As of March 28, there were still no price benchmarks at all for the 2003 vintage, a strange, record-smashing harvest the Bordelais dearly hoped would live up to its hype.

FORBES: For Bordeaux, The Futures Are Now

But a smaller and more unlikely musical revival can be traced to the reissue five years ago of a strange little record called "Just Another Diamond Day" by a woman named Vashti Bunyan.

NPR: British Folk Music, Revived

The middle section is Miriam's record of their strange love affair.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

Given Mr Barnevik's record, it would be strange if he did not want to reorganise Investor fairly drastically.

ECONOMIST: Is it a bird? Is it a manager?

Just down the road too, in Sparks, was a warehouse containing the strange, finned, tubular car in which he hoped to break the land speed record, travelling as close as he could to 800 miles an hour.

ECONOMIST: Steve Fossett

Much of that has to do with the strange economic incentive system in the music business--acts keep most of the money made on tour, while record labels keep most of any money made from record music sales.

FORBES: Music's Top Moneymakers 2006