He was starring in that iconic film written, brilliantly by Barrie Keeffe, specially for him.
The walk itself has become iconic: Petit wrote a book called A Walk in the Clouds, and James Marsh made a wonderful documentary, Man on Wire.
"The great temptation for a biographer of an iconic figure," writes Marable, "is to portray him or her as a virtual saint, without the normal contradictions and blemishes all human beings have.
Adcock has known Jenny Joseph, the author of "Warning," for many years, and says that Joseph is "fed up" with her iconic poem, written so long ago, when she was a young woman imagining old age ("When I am an old woman I shall wear purple / With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me," the poem begins).
A groundbreaking vision and a controversial construction colour the fascinating history of one of the world's most iconic buildings, writes Jonathan Glancey.
From co-directors Silas Howard and Erin Greenwell comes "Golden Age Of Hustlers," a remake of an iconic song written by legendary punk transsexual chanteuse Bambi Lake, about the 1970's gay hustler scene on Polk Street in San Francisco during the pre-HIV/AIDS era.
However, he didn't write the iconic 007 riff, or at least couldn't legally claim to have done so.
I've obviously had the good luck to write an iconic theme [for The Piano], but just as being a film composer has damaged my reputation in the classical world, so writing iconic film themes has damaged me as a soundtrack composer, because no one employs me.
A young Banjo Paterson, who later went on to write the iconic Australian song Waltzing Matilda, was among the pitch invaders.
While it might be entertaining to be inspired by iconic poets, modern poets write what is more commonly called "narrative poetry," which is essentially poetry that tells a story.
Unable to look past the burgeoning songwriter's talent, Johnny Marr lent a pre-fame, penniless Gallagher one of his guitars -- the one Gallagher would use to write his iconic anti-grunge anthem "Live Forever," among many other tunes -- and didn't have the heart to ask for it back.
