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When Reubens first hit upon the childlike, toy-obsessed Pee-wee character at the Groundlings, Newman said, “He knew he had something he could draw on so easily, because he was a 10-year-old boy at heart.”

It was this and the expansive brooding sound of Songs of a Lost World which saw Vella and Smith hit upon the design for the record, which features a stone statue head lying on its side.

‘Sherman’s March’: Ross McElwee’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner was an unlikely sleeper hit upon its release in 1986; in that year of “Top Gun,” audiences didn’t seem likely to flock to a nearly-three-hour documentary meditation on romantic failure, as voiced by a soft-spoken Southerner retracing the path of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in the final months of the Civil War.

This action-adventure based on Journey to the West - a classic novel from Chinese Mythology - was a giant hit upon its release.

Back in 2022, when this regulation set was first introduced, it became clear very quickly that Newey and his team at Red Bull - to whom he is always very quick to give credit - had hit upon the secrets of what was needed for the new rules.