When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

From Vulture Culture onwards, Richard Cottle played as a regular member on synthesizers and saxophone.

Holly indeed sometimes played with black musicians Little Richard and Chuck Berry, and incorporated the Bo Diddley beat in several songs.

Natural instruments are still played for period performances and some ceremonial functions, and are occasionally found in more modern scores, such as those by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.

The disc contained a recording of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie ( in English, An Alpine Symphony ), played by the Berlin Philharmonic and conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna ( Walter Denton ), Gloria McMillan ( Harriet Conklin ), and Jane Morgan ( landlady Margaret Davis ) played the same roles on television.

Not long afterwards, Richard D ' Oyly Carte was managing the Royalty Theatre, and he needed a short opera to be played as an afterpiece to Offenbach's La Périchole.

Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).

It was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

Ivanhoe accompanies King Richard on the Crusades, where he is said to have played a notable role in the Siege of Acre.

In January, he played the title role in Richard III in St. Louis and then made his Chicago debut.

Back in Washington in April, he played the title roles in Hamlet and Richard III, one of his favorites.

Voight was Steven Spielberg's first choice for the role of Matt Hooper in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, but he turned down the role, which was ultimately played by Richard Dreyfuss.

From late 1962 until the spring of 1964, he played drums for The Beachcombers, a London cover band notable for renditions of songs by Cliff Richard.

Edward Petherbridge also played Wimsey in the UK production of the Busman's Honeymoon play staged at the Lyric Hammersmith and on tour in 1988, with the role of Harriet being taken by his real-life spouse, Emily Richard.

Richard Webster comments in his A Brief History of Blasphemy that, " internalised censorship played a significant role in the handling " of Monty Python's Life of Brian.

* The 1963 film Cleopatra ( played by Richard Burton )

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

By the 19th century, accompagnato had gained the upper hand, the orchestra played a much bigger role, and Richard Wagner revolutionised opera by abolishing almost all distinction between aria and recitative in his quest for what he termed " endless melody ".

The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson, and his long-suffering wife, Margaret, played by Annette Crosbie, in their battle against the trials of modern life.

This was also played upon when Wilson made a guest appearance on the comedy TV quiz show Shooting Stars, in which Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer purposefully misquoted his catchphrase by referring to him as " Richard ' I don't believe you ' Wilson ".

Richard Chenevix Trench played the key role in the project's first months, but his Church of England appointment as Dean of Westminster meant that he could not give the dictionary project the time it required ; he withdrew, and Herbert Coleridge became the first editor.

One of these was Richard Rogers, who played a part in the development after all ( his great British rival, Norman Foster, was putting the new dome on the Reichstag at about the same time ).

In round four, Matthew Bowen set a new club record for most games played when he made his 204th appearance, surpassing Paul Bowman ’ s 203 games, while Johnathan Thurston took over Josh Hannay ’ s record for most NRL points for North Queensland when he converted his own try against St George Illawarra in round nine.

Barry Foster played Hannay in a 1977 television adaptation of The Three Hostages.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

The first public demonstration was on the BBC television program Tomorrow's World when The Bee Gees ' album Living Eyes ( 1981 ) was played.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

International short wave radio stations such as The Voice of America, BBC, and Radio Ceylon played a major part in bringing Western pop, folk, and rock music to the masses.

Joe Orton was played by the actor Kenny Doughty in the 2006 BBC film Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa !, starring Michael Sheen as Kenneth Williams.

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

Ian Carmichael, who played the part of Wimsey in the BBC Television series adaptation and studied the character and the books thoroughly, said that the character was Sayers ' conception of the ' ideal man ', based in part on her earlier romantic misfortunes.

* The HBO / BBC TV series Rome ( see Mark Antony ( character )) ( played by James Purefoy )

* BBC One docudrama Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire ( played by Alex Ferns )

In 2001 and 2002 Whitehouse wrote and performed in two series of the BBC comedy drama Happiness, in which he played a voice-over actor with a mid-life crisis.

In the 1960 BBC series based on Shakespeare's history plays, An Age of Kings, Paul Daneman played Richard.

In the 1960s, the French animator Serge Danot created the well-known The Magic Roundabout ( 1965 ) which played for many years on the BBC.

Over the first three series Milligan's demands for increasingly complex sound effects ( or ' grams ', as they were then known ) pushed the available technology and the skills of the BBC engineers to their limits — effects had to be created mechanically ( foley ) or played back from discs, sometimes requiring the use of four or five turntables running simultaneously.

On 22 December 2005 the BBC broadcast a live performance ( recorded the previous week ) on the Jonathan Ross Christmas show with Katie Melua filling in for the late Kirsty MacColl, the first time the band had played the song live on television.

The four-act version was first played on the radio in a BBC production and is still sometimes performed.

Subsequently in 2006, Michael Sheen played him in the BBC Four drama Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa !.

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

Other small screen roles include performances in The Sweeney ( Thames Television for ITV, 1978 ), Lovejoy ( BBC ), Waking the Dead ( BBC ), Kavanagh QC ( Carlton Television for ITV, he played a concentration camp survivor in the episode Ancient History ), The Merchant of Venice ( BBC, 1980 ) and Gormenghast.

" episode of the BBC drama documentary series Second Verdict in 1976, and Timotei Cresta played him in the 2005 British television drama Princes in the Tower.