Pixies frontman Frank Black has been known to cover Norman's "Six, Sixty, Six" in concert, and it's jarring to hear Black snarl, "In the midst of the war, he offered us peace" over raucous guitars.

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If Black had the same experience many Christians did growing up, then Norman was literally a Godsend.

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Private secretary to Norman Lamont as Chancellor when barely 30 years old, he was caught up in the chaos of "Black Wednesday" in 1992.

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SYDNEY, Australia -- Peter Norman, who shared the victory podium while American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos made their famous"'black power salute" at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, has died aged 64.

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