Music history of the United States in the 1970s electric guitars and vocals) was enjoying popularity with country audiences, thanks to such non-country acts as Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band and The Marshall Tucker Band. The American brand of prog rock varied from the eclectic and innovative Steel Heart, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and Blood, Sweat and Tears, to more pop rock oriented bands like Boston, Foreigner, Kansas, Journey and Styx. These, beside British bands Jethro Tull, Supertramp and Electric Light Orchestra, all demonstrated a prog rock influence and while ranking among the most commercially successful acts of the 1970s, issuing in the era of "pomp" or "arena
No Sweat (band) No Sweat (band) No Sweat were an Irish rock band, active during the late 1980s and early 1990s. They are best remembered for their single, "Heart and Soul" (produced by the Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott), which topped the Irish Singles Chart for two weeks in June 1989. The group had two further Irish hits the following year with "Tear Down the Walls" (#4) and "On the Edge" (#11). 1990 also saw the release of their self-titled debut album, which was produced by Keith Olsen for Pogo Logo Corp., and was recorded at the Goodnight L.A. studio in Van Nuys,