China's piano man may be the world's best (and fastest)
It took less than an hour for all four concerts on pianist Lang Lang's Australian tour to sell out.
If not quite a household name here, the 43-year-old from Shenyang is the word's most famous living pianist and enjoyed demi-god status in China long before he played to 4 billion people at the opening ceremony of 2008's Beijing Olympic Games.
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