Terry Hall and Roddy Byers ( also known as Roddy Radiation ) joined the band the following year, and the band changed its name to The Special AKA, The Coventry Automatics, and then to The Special AKA.

He also acted as wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper's trainer in a WWF show.

He has also had a significant career in motion pictures, appearing in the British sports film The Damned United and all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle's The Barrytown Trilogy.

" Classy " Freddie Blassie also made a cameo appearance as himself, along with " Wrestling's Living Legend " Bruno Sammartino, and Ric Flair in the 1986 film " Body Slam " starring Dirk Benedict, " Captain " Lou Albano, and " Rowdy " Roddy Piper.

He also feuded with Roddy Piper for the NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship.

The NWA also lost top stars " Rowdy " Roddy Piper, Greg " The Hammer " Valentine, Jack Brisco, Jerry Brisco, Ricky " The Dragon " Steamboat, and " Cowboy " Bob Orton to the WWF during that same time.

In addition, they also defeated Roddy Piper and his protégé Sean O ' Haire in Madison Square Garden.

Groomed by Jim Crockett Jr. as his future top star, Flair won the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship when he defeated Bobo Brazil on July 29, 1977 ; and during the next three years, he held five reigns as U. S. Champion while feuding with Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper, Mr. Wrestling II, Jimmy Snuka, and Greg Valentine ( with whom he also formed a championship tag team ).

Flair also feuded with Roddy Piper, Syxx, and his old nemesis, Curt Hennig, in 1997 after Hennig was offered a spot in the Four Horsemen only to turn on Flair and the Horsemen at Fall Brawl in 1997.

Sammartino also engaged in a feud with Rowdy Roddy Piper after Piper insulted his heritage on a segment of Piper's Pit at Madison Square Garden.

Roddy also voiced a number of national television commercials, including those for Pennzoil and Public Storage.

Between 2001 and 2003, Roddy was also the voice of Mike the microphone on the cartoon Disney's House of Mouse.

Roddy also was the announcer on Tom Kennedy's Nighttime Price Is Right after Olson's death.

Overweight for much of his adult life, the program resulted in Roddy's loss of close to 200 pounds, an accomplishment often hailed by Barker on camera, but also subject to some mild teasing as camera technicians distorted their lenses to show an elongated and overly-skinny Roddy intentionally distorted in the manner of a funhouse mirror when Barker would ask how much weight he has lost.

Roddy was also noted for wearing brightly colored and sequined sport jackets, a practice he first adopted as a trademark when making personal appearances emceeing teen dances and concerts for WKBW in Buffalo in the 1960s.

for syndication ), and Rod Roddy ( while at the same time announcing on The Price Is Right for CBS ) also filled in for him on the CBS version.

She also made a vocal contribution to the successful debut solo album of Roddy Woomble, the lead singer of Idlewild.

In addition to The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads ?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet they have also written various other works for TV and a number of films, including The Commitments ( with Roddy Doyle ), Goal !, Flushed Away, Across the Universe and The Bank Job.

At that same time, Wood also announced on the nightly syndicated version hosted by Tom Kennedy until Roddy took over on that version as well.

Rowdy Roddy Piper also used racist terms when promoting his match against Hulk Hogan and Mr. T for WrestleMania I when calling T's fans " porch monkeys ", calling T a " monkey " and feeding his poster bananas, and threatening to " whip him like a slave ".

Howard Sounes in his biography of Dylan describes how Dylan listened to the Clancys singing Irish rebel songs like " Roddy McCorley " which he found fascinating, not only terms of their melodies but also their themes, structures and storytelling techniques.

The segment also made a return in 2005 at WrestleMania 21 interviewing Stone Cold Steve Austin, the night after Rowdy Roddy Piper was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Roddy also mentions The Pilgrim in a footnote to his article.

Roddy further stated that tidbits of information were leaked to the New York press that detailed Council failings vis a vis the Jews under the pseudonym of Pushkin.

His death was the day before the WWF Survivor Series that year, and commentator Roddy Piper stated that Bret dedicated his match to Dean.

The band toured throughout these years, and their success led to opening several dates in 1998 for Hole, fronted by Courtney Love, a friend and ( briefly ) former Faith No More bandmate of Roddy Bottum.

They changed their name to Faith No Man for the release of the single, which featured two of the three songs recorded in Wallace's garage, and hired Roddy Bottum to replace Worthington.

He appears on two tracks – " Rest on the Rock " and " Out of Light " – on the album, Before the Ruin, by Roddy Woomble, Kris Drever and John McCusker.

This began a short collaboration of Gowen and Mr. America, and a feud pitting the two against Roddy Piper and Sean O ' Haire.

On the latter two, Roddy appeared on camera on many episodes.

In two episodes (" The Devil and Mandy Breems ", " The Devil and Mr. Roarke "), Roarke even faces The Devil ( played by Roddy McDowall ), who has come to the island to challenge him for either a guest's immortal soul or his.

Roddy Piper began pursuing the title, and, after Piper gave Valentine a cake with a dog collar inside, the two had a series of brutal Dog Collar Matches, most notably at StarrCade 1983, where Piper pinned Valentine in a non-title match after repeatedly whipping him with the steel chain.

On October 26, 2008, Rhodes returned to the WWE and turned face on Cyber Sunday under his Goldust persona as part of the three choices ( the other two being Roddy Piper and The Honky Tonk Man ) that the fans could choose to face Santino Marella for the Intercontinental Championship.

The Mountie lost the title just two days later to Rowdy Roddy Piper at the 1992 Royal Rumble, in what was the shortest Intercontinental Championship reign in history for several years.

Roddy wrote that two timely and remunerated 1965 articles were penned under the pseudonym of F. E.

It's not possible for him to ' remember ' ROSS LECHIE because he died long before Dunross was born ; we can only assume that Alastair's father, ROSS STRUAN, is another member of the Struan family and that he became tai-pan after ROSS LECHIE-after all, Robb Struan had two sons to follow him, Roddy and Sir Lochlin.

Frears has also directed two films based on stories by Roddy Doyle, The Snapper and The Van.

* Roddy McGristle is a human bounty hunter, and has two dogs that he uses to hunt and wields an axe named " Bleeder.

Quartz was occasionally mined on Mount Greenland, a nearby ridge, but little more gold was found until two miners discovered a large 3. 1-kilogram nugget in 1909, which was later named the " Honourable Roddy Nugget ", after Roderick McKenzie, the Minister for Mines at the time.

They had two sons, Graham and Roddy.

Along with the second film Beneath the Planet of the Apes, this is one of only two original Planet of the Apes productions in which Roddy McDowall was not involved.

The series featured appearances from two other Lassie veterans, Roddy McDowall, who had starred in the first movie Lassie Come Home ( 1943 ) and June Lockhart, who had starred in the 1945 movie Son of Lassie, and the television series ( as Timmy's mother in the years after Rettig left the show ).

Metal Gear Acid 2 begins with Snake, a young woman named Consuela Alvarez, and two pilots named Dave Copeland and Roddy Louiz, flying into the United States illegally when they are arrested by FBI SWAT Teams.

For example, Roddy originally had two hamster manservants named Gilbert and Sullivan that were featured heavily in early trailers.

* 12 December 1982: The killing at an RUC checkpoint in Mullacreavie, County Armagh, of two INLA members, Seamus Grew and Roddy Carroll.

The main feud heading into Wrestling Classic was between Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper, with the two battling over the WWF Championship.