The Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five To Go shows have seen the surviving stars performing live together for the first time in 30 years.
Staff Benda Bilili, a group of paraplegic polio victims and abandoned children who lived on the grounds surrounding the zoo in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, survived by performing on the streets.
Just as many bands now survive by performing live, there are economic advantages in turning a film into a distinct event that resists digitization.
The heirs of Lenin's embalmers explained that they were surviving by performing similar services for Russian mafiosi.
But one thing hasn't changed: the overwhelming majority of musicians are going to survive by performing, and CMJ is one long battle of the bands.
Unlike many exiles, he survived to perform at the 1994 presidential inauguration of Nelson Mandela, to whom he had dedicated a jauntily upbeat tune.
In my mind there has to be some other way of making my work and getting out there, surviving and performing".
He had, he said, become "saturated by the Factory", and escaped first to New Orleans, then California, surviving by performing his poetry and living a determinedly frugal life as a Buddhist.
It's perverse to represent Tom's point of view, without the necessary knowledge or sympathy, but Annie is the one privileged character in the book who isn't dead on the page, perhaps because she survives by performing her class status, in the hope that poshness will disguise poverty.
Only a few adult salmon survive to perform the journey a second time.
