page_title: Muse (band)
section_title: Showbiz
hierarchical_section_title: Muse (band) / History / Showbiz
context_page_description: Muse are an English alternative rock band. They began in Teignmouth in 1994. There are three members of the band: Matthew Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard. They are sub-classified as mainly progressive rock, and play music with melody and fast tempo. However, they also play a great number of other styles of music, especially on their older albums like Showbiz. Their albums, Black Holes and Revelations, Absolution and The Resistance, have been successful in the United States, the United Kingdom and most western countries of the world.
context_section_description: Museum was popular enough to get Muse a record contract with Maverick Records in the United States. The band started to work on a new album. They wrote new ones, though, for their next album. The other songs they used were already on their EPs. Muse worked with producers Paul Reeve and John Leckie, who produced Radiohead's album,The Bends.
  Muse's first album, Showbiz, came out in 1999. In the United States, Maverick used a large advertising campaign to make Muse more popular.  Muse were already popular in the UK, and NME said they were "the first great British guitar band of the 21st century". US magazine Rolling Stone said Showbiz sounded a lot like Radiohead. Matthew Bellamy did not like that comparison, but people would still compare Muse and Radiohead in the future. Other reviewers said the band had a lot of potential after listening to Showbiz.
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