It was founded by four senior Labour Party ' moderates ', dubbed the ' Gang of Four ': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

Chic's was formed by Nile Rodgers a self described " street hippie " from late 1960s New York and Martin Dow DJ at from Key West, Florida who pioneered the NYC sound across that state.

In 1940, he was given the leading role in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, again choreographed by Robert Alton, and this role propelled him to stardom.

The first significant post-Led Zeppelin project was The Honeydrippers, formed in 1981 by Robert Plant and featuring Jimmy Page on lead guitar, along with studio musicians and friends of Plant and Page, including Jeff Beck, Paul Shaffer, and Nile Rodgers.

He was replaced by Brendan Rodgers.

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

Hammerstein collaborated with composers Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg ; but his most famous collaboration, by far, was with Richard Rodgers.

Rodgers ' first partner, Lorenz Hart, originally planned to collaborate with Rodgers on this piece, but his alcoholism had become out of control, and he was unable to write.

According to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story by Stanley Green, " For three minutes, on the night of September first, the entire Times Square area in New York City was blacked out in honor of the man who had done so much to light up that particular part of the world.

As one of the so-called " Gang of Four ", he was a founder of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) in January 1981 with David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

* Rodgers was founded in 1958 as an organ company and survives today as a subsidiary of Roland, still manufacturing high-quality electric, electronic, and pipe organs.

Sondheim famously hated his mother ; he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, " Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head?

It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.

In November 2004, Queen were among the inaugural inductees into the UK Music Hall of Fame, and the award ceremony was the first event at which Rodgers joined May and Taylor as vocalist.

Between 2005 and 2006, Queen + Paul Rodgers embarked on a world tour, which was the first time Queen toured since their last tour with Freddie Mercury in 1986.

The first Queen + Paul Rodgers album, titled The Cosmos Rocks, was released in Europe on 12 September 2008 and in the United States on 28 October 2008.

Rodgers stated: " My arrangement with was similar to my arrangement with Jimmy in The Firm in that it was never meant to be a permanent arrangement ".

The world's first purpose-built container ship was the Clifford J. Rodgers, built in Montreal in 1955 and owned by the White Pass and Yukon Route.

Rodgers had a " no lingerie in space " policy, which prevented Fisher from wearing a brassiere ; adhesive tape was used in its place.

In 1973 production was shared by David Hatch with John Cassels ( for six episodes ) and with Bob Oliver Rodgers ( for two episodes ).

This new conglomerate was evidently not as successful as CBS had expected, and Steinway was sold in 1985, along with classical and church organ maker Rodgers and flute and piccolo maker Gemeinhardt, to a group of Boston-area investors.

Richard Charles Rodgers ( June 28, 1902 – December 31, 1979 ) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals.

This re-make used a new script that hewed closer to the traditional tale, commissioned by Rodgers ( Hammerstein had died in 1960 ) and written by Joseph Schrank, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and sung in their original settings.

Making prominent use of electronic instruments, the album, which reunited Bowie with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, confirmed Bowie's return to popularity, hitting the number one spot on the UK charts and spawning three top 40 hits, including the top 10 song " Jump They Say ".

It becomes the most financially successful film version of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical up to that time, and the only one to win an acting Oscar ( Yul Brynner wins Best Actor for his performance as the King of Siam ).

It is also one of two Rodgers and Hammerstein films to be nominated for Best Picture ( which it does not win ).

One critic writes that the album is " one of the more complex and simply confounding records ever released by a major label " and another writes that the single "' A Small Victory ', which seems to run Madame Butterfly through Metallica and Nile Rodgers (...) reveals a developing facility for combining unlikely elements into startlingly original concoctions.

Gerry and the Pacemakers ' next two singles, Murray's " I Like It " and Rodgers and Hammerstein's " You'll Never Walk Alone ", both also reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, the latter recorded instead of the Beatles ' " Hello Little Girl ", which went on to become the first hit for the Fourmost.

The biggest boost to the studio's fortunes came from the tremendous success of The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), an expensive and handsomely produced adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, which became one of the all-time greatest box office hits.

Autry was also one of the most important figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre's development after Jimmie Rodgers.

Steve's younger sister, Jasmine Rodgers, was invited to sing the chorus part of one of their first songs called " Fran ", and she soon became the lead singer of the group.

Andrea Marcovicci based one of her cabaret acts entirely on Rodgers and Hart songs.

According to Chuck Denison, " My Heart Stood Still " is one of Rodgers and Harts ' most enduring hits.

Frederick Nolan writes that " My Romance " ( written for Jumbo ) " features some of the most elegantly wistful lyrics ... is, quite simply, one of the best songs Rodgers and Hart ever wrote.

Rodgers admitted that he was originally upset with the song, but would later declare it to be " one of favorite songs of all time " and his favorite of all the tracks that sampled Chic.

As well as writing the script, Herring also played one of the characters alongside Gordon Kennedy, Claire Skinner, Rebecca Front, Sarah-Jane Potts, Robert Daws, Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie.

The Mad Dogs hired Pepper Rodgers as their head coach, who was familiar to Memphis pro football fans as he was the head coach of one of the city's previous pro football teams, the Memphis Showboats of the USFL ( the Mad Dogs had also hired Steve Erhart, the Showboats ' general manager, in the same capacity ).

William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, PC ( born Liverpool 28 October 1928 ), usually known as William Rodgers but also often known as Bill Rodgers, was one of the " Gang of Four " of senior British Labour Party politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ).

" He was one of the first artists to sign with the newly-established MGM Records, and had immediate hits with revivals of " Everything I Have Is Yours " ( 1947 ), Richard Rodgers ’ and Lorenz Hart ’ s " Blue Moon " ( 1948 ), and Juan Tizol ’ s " Caravan " ( 1949 ).

When in 2000, the song " All Right Now " achieved the mark of two million radio plays in the UK, an award was given to Rodgers as one of the two writers.

The Law, Rodgers's 1991 musical venture with former The Who and Faces drummer Kenney Jones, produced Billboards number one AOR chart hit " Laying Down The Law " written by Rodgers, but the album peaked at number 126 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Rodgers and Bad Company hit Billboards US BDS charts with the number one single " Hey, Hey " in 1999, one of four new tracks off Bad Company's The Original Bad Company Anthology.

It included all the hits and a new single " Joe Fabulous " penned by Rodgers which hit number one at Classic Rock Radio and Top 20 on mainstream rock radio in the US.