Question: What band played a song called "Pink Turns to Blue", which was written by an American musician and drummer?

Context articles: Ugly Side: An Acoustic Evening with Blue October
The Prize Fighter Inferno
Pink Turns Blue
To the Metal!
Fascination (David Bowie song)
Progres 2
Jimmy Lifton
Grant Hart
Pink Turns to Blue
The Early Days of Guns N' Roses

Ugly Side: An Acoustic Evening With Blue October is a live acoustic album by Blue October.
 It is their third live album, and eighth album overall.
 The album was recorded during a sold out three-day tour of Houston, Austin, and Dallas July 22–25, 2010 during which the band played two acoustic concerts each night (except in Austin).
 The song selections were made by Blue October drummer Jeremy Furstenfeld, who is credited as producer of the album.
 The band had talked about recording an acoustic album as early as 2004, but the concerts were the first ever full-length acoustic shows that the band had ever performed.
 The popularity of the acoustic concerts among Blue October fans resulted in the band deciding to perform a nationwide acoustic tour to support the release of the album.
The Prize Fighter Inferno is an acoustic/electronica solo project of Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer and lead/rhythm guitarist for the band Coheed and Cambria.
 The first album, called "My Brother's Blood Machine" was released on October 31, 2006 through indie label Equal Vision Records.
 According to "My Brother's Blood Machine" liner notes, Claudio recorded the album over a period of seven years with "...random recording devices...".
 As of August 2009, Sanchez has been reportedly working on a follow up album to 2006's "My Brother's Blood Machine" releasing updates of the album's status on his Twitter account every few months.
 On September 25, 2009, A new song called "Gears" was introduced in the trailer of Claudio's comic series Kill Audio.
 The song was released on 7" vinyl along with another song called "Erizo Schultz" in February 2010.
 The vinyl credits both Claudio Sanchez and his wife Chondra Echert as "The Prize Fighter Inferno".
 An EP was release for New York Comic Con 2012 titled "Half Measures" with tracks, Elm Street Lover Boy, Simple Fix, Pistol Pete Matty, and Half Measures.
 On Record Store Day, the EP is set to release as a Glow in the Dark vinyl, along with Big Beige Demos in a coke-bottle clear vinyl, and Davenport Cabinet's EP in a blue vinyl.
Pink Turns Blue are an influential band from Cologne, Germany.
 Formed in 1985, they quickly put out their first LP, "If Two Worlds Kiss" expressing a sound reminiscent of new wave with very dark undertones and use of synthesizers, only to become one of the pioneers of the developing subgenre of dark wave.
To The Metal!
 is the tenth full-length studio album by Gamma Ray.
 It was released on 29 January 2010.
 To promote the album, the band did a tour with Freedom Call and Secret Sphere.
 The album was recorded in Kai's own studio in Hamburg in autumn 2009.
 The band has recorded 12 songs.
 Ten of them were featured on the regular album release, while the other two were bonus tracks appearing on the different editions of the album.
 The band described some of the songs on the official website, revealing that there would be a full-throttle number called "Rise", a rhythmic and melodically diverse song called "Time To Live", and a multilayered anthem titled "All you need to know", featuring ex-Helloween frontman Michael Kiske.
 Other songs mentioned are "No Need to Cry", a song written by Dirk Schlächter about the death of his father, "To The Metal", a song they played on various festivals before the album release and the atmospheric and dense "Empathy".
 It is the last album featuring drummer Dan Zimmermann.
"Fascination" is a song written by English singer and songwriter David Bowie and American musician Luther Vandross for Bowie's "Young Americans" album in 1975.
 The song originated from a Vandross song called "Funky Music" which The Mike Garson Band used to play before Bowie concerts in 1974.
Progres 2 is an art rock band from Brno, Czech Republic.
 It was established in 1968, known as Progress Organization, by Zdeněk Kluka, Pavel Váně, Jan Sochor and Emanuel Sideridis.
 Its most important album in a Czech context was the rock opera project "Dialog s vesmírem" (Dialog with The Universe) in 1978, only a year after the transformation of the band called "Bardonaj" to the new band Progres 2.
 The public presentation of this rock opera was the first audiovisual program of rock music in Czechoslovakia, inspired by the British rock group Pink Floyd.
 Because this rock band played in the totalitarian state, they had a few troubles with officials.
 The best known problem was the one with lyrics of one song from the album "Dialog s vesmírem".
 The song was called "Planeta Hieronyma Bosche" (The Planet of Hieronymus Bosch) where the band sings about life on heroin.
 Censors forbade this song and the band solved it by using only the vowels from the original lyrics.
 At concerts they played the whole original lyrics.
James Ian Lifton (born January 13, 1955), also known as Jimmy Lifton, is an American musician and a producer who has worked on over 40 television and film productions.
 In 1983, while in Los Angeles, Lifton focused on studio work and scored symphonic-type music for the Griffith Observatory.
 For one of the planetary programs, Lifton played background music while science fiction writer Ray Bradbury read prose and poetry.
 He released a song called "I'm A Man" in 1986, written by Jimmy Miller and Steve Winwood, which made it to #23 on the Billboard music charts. "
Billboard" also nominated him for "Best Independent Production Of The Year" in 1985.
Grant Vernon Hart (March 18, 1961 – September 13, 2017) was an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-songwriter for the alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü.
 After the band's breakup in 1988, he formed the alternative rock trio Nova Mob, where he moved to vocals and guitar.
 His solo career became his main focus after the dissolution of Nova Mob in 1997.
"Pink Turns to Blue" is a song by American rock band Hüsker Dü.
 Written by Grant Hart, it is the 17th track on their 1984 double album "Zen Arcade".
 It describes a young woman who gets addicted to drugs, overdoses, and dies.
 The song was never released as a single, but is considered one of their best songs by Pitchfork.
The Early Days of Guns N' Roses is what the first series of concerts by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses are referred to as.
 Before embarking on the Appetite for Destruction Tour in 1987 after the group's breakthrough success, the band played at least 60 shows.
 After playing a few shows with early members, on June 6, 1985 the band played their first show with what became known as the "classic line-up" of singer Axl Rose, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler.