And those who were around in the early '70s might recall his loving pastiches of American music ambitious and revelatory jumblings such as 1974's Paradise and Lunch and 1976's Chicken Skin Music.

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Brothers Zach, age about 4 and Philip, about a year older, have found a loving family in the U.S. but their early life was typical of Uganda's estimated 2.4 million orphans.

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In the early 1990s Gordon dropped out of college in Toronto to model for clothing catalogs, loving the pay but hating the process.

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