Some were aural: almost every band had an organist creating warm chords as a constant backdrop; almost every band had a guitarist who played lapidary guitar figures after the style of Curtis Mayfield, a once and future hero of adventurous black pop.
Rather than submit itself to any one family, the town oscillated between communal government and a series of popolo-granted life dictatorships of which the most memorable was that of Simone Boccanegra, future hero of an opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.
A sailor from 1781, he met Nelson in the mid-1790s, while the future hero of Trafalgar was still a captain.
Did you sense you were holding a future Olympic hero in your arms?
Earth figures only in the prologue, circa 1988, when our future hero, Peter Quill, is abducted by a spaceship, moments after his mother's death.
Earth's future hero, John Connor Nick Stahll), is 18 now, and there's a new killer cyborg (Kristanna Loken) from the future in his future.
David Glasgow Farragut, the future hero of the Battle of Mobile Bay, had even served as a boy on Porter's audacious cruise through the South Pacific during the War of 1812.
Then she rescues Sieglinde, who has become pregnant with the future hero Siegfried.
That left it to their once and perhaps future hero, Adam Vinatieri, to kick five field goals.
"Autobiography" is the 457-page life story of Morrissey, former singer for the Smiths, once and future hero for the misunderstood.
