It fell out of fashion for a while in the middle 1980s, principally due to the emergence of polyphonic and later digital synthesizers, but has enjoyed a huge resurgence of popularity since the 1990s — with contemporary artists highlighting the instrument, including Radiohead, Portishead, The Album Leaf, D ' Angelo, Erykah Badu, Chick Corea, Jamiroquai, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, The Doors and Stevie Wonder.

At this time the party also enjoyed the support of influential publisher Anthony Hancock, although he too was close to the BM and was less sure about Tyndall.

They have built several of the tallest buildings in the world, including the John Hancock Center ( 1969, second tallest in the world when built ), Sears Tower ( 1973, tallest in the world for over twenty years ), and Burj Khalifa ( 2010, current world's tallest building ).

They include Dannii Minogue ( as Danielle Minogue ), Vince Del Tito, Debbie Hancock, Natalie Miller, John Bowles, Tina Arena ( as Filippina Arena ), Robert McCullough, Karen Knowles, Jodie Lobert, Joey Perrone, Johnnie Nuich, Lorena Novoa, Vanessa Windsor, Steven Zammit, Mark McCormack and Trevor Hindmarch.

They were lit by the town chief of police, Mr. Frank Hancock Sr.

After passing on the hosts duties for both Room 101 and They Think It's All Over, Hancock took a sabbatical to enjoy family life and his children.

They had five children: Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr. ( 1809 – 1881 ), named after his friend and expedition partner ; William Preston Clark ( 1811 – 1840 ); Mary Margaret Clark ( 1814 – 1821 ); George Rogers Hancock Clark ( 1816 – 1858 ), named after Clark's older brother ; and John Julius Clark ( 1818 – 1831 ), named after his oldest brother Jonathan and Clark's wife.

They might accurately be described as a loose collection of families of diverse origins who migrated, settled nearby and intermarried with one another, mostly in Hancock and Hawkins counties in Tennessee, nearby areas of Kentucky, and Lee County, Virginia.

* Hancock and Neil Morrisey went into a rant about American Football, including Nick's observation: " They blow a whistle and then they just go everywhere.

They functioned as residences before being removed to make way for the Hancock Technology Center in 2009.

They had two daughters, apparently adopted: Vivian Morris Hancock and Doris Hancock.

They would collaborate with Hancock on two further albums released under his name, 1984's Sound-System and 1988's Perfect Machine.

They created memorable videos for The Police (" Every Breath You Take ", " Synchronicity II ", " Wrapped Around Your Finger "), Duran Duran (" Girls on Film ", " A View to a Kill "), Herbie Hancock (" Rockit "), Go West (" We Close Our Eyes "), Frankie Goes to Hollywood (" Two Tribes ", " The Power of Love "), Sting (" If You Love Somebody Set Them Free " " Fields of Gold "), and Wang Chung (" Everybody Have Fun Tonight "), among many others, up to Godley's video for the 1996 single from The Beatles, " Real Love ", featured in the Beatles Anthology.

They were formed at 112 S. Hancock, Madison, Wisconsin in December 1997 by their barefooted bassist, Matt Tennessen.

They later returned along with Miss Hancock as Standards and Practices, a satirical reference to the S & P of Turner.

They have now become academic themselves and often hold key influential roles in the music industry ( see Patrice Rushen, Herbie Hancock, Dave Grusin, Bob James ).

He has also contributed to 11 series of the award winning BBC One panel game They Think It's All Over presented by Nick Hancock, Catchphrase, TV's Naughtiest Blunders and Safe for ITV and to Monkey Dust a dark animated comedy produced for BBC3.

Herbie Hancock wins the most awards with five, and The Cars take the highest prize of Video Of The Year for " You Might Think ".

On Marsalis's self-titled debut album, Kirkland shared the piano duties with one of his musical influences, Herbie Hancock, but was the sole pianist on Marsalis's subsequent releases Think Of One, Hothouse Flowers and Black Codes ( From the Underground ).

Four episodes of the TV series were re-recorded and released on LP format, two by Pye on the 1961 album Hancock (" The Blood Donor " and " The Radio Ham ") and two by Decca Records on the 1965 album It's Hancock (" The Missing Page " and " The Reunion Party "), which was reissued as The World of Tony Hancock in 1975.

The film was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, although the music is diegetic, as Hancock noted: " It's only there when someone turns on the radio or puts on a record.

* Hancock: It's worth 2000 quid of anybody's money that is!

He was a member of the seminal Congolese rumba group African Jazz, and has collaborated with many other musicians, including Fania All Stars, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Don Cherry, and Sly and Robbie.

All are named for John Hancock who was a leader in the American Revolution.

All compositions by Herbie Hancock.

All were built by the John Hancock Insurance companies.

He made his Broadway debut as O ' Kelly in the 1957 revival of Mary Stuart, and later took over as the Duke of Norfolk in the original production of A Man For All Seasons. On stage his best known role was John Hancock in the musical 1776 and the 1972 film adaptation.

All guitar-like parts were handled by Herbie Hancock on his first two albums with the group, with one exception: The " rhythm guitar " heard interacting with Hancock's synthesizer bass early in the track Chameleon is actually Paul Jackson playing in the upper register of the bass guitar, as pointed out by Steven F. Pond in his book Head Hunters ( 2005 ).

Brannon Hancock writes that the philosophers Arthur Prior and Sir Anthony Kenny had a great intellectual influence on Clark at Balliol, while Robin Zaehner was one of his greatest influences at All Souls.

Including 2 antennas, the John Hancock Center has a height of 1, 500 feet ( 457. 2 m ), making it the fifth-tallest building in the world when measured to pinnacle height ( after Burj Khalifa, Willis Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Center, and Taipei 101 ).

A similar situation occurred in the U. S. when NASA acquired land to construct the John C. Stennis Space Center ( SSC ), a rocket testing facility, in Hancock County, Mississippi ( on the Mississippi side of the Mississippi River, which is the Mississippi-Louisiana state line ) required NASA to acquire a large ( approximately ) buffer zone because of the loud noise and potential dangers associated with testing such rockets.

The idea of a coin toss came from Phipps, the owner of Bold Ruler, and " Bull " Hancock of Claiborne Farms as a way to get the very best mares for Bold Ruler, and when the toss went their way, to add well-bred fillies to their own broodmare band.

Development in the neighborhood began in the 1890s and surged in the early 1900s, when a rush of prosperity increased the numberof relatively wealthy people in Hancock.

It was named for the Ohio River, which originally formed its northern boundary, but lost its northern portions in 1829, when Daviess County and Hancock County were formed.

The first recorded European settlement in what is now Bridgeton was made by 1686 when Richard Hancock established a sawmill here.

Pickett had met Hancock only briefly, when Hancock was passing through Texas.

Hancock ’ s comedy idol is Peter Cook and he got the chance to meet him when Cook appeared on Room 101.

Le Mesurier's friendship with Tony Hancock provided a further source of work when Hancock asked him to be one of the serial supporting actors in Hancock's Half Hour, once it moved from radio to television.

His noted integrity was a counterpoint to the corruption of the era, for as President Rutherford B. Hayes said, "... f, when we make up our estimate of a public man, conspicuous both as a soldier and in civil life, we are to think first and chiefly of his manhood, his integrity, his purity, his singleness of purpose, and his unselfish devotion to duty, we can truthfully say of Hancock that he was through and through pure gold.

Benjamin Hancock was a schoolteacher when his sons were born.

Hancock was at first educated at Norristown Academy, but removed to the public schools when the first one opened in Norristown in the late 1830s.

On August 2, 1776, when delegates signed the formal copy of the Declaration of Independence, his position made him the second to sign, just after John Hancock, the president of the Congress.

The first time this came into use was five years after the constitution's adoption in 1785, when Governor John Hancock resigned the post, leaving Lieutenant Governor Thomas Cushing as acting Governor.

The Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1993 when the U. S. government purchased a large rice farm from the John Hancock Insurance Company.

This was one of several incidents when a Boston merchant resisted a search with a seemingly exact knowledge of the law ; John Hancock would act in a similar manner when customs officials attempted to search his ship Lydia in 1768.

The matter reached a peak of sorts in 1783 when the college's issues with Hancock were read and discussed in an open meeting at which Hancock was the presiding officer.

Hancock was also the first presenter when the series transferred to television two years later.

Still in his mid-20s, Hancock was a graduate student at Harvard when approached for the job.