Six degrees of separation from Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev

Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev will be honoured next Sunday when his masterpiece Peter and the Wolf is performed by the China Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Cultural Centre, in Tsim Sha Tsui. Born in 1891, Prokofiev, who began composing at the age of nine, died on March 5, 1953 - the same day as Joseph Stalin. Part of his Lieutenant Kijé score, composed for the 1934 Soviet film of the same name, was used for the synthesiser solo in the anti-war song Russians by Sting …

Born Paul Hewson, as a teenager in Dublin, Ireland, the future frontman of rock band U2 was part of a street gang called Lypton Village, members of which gave him the nickname Bono Vox (Latin for "good voice"), after the local hearing-aid shop, Bonavox. An ambassador for global causes such as poverty, Aids and third-world debt relief, in July, Bono unveiled a giant tapestry commissioned by Amnesty International, at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, in New York. It depicts Manhattan as a yellow submarine with John Lennon as its captain, to mark the 40th anniversary of the British-born Beatles singer receiving his green card. Also attending the unveiling was Yoko Ono …

The third of six children born to third-generation Romanian Jews in the United States, Leibovitz, 65, discovered her passion for photography on a trip to Japan with her mother after her sophomore year. Since 2007, she has been working on a photo series of celebrities in fantasy settings; the project has featured Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Lopez and David Beckham, and was commissioned by Walt Disney, the media company founded by, of course, Walt Disney …