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Emma says there are no straight lines in Chagall's paintings – he tailored his perspective to more comfortably suit his wilfully wry view of the world.

"Look!" said their director Włodzimierz Staniewski, "Pure Chagall!" Emma says there are no straight lines in Chagall's paintings – he tailored his perspective to more comfortably suit his wilfully wry view of the world.

The apparent weirdness of this reclusive genius has only added to the mystique as much as the iconoclasm of the recordings – his brilliant Bach, for sure, but also his wilfully idiotic Mozart and tortuous Beethoven.

Chilton himself, post-Big Star, surfaced only intermittently, most notably on his wilfully lo-fi solo album Like Flies on Sherbert, from 1979, and as a producer of the Cramps album Songs the Lord Taught Us, released the following year.

At 66, Dennis is worth £500m, but he is still defined by the often-extreme contradictions of character that have marked his wilfully wayward yet extraordinarily successful life thus far.

Cave, though, as many of his more wilfully melodramatic songs suggest, has always tended towards the extreme in order to ram home a point.

"Why not?" says Clark, who, at 54, and despite receiving the approval of the establishment in the form of a CBE, continues to dance to his own wilfully offbeat tune both on stage and off.

IF THE "extraordinary" allegation that his government wilfully exaggerated the case for war against Iraq had been true, Tony Blair told the Hutton inquiry into the death of the government defence scientist David Kelly, then he would have had to resign as prime minister.

At one point, Orbit strapped on a guitar and led the group into a cacophonous interlude that sounded like Frank Zappa at his most wilfully obtuse but thankfully the moment passed, and a very glamorous Beth Orton entered stage left to speak and sing her way though a drifting, fragile sad song that ended all too soon.

His work wilfully avoids a chronological, ordered, historical view of the uprising – instead focusing on honesty and emotions.

It might be stretching the point to say that Orwell was a masochist (at least one woman he knew said he was a sadist), but his attitude to his health was wilfully reckless.