Newspapers of the period reported that the announcement of the new party came as a complete shock to MPs from all sides of the Commons, including members of the Manifesto Group, as the ' Gang of Four ' had kept their preparations a closely guarded secret.

The founding members or ' Gang of Four ' were Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, all leading figures within the Labour Party, and all ' moderates '.

Four members remain: Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.

Four principal left-wing guerrilla groups — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ( EGP ), the Revolutionary Organization of Armed People ( ORPA ), the Rebel Armed Forces ( FAR ), and the Guatemalan Party of Labour ( PGT ) — conducted economic sabotage and targeted government installations and members of government security forces in armed attacks.

Among the most prominent members were the loose collective of The Four: acclaimed architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his wife the painter and glass artist Margaret MacDonald, her sister the artist Frances, and her husband, the artist and teacher Herbert MacNair.

alt = Four symbols representing the four members of Led Zeppelin in a horizontal row

Four current or former faculty are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Four team members were crushed to death under the cars and another half dozen seriously injured.

Four of the members of the Assembly form the Executive Council, which devises policy and acts as an advisory body to the Administrator.

* 1959 – Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.

* 1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.

Four years later, PLR members also returned to Paraguay and began participating in the electoral process.

Four members of the Fadayan-e Islam were later executed for the murder.

On each day of the holiday, members of the household recite a blessing over the lulav and etrog ( Four species ).

Four months after they formed, however, the group disbanded when members were unable to agree on operating procedure.

Four members of parliaments in an event of the Unification Church in the Parliament of Great Britain.

* October 13 – German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members ( see Lufthansa Flight 181 ).

* January 28 – Bal des Ardents: Four members of the court of Charles VI of France die in a fire at a masquerade ball.

* 28 March: Four family members killed in Elon Moreh, when a Palestinian gunman infiltrated the hilltop community near Nablus, burst into their home, and shot them.

With army backing and the support of Marshal Ye Jianying, on October 10, the Special Unit 8341 had all members of the Gang of Four arrested in a bloodless coup.

All members of the Gang of Four have since died ; Jiang Qing committed suicide in 1991, Wang Hongwen died in 1992, and Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan died in 2005.

The " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch was performed during Amnesty International concerts ( by members of Monty Python — once including Rowan Atkinson in place of Python member Eric Idle ), as well as during Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and other Monty Python shows and recordings.

In the fourth series, in the absence of The Fraser Hayes Four, the cast members were regularly called on to show off their vocal talents.

Mackintosh met fellow artist Margaret MacDonald at the Glasgow School of Art and they became members of a collaborative group known as “ The Four ”.

These close companions would later be known as the collaborative group “ The Four ”, prominent members of the " Glasgow School " movement.

Soon after this he decided, as all successful people must decide at some time or another, to be his own boss again-and he has been that ever since .’ these notes fail to account for his early band, known as the Four Aces of Western Swing.

The performers were Jimmy Shand and band, Ian Powrie and his band, Scottish country dancers: Dixie Ingram and the Dixie Ingram Dancers, Joe Gordon Folk Four, James Urquhart, Ann & Laura Brand, Moira Anderson & Kenneth McKellar.

* Daniel " Oz " Osbourne — Willow's boyfriend throughout Seasons Two to Four, Oz is a werewolf and the guitarist for local band Dingoes Ate My Baby.

Flood also contains another two of They Might Be Giants ' most well-known songs, " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )", a cover of The Four Lads ' song, and " Particle Man ", both of which were made into animated music videos on the children's television show Tiny Toon Adventures, exposing the band to a much younger audience.

( 1980 ; flutes, celesta, percussion ); Paradiso, Michele: Pierrot: Ballet for Piano ( in Four Hands ) and Orchestra ( 2008 ); Pirola, Carlo: Story of Pierrot ( n. d .; brass band ); Stuppner, Hubert: Pierrot and Pierrette ( 1984 ; ballet, libretto by Arthur Schnitzler The Veil of Pierrette under # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues ); Vidale, Piero: Pierrot's Dream: Four Fantasy Impressions ( 1957 ; orchestra ).

It had musical interludes by close harmony singing group the Fraser Hayes Four, and accompaniment by the big band of Edwin Braden (" the great, hairy fool " according to Kenneth Williams ), known as Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers.

) A vocal quartet skittishly called Not the Fraser Hayes Four also figured in the proceedings, together with an eight-piece band.

The band appeared in October 2006 on U. S. cable channel VH-1 Classic and began a world tour largely focused on the U. S. The band secured ownership of the Asia name and toured under the description of the Four Original Members of Asia.

Four years later, on November 27, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and his troops attacked Black Kettle's band at the Battle of Washita River.

Bolden is also credited with the discovery or invention of the so-called " Big Four ", a key rhythmic innovation on the marching band beat, which gave embryonic jazz much more room for individual improvisation.

The band also performed during the Final Four Concert Series in Indianapolis on April 2, 2010.

The Rutles ( The Prefab Four ) are a band known for their visual and aural pastiches and parodies of The Beatles.

The band once again changed labels, this time signing with Elektra Records, releasing a cover album in 1994 called Four Chords & Several Years Ago featuring doo-wop and rock songs from the 1950s and 1960s.

This was the last album released with bassist Mario Cipollina, who left the band after the Four Chords & Several Years Ago world tour ended.

Bassist Mario Cipollina left the band in early 1995 shortly after completing the first leg of the tour for 1994's Four Chords and Several Years Ago album.

* Big Four ( band ), a Chinese male pop group

* The band Cake made a play on words in their song " Friend Is a Four Letter Word.

* Welsh punk band Four Letter Word, formed in 1991, named themselves after the phrase.

* American punk-rock band Gossip released a track entitled ' Four Letter Word ' on their 2009 album Music For Men.

Four days later the band reassembled to try a different arrangement.

He often worked in small collaborative groups with semi-humorous names such as the Johnny Rondo Duo or Trio ( with pianist Dave Holland-not the bassist of the same name ), the Melody Four ( characteristically a trio, with Tony Coe and Steve Beresford ), and the Recedents ( with guitarist Mike Cooper and percussionist Roger Turner ), known as such because the members were ( in Coxhill's words ) " all bald ", though the name may additionally be a play on the American band The Residents.

It has been sold from " Four Tune Record ", an original record label the band founded in early 2002.