"We were driving in just now," Jungr says, "and Jenny [Carr, one of her two keyboard accompanists] said to me: 'Oh look – that's the viaduct you mention in the song.'" (Stockport viaduct is, as you probably know, the largest free-standing brick structure in Europe, yet, if you discount LS Lowry, has gone strangely unnoticed by creative artists).
Poet Carl Sandburg hailed it as the "city of the big shoulders," cunning and cruel, yet creative and strangely attractive.
"There have been some positive changes in the creative areas, strangely, there is a bit of hope there," she said cautiously.
Strange afternoon, strangely wonderful.
The museum is founded upon the belief that such authentic creative acts are strangely beautiful in their own humble way, and thus worthy of preservation and exhibition. .
Shinichi, the young host, leads his guest, his older sister and the son of the family groom in sadomasochistic games in which, to the narrator's astonishment, Shinichi's endlessly creative pummelings and humiliations become strangely enjoyable.
For all the UK's political earthquakes, we still live in an age when creative social comment seems to be strangely absent.
It was also strangely philosophical as well as insightful about the creative process.
That hedging is the movie's central creative strategy, and it results in a strangely oblivious film, one that undercuts its story with exactly the sort of praise-hungriness that its hero learns to overcome.
His number of international caps strangely does not match his undoubted organisational talents and creative play.
