Not coincidentally, this was shortly after flowers first appeared.
Beckett drummed on Flowers' first solo album, Flamingo, which is released next week, and is preparing for a European tour which takes in London, Dublin, Barcelona and Madrid.
Queen Elizabeth II gave Mr Obama a red leather-bound volume entitled A Selection of Papers From the Royal Archives 1834-1897, signed photos of herself to several senior White House aides, and a brooch with gold leaves and coral flowers to First Lady Michelle Obama.
When he is handed flowers, the first thing he does after smiling and saying thanks, is look around, eyes darting, for somewhere to ditch the flowers.
The work of others like the engineer Tommy Flowers, who helped build the first programmable computer at Bletchley, named Colossus, was also left unacknowledged.
"I would never want to do something with flowers unless it was with Mark, first of all because I think his hand is unique, " says Simons.
On his release, by the good offices of the government of Chile, his first action was to go to the cemetery to place flowers on the grave.
On Monday, the first of Brazil's three days of mourning, flowers were left outside the club in tribute to the victims, and a flag outside the country's presidential palace flew at half-staff.
The much-touted 1-800-flowers.com wilted below its initial offering price in its first day of trading, and is now priced 36% below the offering.
'We're celebrating summer, the happiness of the sun coming up, and the first hay being cut, ' says Per Olof as he fastens the flowers with gardening twine.
While the designer's early collections for his eponymous menswear brand were more techno than tulips (a reaction against his childhood in the Belgian countryside with a mother who was "obsessed with flowers"), the designer has more recently learned to embrace his pastoral roots, first at the helm of Jil Sander and now at Dior.
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