Rodgers and Hart subsequently wrote the music and lyrics for 26 Broadway musicals during a more-than-20-year partnership that ended only with Hart's early death.

Colonel Rodgers ' son, John Rodgers, was instrumental in suppressing the Tripolitan pirates in the Mediterranean Sea and was subsequently promoted to Commodore of the Mediterranean Squadron.

Rodgers thus joined Brian May and Roger Taylor ( former bassist John Deacon retired in the late 1990s ), with the group billed as Queen + Paul Rodgers and they subsequently toured worldwide in 2005 and 2006.

The band had already parted company with their producer Alex Sadkin, and Nile Rodgers was subsequently called in to help finish the album.

He then stopped at Algiers and paid a visit to the Dey, who by now was well aware of the treaty with Tripoli, and subsequently extended every courtesy to Rodgers and even consented to him donning his sword.

However, Rodgers initially felt that the song did not have a good enough hook and was not suitable for Madonna, but subsequently changed his opinion after the hook was stuck in his mind.

This play was the major source for William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, which was subsequently adapted for the musical theatre by Rodgers and Hart in The Boys from Syracuse.

Manager Steve Coppell resigned just hours after the game, and was replaced by Brendan Rodgers.

In 1981, unhappy with the influence of the far left in the Labour Party, she resigned from it to form the SDP, along with Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers.

He so angered his associates, whom he kept busy counting money under poor conditions, that one of his midshipmen, William Rodgers, resigned from the Navy after coming ashore from this three-year voyage.

It is still not clear if Rodgers was fired or resigned.

After Brendan Rodgers resigned in June 2009, Mackay took over as the manager of Watford.

Several of these double entries have been collected by Ben Bagley and Michael McWhinney, along with Rodgers and Hart songs that disappeared permanently en route to New York and others that reached Broadway but have not become part of the constantly heard Rodgers and Hart repertory, in a delightfully refreshing album, Rodgers And Hart Revisited ( Spruce Records, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York ).

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

" Speaking of Milt Brown and himself working with songs done by Jimmie Davis, the Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers, and others, and songs he'd learned from his father, he said that " We'd pull these tunes down an set ' em in a dance category.

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 ".

In the 1970s Kaye tore a ligament in his leg during the run of the Richard Rodgers musical Two by Two, but went on with the show, appearing with his leg in a cast and cavorting on stage from a wheelchair.

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.

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.

Taking a gamble, the Brewers fired Rodgers and replaced him with hitting coach Harvey Kuenn.

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

Hammerstein's most successful and sustained collaboration began when he teamed up with Richard Rodgers to write a musical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs.

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.

'" After Oklahoma !, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific.

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.

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 1965 he wrote the lyrics only for Do I Hear a Waltz ?, with music by Richard Rodgers.

* October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is introduced with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film, Oklahoma!

Since then, May and Taylor have infrequently performed together, including a collaboration with Paul Rodgers under the name Queen + Paul Rodgers which ended in May 2009.

At the end of 2004, May and Taylor announced that they would reunite and return to touring in 2005 with Paul Rodgers ( founder and former lead singer of Free and Bad Company ).

Brian May's website also stated that Rodgers would be " featured with " Queen as " Queen + Paul Rodgers ", not replacing Mercury.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

In the early days of World War II, Cohan comes out of retirement to star as President Roosevelt in the Rodgers and Hart musical I'd Rather Be Right.

She was the first President of the Foundation, serving from 1998 until 2001, when Elizabeth Rodgers was elected President.

* Johnathan Rodgers ( 1967 )-CEO / President of TV One, former President of Discovery Networks and reporter for Sports Illustrated and Newsweek

During the War of 1812 Rodgers fired the first shot of the war aboard his next flagship, the USS President, and also played a leading role in the recapture of Washington after the capitol was burned by the British, while also having to endure his own hometown and house burned and his family displaced.

On March 8, 1798 President John Adams appointed junior officers for the first three ships constructed for the young American Navy where John Rodgers was appointed 2nd Lieutenant of the frigate USS Constellation, under the command of Thomas Truxtun.

Placed in command of the John Adams on May 3 of the following year, Rodgers was ordered to sail for Tripoli to patrol its surrounding waters for three weeks, joining the Constitution the President along with a number of other vessels.

Consisting of the ships, Constitution, President, Constellation, Enterprise, Essex, Siren, Argus, Hornet, Vixen, Nautilus and Franklin, together with a number of gunboats ( including No. 5, and bomb vessel, Rodgers was now in command of the largest American squadron ever to assemble in the Mediterranean.

Commodore John Rodgers was in command of President.

Rodgers continued to engage the much smaller vessel and after several more broadsides from President, bearing 44 guns, the Little Belt, with only 20, was cut to pieces.

These were Rodgers ' own flagship, the President, along with the United States, commanded by Commodore Decatur, the Congress, commanded by Captain Smith, the Hornet, commanded by Captain Lawrence and the Argus commanded by Lieutenant Sinclair.

With only a few more shots needed to disable the British vessel the President fired again, but the tide of battle turned when its gun burst, killing 16 men, wounding others, including Rodgers who was violently thrown back with his leg broken from the impact.

John Rodgers, Captain of President reported to the Secretary of the Navy, that " when perceiving our opponent's Gaff & Colours down.

The commanding officer of President was Commodore John Rodgers.

He continued south, but President continued its pursuit because Commodore Rodgers was interested in identifying the ship that he now knew was not Guerriere.

By 15: 30, the President was close enough to Little Belt for Rodgers to make out part of her stern.

He stepped down in May 2007, and Rodgers came out of retirement to serve as Interim Dean and President for one year.

In the field of musical theatre, the Guild has promoted works by Richard Rodgers, teamed with both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, George and Ira Gershwin, Jule Styne, and Meredith Willson, all of which have become classics. Under President John F. Kennedy, the Guild was engaged to assemble a US theatre company, headed by Helen Hayes, to tour the capitals of Europe and South America with works by Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and William Gibson.

On 6 October 1909, Rodgers became President of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island ; he also became Commandant of Naval Station Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, that month.