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.

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.

Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top show business awards in television, recording, movies and Broadway — an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony — now known collectively as an EGOT.

Rodgers was the subject of a two-part special on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town television show in 1952.

Rodgers wrote the music for musicals and revues including Once Upon a Mattress ( 1959 ), From A to Z ( 1960 ), Hot Spot ( 1963 ), The Mad Show ( 1966 ), Working ( 1978 ), and Phyllis Newman's one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West ( 1979 ).

Classic pop embraces the song output of the Broadway and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter and a host of others.

Merman accepted, but in November Kern suffered a stroke while in New York City visiting Rodgers and Hammerstein ( the producers of the show ) and died a few days later.

" The show lasted 13 episodes and featured celebrity judges including Kevin Bacon, Nile Rodgers, Cyndi Lauper and Ace Frehley.

In the show's June 20, 1948 debut, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with singer Monica Lewis and Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II previewing the score to their then-new show South Pacific, which opened on Broadway in 1949.

In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma !, performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal arrangements.

In a reversal of the usual situation, in which American Decca had released original Broadway cast albums of three Rodgers and Hammerstein shows, this was the only film soundtrack album of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show ever released by Decca, while the Broadway cast album had been released by Columbia Masterworks.

The title song, " With a Song in My Heart ", ( Rodgers and Hart, 1929 ) became famous in the UK as the theme to the long-running BBC radio show, Family Favourites.

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were introduced in 1919, when both attended Columbia University, when asked to write an amateur club show.

" When the show was revived in 1952, audiences had learned to accept darker material ( thanks in large part to Rodgers ' work with Oscar Hammerstein II ).

Matthews ' fame reached its initial height with her lead role in the 1930 stage production of Ever Green, premiered at the Alhambra Theatre Glasgow, a musical by Rodgers and Hart that was partly inspired by the life of music hall star Marie Lloyd, and her daughter's tribute act resurrection of her mother's acclaimed Edwardian stage show as Marie Lloyd Junior.

Henry moved to Maui in 1971 thus establishing himself in all the show rooms in the hotels and produced many jazz concerts over the years with the likes of Shorty Rodgers, Bud Shank, Lonne Smith, Gary Grant, Jay Leno Horns ,( Chuck Findley, Ralph Moore, Slyde Richard Hyde ) Gabe Baltazar and a series for Lana ' i, called Jazz Under the Stars, of which the famous Howard Rumsey of the Hermosa Beach Light House fame was a part.

Twice in 2002, Rodgers performed on Britain's TV show Top of the Pops 2.

In April 2007 Rodgers released a live album of his 2006 tour, recorded in Glasgow, Scotland 13 October 2006, with a DVD of the same show released the following month.

The show's eventual hit song, " There's No Business Like Show Business ," was almost left out of the show because Berlin mistakenly got the impression that Richard Rodgers did not like it.

" William Hawkins of the New York World-Telegram said that Merman was " bright as a whip, sure as her shooting, and generously the foremost lady clown of her time " and asserted that the show itself was comparable to those of Rodgers and Hammerstein, proclaiming, " For verve and buoyancy, unslackening, there has seldom if ever been a show like it ... the girls in Annie have the beauty and character of looks one associates with a Rodgers and Hammerstein show.