Normandy piper Bill Millin

Bill Millin is the kind of guy who would have busked the streets of Glasgow.

Bill, who worked as a piper with a travelling theatre before becoming a psychiatric nurse in later life, is better known as the man who played the pipes during the Normandy beach landings on June 6, 1944.
The then 21-year-old was part of the First Special Service Brigade that landed on Sword beach under enemy fire. "I didn't notice I was being shot at. When you're young you do things you wouldn't dream of doing when you're older," he's reported to have said later.

Majorcan street music

A street performance with impromptu dancing at Soller in Majorca. The musicians (above, left) are playing the five-holed flutes or flabiol, the Majorcan bagpipe or  xeremies and the small drums or tmabori. The music is a little reminiscent of the Catalan sardana song and dance.
The guy (above, right) with his soprano sax and tiny amp played the bars along Port Soller.