Even though I thoroughly disliked “Iron Lady” (Reagan-Bush-Bush all the same—creating misery for vast swarths of humanity) —-from the US point of view at least, she APPEARS to be the most influential….because she was a tough figure on a large stage…but I can think of softer women who’ve had more of a lasting though subtler effect. One benefit inspired by Old Ironsides actions (wrecking the unions, closing the mines) was a resulting fantastic film “Brassed-Off.” The centerpiece of it is the best rendition I’ve ever heard of Rodgrigo’s Concerieto de Aranjuez—orchestrated with the solo played by the fugelhorn and works so well in this film with the double entendre of Brassed Off (at the government taking away jobs, destroying towns and families and the empowering outlet of this band that achieves something so amazing in the end): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8uoY9e5YVY&feature=related Found it on YouTube but the sound isn’t as good as on great speakers. Rodrigo wrote his famous concierto while exhiled from Spain in Paris as war was imminent but set it in Madrid’s Aranjuez Palace Gardens at the turn of the 18th to 19th century….so it is very moving as in this film conveying that sense of epic transition….and also Rodrigo’s (a fabulous man like his countryman/artist Pablo Casals) longing for his country. Trivia: Miles Davis was obsessed with this piece and did an entire album of it…but it doesn’t touch this film’s—-Davis’ is his own kind of genuis but to me his interpretation was too sketchy and impressionistic. I broke up with a boyfriend was tired of anyway watching this film for the first time. He’s a symphony conductor whose personal library of music is at Yale. We watched the film together on video over take-out pizza in my bed overlooking the SF Bay and when we got to this piece I kept rewinding and watching over and over. Exasperated he said if I did it once more he was leaving. So I took his pillow for my back, took his plate of pizza and said, “have a nice evening” and hit rewind. I just loved this piece.