Despite falling behind the WWF and NWA as a major promotion throughout 1986 and 1987, Gagne still managed to find and / or develop legitimate young talent like Scott Hall, The Midnight Rockers ( Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty ), " Bull Power " Leon White ( later known as Big Van Vader ), The Nasty Boys ( Brian Knobs and Jerry Sags ), and Madusa Miceli during that timeframe.

Gagne pushed Hennig and the Midnight Rockers throughout 1987 and into 1988, but the WWF came calling and all three of his top stars would soon be gone.

Rose and Somers then engaged in a lengthy feud with The Midnight Rockers ( Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty ), who defeated Rose and Somers for the tag team title on January 27, 1987, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The two teamed as The Midnight Rockers and quickly won the Central States Tag Team Championship from The Batten Twins.

The two were paired up by the AWA bookers, Greg Gagne ( son of the owner and one of the bookers ) suggested the name ” The Country Rockers ”, another idea for a name was the " U. S. Express " ( as told by Marty during an interview on AWA television that aired in 1986 ) not keen on the idea the two of them came up with the name The Midnight Rockers inspired by Judas Priest ’ s ” Living after Midnight ”.

After wrestling on the lower end of the card to get the fans familiar with the team the Midnight Rockers soon moved onto a feud with the team of Doug Somers and Buddy Rose who at the time were one of the top teams in the promotion.

When Somers and Rose beat Scott Hall and Curt Hennig for the AWA World Tag Team Championship the Midnight Rockers suddenly found themselves chasing the main tag team title of the promotion.

The Midnight Rockers would repeatedly challenge Somers throughout the rest of 1986 but never quite be able to get the win when the title was on the line.

Finally on January 27, 1987 the Midnight Rockers defeated Rose and Somers for the AWA Tag Team title.

The Midnight Rockers got an offer from Vince McMahon while holding the AWA Tag Title.

The Midnight Rockers even signed with the WWF while still holding the gold, necessitating the quick title change to the unproven duo of Boris Zhukov and Soldat Ustinov on May 25, 1987.

Four days later the Midnight Rockers wrestled at their first TV taping for the show WWF Wrestling Challenge defeating the team of Jose Estrada, Sr. and Jimmy Jack Funk.

After the way they had left the AWA Michaels and Jannetty could not just return like nothing had happened, instead the Midnight Rockers started working for the AWA affiliated Continental Wrestling Association ( CWA ) in Memphis, Tennessee.

Their feud with the RPMs saw the Midnight Rockers defeat Lane and Davis to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship on October 26, 1987.

Jannetty and Michaels lost then regained the Southern Tag Team title as the Midnight Rockers / RPMs feud raged on.

With their success in Memphis, the AWA started to book them as well, having the Midnight Rockers split their time between Memphis and the AWA territory – in Memphis the Midnight Rockers were heels but in the AWA they were faces ( good guys ), something which was possible before the advent of national television deals and easy internet access.

On December 27, 1987 The Midnight Rockers defeated The Original Midnight Express ( Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose ) for the AWA World Tag Team title.

In the late 1960s, Lancaster teamed with Roland Kibbee to form " Norlan Productions " and produce ( 1968 ), Valdez Is Coming ( 1971 ), and The Midnight Man ( 1974 ).

He then teamed up with Dick Lester to devise a series of six TV programmes Before Midnight for ABC in Birmingham in 1958.

Simon again teamed up with the Swiss musician Andreas Vollenweider for his 2006 holiday album, Midnight Clear.

* Midnight Run ( bounty hunter teamed with well educated accountant )

In 2010 Rotsey teamed up with two other former members of Midnight Oil, Hirst and Moginie, and Violent Femmes bass player Brian Ritchie to form a new surf rock band, The Break.

In 1998, Douglas teamed up with gothic fantasy artist Joseph Vargo, and the two decided to create an exclusively dark-themed instrumental Midnight Syndicate album.

This time Douglas and Goszka teamed up with two members who worked on the first Midnight Syndicate CD, Mark Rakocy ( graphic design ) and Christopher Robichaud ( vocals ).

In 2007, Midnight Syndicate teamed up with Goodman Games to produce Cages of Delirium a Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure based on Gates of Delirium which came packaged with the CD.

The Samoans teamed with former rival Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy, and Jimmy Garvin at the 1989 Great American Bash, losing a WarGames match to the Road Warriors, the Midnight Express, and Steve Williams.

With Leon under contract at Solar, and the remaining six Sylvers still under contract to Casablanca, the label teamed the group with the Oscar-winning disco composer Giorgio Moroder ( Midnight Express, Donna Summer ).

In 1973, Medress ended his relationship with the group and Siegel teamed with the Margo Brothers to form the group Cross Country, which would have some success with its cover version of " In the Midnight Hour.

Following this loss, the Midnight Express teamed with their former enemies The Road Warriors and " Dr. Death " Steve Williams to defeat the SST and the Freebirds in a WarGames match at the Great American Bash.

Eaton teamed with former rival Dennis Condrey under the management of Jim Cornette to form a new version of the Midnight Express.

Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose first teamed up in 1981, thus are the Original Midnight Express.

Despite having Cornette in their corner and the name " Midnight Express ", wrestling fans consider this incarnation of the team as nothing more than a rib by Vince McMahon on Cornette, and in shoot interviews Cornette has indeed indicated that he never considered the team as continuing the lineage of the Midnight Express, since it was not his idea nor his intention to have " glorified jobbers " like Gunn and Holly take on the moniker ( although Gunn and Holly were both former tag team champions prior to being teamed ).

Now the fan favorites the Midnight Express soon had to contend with a blast from the past, The Original Midnight Express as it consisted of Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose, who had teamed up before Condrey and Eaton became a team.

When he teamed with long time Stampede veteran Kerry Brown as part of the Midnight Cowboys tag team.

Adnan had to quit wrestling when he was injured, which is the real reason Patera was brought in to team with Blackwell, in 1982 at the AWA SuperSunday he teamed with blackwell in a tag team match against Vern Gagne and Mad Dog Vachon and they lost it, in 1986 at the AWA WrestleRock he lost to Vern Gagne in a steel cage, the sheik teamed with Boris Zuchov in tag team match against the The Midnight Rockers ( Marty Jannetty & Shawn Michaels ), he stayed in the AWA until the late 1990 as the top heel manager.

At The 1989 Great American Bash the Samoans teamed with former rival Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and Jimmy Garvin losing a War Games Match to The Road Warriors, the Midnight Express and Steve Williams.

is a mostly instrumental album made up of music composed earlier in their career, which had been completely reworked for the Voice of Midnight album.

In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels in San Francisco, California to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events.

In 1981, SCTV was picked up as a 90-minute show by NBC as a mid-season replacement ( for The Midnight Special ).

The Emergency signals the end of the potency of the Midnight Children, and there is little left for Saleem to do but pick up the few pieces of his life he may still find and write the chronicle that encompasses both his personal history and that of his still-young nation ; a chronicle written for his son, who, like his father, is both chained and supernaturally endowed by history.

In the Philippines, this custom lasts for nine days, starting on December 16 and continuing daily up to December 24, during which Filipinos attend dawn Masses, usually starting at around 4: 00 – 5: 00 am In 2009 Vatican officials scheduled the Midnight Mass to start at 10 pm so the 82 year old Pope Benedict XVI would not have too late a night.

They joined up with keyboardist Mickey Billingham ( Dexys Midnight Runners ), guitarist Mick Jones ( The Clash ), bassist Horace Panter ( The Specials ) and drummer Stoker ( Dexys Midnight Runners / The Bureau ) to form a quasi-supergroup of the UK punk / ska / mod scene.

He released a CD in 2004 called The Futurist, and while promoting his film Tropic Thunder, he and his co-stars Ben Stiller and Jack Black were back up singers " The Pips " to Gladys Knight singing " Midnight Train to Georgia ".

For 2006, two additional colors were added to the line up, Spice Red Metallic and Brazen Orange Metallic, while Midnight Blue Metallic and Yellow Jacket were dropped.

With Kingpin and Shotgun Messiah he performed hard rock, glam metal, and ended up playing industrial rock in their later material ; With KMFDM he performed industrial rock, industrial metal, electro-industrial, and techno ; With MDFMK he performed straight up industrial rock ; With ohGr he performed electronic music, with industrial-based genres like IDM and electro-industrial ; With The Newlydeads he again performed straight up industrial rock ; and with Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult he performed heavy metal and hard rock, with a Gothic rock feel to it.

Also the Cut-Up Boys mashed up " What Can You Do For Me " with " Midnight Run " by Example and Feed Me.

He also had three recent Vertigo series that have wrapped up: Faker a six part mini-series with art by Jock ; a second graphic novel, God Save the Queen, with John Bolton, featuring Queen Titania, Oberon, Puck, Nuala and Cluracan from the Sandman and Books of Magic comics ; and Crossing Midnight with Jim Fern.

( An apparent ' survivor ' of the purge Chester lead them on appears to try sneaking up on Harold at the climax of The Celery Stalks at Midnight, only to be spotted by Harold, who then asks Chester for a toothpick in order to ' kill ' the offending object.

Womack opened up about his frequent drug use in his memoirs, I'm a Midnight Mover.

Hyacinth's father frequently touches ladies ' posteriors, and dresses up in costumes ( in Series One, " Daddy " dresses up as Captain Midnight ).

These properties have included Turner's Fathom which eventually ended up at Aspen Comics ; Joe's Comics, created exclusively for J. Michael Straczynski, which included Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, The Agency, and Obergeist.

Brest followed up with 1988's Midnight Run, starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, a critical and commercial success.

A 2004 sequel, Before Sunset, picks up the story nine years after the events of the first film, and a 2012 sequel, set in 2013, Before Midnight picks up the story nineteen years on.