Complex sentence: After starting off as percussionist in 1978, he learned the trombone in 1981, when the band decided to add a brass section, and sang his first lead vocal on "Labour of Love".
Split into simpler sentences: After starting off as percussionist in 1978, he learned the trombone in 1981, when the band decided to add a brass section. He sang his first lead vocal on "Labour of Love".