Two Rooms review in Q

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Don't know if this will make it with gaffa seeming to be dead again.

There is a review of Two Rooms in the Nov. issue of Q. Here are the
relevant quotes.

"Named after the songwriting habits of Elton John and Bernie Taupin,
who have yet to write a song in the same room, Two Rooms finds the
tribute genre going solidly mainstream with the kind of guest list usually
reserved for charity records inspired by global crises.

... John and Taupin's songs have alwasy borne a close relation with the
kind of melodic storyline style of musicals. As a result everyone from
Sinead O'Connor to Bruce Hornsby sound as if they were playing themselves
in a rock opera scripted by John and Taupin. Given the pair's predilection
for rock pastiches and ballards trembling on the edge of outright
sentimentality, Two Rooms enables most of the contributors to ham it up in
a way they wouldn't dare on their own songs.

... Kate Bush manages to combine her spacier tendencies with her old
pop sensibility for a cod-reggae version of Rocket Man...

Ultimately though, Two Rooms is an excellent singalong that is also rather
depressingly predictable in what it reveals about the current pop hierarchy"

        (Mark Cooper)


Neil
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