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.

Another Dutch hip-hop duo are Pete Philly and Perquisite who are already well known in the Netherlands, Germany, and even in Japan.

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 duo succeed in tracking down Old Will ( Edward Rigby ), a sociable china-mender and bum that was known to have received Tisdall's coat.

Melcher ( who had worked with The Byrds and The Beach Boys and had rejected producing an unknown singer / songwriter by the name of Charles Manson ) was a member of the successful duo Bruce & Terry, also known as The Rip Chords.

* Spring ( American band ), a 1970s pop music duo, known outside the U. S. as American Spring

In 1424 the " duo preciso e noto " (" well and known duo ") of Masaccio and Masolino was commissioned by the powerful and rich Felice Brancacci to execute a cycle of frescoes for the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence.

To premiere the new recordings, Psyche had the honor of performing for nearly 2, 000 psychotic-electro fans as the support of the world's first known synth duo, Suicide.

The duo was known for their " thumbs up / thumbs down " review summaries.

* British — Beamish, Sally: Commedia ( 1990 ; mixed quintet ; theater piece without actors, in which Pierrot is portrayed by violin ); Biberian, Gilbert: Variations and Fugue on " Au Clair de la Lune " ( 1967 ; wind quartet ), Pierrot: A Ballet ( 1978 ; guitar duo ); Musgrave, Thea, Pierrot ( 1985 ; for clarinet, violin, and piano ; inspired dance by Jennifer Muller above under # Plays, variety shows, circus, and dance | Plays, variety shows, circus, and dance ); Redgate, Roger: Pierrot on the Stage of Desire ( 1998 ; for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion — known as the " Pierrot ensemble ", comprising the instrumentation of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire below ).

John Sidney Linnell ( born June 12, 1959, New York, New York ) is an American musician, known primarily as one half of Brooklyn, New York alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants.

The members of Spanish lounge music duo Los del Río ( known for their international hit single, Macarena ) are natives of Dos Hermanas and still reside in the city.

Comedians Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong ( better known as the comedic duo Cheech and Chong ) have stated that NBC president Brandon Tartikoff sent series creator James Komack to follow the comedians on tour for three months ;

* Inez and Charlie Foxx, a 1960s American rhythm and blues and soul duo, known for their hit single " Mockingbird ", are from Greensboro.

He is best known for his role, with his wife, singer Fleming McWilliams, in the rock and roll duo, Fleming and John.

Quiñones dated René Pérez, also known as Residente from the Puerto Rican alternative-reggaeton duo Calle 13.

Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, comedian duo and TV personalities known as Rhett and Link.

* Jamaica ( band ), a French indie-dance duo, formerly known as " Poney, Poney "

Conversely, other British acts such as Wang Chung, Breathe and Murray Head, as well as the Anglo-Australian duo Air Supply, are one-hit wonders in the UK but not in the US, and the American group 3T, best known in their homeland as being the three sons of Tito Jackson of The Jackson 5, along with other bands such as Blind Melon and Deep Blue Something, are one-hit wonders in the US but not in the UK.

The Jerky Boys: The Movie, also known as The Jerky Boys, is a 1995 comedy / crime film starring John G. Brennan and Kamal Ahmed, best known as the comedy duo The Jerky Boys.

After leaving the band in late 1981, Clarke forged an equally successful career with the duo Yazoo ( known as Yaz in the U. S .).

They subsequently auditioned for and later formed the duo known as " Twins ".

Keith Edward Elam ( July 17, 1961 – April 19, 2010 ), better known by his stage name Guru, was an American emcee and member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr, along with DJ Premier.

Saloman was originally in a band known as the Bevis Frond Museum in the late 1960s and in the 1970s whilst at college he played guitar with a duo called Oddsocks, they released one album, Men of the Moment.