In 1964, figuring his deal with King was at an end, Brown and fellow Famous Flame Bobby Byrd formed the production company, Fair Deal, linking the operation to a new label, Mercury imprint Smash Records.

Still, controversy remained, and fellow Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra, at the end of his October 3, 1962 flight, remained inside his spacecraft until it was safely aboard the recovery ship, and made a point of deliberately blowing the hatch to get out, bruising his hand.

In February 2005, the Phoenix Mercury announced that she had been signed as an assistant coach under fellow Australian and Mercury head coach Carrie Graf.

On March 23, 2005, Storm came out of retirement to participate in a six-man tag team match with Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro against fellow ECW alumni Tommy Dreamer and The Dudley Boyz.

After a stint with the rock musical Hair and recording with Mercury label mate Exuma ( Tony McKay ), Peppy Castro formed Barnaby Bye with fellow cast members Bobby and Billy Alessi.

This record was surpassed in 1998 by his fellow Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn, who at the age of 77 flew on space shuttle mission STS-95.

Their debut album Lost Souls in April 2000 was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, which they lost to fellow Mancunian and former collaborator Badly Drawn Boy.

Now pure speed energy, he possesses Garrick's fellow Golden Age speedster Max Mercury.

His fourth solo album Coles Corner was nominated for the 2006 Nationwide Mercury Prize, eventually losing out to fellow Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys.

In 1948, Hall joined forces with fellow Yale graduate John Hammond on a quest to post-war Europe on behalf of Mercury Records, then a Chicago-based produced of " pop " material.

In 1961, NASA astronaut, Wally Schirra contacted Courtney Graham, a fellow pilot, to discuss creating a design for a small, lightweight headset to be used in the Mercury spacecraft.

Mercury, along with fellow students Onyxx and Loa, was tasked with keeping peace at the riots on Telegraph Hill after the mutant-hate group " Humanity Now!

Rosie is the mothering influence within the crew, always trying to make sure that her fellow cadets are happy and getting along ( because Mercury is so close to the Sun, all Mercurians have a tendency to ' look on the bright side ' of things ).

During the 1950s, he and fellow engineer Jim Wynne worked at under Mercury founder Carl Kiekhaefer, who was initially dismissive of and opposed to a technology that would later capture 80 % of the market.

Onyxx, along with fellow students Mercury and Loa, was tasked with keeping peace at the riots on Telegraph Hill.

With DeMille renowned for his flamboyance and showmanship, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury famously said of his band, " We're the Cecil B. DeMille of rock and roll, always wanting to do things bigger and better ".

Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the band Queen, collected stamps as a child.

* The music video for English rock band Queen's 1982 release Calling All Girls features singer Freddie Mercury dressed all in white in a stark white setting with robot police performing tests on him until his band can rescue him.

* Freddie Mercury ( born Farrokh Bulsara ) of the rock band Queen was born in Stone Town, Zanzibar.

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of the late Freddie Mercury ( lead vocals, piano ), Brian May ( guitar, vocals ), John Deacon ( bass guitar ), and Roger Taylor ( drums, vocals ).

Mercury himself joined the band shortly thereafter, changed the name of the band to " Queen ", and adopted his familiar stage name.

alt = l-r: John Deacon, Brian May, and Freddie Mercury seen live in 1978 In 1978, the band released Jazz, which included the hit singles " Fat Bottomed Girls " and " Bicycle Race " on a double-sided record.

For the last two albums made while Mercury was still alive, the band credited all songs to Queen, rather than specific members of the group, freeing them of internal conflict and differences.

Mercury was increasingly ill and could barely walk when the band recorded " The Show Must Go On " in 1990.

An example of this type of name change involved Freddie Mercury of the British rock band Queen, who was born Farrokh Bulsara to Parsi parents ; his name change was partly intended to conceal his heritage.

In April 1992 Minnelli performed We Are The Champions with the surviving members of the rock band Queen at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.

He said that Norman Granz got them into the Birdland club and promoted the new band through recordings on the Mercury, Clef, and Verve labels.

The album won the first Mercury Music Prize, beating Gillespie's former band The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Jarvis Cocker and the band became major figures in the Britpop movement, and were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 1994 for His ' n ' Hers ; they won the prize in 1996 for Different Class.

Nathan Roberts replaced English and Jonathan Donahue ( also a member of the alternative rock band Mercury Rev ) joined in 1989.

In 1992, the band released their major label debut Hit to Death in the Future Head after the recording of which Donahue left the band to concentrate on Mercury Rev.

Famous former resident Freddie Mercury ( born Farokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, 1946 – 1991 ) of rock band Queen was commemorated by a permanent, Hollywood-style granite star in Feltham's town-centre piazza, unveiled on 24 November 2009 ( the eighteenth anniversary of Mercury's death ) by Queen guitarist Brian May, alongside Freddie's mother, Jer Bulsara, and his sister.

* Freddie Mercury ( 1946 – 1991 ) of rock band Queen lived in Feltham 1964-1968 ; his parents were residents until shortly before he died

Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records.

He shopped them to several record companies, most of which dismissed the band as either a novelty or fraud before Steve Greenberg, an A & R representative for Mercury Records, heard them play a set at the Wisconsin State Fair.

The band found themselves with a recording opportunity when Mercury Records wished to use the name Blank Records for one of its subdivisions and offered Danzig thirty hours of free studio time in exchange for the trademark to the name.

In 1937 Cotten became an inaugural member of Welles's Mercury Theatre company, starring in Broadway productions of Julius Caesar, The Shoemaker's Holiday and Danton's Death, and in radio dramas presented on The Mercury Theatre on the Air and The Campbell Playhouse.

* Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team

* Mercury, a member of Cerebro's X-Men

A mechanical engineering graduate of Purdue University, he joined the United States Air Force and was selected as a member of NASA's Project Mercury space program.

Slayton was the only member of the Mercury Seven who did not fly in the Mercury program.

Mercury and Trisco then left, and were replaced by original member Rodney " Khalil " Lundy and new member Shawn Waters.

Conried worked in radio before breaking into movies in 1939, and was also a member of Orson Welles ' Mercury Theatre Company.

Barόn is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation and the Advisory Board of think tank Gold Mercury International, London, UK.

He was a founder of drum and bass label Full Cycle Recordings and a member of acts Reprazent ( 1997 Mercury Prize winners ) and Breakbeat Era.

As a member of the Space Task Group, Kraft was assigned to the flight operations division, which made plans and arrangements for the operation of the Mercury spacecraft during flight and for the control and monitoring of missions from the ground.

She began acting in films in the late 1930s, and was also a member of the Orson Welles troupe on his radio drama The Mercury Theatre on the Air.

The album's title cut, " Fall ," was written by Clay Mills along with former Mercury Records artist Shane Minor and former Exile member Sonny LeMaire.

Aside from being a member of Irish boy band Westlife, Kian, ( during a year long hiatus from the group on 2008 ) launched a new venture along with Louis Walsh to put together and co-manage girlband, Wonderland, their debut album reached number 6 in Ireland and number 8 in the UK ; just 4 months later, however, they were dropped by Mercury Records.

Burton is also now a full time member of the contemporary British Jazz Mercury Music Prize nominee Polar Bear, founded by drummer Seb Rochford, who won the BBC Jazz award for Rising Star in 2004.

* Belinda Snell ( professional basketball player ), currently competing in the WNBA for the Phoenix Mercury and a member of the Australian team that won silver at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

The album was produced by Dave Fridmann, member of alternative rock band Mercury Rev and the producer of most of the albums by The Flaming Lips ; and Ed Buller.

The following week Show also unmasked the anonymous member of the Straight Edge Society who was revealed to be Joey Mercury.

She won the 2009 WNBA title as a member of the Mercury.