When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

The duo were given the BPI's " Producer of the Year Award " in 1990.

The duo was named Vocal Group of the Year in 1968 by the Country Music Association, but Parton's solo records were continually ignored.

The show was pitched directly to the UK's Hat Trick Productions and Channel 4 by the duo, contrary to rumours that RTÉ ( the Irish national broadcaster ) were originally offered the series but rejected it.

Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duo, popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of Jan Berry and Dean Torrence.

The poems were often performed by a duo, each person singing alternative verses or groups of verses.

The dynamic duo from years earlier were now gone and a new leader would eventually emerge.

Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman, working together, along with the independent duo of George Sudarshan and Robert Marshak, were the first to discover the vector and axial vector structures of the weak interaction in physics.

Though hired to be part of the live performance group rather than as band members, these four musicians were also included in the photograph alongside the core duo on the album cover of their first album to assist in projecting an image of a group rather than a duo.

The Righteous Brothers were the musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield.

Simon & Garfunkel were an American music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

The two had become the NFL's most famous broadcast duo since they were paired together in 1981 on CBS.

The duo were parodied as Willis and Crumble in an episode of The Simpsons entitled Angry Dad: The Movie.

These works, most in collaboration with the experimental Russian director Georges Pitoëff, were considered promising despite their lack of commercial profits, and the duo continued to work together until they had their first major success in 1937 with Le voyageur sans bagage ( Traveller Without Baggage ).

At the time, Eastland and Stennis were the longest-serving Senate duo in American history, though their record was subsequently surpassed by Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, who served together for 36 years.

On the later albums recorded by the remaining duo, the arrangements were sparse and heavily electronic, the singing evolved from abstract screams and mumbles to a very direct, rhythmic vocal style, and their live performances were delivered with such intensity that a 1980 concert in Düsseldorf had to be stormed by the police to bring the crowd under control.

Since the duo were still working on The Black Dossier at the time, it was agreed that it would become the last League project published by DC / WildStorm, with subsequent projects published jointly by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics in the US and UK respectively.

Voshon Lenard and Dan Majerle were also added to the team, becoming a dangerous backcourt duo for their tenacity on defense and their specialization at three-point shooting.

This was the first time that the Bulls had two all stars since 1997, when Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen were the duo.

Not knowing they were both essentially unemployed, although still contracted to Paradine, Cotton signed the duo up for their own show together, and a series each on their own ; he later joked he " must have offered them too much money.

The Comateens were originally a New Wave duo formed in 1978 in New York City by bassist / vocalist Nic North and guitarist Ramona Jan.

While Mario was originally portrayed as a carpenter in Donkey Kong, the duo of Mario and Luigi in Mario Bros. were styled as Italian plumbers by Miyamoto, on the suggestion of a colleague.

His repeated attempts to teach the duo useful life lessons typically end in disaster as they almost always deduce the wrong message.

The duo, usually led by Ray, are known for rants on the evils of the internal combustion engine, people who talk on cell phones while driving, Peugeots, women named Donna who always seem to drive Camaros, lawyers, the clever use of the English language, and practically anything else, including themselves.

The single most common and ubiquitous pairing of all was always and everywhere the lute and bass viol: for centuries, the inseparable duo.

As such, since the first appearance of the duo, the true slave had always been Pozzo.

Sylvester, who for the most part always played the antagonist role, is featured playing the protagonist role in a couple of cartoons while having to deal with the canine duo of Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier after being chased around.

The duo do not always " get their man ", with at least one novel ending with the villain getting away and another strongly implying that while Dalziel and Pascoe are unable to convict anyone, a series of unrelated accidents actually included at least one unprovable instance of murder.

Traditionally, Danish folk music has relied on a fiddle and accordion duo but, unlike its Scandinavian neighbours, Danish fiddlers almost always play in groups with few solo performance.

So why does this existential meta-rom-com always leave us teary-eyed and genuinely moved ?... he duo finally finds the right combination of high-concept and humanity here, taking the what-if idea of a company that lobotomizes the lovelorn into territory that ’ s funny, painful, poetic and unsettlingly weird.

The duo performed with the assistance of an old, literally falling apart Korg Mono / Poly synthesizer, often left to its own devices to produce loud, random arpeggios throughout the entire performance, which almost always cumulated in a drum circle where audience participation was encouraged to " feel good " with the band.

The Theatre round is where a specially selected group of auditioners from all regional auditions converge ( always in the host city ) to perform in three sub stages: a chorus line in groups of 10 where free song choices are allowed, a trio ( or less commonly a duo or quartet ) where contestants must memorize a preselected song to perform and choreograph together, and finally a solo a cappella round where contestants sing a song of their own choice without musical backing in front of friends, family, judges & fellow contestants.

In another departure from the norm, the duo do not always " get their man ", with at least one novel ending with the villain getting away and another strongly implying that what Dalziel and Pascoe dismiss as a series of unrelated accidents actually included at least one undetected instance of murder.

The songwriting session — held at Absolute's studio located on Tagg's Island near Chertsey — did not seem to go well at the beginning, as the duo was heavily into R & B music at the time, while the group according to Wilson was " always very poptastic ".

Bull is the leader of the duo, always acting in a confident and cheery attitude even while reprimanding Axl.

English television presenters Ant & Dec extend this continuity to almost all their appearances, with Ant almost always on the left and Dec on the right, as does the Japanese pop duo Puffy, with Yumi Yoshimura on the left and Ami Onuki on the right.

According to Hill, they didn't always intend to remain a duo, though: " had intentions to start a band that was like … kinda like what we were doing with just the two of us, but with more people.

Briggs usually spoofs the leader of a crime-fighting duo that takes all the risks, leads the cases and comes up with the ideas, but is always unluckier in flirting with girls.

The cartoon would also go on to become a phenomenal success, and Tweety would always be paired with Sylvester from that point on as a result, because the duo carried a high amount of star power ( in the meantime, Sylvester continued to appear in a fair amount of cartoons without Tweety ).

It was also in the 1970s that Skempton started composing chamber works, although these were almost always for two performers, since they were written to be performed by the duo of Skempton himself and Michael Parsons.

It is unique in competitive Highland Dance as it is the only dance always performed as a duo and is the only dance that originated outside the British Isles.

Baby Rasta & Gringo also said they loved their Dominican followers and they were really pleased with how Dominicans always had received them, Baby Rasta & Gringo are currently feuding with reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel dissing them with the track " Se Mueren " from their new album.

Multimedia news and reviews website IGN was pleased to see Stewie and Brian get more screen time as a duo, something they thought had always been one of the show's biggest strengths.

On the flip side, the duo have always defended each other in the face of adversity.