Faith No More were between 21 and 25 years of age in 1984 when they wrote and recorded their debut album We Care A Lot. As part of our 40 years celebration of this record we are reposting photographs of the band for this early period taken by Joan Osato . In the early eighties Joan was Roddy Bottum 's roommate and captured some fantastic shots of Roddy, Chuck, Mike, Jim and Billy - her photos featured on the cover of We Care A Lot. Joan has kindly allowed us to share these

On November 4th 1988 Faith No More played at the IBeam in their hometown of San Francisco. This was their first live performance with Chuck Mosley 's replacement Mike Patton fronting the band. Photo : Mark Weiss Steffan Chirazi , who had been championing FNM in the music press since 1987 and who had written the band's only magazine feature in Kerrang!, wrote this preview. FAITH NO MORE - I Beam SF. Your chance to check out the new version of the SF funk/punk/metal/rap kingp

On October 30th 1989 Faith No More released From Out Of Nowhere , their third official single. It was the first single released from the acclaimed album The Real Thing and the first to feature Mike Patton on vocals. 'Without a doubt this kicks everything, apart from Wreck, into perspective. Faith No More are climbing up to the heady heights of the music biz and if they pause to look behind it's only to stick a derisive two fingers up at the struggling competition. If you h

Faith No More 's version of the  Bee Gees  song  I Started A Joke  was released on October 26th 1998. The song first appeared on the B-side of the limited edition single release of  Digging The Grave  in 1995 and on a bonus CD available with the Australian version of  King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime  also in 1995.  It was recorded along with three more cover versions of other songs in  Bill Gould 's home studio and produced by Gould and  Dean Menta . These songs were the o