Candle in the Wind

[Ulrich Grepel <uli@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>]

in love-hounds woj said about Candle in the Wind:
> plain suck - as others have said and other will say again, it sounds as
> if KaTe put together the song in a few minutes (though that was not the 
> case, as it turns out...).

What turned out to be the case about CITW? Has KaTe spent only a few seconds,
some hours, two years or has someone else spent time for CITW?