julie Dash and Ada Gay Griffin), Ms. Sud was determined to try film again.
She wore one of those shirts in the pages of Future Music Magazine, and namechecked My Fight/Your Fight in an interview with Noisey.
Scott Walker and namechecked her endorsement from the state GOP as she sought to cast herself as the more reliable conservative in the race.
Haddish is having such a moment that she was even (allegedly) namechecked in a new DJ Khaled song by none other than Queen Bey herself.
Erdogan also namechecked Vestel Venus phones as a home-built alternative for Turks to buy, prompting shares in that company to rise almost 5 percent.
However, King did state to Entertainment Tonight that she is excited to explore new opportunities for the PLL characters — though Emily and Alison weren't specifically namechecked.
So fresh, in fact, that the 2018 Netflix rom-com, Set It Up, namechecked the '90s flick as its leads attempted to unite their bosses in romance.
Oliver namechecked every industry — other than food — that Democrats included in the summer rollout of their position as he said that lawmakers should support stronger antitrust enforcement.
In this case the wily, mood-surfing mayor, Bill Hartsfield—namechecked in the novel alongside several other historical figures—traded black votes for those eight police uniforms.
Barring Meade, all of the candidates are trenchant critics of the president, but Pena Nieto namechecked all four of them and the Senate motion in his scolding of Trump.
On Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi namechecked Germany when he told reporters that he was less worried about Italian banks than those in other countries, according to Reuters.
Like fellow investors Earlybird, Point Nine was among the first early-stage investors in Berlin and the pair were consistently namechecked by peers as great investment options for founders.
While Streisand never appeared on Fox's musical dramedy, she was namechecked oodles of times by Lea Michele's Rachel Berry, who was obsessed with crafting a career as iconic as Streisand's.
A few cybersecurity goodies: Carter namechecked both the "Hack the Pentagon" initiative and the Defense Department's offensive cyber operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to reports.
In particular, the company namechecked browser apps Opera Mini and Firefox, both of which have over 100 million downloads, and UC Browser, which has been downloaded more than 500 million times.
Many of the canceled people whom The New York Times namechecked last year are no longer canceled—Taylor Swift, Queer Eye's Antoni Porowski, and Chris Evans seem to be doing fine.
Season 2 will continue to focus on real teen issues, though, this time, will shift focus away from Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) to the other students whom the teenager namechecked on her 13 tapes.
Take some time, as well, with Ian McEwan's sly new short story, "My Purple Scented Novel," in The New Yorker, a kind of chapbook reworking of Martin Amis's "The Information," namechecked in the text.
What remains to be seen: given that the Ghost was seen briefly (and its pilot Hera namechecked) in Rogue One, will the finale take us into an animated version of the battle of Scarif?
Timotheée Chalamet had an incredible run last year—chatting with Frank Ocean, being namechecked by Tyler, the Creator, and getting nominated for a fucking Oscar at just 22—and he isn't slowing down in 2018.
During opening remarks at a hearing about broadband privacy, Hatch said he has been "troubled recently" that a number of FCC actions extend past the commission's authority, and also namechecked the set-top box proposal.
Stéphane Bohbot, founder of Innov8 Group, also invested and is being namechecked specifically for his expertise in retail and connected objects, something that the startup hopes to leverage as it seeks growth through hardware, not just software.
Episode 6 On her tapes, Hannah called Zach out for stealing the "compliments" left in her bag during communications class, an act of meanness that, in comparison to the actions of the other students namechecked on her "reasons" list, felt small.
While the name of his kingdom is not yet known, King Hartapu is namechecked in another hieroglyphic inscription 10 miles from the site, which lends credence to the notion that he may have been an influential monarch thousands of years ago.
Here's an incomplete list of things that were not mentioned, or at most namechecked, at Monday night's Republican convention session: On the only convention night that appeared to be have national security and foreign policy as a focus, the GOP basically whiffed. Why?
Crypto mining, the process of creating Bitcoin and other digital currencies through the use of computing power, was namechecked alongside a swarm of other sectors the agency wanted to "eliminate" because they "lacked safe production conditions, seriously wasted resources, polluted the environment," among other issues.
Speaking in front of EU lawmakers today Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg namechecked the GDPR's core principles of "control, transparency and accountability" — claiming his company will deliver on all that, come Friday, when a new European Union data protection framework, GDPR, starts being applied, finally with penalties worth the enforcement.
Cates (also a star of the "Stranger Things"-esque "Gremlins") is also later namechecked in the season -- Dustin declares his mystery girlfriend Suzie is hotter than the actress -- and a cardboard standee of the actress in her famed "Fast Times" red bikini can be spotted in the Family Video Store.
In a new interview with Glamour about the high school movie trend that took over cinemas between 1998 and 2000 (Can't Hardly Wait, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Drive Me Crazy are also namechecked), Cook recalled how her character was objectified, even though, technically, it was Laney's story.
However, in the event, and given the mounting PR nightmare of even replacement Note 20163s having a demonstrable risk of an exploding battery — coupled with the model being namechecked as a safety hazard at airports and on flights all over the world — it's hardly a surprise Samsung has decided to pull the plug and put the Note 7 out of its misery.
Throughout the night, Biden namechecked President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and former President Obama, saying at one point that everyone "underestimate[s]" what the former president accomplished on climate change.
The Y2K shutdown didn't happen; the age of blogging began; boyband fanaticism reached its peak with NSYNC's No Strings Attached while Backstreet Boys were still riding hard on Millennium; MTV launched Cribs, giving us a personal insight into the inner lives of the stars then fully distanced from the rest of us by the absence of social media; Britney Spears released Oops, I Did It Again, Limp Bizkit released Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water, and both artists had such an equally massive impact on the zeitgeist that Eminem namechecked them in the same breath in a song he performed at the VMAs surrounded by lookalikes in an effort to skewer 00s pop culture and his own influence on it.
Bond was namechecked in the 1999 Le Tigre song "Hot Topic" from the band's eponymous debut album.
Kwango was the subject of a song by the Bevis Frond and was namechecked in the Half Man Half Biscuit song "Prag Vec at the Melkweg".
The song title is namechecked in a later Manic Street Preachers single, "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough". It was included on the 2002 compilation Forever Delayed.
They were also often namechecked by Jones's friend and media buddy Paul Kaye under his Dennis Pennis alter ego. Paul Noble left the band. The remaining trio recruited former Strangelove and Blue Aeroplanes guitarist Alex Lee. The group disbanded shortly after Island Records dropped them.
Shrimpton is namechecked (as "Jeannie Shrimpton") in The Smithereens song "Behind the Wall of Sleep" (1986). The story of Shrimpton's relationship with David Bailey is dramatised in a BBC Four film, We'll Take Manhattan (26 January 2012), with Karen Gillan playing the part of Shrimpton.
Saltykov-Shedrin was a personal favourite of Lenin himself, who often namechecked the writer's characters to prove his point – Iudushka, in particular, served well to label many of his adversaries: Russian old landlords and emerging capitalists, Tzarist government members and, notably, his own associate Trotzky.
Riley has co-written two TV adaptations of David Walliams books: Gangsta Granny and The Boy in the Dress. Riley was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He is namechecked in the Father Ted Christmas Special as 'Father Andy Riley'.
The song's title alludes to Sade's 1985 song "The Sweetest Taboo", which is namechecked more than once in the lyrics. "S.S.T." also refers to sea surface temperature, which is used to monitor the threat of hurricanes. The B-side of the single is the instrumental "Brand New Orleans".
Killing Joke have inspired artists of different genres. They have been namechecked by several heavy rock bands such as Metallica and Soundgarden. Metallica covered "The Wait" and James Hetfield picked Coleman as one of his favourite singers. Soundgarden cited them as one of their main influences when they started playing.
Cheetah is an extended play by British electronic musician Richard D. James, released under the pseudonym Aphex Twin on 8 July 2016 on Warp. The name is a reference to Cheetah Marketing, a British manufacturer of microcomputer peripherals and electronic musical instruments in the 1980s (such as the MS800 namechecked in two of the EP's track titles).
The song's title comes from Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. Cadillac Ranch is a sculpture showing ten Cadillac automobiles with their hoods buried in the ground. Springsteen used Cadillac Ranch as a metaphor for his theme; that these once elite cars are now expendable. Among the real life people namechecked in the song are Burt Reynolds, Junior Johnson, and James Dean, all deceased.
Salamon 1999, p. 146 The rock track "Happy Hour" is followed by the ballad "Things Just Getting Good", which sees each member of the band being namechecked. "Living Around" was compared to the work of Fountains of Wayne. "Jersey Shore" conveys the feelings of a summer ending, and is followed by the Cars-indebted "Skips a Beat (Over You)", which features backing vocals from Toomey.
The pub was regularly visited by Evelyn Waugh and associates, and is mentioned in Brideshead Revisited. Waugh gave Fothergill a copy of his first novel, Decline and Fall, in which he wrote, "John Fothergill, Oxford's only civilizing influence." Fothergill hid the copy in the inn's toilet to avoid theft. Harold Acton also visited the inn and namechecked Fothergill in his memoirs, Memoirs of an Aesthete.
Dixon has often cited Madonna as an influence, saying "Madonna is a big idol. I loved her when I was a young girl and I feel like I've been on a musical journey with her". Dixon's single "Let's Get Excited" namechecked the singer and her 1985 single "Into the Groove". Furthermore, the music video featured what Dixon described as "a Madonna tribute" featuring voguing throughout.
Goodman's affiliations with the New York Intellectuals provided much of his early publishing connections and success, especially as he saw rejection from the literary establishment. Goodman found fonder camaraderie among anarchists and experimentalists such as the Why? Group and the Living Theater. Goodman's role as a New York Intellectual cultural figure was satirized alongside his coterie in Delmore Schwartz's The World Is a Wedding and namechecked in Woody Allen's Annie Hall.
He also namechecked the singer in one of his earliest original songs "Upminster Kid", albeit under the singer's 'full' name Gene Vincent Craddock. Curiously Dury constantly denied that identification with the singer, also crippled and forced to wear a leg brace, was in any way an attraction. He apparently hadn't even known Vincent was crippled when he first became a fan. What drew Dury's attention to the singer was his voice and his look.
Evil Empire. Epic EK 57523, 1996. and is mentioned in Ice Cube's songs "Really Doe" and "We Had to Tear This Motherfucka Up." Koon was also namechecked in The Simpsons episode "Sideshow Bob Roberts" by conservative commentator Birch Barlow as an example of someone "railroaded by our liberal justice system" alongside Sideshow Bob, Oliver North, and Joe Camel. He was parodied twice in 1993 by Jim Carrey on the American sketch comedy television series In Living Color.
The 1962 film The Boys was produced by Galaworldfilm Productions. The Shadows recorded the soundtrack and the production company is namechecked on the record sleeve of the EP which is titled Theme music from the Galaworldfilm Production "The Boys". All four tracks were recorded under the supervision of Norrie Paramor. None of the tracks were released as singles in the UK. However, the Kent Music Report retrospectively placed "The Boys"/"The Girls" as the Australian number-one single in February 1963.
His weight remained consistently around for the World Strongest Man contests, where versatility would be compromised by heavy bodyweights, a point emphasized by Ab Wolders of the Netherlands in 1989, a fellow competitor. Jón Páll weighed his heaviest during Pure Strength 1987 at a weight of . Jón Páll was namechecked in Iceland's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, "Sókrates" by Sverrir Stormsker. He was also shown, among the artists competing, in a short videoclip at the opening of the Contest.
The song relates to him losing touch with student housemates Mike and actress Susan Penhaligon (who were also namechecked in the Van der Graaf Generator song "Refugees"). The complex and atmospheric "(In the) Black Room/The Tower" was originally planned for inclusion on Van der Graaf Generator's album following Pawn Hearts, an album that because of the band's split never came to be.Christopulos, J., and Smart, P.: "Van der Graaf Generator – The Book", page 174. Phil and Jim publishers, 2005.
She said that she was deeply moved by the music, so she couldn't help but make a contribution. During the same year, Nico briefly toured as supporting act for Siouxsie and the Banshees, one of many post-punk bands who namechecked her. In Paris, Patti Smith bought a new harmonium for Nico after her original was stolen. Nico returned to New York in 1979 where her comeback concert at CBGB (accompanied by John Cale and Lutz Ulbrich) was reviewed positively in The New York Times.
In 2014 Childish produced, played on and co- wrote (with Dave Tattersall) most of the songs on The Wave Pictures' album Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon.sleeve notes on the Wave Pictures' Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon CD Childish has been namechecked by a number of famous musicians including Kurt Cobain, Graham Coxon, The White Stripes (Jack White had Childish's name written in large letters on his arm for an early Top of the Pops appearance) and Kylie Minogue who named the LP Impossible Princess after his book .
Unicorn featured Marc Bolan on vocals, guitar, organ and phonofiddle and Took on percussion, bass and piano. The back cover depicted Bolan and Took surrounded by books that were relevant to the subject matter of the songs. The lyrics namechecked William Blake as well as the Cottingley Fairies, a famous case of two children's photographs of alleged fairies taken near their Yorkshire home. The final song on the album, "Romany Soup", featured John Peel (an early supporter of the band) reciting a short story written by Bolan.
After a 1981 American tour, he retired from the experimental music scene and dropped off the public radar. Wilson then lapsed into obscurity until around 1996, when Beck was heard citing him as an influence in concerts, at award ceremonies, and on his album, Odelay. Beck also namechecked the musician in his hit single "Where It's At": "Passin' the dutchie from coast to coast/like my man Gary Wilson rocks the most." Around the same time, he was cited by the people behind Sub Pop Records as a major influence on their company.
Pete Doherty, former member of The Libertines, namechecked "What I Like Most About You is Your Girlfriend" on Down in Albion, the first Babyshambles album. The song "Merry Go Round" contains the lyrics "He says, 'What I like most about you, Pete/Is your girlfriend and your shoes.'" Those who have recorded a song written by Dammers include Tricky ("Ghost Town"), The Prodigy ("Ghost Town") and Elvis Costello ("What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend"). Dammers has produced singles for Robert Wyatt, The Untouchables, UB40 and Junior Delgado.
Ana Matronic from Scissor Sisters talked about her favourite band Siouxsie & the Banshees. "My big inspiration as far as music was concerned has always been rather scary women: Annie Lennox, Siouxsie Sioux – The Banshees were probably my favourite band ever – Debbie Harry, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith. I dig the women who scare people." Siouxsie was also hailed by Romy Madley Croft of the XX, Kim Deal of the Pixies and the Breeders, and also by Josephine Wiggs of the Breeders, and namechecked by Karin Dreijer Andersson of the Knife.
Apart from Liam Howlett - who was the sole composer - of the additional three members at that time, only Maxim Reality actually contributed to the album, performing the vocals on the last track. A wide variety of artists in the breakbeat hardcore scene in the early 1990s are given respect and namechecked in the sleeve notes of the album, including SL2, Carl Cox, Moby, Tim Westwood, Orbital and Aphex Twin. Experience peaked at No. 12 in the UK Albums Chart and went on to achieve platinum status in that country. It also went gold in Poland.
Newport-based rap group Goldie Lookin Chain released a "parody of a parody" video in response titled "You're Not From Newport", alleging that their rivals lacked local knowledge. The song was the inspiration for actor Russell Gomer's parody "Ain't Seen Ruthin Yet", based on the song You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Bachman–Turner Overdrive and the town of Ruthin in Denbighshire. Comic Relief 2011 included a new parody video directed by MJ Delaney featuring Welsh celebrities lip-synching to the song, including Josie d'Arby and Steve Jones who were namechecked in the original parody. It is available to download via iTunes.
When the album was reissued, The Quietus praised it saying: "[It was] their most experimental work, Smith's presence is keenly felt on the disciplined execution of the grandiose 'Dazzle' or the starkly seductive 'Swimming Horses'. But the real treasures were buried deep within the album. The lysergic Spaghetti Western twang of 'Bring Me The Head of the Preacher Man' is evocative in its execution while the densely epic 'Blow The House Down' finds Smith indelibly stamping his mark on the track courtesy of some his finest guitar work". Hyæna was namechecked by Brett Anderson, the singer of Suede.
Minnelli has stated that she is an Episcopalian. The family moved the remains of Minnelli's mother Judy Garland from Ferncliff Cemetery in Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York, to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California in 2017. Minnelli's friendships have included the singer Adam Ant whom she advised on what to wear when he was presented to Queen Elizabeth II after the 1981 Royal Variety Performance at which his band Adam and the Ants performed. Ant in turn namechecked Minnelli in the track "Crackpot History and the Right To Lie" on his 1982 solo album Friend or Foe.
On June 22, 2013 the band headlined Wembley Stadium, it was their biggest show to date with 69,745 people in attendance. At the show, the band performed a new song that was written specifically for the night titled 'The Wembley Song', the song namechecked various bands who had headlined both the old and new stadium, and also made references to the 1966 World Cup Final and the old stadiums famous Twin Towers. The final verse of the song explored the band's career to date ("From Dave's Apartment to Wembley"). Later that night the band headed across town to play a surprise set at the 600 capacity The Garage, London.
B000VRVTCA Join Hands was later namechecked by other critically acclaimed musicians. James Murphy, the leader of LCD Soundsystem, expressed an appreciation of the album stating the first records he bought were Join Hands, the Fall's Grotesque and the Birthday Party's "Nick the Stripper". "All three of those records are three of my favourite things I've ever heard", he said. In late 2008, Morrissey chose the track "Mother" in his playlist when he was interviewed for BBC Radio 2, and another former member of the Smiths, Johnny Marr, said he was a big admirer of second albums from several bands, including Siouxsie and the Banshees.
The video features the band dressed as schoolboys, dancing in an automatic, almost possessed, fashion and miming along to the main vocal track. It was inspired by Dennis Potter's television play Blue Remembered Hills (1979), which features adults playing children, and the lip-sync device Potter used in his 'serials with songs' Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986). Another part of the video sees the band dressed in white clothing and standing in front of a large photograph of Terry Wogan (who is namechecked in the song). The finale of the video also takes several visual cues from the "Dry Bones" sequence in Singing Detective.
However, when her assisting surgery, Lexie Grey starts singing along, Christina looks venomously at her until she quiets down. Katy Perry, Travis Barker and DJ AM covered the song at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. In 2009, the song was namechecked in the Train hit single "Hey, Soul Sister" with the lyric "I believe in you/Like a virgin you're Madonna/And I'm always gonna wanna blow your mind". The song was covered in the 2010 Glee episode "The Power of Madonna" by the cast, including Jonathan Groff, Jayma Mays, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Matthew Morrison, and Naya Rivera, during a dream sequence by their characters.
"It's only after a few listens you really can get into it [...] Then you really fall in love and bands change your life. Now I can't imagine life without them"."Easlea, Daryl (2009). "Franz Ferdinand had erupted in early 2004 [...] Alex Kapranos, their lead singer, did a piece in the NME entitled why I love the Sparks. "It's only after a few listens you really can get into it [...] Then you really fall in love and bands change your life. Now I can't imagine life without them"." Sparks were also namechecked by the likes of Def Leppard,Easlea, Daryl (2009). "Joe Elliott from Def Leppard who is a huge fan.
" Terre Thaemlitz, another proponent of Dazzle Ships, owns five different pressings of the LP. Several 21st-century acts have namechecked OMD. Kristian Bush of Sugarland, whose 2010 album The Incredible Machine was influenced by the band, stated: "OMD wasn't something you got a lot when growing up in eastern Tennessee [...] Who's making those songs today—those anthemic songs?" Peter Morén of Peter Bjorn and John cited the group as an inspiration for Living Thing (2009), noting that his band recalled listening to OMD on the radio while growing up. Liars frontman Angus Andrew pointed to Dazzle Ships as one of his favourite records, while noting that he is "a fan of OMD albums from all of their phases.
After 1983, the band went into recess as Stewart produced recordings for Sad Café and Gouldman produced tracks for the Ramones.The Ramones namechecked 10cc on the Gouldman-produced song "It's Not My Place (in the 9 to 5 World)", a track on the Pleasant Dreams album. Stewart continued his association with Paul McCartney; He had already appeared on Tug of War in 1982 and Pipes of Peace in 1983. During 1984 he appeared in the video for the US single "So Bad" which also featured Ringo Starr and the feature film/soundtrack for Give My Regards to Broad Street. He then co-wrote much of the Press to Play album (1986), though he was critical of the album's production.
Two years after Le Building's release, Oktapodi, another animated short film from Gobelins, received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film. One of that film's directors, Emud Mokhberi, namechecked Le Building as an inspiration, while saying that Oktapodi, "had to be fresh and original and up to par with the other films coming out of Gobelins in recent years". In 2007, an image from Le Building was used to illustrate an Animation Magazine article touting the best animation universities worldwide. The following year, Animation World Network ran an article by Heather Kenyon, dubbing Gobelins one of the "best schools for narrative storytelling" and singling out Le Building as one of Gobelins' best then-contemporary works.
In June 1969 White Noise released the groundbreaking album An Electric Storm on Island Records. The album was created using a variety of tape manipulation techniques, and used the first British synthesizer, the EMS Synthi VCS3. Amongst many oddities, the first track on the album, Love Without Sound, employed sped-up tape edits of Vorhaus playing the double bass to create violin and cello sounds. Although not initially commercially successful for Island, the album is now considered an important and influential album in the development of electronic music, namechecked by contemporary artists like The Orb and Julian Cope, influencing contemporary acts such as Broadcast, Add N to (X), and Secret Chiefs 3.
He died on May 1, 2006 at the University Clinic of Ann Arbor, Michigan, of hospital-borne infections after an operation. Paris's second wife and widow, the German journalist, novelist, and vocalist Sonja Verena (Reuter) Paris, took over his business (Atila Records, Sirius 1 Music, and Johnny and the Hurricanes Incorporated) and the rights to his songs and trademarks. Paris said that over 300 musicians played in the band in its fifty-year existence. The band inspired the song "Johnny and the Hurricanes" on the album How I Learned to Love the Bootboys, by the band the Auteurs. They were also namechecked in the Kinks' 1973 song "One of the Survivors", and in "Bridge in Time" on the 1990 Burton Cummings album Plus Signs.
However, having already been cautioned for a stray elbow on Djene Dakonam, he was cautioned for a second time for charging into the stands to celebrate his goal, thus being sent off. ESPN FC credited Costa as being a key element in Antoine Griezmann's return to form, opining that Costa's "physical presence at centre- forward has understandably distracted opposition defenders quite a lot. Griezmann has now taken up a roaming No. 10 role, with freedom to go where he feels best"; Atlético manager Diego Simeone namechecked three of Atlético's players in particular–Costa, Koke, and Filipe Luís–who had helped Griezmann perform. Costa scored the only goal of Atlético's 1–0 home win in over Arsenal in the second leg of the Europa League semi-finals, sending them into the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final 2–1 on aggregate.
Scelsa went on to work in commercial radio first on Long Island in the early 1970s at WLIR and at non- commercial WBAI-FM in New York City. He became road manager for singer- songwriter Townes Van Zandt and also worked for Poppy Records. On February 14, 1971, while he was music director and a DJ at WABC-FM, the station changed its call letters to WPLJ, an acronym for and homage to the song, performed by The Four Deuces in 1955 and the Mothers of Invention in 1970, called "White Port and Lemon Juice." When WPLJ restricted the air personalities' ability to pick their own music to play, Scelsa moved to WNEW-FM 102.7 where he hosted late nights and evenings from 1973 through 1982. In 1981 he was namechecked on The Ramones' "It's Not My Place (In the 9 to 5 World)" on the album Pleasant Dreams.
Records to the Indecent Publications Tribunal, in an effort to get it banned under New Zealand's Indecent Publications Act 1963. This was the first time in twenty years that a sound recording had come before the censorship body, and the first ever case involving popular music. After reviewing the various submissions, and listening carefully to the album, the Tribunal found the song "Cop Killer" to be "not exhortatory", saw the album as displaying "an honest purpose", and found Body Count not indecent. At the July 1992 annual shareholders' meeting for Time Warner, actor Charlton Heston, who was a minor Time Warner shareholder, was given the opportunity to address the crowd, and, in a well publicized speech, recited lyrics from both "Cop Killer" and another song from Body Count, "KKK Bitch" – which namechecked Tipper Gore herself – in an attempt to embarrass company executives into dropping the album.
One of his next roles was in Liar's Moon, where he played Jack Duncan, a poor Texas boy madly in love with a rich banker's daughter. In the early 1980s, Dillon also had prominent roles in three adaptations of S. E. Hinton novels: Tex (1982), The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983). All three films were shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton's hometown. The Outsiders and Rumble Fish had Dillon working with Francis Ford Coppola and Diane Lane. He followed those up with The Flamingo Kid in 1984. He made his Broadway debut with the play The Boys of Winter in 1985. Dillon did voiceover work in the 1987 documentary film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. In 1985, Dillon was namechecked in the lyrics of the Roger Daltrey song 'After The Fire' (written by Pete Townshend). In 1989, Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as a drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.
The group have been namechecked by several other prominent musicians, including Steve Albini (of Big Black), Jeff Ament (of Pearl Jam), Bradford Cox (of Deerhunter), Courtney Taylor-Taylor (of the Dandy Warhols), Jesse Hughes (of the Eagles of Death Metal), Jaz Coleman (of Killing Joke), Al Jourgensen (of Ministry), Randy Blythe (of Lamb of God), Fred Durst (of Limp Bizkit), Jonathan Davis (of Korn), Mark Lanegan (of Screaming Trees), Sean Yseult (of White Zombie), Bilinda Butcher (of My Bloody Valentine), Alan Sparhawk (of Low), Stuart Braithwaite (of Mogwai) Jehnny Beth of Savages, and Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement). Blink-182 namedropped Bauhaus on their song "She's Out of Her Mind" on their California album. The Bauhaus song "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" (from The Sky's Gone Out) was covered by several artists and bands, including John Frusciante (guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers), MGMT and Xiu Xiu (who recorded it in 2006 for their Tu Mi Piaci EP). Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins sang T. Rex's "Telegram Sam" and "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" live on stage with Bauhaus in 1998.

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