The twin World Trade Centre towers were icons of American capitalism; the nightclub in Bali no less iconic of Australian hedonism.
"Beethoven is probably the most iconic of composers," he said.
This, though, is the most iconic of them all.
This week, the most iconic of the countries' sporting battles, the Ashes cricket series, resumes.
It is in a strange sort of way the most iconic of all wars.
It was a bronze version of one of the most iconic of all American paintings: Flag.
However, the album they recorded there – Nevermind – became one of the most iconic of the 1990s.
They can then hop inside a Trabant 601 car, that most iconic of Eastern Bloc symbols.
Bangs, who died in 1982, at the age of thirty-three, remains the most iconic of them all.
Examples of the most iconic of those pieces are in the Project Gallery, where they are collected like a menagerie.
"Because we only add a little bit of peat, we find we can change the flavour of the whisky, the feel, the presentation to a point that's not iconic of Scotland but iconic of Tasmania," he says.
