Aimee Mann - driving sideways, 1999

"Mann’s entry to the music business came when she began playing with various groups in Boston’s early 1980s punk scene. In 1983 she formed the band ’Til Tuesday with drummer Michael Hausman ’80, who now is her manager. After gaining the attention of the local radio station WBCN-FM, ’Til Tuesday built enough momentum to get signed by Epic Records. Their debut album, Voices Carry, connected with listeners, and the title track went to number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Having a hit song and a video in heavy rotation on MTV ratcheted up the pressure for their next two albums. It was clear by the time the third album (Everything’s Different Now) was finished, that Epic’s vision of the band’s artistic direction clashed with Mann’s. Epic gave the record little support, and Mann struggled for four years to get out of a seven-album contract with Epic."